Updates

Even though I haven't been very active on my blog...OK...nonexistent...that doesn't mean life stopped here.  Been doing plenty of living, loving and crafting.  Here's some of the crafting goodness that has gone on.

This is a One Sheet Wonder class that my mom and I taught at church.  Ladies made their own patterned paper and these 14 cards.  Mom picked different sentiments for each card so the ladies had two stamp options to pick from FOR EACH CARD.  Don't know I'll offer that again...it was a lot of prep work, but I think they came out great!

Here's where I got the pattern for all the cards: One Sheet Wonder.  Also got some inspiration from Here and here.  My color and pattern combination inspiration came right out of our Annual Inspirations, pg. 85. Lots of CTMH stamps and inks.  Used Pomegranate, Cotton Candy, Goldrush, Glacier and Pear inks.  Used So Many Smiles stamp set to make the patterned paper and a sentiment, plus a ton of other CTMH stamps (Happy to be Friends, Festive Congrats, Bitty Birthday, Happy, Happy Birthday, Beyond Awesome, Victorian Gratitude, Finding the Words, and Joyful Birthday plus some retired and non-CTMH stamps).  Added in some embellishments and we were good to go.

A few misc. projects

I wanted to get these posted before they totally escaped my memory!!  These are a mix of cards I taught or projects we completed at class as well as cards I created for various people.  I have to confess, most of these are CASes.  If I remember where I saw the idea, I'll try to link back to it. 

Here's my inspiration: Folded Christmas Tree Card

Unfortunately the link to Here doesn't work any more!

 I made a bunch of these in different colors.  Shown is Thistle  I made some as sympathy cards as well as birthday.  Loved the monochromatic theme!  

Sincere Expressions and Your Own Kind of Wonderful

Here's where I inspiration for this: Predominately Purple

I used CTMH Have a Happy Day for both the sentiment and frame.

This was a technique card: distress inks and heat embossing. 

I love CTMH's shimmer trim.  It's adhesive backed and goes on so nicely.  Plus who can resist all that sparkle!!  I used Teal Shimmer Trim

I used CTMH Dotty For You paper!

Totally loved this CTMH Hostess Stamp and totally CASed THIS

My mom came up with this design from this inspiration.  Really love the texture on the Cricut Art Philosophy acorn!

I love making shaped cards and this one is super sweet for the fall.  I used my Cricut Art Philosophy Collection to cut out the card, leaves and sentiment shape.

Gotta Love Mary at Cardz TV

Gotta love Dawn too!  Birthday gift card holder.

 I loved this set from Lisa and totally re-created it!

 CTMH Your Own Kind of Wonderful, Paper, bags and inks!

Fall themed cards.  Used left over Cricut Art Philosophy leaves. 

Lawn Fawn...need I say more! Birthday card.

Stampendous...just loved this guy!  I used these as thank you's for Christmas gifts for the kiddos.

Whew!  Glad I got these up!  Nice trip down memory lane...so many talented folks out there willing to share with us creatively challenged folks!!  I, for one, am very thankful!

Easter Cards

Here are a couple of Easter cards I taught at my church class.  I wanted to teach about heat embossing as well as cover a couple of different coloring mediums.  We embossed the cross and sentiment with gold embossing powder.  We also colored it in with colored pencils and a Dove blending pen.  For the second card, we stamped on watercolor paper and used water color pencils to color the image in.  We then sprayed some glitter over the entire card...it gave it a nice subtle shimmer.  The cards ended up being a little more time consuming that I thought.  However, I still had the ladies make a small basket full of some Easter treats. 

The daffodils on the pink card are from CTMH A Little Note

The sentiments are from Sweet & Sassy stamps

CD Calendar

Well, I have resigned myself to the fact that I just don't have the time to keep up a daily or even weekly blog post.  I'm going to make a concerted effort to post at least monthly.  I teach a card class on a monthly basis, so I'd like to be able to keep up with at least posting those creations!

Unfortunately, I have a back log of projects now to post!

For our January class, I wanted to make a refill for the CD calendars we made last year.  I used the template from Here and lots of my CTMH stamps (plus a few Lawn Fawn and other misc.).  I put the links under each picture.  This will be picture heavy since there are 12 months!

CTMH Frosty Fun 

 CTMH Polar Bear Holiday 

 CTMH Rainy Day

 CTMH His Love

 CTMH Pretty Petals
CTMH Ink (Thistle, Pixie, Goldrush, Sorbet, Hollyhock) 

Lawn Fawn Life is Good 

CTMH Stamp of the Month-no longer available for purchase

 CTMH Seaside Greetings

Misc. stamps

CTMH Stamp of the Month-no longer available for purchase

Misc. stamps but could use CTMH Fall Harvest

CTMH Reason for the Season

Hi all!

Today I'm playing catch up again!  I'm really trying to be better about posting my crafty creations.  I like being able to document them...so they are not just forgotten in my card boxes somewhere.  As I was thinking about what to do for the last card class before the summer break, my mom came across this braided card tutorial ...so I decided that we would create a theme of "fun folds" for our class.

Next, I found this folded paper frame tutorial and had some sweet seashell stamps that worked perfectly.  I even made my own B&T (background and texture) paper by stamping with versamark ink.  I used a sentiment from one of the stamp set from the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Collection.

Lastly, I decided to make this Twisted Gift Card Holder.  I sealed the front so I only had one pocket on the inside.  Also, the diecut and sentiment were from CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Collection.

I think the ladies had fun and they weren't too complicated.

I originally made this card at a class I attend once a month Here.  However, I was not able to stamp the sentiment before I had to leave, so I took it home to complete.  I love how this stamp fits perfectly and the color matches the paper very nicely!

Lagoon Ink
Believe in Yourself Stamp Set

Did you know you could do this to a toilet paper roll?

I confess, I did not make this!  My mom must have been saving these toilet paper rolls for some time, as she whipped out these cute babies at our last craft night for all the ladies and also gave them out to the grandkids for Easter...how ingenious.  She did assure us that they were "clean" but I did notice all the candy was individually wrapped! :-)

Coordinating Stamp set from CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Collection

Catching Up!

I've been missing in action all right, but I have been busy homeschooling and crafting and well, living life!  I coordinate a monthly women's craft night at my church, so I thought I'd post some of the projects we've done since I last "blogged".

This is a gift card holder...you put the gift card in the pocket.  This is a direct copy of one found here!

This is a CTMH stamp set and is based off the sketch below!

 I wanted to teach how to work off of a sketch, so we used this sketch for the card. Sketch 148

I also had them create this scrapbook page, also from a sketch. Here

I pre-cut, stamped and glittered the leaves using the CTMH Art Philsophy cartridge.  The acorns also were from Art Philsophy with a little inking/Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing.  "Autumn" came from Gypsy Wanderings and "blessings" from Wall Decor & More.