Shower Invites and A New Idea Book

It is snowing outside and the schools are out for the day. 

While I am not spending my snow day crafting (too much school papers to grade), I have found some time in the last couple of weeks to make the invitations to a good friends baby shower.  I found the idea on the Cricut idea center here.  The theme is Sugar and Spice so I changed the colors to pinks.

 

There were 38 of them when I was finished!  I couldn't have done it without my Cricut!

 

I printed all the info on the insert using my regular laser printer.  You just have to make sure that the card stock is lined up exactly right.

 

A close-up of the cutest shoes on the front.  And while intense to put together, I was very happy with the results.

 

As an added detail I also stamped the envelope!

 

For colors I used blush and hollyhock ink and white daisy, topiary, blush and smoothie cardstock.

 

I have a CCR file, if you want it let me know.

 

In other news the new idea book is here and you too can get one!  Orders can start Feb 1!  Go to my webpage starting on the 1st to see all the great new products!

 

Happy Crafting!

Father's Day Cards!

This is a little late but there are people who received these cards that read my blog.  I had a workshop in late May to make Father's day cards and this is what we created:

This first one is from the CTMH Artiste Cricut cartridge.  I cut the shirt out of the Chantilly B&T Duos and the tie from Honey.  I stamped the sentiment in Hollyhock ink. 

 

This second one was inspired by Pinterest taken from the CTMH boards and Jeanette Lynton's Blog (here).  I took a white daisy card, and layered with lagoon, ruby, and white daisy.  Plane is stamped in outdoor denim, the banner is surrounded by hollyhock and sentiment is in desert sand.  "dad" was cut from the Artiste out of craft cardstock.  Clouds stamped in sky.

The third was also inspired by Pinterest, a fellow consultant at Playing with Paper (here).  I made a template and cut out the shape from a white daisy card. Then using another template, cut out the patterned paper.  The spatula was made from a 0.25" Art Philosophy tag on the shimmer paper and the glove is actually a mitten from one of the two CTMH cartridges but I can't remember which one, in craft.  The tag in the pocket is black and ruby and stamped in black.

 

I hope that these inspire your creativity!

 

Emily

Graduation Cards.

Hello all,

I have delayed this post because I thought that I might be writing about the great bench cushion that I had finished but the stars were not in my favor and I am not done, YET!  But to keep this old blog going I thought that I would share the graduation cards that I did with my card class in May.  It was a Dads and Grads card class but I do not have pixs of the dad cards yet, But I will share my take on a pin I found for a great folded grad card.

Original post with instructions found here at Jill's Ink.  It is a great tutorial with a video.  You can follow me on pinterest to see what other things I have been thinking about.

Here is my take:

This was an actual card that was given to someone, I have made some changes but do not have pictures.  In this card I made the tassel out of embroidery floss but it is time consuming so for my workshop I had the girls make them out of grosgrain ribbon like in the tutorial.  I have attached this tassel with glue dots but in my other I have it attached with a button brad and I like the look of the brad better.

I also added the option of an envelope on the lid, but didn't use it for this card.  I found that the more accurate I was with measuring and marking for the diagonal lines the better it looked.  I was rushed making this card and it shows.  I used George Mason's colors because that is where this individual graduated from.

 
I like the uniqueness of this card and my clients really thought that they came together quickly and look sharp.  If you would like help completing a similar project please let me know.

Emily

 

Mother's Day

Sorry this is late but my mom didn't get her package until Tuesday and then it is the busiest time of the year for me.  But I thought that I would share the gifts that were given to both Grandmas for Mother's Day.  There is a short story behind this:  After we had Daughter we would give the grandparents a year in review photo book.  However, they are expensive and repetitive.  So about a year ago I decided to give them a one page layout in a frame.  Then for Christmas they each got 2 more layouts and an album.  So that they could pick a layout and replace the one in the frame and add the old one into the album.  The idea is that when the kids are all grown they will have a complete album and they can display the grandkids current pictures and will get a new layout about every 6 months.  They LOVE it!

Here are the current layouts:

 

They were both made with CTMH Chantilly and the same set of pictures.  I do not usually journal but I do add the month or season and the year.  The one above was a layout from the WOTG the one below was from the idea book.

 

I hope that your Mother's Day was as relaxing as mine.  I will try to post the project that I finished sometime this week I need pictures.

 

Emily

Easter Projects

Happy Thursday!

I can't believe that spring break is almost over.  Tomorrow is the last official day and I am feeling a little blue about it.  I went shopping today for clothes and organizational things for the pantry but yesterday I finished up a bunch of half finished things for Easter.  I had done one of each for my March Easter Card workshop but I have two kids sooooo....

This little fella was inspired by a pin that I saw that led me to a fellow CTMH Consultant over at Gr8scraps.  The bunny is colonial white cardstock, card is craft, inked in hollyhock.

Here he is going.

Another bunny, again inspired by Tracy at Gr8scraps.  Colonial white cardstock cut with the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.  Sponged with Hollyhock.

Used liquid glass to keep him nice and sturdy and get the tail just right.

This cute carrot box was also inspired by a Pin, this one from A Paper Melody. I used random orange and green cardstock but then cut the box from the Artiste Cricut cartridge, along with the saying, tag, and the grass.  I random stamped a small flower from the Chantilly Card Workshop stamp set in Sunset.  The top is kept closed with small Velcro dots.

Finally, we made this pretty card using a layout from Make It From the Heart Vol. 1, Chantilly and lagoon paper, and the Easter Wishes stamp set.

I hope that you all had a good and productive day.

Emily