Mojo Monday 400 Makes Me Dream Big

Welcome to my little piece of the blog world!  I had a huge day creating yesterday and I just couldn't decide what to share first.  I am the MOST excited about my Mojo Monday 400 card, so lets just start there, shall we? 

With her 400th amazing sketch, Julee Tilman, the wonderfully talented creator of Verve Stamps, has announced that she is also going to be choosing new DT members, so I'm throwing my name in the hat with high hopes.  Actually, if I win some new product, I will be ecstatic even, so lets get to it!

My head was just swimming with ideas before I settled on the Dream Big flowers and a no sentiment card.  These types of cards are JUST the thing to have on hand when you need them...

I stamped in first and second generation Smoothie Inks from CTMH along with Sweet Leaf for the leaves.  Then I added some darker green with my ShinHan Leaf Green Alcohol Ink Marker.

The perfectly round stitched window is made using a circle die from MCT.  I adore stitched dies!  I really also wish I had that scalloped flower die that coordinates with these flowers from Verve, lol.  They are next on my shopping list, I believe.

The spray of peachy sequins are a mix of brands including CTMH, Studio Calico, and Verve.  I also added a couple of green epoxy bubbles on the right...

This fantastic background came together using the Botanical Backgrounds My Acrylix and adding some pops of color with the same green marker and adding Light Orange to the mix...

I just love the combination of colors with the Whisper CS in the background.  Thanks for taking a peek today!  Thanks for so many inspiring sketches, Julee and company!  :)

What DO YOU do with YOUR Cricut Artbooking Leftovers?

Hi again!  I am using a different browser so I can work in Blogger tonight because it appears my other browser had on the outs with her.  :/  Tech difficulties is not my favorite thing to deal with because, well, I play much nicer with paper than bytes.  ;)

Anyhow, I was excited to share this card with you that I had the idea for BEFORE I left for the beach.  I had been saving up some of my leftover cuts from the Artbooking overlays, and wanted to use them on a card.  It came together so nicely when I finally got the chance!

I adore how this reminds me of a Little Golden Book with the binding on the left side.  Anyone with me on that one?  :)  I am totally dating myself there...

Anywhoooo...This is my favorite silhouette on the Mother's Day My Acrylix from Close to My Heart.  I am actually giving this set away to one lucky customer in April!  Each person who attends my workshop or places an order with me this month will be entered to win!

Mother's Day C1577

Up in this cluster I used the Gold Polka-Dot Washi Tape, Green Epoxy Bubbles, Black Epoxy Bubbles, and little punch-outs of the Tan Glitter Paper.  Those Artbooking leftovers just whet my appetite for more!  ;)

If you follow me on Facebook, you saw this sneak peek yesterday, so go "like" my page by clicking in the top right column of my blog--don't miss a thing!  :)

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Green Day Crush

I scrapped another ticket stub!  Yeah!

This Green Day concert was sooooooo much fun to reminisce.  It was my first time at the Aragon Ballroom in downtown Chicago.  The venue is very cozy, and we were in line super-early to get the best view possible.  Little did we know we would end up right down in front of the stage.  AWESOME view--and got up close and personal with the front railing as the crowd got into it!  Ouch.

How fun are these little Green Epoxy Bubbles added to the elements from the Crush Assortment?

It was a Green Day concert--I had to use green on the page, no?  Used some contraband green glitter tape since we don't have that color--yet!  Here's hoping!  :)  I also used this little wooden trinket from the soon to be retired Huntington Assortment.  Get it while you can before January ends!

The best thing I have discovered for my Crush Book scrapping are the Flip Flaps that Close to My Heart carries in all kinds of sizes.  I used a couple from the Small Assortment for my pics on this page.  I like that I can still get my pics in here protected from the little fingers that are bound to explore!  :)

How Much is that Owl in the Window?

Have any of you ever tried to make a window card?  I have made only a few--total, lol.  I hardly ever attempt them, but for day 12 of the Card-A-Day Challenge, well, we had to make a window card!

I used the amazing Autumn color scheme from the current My Creative Time Designer Challenge:

I wanted desperately to keep it simple, but I tend to over-think things JUST a bit, so this one took a while to figure out and make mistakes before I figured out the easy way to pull it all together.

I started out by making the tree.  I used my Chocolate Ink to stamp the woodgrain image from Universal Backgrounds onto a pre-cut Chocolate CS tree shape that I trimmed out by hand.  The leaves are from my "extra cuts" stash, but I know that I made them with the Just For You My Acrylix set.

I combined three different stamp sets to make the sentiment.  The Whoooo is from a retired double set, the question mark is from a retired alphabet, and the remaining words are found on Card Word Puzzle.  Don't worry, I fixed it and added the apostrophe!  ;)

I love these little owls from the Whooo's Your Valentine Kit last year.  Their party hats are made with the pennant stamps in the Babycakes Workshop on the Go Scrapbooking Kit.  I used the Green and Blue Epoxy Bubbles to embellish them with a topper.

Here is what the whole card looks like when opened so you can see how it lines up...

Now I am going to go make a whole bunch of these in different colors while I know how to do it!  ;)  Thanks for stopping in today!  :)

Hello, Artiste!

What's that?  You say you only have white cardstock and a few pattern papers in your stash to make a card?  No problem at all if you have a simple collection of Close to My Heart Inks and Stamps!  I made this gorgeous little size A2 (4.25 x 5.5 inch) card with just one pattern paper from Chantilly and my White Daisy Cardstock, then added a few embellies.

Let's start at the top and work our way down...

I have been trying to use my embossing folder stash more, and this was the perfect opportunity.  Here, I used The Paper Studio's A2 Quatrefoil folder.  This might be one of my faves!  

These flower layers are cut using my Cricut E2 Cutting Machine and the Exclusive Close to My Heart Artiste Cartridge.  You can pick up your own Artiste Collection from me with FREE shipping this month by ordering HERE!   It is found on page 44 of the handbook.  The cut actually matches one of the flower-shaped stamps from the beautiful C1540 Hello Blooms My Acrylix Stamp Set.  I adore the musical notes on the flowers!  You'll notice one of the cuts is actually the center of one of the doily cuts that I had laying around...save your scraps!  ;)

The bling in the centers of the blooms are from the Pink Glitter Gems, Sparkles Blue and Green Assortment, and Green and Blue Epoxy Bubbles.  A strip of Shimmer Trim lines the pattern paper.  If you don't like to deal with some of the trail that glitter leaves behind, these are fabulous options! 

Speaking of a glitter trail...I love this quote that my fellow consultant, Lalia found for me!

LOVE IT!!!  Thanks, Lalia!  :)

On to the sentiment...which is also found on Artiste on page 65.  I used the same flower-shaped musical note stamp to carefully put the image onto the word Hello.  It looks tricky, I know, but really wasn't that hard.

On the inside, I placed another skinny strip of pattern paper and  a layered flower.  The simplest of embellishments can make the biggest difference, so don't neglect the inside of your cards!  :)

Here is another peek at this month's Stamp of the Month--available ONLY in March from my website!  Click HERE to get it! Better yet, order $50 worth of product to get it for only $5!!!  You only have a few days left!  :)