"Love" Card with Artistry

This layer function is so much fun on the Artistry cartridge.  I love the borders, too.  Purple and green is a favorite color combo of mine and I added some stickles to the word "Love" to make it pop!  This would be great for a wedding, a bridal shower, or for a sweetheart.

Joy's Creative Cards with new CTMH stamps

 

 

All of the cards in today's post are made by my daughter, Joy.  I love crafting with her!

I was very excited when my daughter (11) decided she loves to stamp!!  She used some new stamps (and some of my sister's new stamps- thanks Regina) and got creative.  Pinspired by pinterest, naturally.  I like her penstitching, too.  She thought her grandma Joan would appreciate the above card since she is an artist. :)  It was made with "Brushstrokes" and "Happy to be Friends".

 

We both love this adorable birthday cake made with the Brushstrokes stamp set from CTMH.  Stickles on the flames:

I love this idea she had to use an old, butterfly earring as an embellishment for this card.  The beautiful border is from Creative Memories Border Maker System.  The sentiment was from the CTMH "You Mean the World to Me" set.

We are both in love with this "Typed Note" stamp set.  So quick to make a variety of cute cards for tons of occasions:

This is my sister's new set, which she let us use before she even saw it. :)  Also, again "Brushstrokes".  I am so proud of my talented daughter!

Anniversary "Dreams Come True" Card

Used the Disney Princess "Dreams Come True" cart to make this card for my husband for our 17th anniversary. I also used the border maker tool from Creative Memories (sooo sad they are no more) for the "you & me" punch. A Scrappy Moms stamp for the inside. :)





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Camping in the Keys Scrapbook

We went camping in the Keys (Bahia Honda) last May and it seemed too many photos to put in the regular scrapbook, but not enough to fill a standard Creative Memories album.  I haven't used my zutter too much and I really loved the way my last December's album came out.  I used the chipboard (that comes in my packs of CM pages) as is, with a little inking for distressing on the edges.  The cover is a terrific cut from Pack Your Bags.  Love that cart!  I used gold shimmer cardstock for the sand, distress stickles on the coconuts, embossed the sand with the cuttlebug, and inked the palm leaves.



Inking and stickles:


Embossing and white glitter Thickers for lettering:



Here are only some of the pages.  I used a kit from Personal Scrapper (awesome company with great customer service!).  I kept it so simple, but added lots of great elements and embellishments from my kit.



Border stamps from a new personal scrapper kit (Batik Border Stamps by Paper Trunk).  Rhinestones and flowers by Bo Bunny.



Buttons by Bo Bunny:



My cute camping stamps from Scrappy Moms Stamps:


I sooo love the new Border Maker system with cartridges you switch in and out from CM.  That is how I made the pennants.  I embossed the Batik Border Stamps in black on the right.



Sand dollar from Life's A Beach as well as "Paradise" sentiment, stamped and embossed in gold.


















This toucan is from Life's A Beach, too.



My sweet (not crabby) crab is from Pack Your Bags and I used orange glitter cardstock for the top layer.  It looks better in person. :)






Have a happy, summer weekend!!

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Stickles Organization Idea

This is a picture of the underside of my shelf over top of my working desk.





This idea came originally from BeaOriginal, but I found it on Fantabulous Cricut along with other great ideas for organizing your stickles. I used Velcro dots instead of magnets on a cookie sheet, which was cheaper for me (as I had on hand a nice supply of Velcro) and I couldn't think of any way to get a cookie sheet to stay on the underside of my shelf. They all seem to be holding nicely and it's such a pleasure to have them so handy!

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Wrap it Up Candle Birthday Card

Here is the card I made for the challenge at Bitten by the Bug 2 to use the candle off of the Wrap it Up cartridge and the challenge at Fantabulous Cricut to trim a project with a tag.

I used the Forever Young cartridge for the pretty fancy oval shape and added rhinestones.  I used a Martha Stewart punch for the shell corners.  Of course, I used my Scrappy Moms Stamp for the sentiment on the tag (from Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More).  My trusty stickles (in Orange Peel and Yellow) from scrapbook.com also added "bling" to the flame.

 

"Hang in There" Monkey Card

I created this card for the challenge at My Creative Time by using Zooballoo to cut the monkey and the vine.  The big leaf is from Life's A Beach.  I used a Scrappy Moms Stamp for the sentiment and stickles on the monkey's tummy, nose and leaf.  I also doodled with gel pens.  I hope this will lift my friend's spirits as she is going through a lot right now.  I thought it would be a fun twist to make the monkey purple.