Mojo Monday #256 Square!

Welcome to my first Mojo Monday post! :)  I loved this week's sketches and managed to carve out a little time.  For this entire card I used Close to my Hearts Clementine paper pack and the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  

I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the card and one of the ribbons.  I used the Incredible wreath stamp for the sentiment and the ribbons.  I hope you enjoyed my card as much as I enjoyed making it! 

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Have an inspired day!

Mojo Monday #256

I loved this Mojo Monday sketch so much that I decided to make both the circle and the square!  For this card I used the the Art Philosophy cartridge for all of the cuts.  I used my Cuttlebug to emboss some of the pieces.  The paper is all from Close to my Heart, Clementine paper pack. I love the color combos on this pack! 

I hope you too are inspired by these cards!

Don't forget to leave a comment and I hope you decide to become a follower!

Have an inspired day!

I am also sharing this at it's overflowing and Skip to my Lou!

Oh My Darlin! I LOVE Clementine!

The new Clementine paper pack by Close to my Heart is definitely one of my favorites...  Welcome to the Damask Divas Blog Hop!  I hope you have enjoyed all of the projects so far :)

You should have just come from Jeannie's Blog.  If you have jumped here and just discovered our blog hop, feel free to check the list at Damask Divas blog to find the complete list of blog hop participants.

When you are done visiting me, the next blog on the list is Marilyn! Hope you have a great time on our hop and checking out all the creations using Close to my Heart's Clementine paper pack. If you get lost, just hop on over to Damask Divas for the full list!! 

This month we are doing a fabulous GIVEAWAY! It’s simple to enter and you don’t want to miss it. You could win a Close To My Heart Paper Pack AND a Stamp Set (Size A-D) of your choice, this months giveaway is sponsored by Mandy! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment here and for an extra entry you can copy and paste to post on your facebook page the following:

Check out the Damask Divas CTMH Blog Hop featuring the Clementine Paper Pack:http://www.DamaskDivas.com/BlogHopClementine/

I made this sweet little slide box using the new Cricut Artiste Cartridge! In fact, every single cut came from Artiste! It is an amazing must have cartridge! You definitely want this one in your collection.

The base is made from the saddle card stock that comes with the Clementine paper pack.  I love all of the "sides" of the papers, so I did my best to show them ALL off some where on this cute little gift box :)  The stamped sentiment also comes with the Artiste collection.

I hope you enjoyed today's project featuring the absolutely lovely Clementine paper pack. Don't forget to leave a comment before you HOP over to the next project I Looooove comments!  I also hope you decided to become a new follower...  Now it's time to go visit Marilyn's blog!

I also made both of these cards below using the Clementine paper packs.  Bigger pictures can be found by clicking the link below the picture!

Round sketch

Square Sketch

Baby Bunny!

A long time friend and his absolutely adorable wife are soon to be blessed with their first little one- A baby girl!

The mama to be has an obvious love for all things purple and chose a purple/lavender and bunny theme for her shower (and nursery I think!).  I had no idea what gifts exactly to "shower" them with, but I knew I wanted to make a special little themed keepsake and matching card for the festivities.
I hope you (and the parents to be) enjoy these as much as I enjoyed making them!

Here is what I used:

Baby Blocks- Cricut Artiste

Font Cartridge- Storybook

Kate's ABC's

Gypsy Wanderings

Card Base- Art Philospohy

Kates ABC's

Artiste

If you haven't heard the Cricut Collections by Close to My Heart are amazing!

Those of you here from Favorite Product Friday... The Cricut Artiste Cartridge!!!!

Come over to my site and check out this MUST have cartridge.

Hey Punkin'!

I love 3D paper projects.  Peachy Keen Stamps blog challenge this week was for a "box".  I also have been thinking about making some of the 3D paper projects on the new Close to my Heart-Artiste cartridge...I spied this cute little cake (or pie) slice and immediately thought PUMPKIN! The kids are starting school... we are longing for cooler fall weather.... Seemed perfect, right? :)  And although I realize it was probably intended as a cake slice, pumpkin totally works here, don't ya think?

The cute face on the pumpkin can be found in the PKS Cherubs collection and the leaves are adorned with faces from the May stamp of the month kit!

I have been a Peachy fan for a long time and I hope to start diligently entering the blog challenges.  Maybe one day I can even get on the DT!  ( tee hee);)    Well that's all for now!  Enjoy and have a fabulous and inspired day!

And PLEASE... Leave me a comment! :D I Loooooove comments! <3

Happy Crafting!

Girls dorm room decor with a sporty twist!

My gorgeous niece is heading off to college in a few weeks.  She was lucky enough to get a room assignment with someone she knows and they have been busily planning room decor for awhile...  While we were out one day during her visit, she spied a cute paper wall hanging and was thinking she wanted one!  Well, they were a display item made to show case the craft product, not for sale... BUT of course I have the technology! No problem! I can totally do this and we can customize it to the colors they have chosen to decorate with!  Hooray! Here is what we came up with...

You see, after we had the super cute bright pink striped paper and the dark brown border all picked out (similar to what we saw in the store...)  I had dreams of beautiful 3D flowers and butterflies... She says "How about Softballs and Volleyballs?"  WHUT?  You're killing me here!  Really???  Okaaaaaayyyy....

So for this project I used my Cricut Expression and glue, add in a touch of ribbon and that's it!

Even sans the flowers and butterflies, I think that the sporty version turned out adorable!  The stripes ended up the perfect background paper!

• Cricut Art Philosophy for the base, border and name plate.
• Cricut Lite Cartridge Cherry Limeade for the font
• Cricut Everyday Paperdolls for all of the sports accessories! Easy peasy!
• I used some pop up foam for many of the pieces to give it dimension and my metallic gel pens to add some detail to the balls. 

Now wait until the matching chalkboards up next! SO excited!

Have a fabulous weekend!

Melissa

Whoooo is an Owl Fan?

Have you ever heard of Close to My Heart?  It is a fantastic company that I was introduced to via my love for Cricut.  I kept hearing about this great, must have cartridge  Art Philosophy... and now I am a CTMH consultant!  Today the new Idea Book comes out and there is SO much eye candy!

If you are here from the blog hop... Welcome! Hopefully you just got here from Jayma's project! Once you have spent a little time with me, hop on over to Carolyn Mendoza for the next talented lady in the Damask Divas blog hop! You are sure to fall in love with the Avonlea paper when you see what they have all created!  If  you are a 3CB follower or a visitor and would like to check out the entire hop start here.  Thanks for stopping by!

Today I wanted to share with you a little project I made with the new Avonlea paper pack and the new MUST HAVE cartridge- Artiste!

Isn't this owl just adorable?  And guess what?  It's a gift bag!  All of the paper if from Avonlea, the stamps for the eyes and the sentiment are from the Artiste bundle and of course the bag and eyes are cut from the Artiste cartridge.  I love the beautiful greens, blues and browns in the newest paper pack.  

Both Artiste and Art Philosophy are packed with over 700 images!!! They are super versatile and are essential to any Cricut lover's collection.

I hope you have been inspired and I hope you decide to check out more here at my CTMH page!

The Fabulous Artiste Bundle!!!

New visitors: don't forget to check out our giveaway here! We are giving away a special prize to our followers! 

Loving the Lanterns

I love paper lanterns.  All kinds of paper lanterns.  I cut this adorable lantern on my Silhouette with a fabulous file from SVGCuts.com.  I have loved everything from SVGcuts.  

The paper is from Close to my Heart, it is the Lucy paper pack.   I know you will be seeing more lanterns from me... I'm hooked!  If you like it, let me know!