Mojo Monday 307

I thought this layout from Mojo Monday was going to be a breeze -



















 - but I ended up scrapping my first attempt then settled on this one.

I don't keep every little scrap, but in this case I was able to use a piece I normally toss - mostly because I'm running low on Cocoa cardstock.  You never notice the missing flourish from the card!

I was working on a layout with this great Buzz and Bumble paper and it's theme carried over into this card.  The missing flourish is from this layout.

 

This is fully scrap lifted from Tamra Pope.  If you have some of this paper pack left, check out the great details on her site (and other posts!) by clicking her name.

Color Dare #56

My entry for the Color My Heart Dare this week.   The lagoon paper is from the Later Sk8r pack.  The flowers are rosette ribbon died with buttercup re-inker.  The vine/leaves are from the Artbooking cartridge, page 72, 4",real dial size then trimmed to fit the lagoon card base. I stamped pear on pear with the print from Universal backgrounds.  Some pear epoxy bubbles in the middle of the flowers and scatter bitty pearls finish it up.

 

 

Baby Steps

Just a little card.

Cappaccino Cheesecake Pie

Another recipe card, with some blue scrap paper, Huntington, bamboo cardstock, antiqued gold embellishment, rosette ribbon.  It's such a pretty way to keep your favorite recipes.   I punch a whole in the top left corner of mine, and keep them on a giant round ring.

 

Convention 2013 Layout

Convention is this great place consultants get to go and have fun.  At then end, they gave us a special kit, with papers and a stamp set which matched the convention things, from our name tags to the color of the hotel.  This is my fellow consultant Christy and I scrapping and having fun at the Mardi gras and 80's parties.  That's the new font in the Artbooking cartridge I used to cut Convention 2013.

Color Dare #55

Another composition book covered, this time in Laughing Lola.  Post your own entry at Color My Heart!

Laughing Lola paper pack - X7170B
Purple gems from Laughing Lola card kit - G1064
Sparkles black flourishes - Z1745
Green & Blue epoxy bubbles - Z1806
Black shimmer trim - Z1809
Stardust glitter glitz - Z1313
Frosted assortment - Z1890
Base & Bling word accents - Z1882
Eek & Shriek stamp set - B1429

Another Babycakes layout

Not thrilled with the stamp set that comes with a paper pack, but love the instructions?  Order the Make It from Your Heart Volume 2 (9042, $7.95)!  While they have different papers in the book, each kit's layout can be found in the book.  That's exactly what I did for the Babycakes layout.

The pictures of the layout showed the buttercup yellow paper used in this layout - but the flip side is those adorable giraffes!  So I rummaged through my older kits and used the yellow paper from the Chantilly kit.  Again, nothing on these pages that demands you use baby pictures, but great if you do!

Not just for babies

On yesterday's post I did a layout with Babycakes that wasn't baby related.  The 'Great' comes from page 66 of the Artbooking cartridge, 11" title.  I cut the 'outdoors' part off. 

Naptime then became A Great Time - a perfect title for many things.

Negative Space

So... Babycakes is not one of the kits I'm featuring at a crop.  So I started playing with the paper pack that I have.  My 'baby' is 15, but I'm expecting my first nephew in December.  So whether these pages stay in my no-photo's album until I get that first grandchild, or if they are pictures of my daughter and nephew I'm covered with this great paper.

I also tried out the new Artbooking cartridge.  It's taking me a little while to get used to it and see what I can use from the pages.  One of the great consultants at convention mentioned using the reverse spaces of background cuts, and I tried it out.

Frist I cut the lattice background from page 50 of the book - (no shift).  The items on this page are designed to perfectly fit a 8X6 mini album, but I work in 12X12's.  So I set my Cricut for 11" and got this:

I was left with these negative spaces still on my Cricut mat.

From my test run with white paper, I had noticed a triangle pattern when cleaning it off, so I removed some of the brown squares to get this:

I used glossy accents on the squares and triangles for one corner:

and then placed my colonial white paper over, pressed down and then waited about 10 minutes for it to set well.   Then I picked by cardstock up slowly and most of the squares stuck to the paper.

For the ones that didn't I just peeled them off the mat and glued them back down.  The newer your mat, the more this might happen.

In the end, I have two pretty cool bases for a double spread.

After I finished I had this:

I can't decide if I like the negative space even better than the main cut!

White paper

When I buy a new album, the covers come with a very thin piece of white paper in them.  It's not good enough quality to actually use in my scrapbooks.  I hang onto the piece and use them to test cut items on the Cricut or for those first few images of a new stamp.  They are also great as place holders for pages you don't have the perfect pictures for just yet.   I marked the size I will need to cut my photos in order to fit the mats or spaces.

This is Babycakes paper pack with the matching canvas sticker set.  Canvas stickers are really cool and add some nice texture to the pages.  The lattice work at the bottom of the second page is from the Artbooking cartridge, page 50, 11".

Color Dare #54

I chose Pacifica as my additional color in the Color My Heart Dare.  The paper is Champagne, the background stamp from Geometric Backgrounds (D1559) in Cashmere.  I spritzed on some Pacifica/alcohol mix in a spray pen (Z1380) after stamping the background. I wrapped it in natural hemp (Z280) before adhering the birds with 3D foam tape (Z1151) .  The blue birds are cut in Pacifica cardstock from the Artbooking cartridge, page 59 (real dial size 1 3/4"), distressed with Cashmere and shined up with Stardust Glitz (Z1313). The small buttons are from the Wooden embellishment collection (Z1837).  The sentiment, one of my favorites, is from All the Details (D1555).

Giraffe Box

How cute is this?  One of our lovely scrappers is headed to another city and to an exciting new job.  We will miss her.  As a going away gift I made her some change of address cards, and put them in gift box I cut from the Artiste cartridge.  (She loves giraffe's!)  As a note to anyone else trying this cute box, the booklet says max of 6.5", but I found you could only cut the top at a maximum of 5.75".
The box is stamped using the Wild Wonders stamp set (giraffe is an auto cut from the Artbooking cartridge, don't forget to set it on real size) and the cards were stamped from a prior SOTM, using black pigment ink and embossing powders.  The bottom just slides into the wrap around top. 

Frames

Join me on Thursday, August 15, 5:30pm - 7:30pm for a card workshop.  Three cards for $3.   I worked with frames this time, and the Buzz and Bumble paper pack. Hope to see you then!

Color Dare #53

Some colors you love, some you don't.  Purple's not on my favorites list, but this combo turned out better than I thought.  That's one of the great things about the color dares.  They can get you out of your normal color box.

I used old paper packs on this one, but a new stamp set - Stitch Wonder (C1564 $13.95).  A little glitz and some stamped color ready seam binding ribbon.  I'm trying to keep my 'Love you' cards very flat, as they usually go to my daughter at camp.  Check out the other cards, or show off your own at Color My Heart.  New dares are posted on Fridays.

Laughing Lola

The 9-9 Crop will be on August 24.  The featured kit is Laughing Lola and there are three options to choose from, a paper pack ($9.95), a scrapbooking kit ($29.95) and a card kit ($24.95).

CTMH Layout for Laughing Lola Kit

CTMH artwork from paper pack

CTMH Laughing Lola Card Kit


Place your orders with me by the 4th.  It is Ink Club Month for those participating.  An order of $50 won't get you the stamp of the month for $5 in August - it'll get you the SOTM for free!



Cubbie Class

Great job on  your cubbies ladies!  We had a great time with one everyday box, one Halloween and one Christmas!  If you didn't make it to the class, let me know if you need to pick up your kit, or if you will be completing it at our next crop, on August 24th.  Thanks and happy scrapping!

Color Dare

I pulled a lot of old for this Color Dare, but used a new stamp for the words, and tried out the pigment inks and clear embossing powders.  I love the look and that I don't get little specks of colored powder on everything!  I did find soap, water and an old toothbrush were the best ways to clean my stamps after using the pigment ink.

Try your own hand at the Color My Heart Dare. 

Destination Fun

Just a layout for the week - working on getting back to finishing and getting pictures down on a double spread per week.  Good luck on your own pages and see  you on Saturday!

Crop this Saturday!

Come join us and get a sneak peek at some great new stuff from the Fall Catalog - including a new Cricut cartridge!

 In keeping with the 4th of July, this is the Freedom crop -

• free of charge
• free up space for new stuff
• free Fall catalog
• free make and take!

3X3 gift card

Crop is from 9am until 9pm on Saturday July 13 or anytime in between.  It's also potluck - so bring your favorite dish to share. 

Cubby Workshop July 18

If you didn't order a cubby for the workshop on the 18th, you can still make your own at home.  You will need the cubby, 13 sheets of cardstock, one pretty D&T, liquid glass, the Artiste cartridge (page 80, 2.5").
Cut your 25 cubby boxes out of the Artiste cartridge.  Trim your choice of D&T paper into 2 3/8 inch squares (you will have to trim 3/16 inch off the final strip to keep all  your squares the same size).

 Keep your squares in the right order, or else your cubby will become a puzzle box, or you might glue your squares on upside down, depending on your pattern.  With bonding memories glue, attach your pretty square to the dipped side of each square before you build them (it's easier to attach at this stage).  A tip I learned at Convention - grab an old magazine and use it as the paper behind your cardstock to keep from getting glue on your table.  When you finish with one, just flip the page and you have a clean slate to do the next one.  No glue on the back!

 After gluing the pretty square on, trim the dip to match the cardstock.

I then folded the box, flattening with the bone folder.  Before gluing, I stamped the inside of the box, just for some added interest.

Then glue all the tabs on the inside of the box, and make sure all leaks are dry before inserting in your cubby.  Embellish as desired! This set is for my friend, to hold small embellishment or starter ideas for when she gets stuck or has trouble getting started.

Note:  The workshop on the 18th includes, cubby, adhesives, cardstock for the boxes and a pretty sheet of D&T for your box.  Decorate with your own embellishments!

A little Steampunk

I love some of the steam punk stuff out in the world these days.  I tried pulling some of the Close To My Heart products together to come up with this double spread and card. I did the card first, then expanded on it to create the double spread.  This is one of the layouts I entered in the contest for the Convention.

 

 

Surf's up

Here's a cute, super easy card to just say hi this summer.
It's one inch wide strips by 4" long.  I cut the strips and then stamped the images.  The stamps are from the Surf's Up kit (G1059), Tropical Paradise stamp set (C1531). I used ink colors Indian Corn Blue, Ruby, Honey and Ponderosa Pine.  I've added a little stardust Glitz Glitter Gel (Z1313) on the sun and turtle.