Square Christmas card

#christmascardtutorials2015

This is another one of those great cards from the Christmas card Tutorials.

This a 4X4 card cut from White Daisy cardstock. The frame is cut from CTMH Art Philosophy

Cricut Cartridge. Took me a few tries but I did it. Will use the extras for

 another project.

The background is from an old stash and the snowman is from the same paper pack. The background snowman is part of the background paper.  The snowbank is cut from White Daisy.The little girl is from a small stamp set called Flurry of Love. I won it at a retreat. I stamped the image on White Daisy cardstock and fussy cut her out. I used my ShinHan markers to color the clothes. Carmine and Marine Blue. The sentiment came with the stamp set. 

I attached the background paper to the front of the card. The snowbank is popped up with a pop dot. I attached the girl to the inside of the snowbank and the sledding snowman to the front of the snowbank.I then used CTMH 3D foam take to attach the frame.
 I do enjoy making these cards. There will be more to come!

Have a great day!

Throwback Thursday Scrap book page

I've slowly started to go through my old pictures that I removed from their plastic prison. I unfortunately lost many that my mother had. Who knew that your pictures would get ruined!

This layout is of my first son, Michael and his first experience with snow! Not overly thrilled!!

I used Outdoor Denim cardstock as the base(retired). The pictures are framed in White Daisy. I edged them with Outdoor Denim ink(retired). I used retired CTMH stickers, old stickers... 

I added some random blue buttons from my stash.

The Let's Play is cut from the Cricut Alphabet that came with my Cricut Machine. Outdoor Denim over White Daisy cardstock.

The snowflakes are stampin up, Martha Stewart and a snowflake brad.

I attached a CTMH red enamel gem.

Pretty simple but I like it.

Have a great day!!

Waste Not Wednesday

Waste(less)Wednesday

Remember all those treasures that you've been collecting over the years, The beautiful paper, the embellishments, buttons and baubles. I know I have LOTS!!
Waste(less) Wednesday will be about using up those items so you can find space for New Stuff!! HAHA!!

I found these stickers at the bottom of my Christmas miscellaneous stickers and embellishments.
They are an old Close to My Heart Stickease pack. The penguin is a button and the shovel is from when I used to fill eggs with scenes.
The card is very basic but I love the colors. I attached the penguin with liquid glass.
Ok, so I did a bunch of these cards with the stickers I have so I wasn't writing down where I found everything so.... I don't know where I found the sentiment. I couldn't find it among my many, many Christmas stamps.

Have a great day!

Close To My Heart at CreativeLive

Christmas card

 Happy Tuesday everyone! We had a little bit of snow today so I thought I would start adding some Christmas cards I've been working on.
I am part of a Christmas Tutorial class by Justine Hovey. This is a paid class. There are , I do believe, 40 tutorials when they are all done. I'm a bit behind but working on it. I've learned a lot of techniques. Some have worked. Some need a lot of practice and some I need the materials to do them but its fun to try new things.

 You can message Justine on Facebook if you are interested and I do believe she is working on another class.
 #christmascardtutorials2015

Thank You to Justine Hovey for the great card idea.
Anyway, this is my card for today.
I do believe all the materials are Close to My Heart(CTMH) I will specify if not.
The stamp sets I used for most of the cards are from previous years so may be retired. I will indicate if they are available on my OBA.

I used Coloniale White cardstock for the card base. On a separate piece of Coloniale white that was cut slightly smaller than the card base(1/4 " smaller I do believe) I stamped with Champagne ink the sentiment from Poster Tidings(S1309) which was a stamp of the month from a previous year. I stamped it down one side and then off set it for the other side.
I cut out the banner from the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge and stamped it with a sentiment from the Frosted Cardmaking Workshop(D1562) which unfortunately is retired. I popped it up with some 3D foam tape.
The snowflakes are from punches. One that I bought at Michaels that is a Martha Stewart and the other I bought from a Kijiji sale that is a Stampin' up punch.
I added some CTMH gold sequins that were as close to neutral as I had on hand.
I do love how this card turned out. I think |I will make more.

 Thank you for coming by and feel free to comment.

Marvelous Monday

Welcome to Marvelous Monday!
I'm calling it marvelous because it is dreaded by most as the beginning of the work week and sometimes we just need to put a positive spin on things sometimes.
These cards were made with love. Both my boys and their significant others bought condos downtown Calgary where they want to experience downtown life. So I tried to make cards that reflected that life.
The stamp set I used is C1563 Cityscape which is retired for the buildings. I stamped all the buildings in slate, black, gypsy, smoky plum, pacifica and fussy cut them. I picked which ones I wanted to use and saved the rest in the back of the stamp set.
The trees were cut from the Art Philosophy CTMH Cricut cartridge  with cocoa cardstock.
I did a night time sky for the first one. I attached a large piece of Outdoor Denim for the sky. I crinkled a piece of fern for the grass, slate for the sidewalk and glacier for the river. I rubbed each of the pieces with the same inks so it would give emphasis to the crinkles. I attached each piece along the bottom and sides so I could tuck in the buildings and trees. I used a yellow recollections marker to dot the background like stars. I used the stamp set Home Sweet Home which is a retired Stamp of the month. I just wanted the word Home(stamped in Outdoor denim), so I used washi tape and covered everything except home before inking and then removed the tape to stamp. The congratulations(also in outdoor denim), came from C1612 Shower Flowers which can be found in my OBA.  I left the inside blank so I could write a personal message in both cards.

The second card is the daylight card. the buildings and trees were made the same as in the first. The papers used were sky(retired), whisper for the mountains, fern for the grass, slate for the sidewalk and glacier for the river. Again I crinkled the papers. The mountains I actually spritzed so they would crinkle easier and maybe look more mountain like? The sun was stamped in canary and is also from the cityscapes stamp set. Home, is and happy place on this card were from another retired stamp set. S1403 Happy Place. I actually cut this stamp because it was easier. I added the A from an alphabet stamp set.
They were stamped in Glacier.

The cards have character, I think. I need more practice in the realistic look but overall I am quite pleased with the cards. 

Hope you do as well.

Sunday funday card

 Welcome to Sunday Funday!!

 This was something fun that I enjoyed doing. I made this into a wedding card.
I used  a 4"x 5.5" card base.
I purchase recollection value pack card and envelope sets from Michaels when they are on sale.
I also buy the cards and envelopes from Close to My Heart occasionally. They come in large packs of 50.
I cut a 5.25"x3.75" piece of Daisy White cardstock from Close to My Heart(CTMH). I used the CTMH All Purpose mat and rubbed some CTMH Pacifica, Indian Corn Blue and Crystal Blue inks randomly on  it. I then spritzed the ink with water and then dragged my paper through it. I did a number of them but this was the one I liked best. The paper was then left to dry or you could use a heat gun to dry it quicker so you could move on to the next step.
Next  I used the stamp set D1482 Love Life and stamped the sentiment with versamark ink. I used Ranger superfine white embossing powder to emboss it. I stamped the flourishes from the same set on the front and on the inside of the card as well with Crystal blue ink.
The pearl embellishments are from my stash probably bought at Michaels.
The inside of the card sentiment is from stamp set C1589 Lifetime of Happiness which seems to be retired.

 I hope you enjoyed the card. Have a great day!