10X10 Travel Mini Part 10 – Artbooking Cricut Collection

Hello Crafty Friends,

It’s been a busy place around here, but I do have this layout to share with you all and a quick video I made while assembling it.

I love creating little pockets on these little pages for travel mini albums as you need places to stick the small memorabilia that you pick up on your journey. I’ve had these little paper bags for a long time and was thrilled to get to use one and to get to do some stampin too!

The best part about making your own album is that you get to choose the size and how many pages you want or need. Artbooking has made it super easy for one and all to not only scrapbook or Artbooking, but to make your very own personalized mini albums with some really trendy and just amazing elements. I love the little approved postage cut that I add to this page. There are at least two of these on this cartridge.

Now who doesn’t love these doily style photo mats! This was cut at 11″ and she can add at 3.5″ square photo or a 4″ square photo depending on how much of the doily she wants to see under the picture. I’ve mounted this photo mat with some dimensional adhesive.

Thank you for coming by today! Have a blessed and crafty day!

Donna Lee

Masculine Birthday ~ You’re Amazing Cricut Artiste

This week we celebrated our oldest sons 28th birthday! He is an amazing man and great Daddy to our grandchildren.

My grandson and I had fun creating this card. Grayson enjoyed getting to help me use the Cuttlebug and the embossing folder. He really likes to open and close the Cuttlebug best!

While at JoAnn’s last week I picked up the little stack on Kraft-Core by Tim Holtz while it was 40% off and todays card was a great way to play with it a little bit.

I used one of my favorite Cricut cartridges, Artiste by Close To My Heart! The floret was cut at 5.25 inches wide 3X’s to make it. It is on key 20 using the card feature. No scoring necessary with this cartridge, it folds so easily. The stamp, You’re Amazing comes from a coordinating stamp set called Cricut Artiste Collection Kudo’s that is one of two stamp sets you get with the Cricut Artiste Collection when you buy it. My grandson was helping to stamp, so its not perfect, but because he was helping me stamp we did not re-do it.

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I use my Gypsy to layout my pieces and do all my cutting at one time and preferably on one pass of the mat.

After cutting all my images from Artiste there was just some dry embossing to do and quick assembly. We took advantage of the Kraft-Core card stock and sanded it after running it through the Cuttlebug using Tim Holtz Woodgrain by Sizzix embossing folder.

The inside

The inside was super simple. Just a little stamping and adhering the remaining gears that we cut from the Artiste Cartridge. We used the Cricut Artiste Collection Birthday stamp set which is the 2nd stamp set you receive when you buy the Artiste Collection.

Hope you enjoyed this quick card! If you are interested in buying the Cricut Artise Collection you can go to my website here to see the entire collection. I take PayPal so please contact me through my webiste or by leaving a comment here, and I will be in touch with you.

See you back here in a few days!

Art Philosophy Twisted Easel Card ~ Live The Life You’ve Imagined

I saw a video that Beate at Splitcoast Stampers did on a twisted easel card last week and was inspired to play with this idea using some of the great cuts on the Close To My Heart Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge. Here is one of the cards I ended up with! Be sure to click on the link above to watch Beate tutorial to see how to make this great card.

If you are not familiar with this Cricut cartridge from Close To My Heart you must take a good look at it! I highly recommend it. It has 700 cuts and addresses every season and major holiday. It and the Artiste from Close To My Heart are my go to cartridges for most projects.

I started with Circle4 on page 61 of the Art Philosophy handbook and welded them together to make the base of my card. My card is oversized at 10.44 inches but you can adjust the size to fit your needs and designs easily using CCR or Gypsy or Design Studio. I cut the extra top layer at 5.5 inches tall.

The inside layer is Circle1 (yellow print from DCWV) is cut at 4 inches and is found on page 21 of the Art Philosophy handbook. I added a piece of ecru lace ribbon and some ribbon at Michaels using sticky tape to adhere it.

Next I added three flowers using the shift font image on page 68 of the Art Philosophy handbook. Flowers do not get any easier than this! I love the flowers on the cartridge! So easy, so cute, and cut at 1.5 inches they cut like a hot knife in butter. This paper is textured with a gloss finish and they cut perfectly the first time. Blade at 6, speed and pressure on high on my Cricut Expression. I added some extra bling around the flowers from my stash.

Okay back to the front of my card. Another awesome cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge is this font layer shift cut on page 68 at 4 inches high. It cut perfectly and I used a glittery paper that is pretty thick from DCWV so I used the multi cut feature and let it cut 2 times at a med speed. My blade was still set at 6 and pressure was set at high. The inside layer is the circle1 cut I used previously but this time is set at 2.8 in tall. I used some Ranger Distressed Inks Wild Honey and applicator to distress the smaller Circle1 cut. My sentiment is stamped using a Tim Holtz clear stamp set (Journey) using Rangers Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I stamped one of the images from this stamp set on vanilla card stock scrap in a tangerine ink and fussy cut it. I popped it up using some adhesive tape. I really like this image of this stamp and am happy to have it in my collection!

I spent more time trying to decide what papers to use than I did designing, cutting, and assembling this card. It’s that easy using a great cartridge from Close To My Heart and some inspiration from Beate over at SCS!

Novembers Specials!

This month’s stamp of the month coordinates with the Artiste cartridge and is perfect for those of you who like to make your own mini calendars. Also it has a GREAT journing box for layouts!
Get the Stamp of the Month set for just $5 (S1211A) when you place an order of $50 or more in products!

To show support of Red Cross relief efforts for those areas of the US severely affected by Hurricane Sandy, Close To My Heart will donate $1 for every Stamp of the Month set sold as a part of our November promotion. Just one more reason to “Capture The Date, Capture the Savings” this month!

Also, in November, you’ll get something extra when you buy the Stamp of the Month—50% off another stamp set! When you qualify for and buy the November Stamp of the Month set, Capture the Date, you’ll receive another stamp set* of your choice for 50% off—it’s like two promotions in one! The versatile Capture the Date stamp set is great for any layout, card, invitation, or calendar, and now you can choose another stamp set at half-off for more wonderful papercrafting. Get Capture the Date and then capture the savings today!
* Offer valid for A-E and M size stamp sets only; K-size, Workshops on the Go®, Cricut® collection, and Stamp of the Month stamp sets are not eligible for this promotion. Maximum of one 50% off stamp set per order.
Dates: Offer valid November 1–30, 2012
If there has been a stamp set that you have had your eye on, but have not taken the plunge yet…this is your promo!

Now don’t forget that you can still buy the fabulous Artiste and Art Philosophy cartridges, so if you have not taken the plunge yet, come on in the water is great!

Raising The Level Of Positivity Day 2

What is more powerful than One who can create by just speaking?

I love being outside enjoying God’s creation! I am so thankful for all the seasons and the times I get to enjoy them. Spring time is one of my favorite times of the year here in NE Georgia. Walking at one of our many local parks gives me the opportunity to see His creation daily. The renewal of Spring time in the earth is a powerful sign of God’s grace and how we can be born again through the power of the Holy Spirit. Under His mighty power we can do all things. This includes healing the sick, feeding the poor, casting out evil spirits, sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, providing shelter for the homeless, and so much more. I see Him in creation and it’s beauty and power all point back to Him who dies so that we could live an eternal life one this life is finished. We are made new in Him! 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Today’s Gratitude List
1. The gift of nature! Oh how I love His creation.
2. The refreshing scent and cleansing gift of rain!
3. Air conditioning! It got hot today and it was nice to do my hour walk in the air conditioned mall close to my home.

Today I met some new friends at a local craft store. Two of them are just getting started with card making and it was so much fun to see their excitement of all the goodies there are to learn about! I also saw two ladies that I met last week and it was great to connect with them again. I learned something new today and got to use the new Tim Holtz Distress Marker’s! Oh what fun they are to play with! I spent $0 so that was good too! A great day with wonderful people doing what I enjoy! Here is one of the tags I made this afternoon!

Today’s RAK was to share a friendly smile, laughter, and compassion to those around me. I was blessed today with a RAK by my friend who bought me lunch! I am blessed!

Today I walked for an hour and ran for an hour. I needed to because I had some Strawberry Icebox Cake for dessert! It was worth it.