CTMH Wall Art

Sorry to all of you, I have been in such a Hiatus!! 

But here is a Project I created, Using a Little bit of the DREAM POP paper packet! It is truly AMAZING! 

I created a a wall piece, or you can easily hang it on a door knob if you like :) 

I used my left over chipboard pieces from the Memory board game, as my backing to make it sturdy. You can use any 3x3 chip board square you have on hand. 

 As you can see, Its pretty simple, (I think!) I used Liquid glass for everything or Aleene;s Tacky glue (love it). The only time I Used Hot glue was for the Ribbon on the back so that it was sturdy enough. I have included detailed pictures of each “Square” . I really didn’t think that a video was necessary. Feel FREE to switch it up as you like! 

 

First things FIRST!!

The first thing you want to do for ALL of them is glue the Blue CardStock square to the chipboard piece. Once that is done you can move on to the rest of the square.

For this first Square

Remember Blue CS 1^st! Onto chipboard!

I glued down first the Stamped shaped, then the flower. So here I included 3 of the flowers. I glued the 1^st one on flat. The other 2 I folded the petals a bit, and only glued down the middle. Lastly I glued down the letter “C”, and the tiny pearl.

I did not ink up any edges, but feel free to do so if you like ;)

Remember Blue CS 1^st! Onto chipboard!

Here I off centered the background pieces a bit to the left. First the silver glitter paper, with Liquid Glass! Then the banners, and Lastly the “T”

 

Remember Blue CS 1^st! Onto chipboard!

this is has one of my favorite things to do! A Rosette! Make sure to pop out all the little circles first before you attempt to put it together. Once its put together use the white circle to glue it down on to. I hope this is not the first time you make a Rosette?! If it is I apologize... I do have a video up my blog.

So after your rosette is put together, I put more liquid glass onto the back of the white circle and pressed it onto the the blue background. Then comes the “M” and finally the Pearl onto the Rosette, I guess you can put it on after your done with the rosette if you like ;) 

Remember Blue CS 1^st! Onto chipboard!

This was the easiest! 1^st the glitter square, on an angle off centered to the left. Then the heart off to the left, YES it will be a bit off the square. Then the “H” and your done with this one! 

 

For the ribbon I used  our Black striped Grosgrain. I cut about 1 1/2" strips.  I used Hot glue, and I centered them all , left about 3/4” inch showing in between the squares.

I started with the “H” square, glued the bottom of the ribbon and worked my way up. This way I can “SEE” if I was centering the ribbon right. 

Last I made a loop for the Hook with an 11" strip. Hot glued it to the top back of the “C”.
 

I cut out 4 3x3 white squares. The extra white squares are to glue to the backs of each individual square once the ribbon is on for a “clean” look. 

 Hope you like it! :)

Thanks for stopping by!! 

Chantilly Gift set

Here it is....

Hi there all, Here are the rest of the gifts I made for my mothers 50th Birthday. Her big gift was tickets to Andrea Bocelli concert :) 

I decided to make this set of cards, since she is ALWAYS asking me to make her quick, last minute Birthday cards, or thank you card. Of course they MUST be great even if she needs them in the next 30 minutes... lol

So I figure this would be a Great idea, I would help her out and at the same time help myself out. 

I made the card/envelope box myself.  If you would like details on how I made that click HERE for that blog post.

I made her a set of 4 cards, I really wanted to make her a set of 6, but with me being the perfectionist that I am I just did not have time for that. 

Here is the Full set of 4 cards:

My absolute favorite is this green one:

At first it was my least favorite, since I just had it as a plain green in the background. I felt like it needed a little something, so I did a bit of random stamping with a small flower.... and I HATED IT! believe it or I not I thought I had ruined my card... but I decided to make it work, I added the bitty opaque pearls to the centers of each flower... and VIOLA! it added the touch it was needing to turn from drab to FAB! lol. OK maybe I am being a bit drastic... but really I did not like it until I added the pearls!!

This was the first card in the set, and I loved how the colors pulled together. OH! where are my manners?? in this ENTIRE card set I used the ever wonderful Chantilly Paper pack.  I LOVE how this paper pack is so dainty? I think its so delicate, but yet so bright and playful! At first glance in the Idea book this was not one of my top 3 paper packs, but when in my hands, Oh my! I must have more!! So many first with this set of cards... ;) 

I adored the layout I created for the previous card that I HAD to duplicate it and tweak it just a bit so it wouldn't be Exactly the same.  I cut out the flower using the AP cartridge. This card reminds me of my time spent living in Hawaii..... (SIGH, how I miss Hawaii....ok,  back to reality). So you can see how using the AP cartridge can be so simple and adds that perfect "something" to the card.

Last but not least is this other Birthday card, I figured you cant have too many of those. It seems like its always someones birthday right? So with this one I decided to make it a funky one... Its very colorful and is not traditional in any sense but it works! Again I used the AP cartridge to cut out the medallion piece and stamped right over it! I love how our stamps coordinate with the Cricut cartridges.  I also used some sliver shimmer trim!










Now onto the card/envelope box:

For the front of the card box I decorated with the NEW chevron Ribbon!  Love this new product and I coordinated with the Chantilly complements dimensional elements.

Here is the inside, on one side the cards and on the other, well the envelopes!


It folds and is very sturdy! IF you would like to see the tutorial on how to make this card box Click HERE to see that post. :) 

Hope that you enjoyed my creation!

Chantilly and 50

Hi there everyone!!!

I have had a SUPER busy month! with the Valentine treat bag orders, January ctmh orders and of course my mothers 50th Birthday!

I made her several items, I will post those up later this week. To start off, The family as a whole took her out to dinner this past week to one of her favorite restaurants. They asked me to make her a birthday card... go figure! I should have seen that one coming LOL!

Any way, her other gifts took so much of my free time between work, and family stuff you know how it is that I did wait until the day of the  dinner to put this card together. So I did the easy thing... a Mojo Monday sketch!! I was so excited that it was one that I really liked and saw that it had major potential. Plus I had been itching to get back into doing more mojo monday cards. If you dont know about mojo monday feel free to check them out HERE.

Ok so enough chit chat... here is my Card: 

I absolutely LOVE it!!!!! I love how when I am on a crunch for time... and dont have much time for contemplating my ideas and design, things just turn out SO much BETTER than expected!  Plus I used NEW products from the New Spring/Summer 2013 Idea Book! It is available for your viewing online, Click HERE.

Here is the sketch from Mojo Monday that I followed:

Here is a close up of the detail, this card is 5x7

The inside reads: your one of the Wisest people I know.

Materials used:

1.  Chantilly paper pack
2.  Chantilly complements dimensional elements 
3. Black and Grey Glitter paper 
4. Bitty opaques adhesive pearls
5. Opaques adhesive pearls  
6. Just a Number Stamp set (D1514) 
7. Slate ink pad

Hope that you enjoyed my card! My mother sure did! :) Stay tuned for the rest of her gifts and another AMAZING card!

~Diana

Live Love Laugh NEW coasters!

Hello there fellow Crafters!!!


I wanted to post this up REAL quick... since I have been such a bad girl about posting. So I figured a quick post is better than NONE at all!

I had an order for coasters for Christmas gifts and I was VERY pleased with our NEW alcohol based markers. I used them to color in the flower and they DID NOT bleed when I put the mod podge over it!!! TRIPLE SCORE!!!! :) yes that is very important!! Last thing you want is to color in something so beautiful and have it bleed when your sealing it! ;)

Here is the final product! I have to admit... I am keeping these for me, as I made extra! Shhhhhh dont tell.

Hope you enjoyed my quick post!

Here is a Video Tutorial I created a while back on how to make these SUPER easy Coasters. :) 

Pumpkins with Artiste

Just a VERY quick post to share my latest creation. I made this ADORABLE Pumpkin with the Artiste cartridge!! Took me less than 5 minutes to put together!!

Now I have gotten into trouble.... I have to make about 20 more! (some for orders) :) 

Hope you like this. you can get the Cricut Artiste Cartridge today with me Order HERE

Email me for more questions and details... 

 Cute right????

Here is a Video in detail on how to make your own.

Here is what you get when you order the Artiste Cartridge:

 

And here is this months Stamp of the month, yours for only $5 when you order $50 or more!

September Scare Crow

Hi! and thank you in advance for checking out my creation!

Today I have for you another Mojo Monday Challenge. If you haven't been to Mojo Monday by now well, you Should! they are my favorite! They post up a sketch every Monday for you to try, how ever you like and submit to their page.

I was also dying to use my CTMH September Stamp of the month so I combined the two. Here is my card:

Since this Monday was the last Monday of the month they do a sketch where it can either be Round or square. The last time I picked Round so this time I chose square... Here is the Sketched that I followed:

I tried my best to follow the Sketch. I always try to put my own twist on it. I didn't use a scalloped square but I did use a similar cut that I got from the Artiste Cartridge. instead of a flower I did punkins  to stick with the theme :)









Hope you enjoyed my Mojo Monday!

Here is the September Stamp of the Month. Available until Sept 30th for $5 with your order of $50.

For this Card I used the following:

• Flirty paper pack                       
• Gold rush Cardstock
• New England Ivy cardstock
• Sparkles Brown & Tan assortment
• Water color pencils to color in the stamp 
• Cricut Artiste Cartridge

I will also be entering this card into the following challenges:

1.  Mojo Monday 260

Pre K Graduation 2011

As Promised here is my first Layout for my son's School Pictures Scrap Book.

His PreK school didn't take actual "school" pictures, instead they did these Graduation photos, So this is all I have as far as professional pictures for this school year...  I may make one 2 page lay out with a few that I took over the year when they did a few special events. 

I love the look, This has been one of the EASIEST Layouts for me. It was all simple cuts on my paper trimmer, and then the little banners and title were cut on my Cricut. Then ran through my Xyron create a sticker and VIOLA!

 "Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeazy" (as my son would say!)

Plus there was NO stamping in this project at all!!! Shocker, Huh? 

 

Materials Used:

• Typeset paper pack
• Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge
• Dessert Sand ink pad
• Magic book

Thanks For stopping by, Feel free to leave any comments. 

This Layout will be entered into these Challenges:

1. crafts 4 eternity
2. Inspire Me Fridays 
3. JellyPark Challenges 

Hello Life: Layered Card

Good Afternoon Everyone! I hope that you have had an amazing weekend.

I had some time to create this 5x7 card that I have been trying to make for some time. It is a layered Stamping card Technique. The end result is Awesome! You get 3 pieces of CS and layer on top of each other ( the will be an inch smaller than the one behind it) and then stamp your images on top, making sure to go over all 3 layers.

You can choose to mat the layers with some other color CS or B&T cs. Then it will look something like this:

I absolutely LOVE this Technique AND its Super easy!!!!

For this card I used:

• Stella B&T duo
• Colonial White CS
• Treasures (D12375) Stamp set

Thanks for stopping by today!!


I am entering this card into the following Challenges:

1. art with no boundaries
2. heart 2 heart challenges
3. lexis creations
4. make it monday
5. stamp and create blog

Life is Good...

I have been doing the Mojo Monday sketches lately and I love them. This week when I saw the one they had I knew immediately that I had to do it... I tried to get it done with in "Monday" but you know how busy life can get.

This is the card I created using the Mojo Monday 257 sketch:

 

This was the Mojo Monday 257 Sketch:   

Cute Right??? This week since its the first Monday of the month they are doing a contest! Wish me luck!! you can also check out their blog and join in on the fun! Click HERE

Here are some more vies on my card: (click picture to view larger)

Hope you enjoyed my Mojo Monday sketch #257 . I was able to put together a few more cards with the scraps that were left of this one... Scroll down to see that creation!

I am entering this card in the following Challenges:

1. Mojo Monday 257
2. Papelitos Stamps challenge
3. paper take weekly
4. craft door magazine
5.  Tuesday Alchemy
6.  Twisted Tuesday Challenges

This is one of the extra cards I made using some scraps from the mojo 257 card :)

Hope you have enjoyed this post feel free to leave any comments.

Did someone say SALE?

Hurry on over to the While Supplies last Section on my CTMH site!!! there are a ton of new stuff listed!!! from:

1. Ink pads for $4.25
2. paper packs for $7.00
3. Bulck paper for $3.50
4. 12x12 albums for $2.00

SO MUCH MORE!!!!! hurry on over CLICK HERE

   

  

August Giveaway

Its Give away time who is excited???

Contest ends August 31st Winner chosen on September 1st.

I am going to be giving away a Free Paper pack AND an "A" size stamp set, How great is that!

There are 12 Paper packs in the NEW Idea Book. There are 8 BRAND new ones and there are 4 that carried over from the last Idea Book.

There are a Lot of stamp sets available in the Idea Book! 

Just fill out the form by clicking HERE and you will get one Entry!!

There are several ways of getting more entries here's how:

• Place a $15 order on My CTMH site and get 5 extra entries!

           **Must Join Gathering at check out for me to count it!**

• Get a friend to also place a $15 Order on my site and get 10 extra Entries!!! (thats 15 extra entries)
• Join My team and get 20 extra entries!!! Click HERE to join!

**Please comment on here and let me know which of these you have done, once I verify I will adjust your entries. 

**If all you do is fill out the form no comment is necessary 

GOOD LUCK!!!

Free Perfect Pairs!

During July, get a free paper packet and coordinating accessory with a qualifying online purchase.

 

 Place an online order of $75 or more in July and we’ll send you a popular paper packet and coordinating accessory—a Perfect Pair—for free! Different Perfect Pairs are available on different dates throughout the month so you’ll want to place more than one qualifying order to snatch several Perfect Pairs.

Specific pairs are available on specific dates; see below to find out when your favorite Perfect Pairs will be available. Be sure to place your order early in the availability period, as the promotion is while supplies last.

 

 

 Here are pictures of each Paper Pack:

Mischief Paper Pack
Dreamin' Paper Pack
Fanfare Paper Pack

Lucky Paper Pack

Mayberry Paper pack

Sophia Paper Pack

Believe Paper Pack

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8 mini cards from 1 12x12 sheet.

So I created 8 mini cards (3"x3") out of ONE 12"x12" Card Stock! Awesome right?

I used Close to My Heart's Colonial white 12x12 CS to make these cute "mini" cards. So much potential in this!

You will Need:

 Step 1: cut in half

Step 2:  cut into 3" strips

You will get 8 3"x6" strips

Step 3:  Score in the middle

Step 4:  Fold at the score

I made some of these mini cards into "Top" fold cards (Bottom row) and some into "Side" fold cards (Top Row).

 Here is the Final Product!!!  I only took pictures of 3 ;)

 I used Life is tweet stamp set. Available as the SOTM for June!!

Here is the inside of each individual card... 

For the inside of the 1st card I used Nursery bash D1236 (retired stamp set), for the rest Life is tweet S1206
Hope you enjoyed this quick and easy way to create mini cards out of one 12x12 CS!

I made several Happy birthday ones, and several "Thank you" cards!