spotlight blog hop - circle cards

Welcome to August spotlight blog hop. This month we are featuring circle cards. You should be coming from Tamytha's blog. Next is Jena's Blog.

Now I made all my cards with the new cricut cart so making the bases were super easy.
The card below was made with all scraps. Even the base was in my scrap bin. The ribbon was an accident. It somehow ended on the table and jest went well with the card.

This card i made for my aunt and grampa. they bought me some cricut carts. Even this card was scraps from the pair-a-phrase card. Its hard to see, but the sentiment say thanks a bunch from a little thanks.

On this card, i only used stickers from typeset complements. this was so quick and easy.

Ill come back with the deet later. I am going to a bday party.

Next in your hop is Jena's Blog.

No B&T birthday card

I went to a team meeting last sat of july. I was adopted to jen rubio's team because my upline is her sideline. so jen is my aunt in the crafting world. lol. Jen is now hosting a swap for her team members. This months rule was no B&T, use current Alpha stamps and have at least 3 shades of cardstock. We couldn't use B&T, but we could make our own, and that is what i did.

I used a lot of new products on this card. :) I took our new kraft 6x6 card and trimmed the scalloped edge off of it so i could use it further down on the card. And I stamped, Alot. I used 5 different Alpha stamps for my homemade B&T. I used headline alphabet twice, one with a kissing tech with the script stamp for universal backgrounds. The small circle alpha is new from the stamp set Vintage Type. the banners are from that too. I just cut them down so they were smaller. Also used our new cork alphabets, ribbon from the red collection and diecuts from the cricut collection. My three plus colors were kraft, Chocolate, Cranberry and Colonial White. I also used cocoa and Vanilla cream ink. I forgot to mention, I punched a cirlce and backed it on my button the give it some color.

While at the team meeting we made this card with the new Roxie collection, Love Life stamp set, Aug sotm Wicked, Bling buttons and Butterfly just blooms.

Please check out her blog at Jens Jewels Box

Even with all this new product sneak peek, i haven't even covered 1/8th of the new idea book. Come back on the 1st for the sotm blog hop featuring Wicked. Plus i know im gonna have alot of post with the new cricut cartridge. i am so excited to get mine. i get it today, sometime. hopefully soon. lately they have been coming before 2. hope they follow that pattern today.

All items Close to my Heart unless stated:

Cardstock - Kraft Diecut Card, Colonial White, Cranberry, Chocolate

Ink - Colonial White, Vanilla Cream, Cranberry, Chocolate, Cocoa

Stamps - Vintage Type, Polka Dot Alphabet, Headline Alphabet, Friendship Alphabet small, Field Trip Alphabet, Universal Backgrounds

Accessories - Cork Alphabet, Red Ribbon Collection, Clear Buttons, Art Philosophy Collection, 3D foam tape, Liquid Glass

Non - CTMH - circle punch

August SOTM blog hop - Wicked

Welcome the the SOTM blog hop for Aug. You should have come from Lisa Schaefer's blog . Next in the hop is Diana Soling's blog. There are over 60 consultants in this months blog hop. The stamp set is name Wicked and a cute Halloween stamp set.
My first project i kept with the Halloween theme. I used colors from our new Mischief paper packet. I used remarkable wreath(new), and stamped it twice, slightly twisting so it would be a fuller wreath. I embossed the cat in black. I used our milepost shapes (new). I inked it black and used it behind the main image. I stamp the sentiment and cut it out with spellbinder die. i didn't have my cricut cartridge yet.
On this project, I wanted to show you that you can use this stamp set with the Halloween theme. I made this for my hostess, she does passion parties and her group name is buzzing bee-uties. So i went with the bee theme. the honeycomb makes a great background stamp for any theme. I used the cork letters (new) to spell out her name and used sunflower ink to change their color.

(sorry about the blurry image. not sure why it is)

Here is the closeup of the girl. yes, this is the same image as the girl on the wicked stamp. I did some masking and cutting and paper piecing to make her look less witchy. Masked the bird and part of the dress, changed the hat and the boots, and now you just have a sexy gi

I hope you enjoyed this look into our new sotm. You can get this stamp set or $5 when you have a purchase of $50 or more. Plus CTMH has an extra, extra going on. To celebrate the new price for the SOTM, when you purchase Wicked, you get a free a size alphabet, typeface. How awsome is that?

Again, next is Diana Soling's blog. If you get lost along the way, you can get the whole list here .

Recipe: Close to my Heart unless stated

Wicked Halloween Card

Cardstock - Kraft, Barn Red, Black

B&T - Olivia

Stamps - Wicked(sotm) remarkable wreath

Ink- Black, Desert Sand

Accessories - Milepost shapes, Black embossing powder

Spellbinders die

Nameplate

Cardstock - Sunny Yellow, White Daisy, Black

Stamps - Wicked (sotm)

Ink - Black, Desert Sand, Sunflower

Accessories - Cork Alphabet

Spellbinders

A Blogging Challenge. Come Join Me

I am giving myself a challenge and would love for all my crafty friends to join me. I know I have a buttload of scraps. My ctmh scraps fill a 3 in binder, not including my nonctmh papers. MY challenge is to make a card and a layout using ONLY scraps (except for the bases of course). Lets use up this paper thats just laying around. thats what we meant to do when we saved it. so lets do it. im probably gonna do one challenge with ctmh papers and one with the rest of my paper. I have bearly touched those since becoming a ctmh consultant. feel free to post you projects on here, i would love to see what you do. i am giving myself a two weeks(forgot im moving into my new craft room. so in two weds i will post them here on my blog. create my friends, don't let anything hold you back.

July Blog hop - Kraft borders

Welcome to this months blog hop. You should be coming from Haley's Blog. Like always, I am the last in the hop. But you can go to the begining at Wendy's Blog

This month we are showcasing our Kraft Borders. I used two different ones on my card. The first one if the very glittery one in the center. These borders are adhesive, so it made adding glitter a breeze. Yes, this is meant to be the back, but why not take advantage of the glue. Doing this tho reminds me why i don't use glitter. It gets everywhere. and it multiplies. i dont know how it does it. you have one spec of glitter on you, you dont touch any more. and when you leave the craft room, you are covered. I read once that glitter is the herpes of the crafting world and its true.


I just thought i lost all my typing. For some reason it deleted all i typed. Thankfully it autosaved and i caught it before it autosaved again. My computer has been pissing me off today.

Ok, back to the card. The second border are on both sides. It comes in the kraft color but can easily be colored. Now it is a different color then when you color on white. I used the the same purple on this card, but the borders are darker.

These colors are inspired by an ad i found in my interior design mag.
Next on the hop isWendy's blog


Thank you for visiting my blog.






recipe : all Close to my heart unless stated



Cardstock - White Daisy



Ink - gypsy, cotton candy



Stamps - Two Step Background, Card Chatter Birthdays, Aspiration



Kraft borders



3d foam tape



glitter (micheals)

im a winner from moxie fab

omg. was reading my blogger today and came across this:

And last but certainly not least, the winners of the 5 stamp sets from Layers of Color in last week's Moxie Fab "Stamp" of Approval are:

Nikka Geers who said...
i cant believe these are stamps. i so want them

AHHHHH. this is so awsome. I can't wait to get these goodies. here are the stamps i get to play with soon

Aren't these so pretty. My biggest dilemma, im gonna be getting all my goodie for convention so i have to spend quality time with all. ehh, i don't need sleep. lol

you will be see these on my blog very soon

Mojo 198 and a sneak peak

I actaully did a mojo monday again. its been awhile. i've wanted to do them, i looked at the sketches. But nothing. I finally did it tho. This is also a sneak peak to one of my swap cards for convention this week. WOOOO. Wed i leave, after i get an mri done.

I used , what did i use? don't you hate when that happens. Fanfare i think. total brain fart. I used my punch to make the 3d balloon. the basket, its the bottom of the cupcake from the wotg stamp from fanfare. I really need to make sure this is right. Yes, fanfare. I am way to young to have these sort of memories farts. The stamp in the bottom, its kinda hard to see, but it says 'chase the clouds'. Normally i would have used post it and masked it off, but since this was for a swap and i made 25, i cut the stamp. Its from card chatter - sympathy. The whole stamp say 'and chase the clouds away'. It was easy to cut the stamp apart and i can use it whole if i want to.

i'll be postingthe deets once i go back into my craft room. my memory isn't good enough to fill it out now.