Brown Paper Pakages

Tied Up With String

It's that time of year to get out my mini paper bags, fill them with treats,  

and decorate them for my family at Halloween. This year's treats

are tootsie roll candies of all sorts.

Thanks to Heart 2 Heart I tied up all the paper bags up with CTMH

string(black hemp and bakers twine). Today is the last day to share your

Brown Paper Packages at Heart 2 Heart. If you don't have time today

be sure to check out the ideas shared at Heart 2 Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Laughing Lola

Cardstock: Colonial White, Lagoon, Pear, Sunset

Ink: Pear, Sunset, Lagoon, Black

Stamps: Holiday Tags, Perfect Fit-Halloween

Embellishments: Black Hemp, Bakers Twine, Black Mini Medley

Other: Assorted mini paper bags, Tootsie roll candies

A Few of My Favorite Things

Embellishments Embellishments and More Embellishments

To showcase my favorites in the Fall/Winter Idea Book I made a sampler

using the 6 X 6 Canvass Display. Each square it made using the

baker's twine from the Wooden Mini Medley.

A Few of My Favorite Things:

1. Word Accents

2. Rosewood Mini Medley

3. Laughing Lola Assortment Satin clip

4. Laughing Lola Assortment Printed Gem

5. Black Mini Medley

6. Floral Accents with Word Accents

7. Frosted Assortment

8. Pro Player Assortment

9. Ruby Mini Medley

One more day to share with Heart 2 Heart 

a Few of Your Favorite Things.

Alphabet Soup at Heart 2 Heart

Wish U a Happy Birthday

Making a Heart 2 Heart Alphabet soup with Vintage Type, 

Polka Dot Alphabet, Keyboard Uppercase and A Typeface.  

Mixing up letters from different stamp sets makes really good alphabet soup.

Add a little texture and character with stitching using the new

stitching guide. View the new stitching video from Close to My Heart

for more stitching inspiration and creative composition.

Be sure to visit Heart 2 Heart and share your Alphabet Soup Recipe.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Laughing Lola

Cardstock: Lagoon, white Daisy

Stamps: Vintage Type, Polka Dot Alphabet, Keyboard Uppercase, A Typeface, 

Holiday Tags, Sweet and Lovely from Artbooking Cricut Collection

Ink: Black, Lagoon

Embellishments: Black Mini Medley, Bakers Twine, Embroidery Thread, Paradise Flowers

Pattern: Make It From Your Hear Vol.II #27

Artbooking With the "X" Key

In the Rose Blossom Garden

It's that time of year when I make my teachers back to school Post It Note holder.

Playing along in the Rose blossom Garden made this project easier and some

what more fun. The color scheme for this back to school project is 

Red(Ruby), Blue(Pacifica)Green(Olive), and Yellow(Honey). 

Directions: Using the "real dial size" cut the following  parts for the the cover

1. Photo mat 1 on the  "Z" key cut at 5 inches 

2. Cut White Daisy according to directions on Take Note stamp set

3. Cut a green apple and red apple on the "X" key 1 1/2 inches. 

Cut leaf off red apple and attach to to green apple.

4. Cut "Think grow learn" on the "X" key 1 1/4 inch.

5. Embellish with "note" stamped and some washi wonder.

Directions for inside: Using "real dial size" cut the following parts

1. Cut two pieces of cardstock 4 X 5 and cover with B&T paper.

2. Attach Photo mat 2 on the "X" key cut at 4 inches. 

Insert a piece of cardstock in the opening.

3. Shift Title on "Z" key for the "Notes" mat and cut at 4 1/4 inches.

Attach to the covered cardstock.

4. Embellish the "ABC" frame with your choice of 

stamped images and some washi wonder.

5. Attach a Post It Note pad to the "Notes" mat.

Bind it all together with a Bind It All or you can use rings to put it together.

Get ready for back to school and play with us in the Rose Blossom Garden.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Tommy

Cardstock: Pacifica, Ruby, Olive, Honey

Stamps: Take Note, Washi Wonder, All the Details

Ink: Honey, Ruby, Olive, Pacifica

Other: 4 X 5 Coasters, Bind It All, Ribbon from stash 

CAS(E) this sketch #45

A Tweet Holiday Card

The sketch at CAS(E) this sketch with the two branches and a fluttery

critter just reminded me of  the "Merry & Bright" stamp set.

This card is inspired by the sketch below. 

See what you can create with this sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch

CTMH Supplies:

Cardstock: Cranberry, Topiary, White Daisy

Ink: Cranberry, Smoothie, Topiary

Stamps: Merry & Bright

Embellishments: Bitty Opaques.

School Time in the Rose Blossom Garden

With Artbooking School Layout

Rose Blossom Garden Challenge #11: School theme using the

 "Z" key in Cricut Artbooking booklet page 68.

Ten years ago, Zachary started Kindergarten and had his 5th birthday all in

September 2003. Fast forward ten years, school started in August and his

15th birthday is today September 17. Happy Birthday Zach.

This layout is inspired by the layout I made ten years ago. 

It was fun to up date with current scrapbooking trends.

Page 1 uses the calendar overlay for the background of the

first day of tenth grade. The calendar title uses the border piece.

Page 2 uses the Photo Mat for this layout with "Ready" photos (getting ready),

a "Set" photo with books and backpack all set, and a "Go" photo getting 

in the car to go to school. I used the icon to say "Hello, grade 10."

Now you have until the end of the month to play with us in the Rose Blossom Garden 

and share your school themed idea. Come play with us in the garden.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Babycakes

Cardstock: Garden Green, Sky, Sorbet, White Daisy

Ink: Garden Green, Sky, Sorbet, Black

Stamps: Take Note, Washi Wonder, School Years

Cricut Layout: "School Layout" page 68 Artbooking booklet

Color Dare 60

Cheerful Colors of Sarita:

Goldrush, Outdoor Denim, Gypsy, Lagoon, with optional Cotton Candy.

To make this even more cheerful I used White Daisy for my card

with the ink colors of this challenge at Color My Heart.

I recently made a two page layout using the new Cricut cartridge 

Artbooking and had some hexagons left over from the overlay. Not wanting 

to toss the leftovers, I used them with the Honeycomb stamp set and the

challenge colors for this card. Fun and easy to use leftovers.

So grab your "Sarita" colors and share with us your colorful 

creation at Color My Heart this week.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Sarita

Cardstock: Outdoor Denim, Lagoon, White Daisy

Ink: Goldrush, Outdoor Denim, Lagoon, Gypsy

Stamps: Holiday Tags, Honeycomb

Embellishments: Paper Flowers, Sparkles, Irresistible Frames

H2H Color Challenge

 Sunset, Barn Red, Cashmere and Gypsy

A real color challenge is going on at Heart 2 Heart this week. 

Sunset, Barn Red, Cashmere and then Gypsy?

What fun! What to do? Thinking cap on!

Gypsy and Sunset: Halloween colors

Barn Red and Cashmere: Autumn colors

Barn Red and Sunset: Fall Leaf colors

Cashmere and Gypsy: Your guess is as good mine.

Put them all together and what do you get?

If you're up for a challenge this is it. For my project, I made wrappers

for some "Smarties" and put them in a cricut cut french fry box. I used 

Gypsy for my main color to make this a cheerful Halloween treat,

accenting with the other colors to complete the color challenge.

Now, we really want to see your color creations at the

Heart 2 Heart challenge this week.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Huntington, Babycakes

Cardstock: Gypsy, Barn Red

Ink: Cashmere, Gypsy, Sunset, Barn Red

Stamps: Perfect Fit-Halloween

Embellishments: Hemp Bakers Twine

Other: Smarties

Color Dare 58

Buttercup, Sweet Leaf, and Sky

Fun card with Artbooking overlay Cricut booklet pg. 51 cut at 3"

Circled areas have Washi Wonder stamp set circles in some areas.

Sentiment and butterfly from the special stamp trio "You Are My Happy"

This is the last day of this color challenge but a new one will

challenge us tomorrow at Color My Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Babycakes, Chantilly

Cardstock: Sky, Sweet Leaf, White Daisy

Ink: Sky, Sweet Leaf, Slate

Stamps: You Are My Happy, Washi Wonder

We're Blog Hoppin' With "You Are My Happy"

Celebrate National Stamping Month

With A Sarita Card Collection

Sarita's bright and cheerful colors will just seem to go with "You Are My Happy" 

stamp set trio. This stamp set includes some wonderful sayings, an alphabet set 

and some cute icons to go with the sayings. The icon stamps are open stamps

so they will need some coloring  of some sort. I'm not a fan of open stamps so I

 will share some easy ways to enhance your stamps with different techniques. 

If you have come from Katy's scrappinkaty blog you are on the right path.

Card Holder for the Sarita Card Collection

Tone on tone stamping adds dimension to your open stamps

Color in small areas of your open stamp with a coordinating marker

Paper piecing is a good way to use open stamps. 

Stamp the image on one color cardstock and stamp the same image with 

another color cardstock. Cut out part of the image and pop it up

on top of the first stamped image.

Tone on tone stamped image.

Color small areas of the stamped image with water color pencils 

and blend with the Tombow blending pen

Stamps your image with ink and color in with water color pencils.

Blend the color with tombow blending pen.

Now hop over to pamsclearlycraftycorner to check out what she's got 

going in her corner of this hop. FYI: Pam's got pictures of this stamp 

set trio so on hop over and take a look. Happy Hopping!

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Sarita

Cardstock: Outdoor Denim, Lagoon, Cotton Candy, Gypsy, Goldrush

Ink: Outdoor Denim, Lagoon, Cotton Candy, Gypsy, Goldrush

Stamps: You Are My Happy

Embellishments:Burlap, Chevron, & Seam Binding Ribbons, Bakers Twine, blue Buttons, Base & Bling Floral Accents, Glitter Ribbon, sparkles

Card Patterns from Make It From Your Heart Vol II