Artiste - Day 4

Today I am bringing you a cute little hanging basket. These make perfect little party favors. I also used the new chalk pen on the front.

If today is your first day joining our blog-hop I hope you have a few moments to look at our previous posts. You probably came from Kathy's blog but if you are starting here that is fine as well just keep clicking the links until you get back here and then you will know that you saw all of the cuteness.

Ok my project today uses the Sweetheart paper

Like I said this is a perfect little party favor you can put candy in here but I thought I would put my heart in mine.


















Please continue on to Jen's blog and I will see you again tomorrow!

Artiste - Day 3

Hello there...welcome to day 3 of our Artiste blog hop. What a treat you are in this August everything I make with this cartridge is so fun and so easy to do. Also it has been super fast.  When I first said I wanted to do this I was so excited and I thought it would be so fun...then I started to panic...a post a day? A project a day? So far though I have spent about 20 - 1 hour on each project. Easy peasy...now we are three days in so check back at day 13 or day 23...lol

Ok so you know the drill by now hopefully you are coming from Kathy's Creative Corner but if you are just getting started that is great because this is a circular hop so you will get to see all the adorable projects.

Today I used Pemberly to do a flower box....what do you think?

Do you see the burlap? I used it on the back of the heart so it looks great from all angles. This little flower box would be so perfect for a little gift or a fun table setting. You can change the "flower" to be hearts, leaves, snowflakes...the list of ideas is endless.

Please continue on to Roxybonds blog to see her creation.

Artiste - Day 2

Today I present to you a gable box.You probably came from Kathy's Creative Corner. As I was trying to decide what I wanted to do I came across this adorable project from 2009. I knew I HAD to make a watermelon box. (side note - my girls will laugh at me because for some reason I like watermelon stuff so much that I sent my daughter on picture day in a watermelon dress...matching socks...and wait for it...a matching hat. LOL She could kill me now but back then she ha no choice and she liked it too)

Ok back to my box...I love how it turned out! This would be perfect for a little picnic or a luncheon and you could put little treats in there or the cards in there.

The box is made with dotty paper then I wrapped waxy flax around it and added the buttons. I was not sure what I was going to use for the seeds but as I looked through my stamps I saw an explanation point! I just inked up the top and left the dot out and perfect little seeds happened. The cards are also from the Artiste Cartridge. 

I hope you like todays project and head on over to Roxybonds blog to see what yummy cuteness she has on display. Don't forget I have the list of bloggers along the sidebar over there ---- >

Artiste - Day 1

So each day in August I am going to bring you a fun project featuring artwork from the new Artiste Cartridge at Close to my Heart. I have to say I have never been so in love with a cartridge before. I didn't think it could get any better than my Art Philosophy Cartridge but it happened!

You should have come from Kathy's Creative Corner but if for some reason you didn't or if you get lost you can find the list of participating blogs on the right ---> column of my blog.


Today's project is a Magazine Box this box is perfect for a card set. I used one of the new stamps that come with the Artiste Cricut Collection.

Now move on over to Roxybonds and see what she came up with. See you tomorrow with another great idea!

Don't forget all month long I am offering free shipping to celebrate my birthday!!

Express Yourself with Sparkle

Over at Practical Scrappers we are letting our light shine. Stickles, Bling, Gems...I decided on stickles. I had this cute premade title and I just wanted to help it pop. 

So I added some stickles and now it shines at every angle.  It just adds that something extra and brings a little girly stuff to an otherwise masculine color scheme.

Go ahead and express yourself with bling this week! 

Fun with Pins

At Practical Scrapers we are showing you fun ways to use pins on Cards and Layouts. I have been trying to figure out what in the world to do with these photo's of my daughter on the last day of school for about a month. Last week I decided to slide into the last few weeks of Got Sketch's latest class Express 3. When I {heart} it when that happens. 

These photo's are from my daughters last day of school Sophomore year. I have no idea where the time has went but these papers from Close to my Heart called Notebook are just perfect. Now I have had this paper in my bin for oh...about 3 or 4 years. I really am trying to be better about using it when I buy it.  So grab some of your stash and go check out what everyone else did with pins and then get busy making something beautiful. 

Here is a great tip on on how to attach the pins to your layouts and cards. Just use a pop dot or some foam tape and stick the tip of the pin inside. This will give you extra dimension and a place to put your pin. 

As you can see I have one of the pins under and one over they are both stuck into foam tape.

I also wanted to give you a view of the banner boarder. I adore banners and that is a trend that I hope doesn't end anytime soon.

To get the layered look of the banner I put my adhesive down in a strip using a adhesive tape gun. The strip is about 1/4" so then I cut out all of the banners on my Cricut and stuck each one down at the top. After that I just fluffed or rolled up the bottom. This gave it a added dimension without giving it any bulk. This is one of my favorite techniques. You can also do that with flowers and butterflies.

Sketch-n-Scrap # 13 - Joy

Sketch 13 is here from Sketch-n-Scrap isn't it a beauty and lots of photo's on this one. I love sketches when I can get a lot of photo's on. Often if I love a design I will change out the number of photo's if it only has one or two. I stayed pretty true to the sketch changing around the photo size a little and I also swapped the title and the accent at the bottom. Something else that I decided to do with this sketch is to turn it from a one page to a two page again. This time instead of coming up with something similar or stretch the sketch I am turning two single sketches into a double sketch. I coordinated this page to go with my sketch 12. Take a look here. As you can see I did some more fancy cutting on this page. 

I cut out a butterfly and two small flowers here. I put a glue dot down in the middle of the butterfly and pulled the wings up. I love doing this because it makes the butterfly look like there is some movement.

Here I cut the hexagons apart and lined them up all in a row and added some pearls to the centers. I also cut that large flower.

You can see here that I tried to flip up the flower petals as well. Just giving a little more dimension without making my page to thick. 

I hope you can take the time to play along this week at Sketch-n-Scrap. Head on over to see what everyone else is doing and hear about some great changes.

Supplies

Cardstock - Bamboo

Pattern Paper - Pemberley

Embelishments - Bitty Opaques Pearl Gems, Thickers Alphabet