February Card Class

This month began a new catalog season with Close To My Heart, and like always I was so excited to start creating with the new papers and images. I started off with the Stella paper and Fashonista stamp set. I threw in some of the Just For You stamp set as well.
Card #1 Recipe
Base: 5.5x4.25, White Daisy
Pattern Paper: 5.25x4, Stella
Lagoon 4.25x2.5, cornerns rounded
Sunset 3.75x2.25, corners rounded
I stamped the lady onto a piece of colonial white using cocoa ink and cut around, then on another piece of colonial white I stamped her again in sunset. I cut out her outfit and handbag and adhered them to the cocoa image then adhered to the card. Finish it off with a new pewter badge button.
Card #2 Recipe


Base:5.5x5.5, White Daisy
cardstock: 5.25x5.25, cocoa
5x2.5, sunset
4.75x2.25, colonial white
Pattern paper: 5.25x.5, Stella (Lagoon flower)
white embossing powder
bitty sparkles
I used the store stamp from the Fashionista set and embossed it using the white embossing powder. I also embossed the saying. Then adhere the .5 strip and the sunset cardstock.



I stamped one lady using cocoa ink then stamped her again in Lagoon. I cut the handbag out of the stamped Lagoon image and adhered it to the cocoa image. This was then adhered to the sunset cardstock. To add some interest I added 3 tiny sparkles to her handbag and one to the center of her belt.






Card #3 Recipe

Base: 5.5x4.25, white daisy
cardstock: 5.25x4, large cocoa
4x2.25, small cocoa
pattern paper: 5x3.75, Stella (tulip)
3.75x2, Stella (Lagoon flower)
scallop circle: 2.75, olive
circle: 2.25, colonial white
chocolate and colonial white striped grosgrain ribbon
I stamped the staying from the Fashionista set in olive on the colonial white circle.


Card #4 Recipe

Base: 5.5x4.25, White Daisy
Pattern paper: 3x4, Stella (dress pattern)
.5x4, Stella (Lagoon flower)
1.75x4, Stella (multi)
Image: Just for you stamp set
outline stamped in cocoa, 3 petals stamped in sunset with a touch of tulip on the top, 3 petals in lagoon with a touch of olive on the top. Two leaves stamped in olive.
Wooded button in the center of the flower and twine tied on the fold.


Card #5 Recipe

Base: 5.5x4.25, White Daisy
Pattern Paper: 4x2, Stella (red)
4x.5, Stella (multi)
Image: Just for you stamp set
I stamped the dotted outline in cocoa, the petals are stamped in sunset, and the leaves are stamped in 2nd generation olive. I stamped the saying in sunset and added an orange button.

Sweets Challenge

Welcome everyone to another great challenge from Exploring Cricut. For this challenge we could make a card, layout, or other paper craft using candies, sweets, love, hearts, etc. It doesn't have to be limited to Valentine's day.
Once again I decided to make a card. I started with a white base that 5.5x5.5. I cut a piece of heart paper from the Sweetheart line 5.25x5.25.
My cricut cuts are:
Desert sand: flower pot 4.66x8.65 using Everyday Pop-Up Cards
pear: leaves 2" using Celebrate with Flourish
Smoothie and Baby Pink: hearts 1" using Baby Steps

White Daisy: 2" tag from Art Philosophy

To make things interesting I spritzed the leaves with limolicious and Emerals Smootch and the hearts with cherry ice, pink sprinkles, and vanilla shimmer.
For anyone who hasn't worked with the smootch spritz or similar products they are super easy and the effect you get is worth the drying time. Pick your favorite color or the color that will work best with your project. Shake the tube well since the fun part settles to the bottom. Hold the tube about 6 inches from your project and spritz.

Spritz a little for a cool look or spritz a lot for a more complete coverage. The leaves really turned out the best. As you can see the spritzed leaves are a new color with tons of shading.

For the hearts, after I had spritzed them with the smootch and let them dry, I stamped them with sayings from an old Close to my Heart stamp set to make them into "Conversation Hearts". I adhered ribbon to my flower pot and tied a pretty bow for the tag. The ribbon is just a seasonal ribbon I found at Wal-Mart. Once the flower pot was adhered to the card I started to layer the hearts and leaves to make it look as close to a plant as possible. I have to admit the final product turned out tons better than I thought it would!


I then cut the tag and adhered it to a piece of tulip cardstock. I then stamped the saying with a phrase from the Pair-a-Phrase set in chocolate ink.