Hi all! Welcome to the Rose Blossom Blog Hop featuring our favorite Close To My Heart Cricut cartridges. If you've just come from the oh-so-talented Marg Van Patten's blog, I Didn't Have Potatoes, you're in the right place. If you're starting with me or get lost along the way, I'll have a list of hop participants at the end of this post.
In honor of Close To My Heart's "Baby, I'm Worth It" consultant sign up campaign, the Rose Blossoms are featuring projects that you can make with the CTMH Cricut cartridges. So I thought I'd showcase a little birthday card/gift card holder I made for my daughter's birthday this week. Let's take a look:
I was inspired to create this pop-up matchbox by Dawn Griffith at Dawn's Stamping Spot. While I do have an envelope punch board (which is what Dawn used to create her matchbox), I decided to make this quick and easy using my Cricut and Cricut Design iPad app. Since I used the app, I could pick and choose images from all of my cartridges and then some. For this card, I used images from CTMH's Artfully Sent, Artbooking, and Artiste circuit collections. The match box itself is from the Artiste collection and is cut from white daisy cardstock. I layered it inside and out with Kaleidoscope paper. The "celebrate" image (from Artfully Sent) that I used for the shaker front was cut 5 times from White Daisy Cardstock and once from Kaleidoscope paper. I layered the 5 cardstock pieces together and added some glitter to the letters. I then added acetate and Kaleidoscope paper to finish it off. The Happy Birthday sentiment is an Artiste image cut from white glitter paper and the 14 is the Artbooking font cut from gold glitter paper.
Here are some images of the inside:
The flowers, balloons, and Birthday Girl sentiment are all from Artiste and cut from Kaleidoscope paper.
Here's one more look at the shaker:
I hope you enjoyed this little matchbox. You can find out about the fantastic Baby, I'm Worth It! sign up deal right here. And now hop on over to see what the incredibly talented Morgan Vogt has for your inspiration at TweetScraps!
And, as promised, here's a list of blog participants:
Kim {that's ME}
Have a wonderfully creative weekend!
Oh my sparkly word!!!! This is has DIVA written all over it! The shaker card is a perfect way to show off this cartridge....the glitter just stole my crafty heart <3
ReplyDeleteOh my word!!! This is absolutely GORGEOUS, and it's filled with so much love!! I love that you give so many tips because that really helps if I (or anyone else) wants to make this. I saw that matchbox this morning, but I know I would not have done justice to it the way you did!! Bravo!!
ReplyDeleteWow, that card is amazing! I've been looking for sharker card inspiration, so thank you for that. :) The pop-up inside is too adorable, and the little pocket for the gift card is perfect. Just an fyi - my birthday is in June. ;)
ReplyDeleteI've seen you create some very cool things but this is my favorite to date. The details are incredible, the execution is perfection, and the heart you put into this shines. Two thumbs up and a twirl!
ReplyDeleteOh I can't tell you how much I love that shaker! Everything about it is perfection!! So much fun in one little card!! Going to have to try that myself!
ReplyDeleteKim Hill....this is just amazing! You have done a beautiful job on this project. You are such a talented artist!
ReplyDeleteThis "little" matchbox card is filled with so much goodness! I absolutely love everything about it but the shaker element with all the sparkles is just amazing!
ReplyDeleteOmgoodness, what a fabulous shaker gift box, Kim! Love the idea of creating a large matchbox style box, and how fun you decorated the front with a shaker! SO fun how you filled the letters! Wow!
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