Cultivating Happy!

Hi All! Just wanted to share a little card I created from a coloring piece I did earlier in the month for The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge (#thedailymarker30day). I've been posting my coloring on Instagram, which you can see here.

Let's take a look at the card:

This medallion is from Close To My Heart's Ornate Blossoms stamp set. I stamped it on Pearl Shimmering Cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with my Copic markers. 

The card is a 3 1/2 x 5-inch top folding base cut from White Daisy cardstock. I cut the shaker frame from White Daisy using dies from the Stitched Rectangles Stax by My Favorite Things. I added gold dot acetate from We R Memory keepers to the frame to make the window. After I added foam tape to all four sides of the window, I filled it with heart glitter by Martha Stewart Crafts. I then added it to the card base and popped the medallion on top with more foam tape. 

Here's a look at the medallion up close. The picture on the right is my attempt to show the shimmer of the paper:

I stamped the inside greeting in the same Memento ink using a stamp from the Bitty Birthday set by Close To My Heart. Here's a look:

And finally, one last look at the card:

This coloring challenge has been a lot of fun! There's still time left to join in. It's a great way to spend a little time relaxing and creating each day.

Have a wonderfully creative week!

CTMH Ornate Blossoms Stamp Set	CTMH Bitty Birthday Stamp Set	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink	CC Shimmering Pearl White Cardstock
CTMH White Daisy Cardstock	Copic Sketch Markers	MFT Stitched Rectangles Stax Die-namics	Martha Stewart Glitter
WRMK Clearly Posh Acetate	CTMH 3D Foam Tape

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Let's Celebrate!

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.

I still wanted a card that I could write in, so I made a little one from White Daisy cardstock that would tuck inside with the gift card. I created the fun birthday cake image using Canary, Gypsy, Cotton Candy, and Pear inks along with stamps from the Build-a-Cake set. "Happy Birthday" is stamped in Crystal ink and gives you a sneak peek of the fabulous Stamp Of The Month for May. I added some doodles at the bottom to give the cake stand a place to...well...stand, and then added diamond and yellow stickles for some added bling. My daughter loved it!

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:

Brenda

Lynn

Marg

Kim {that's ME}

Morgan

Mary 

Kristine

Kim

Margot

Have a wonderfully creative weekend!

CTMH Cricut Artiste Cartridge Collection	CTMH Cricut Artfully Sent Collection	CTMH Cricut Artbooking Collection	CTMH White Daisy Cardstock
CTMH Kaleidoscope Paper Pack	CTMH Gold Glitter Paper	Martha Stewart Glitter	CTMH Canary Ink
Gypsy Exclusive Ink	CTMH Pixie Exclusive Ink	CTMH Pear Ink	CTMH Crystal Blue Ink
CTMH Build-a-Cake Stamp Set	Micron Black Ink Pen

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She's my kind o' Peep

Hi All! I have a fun little shaker card card to share with you today featuring Simon Says Stamp's My Kind of Peeps stamp set and coordinating dies. Let's take a look:

I created this card to celebrate my daughter returning home after spending 10 days in Paris with her 8th grade classmates. She's a HUGE Peeps fan, so this set was PERFECT! The wee peeps are stamped on Close To My Heart's White Daisy cardstock in CTMH Crystal Blue, Pear, Thistle, Canary, and Pixie inks. The large peep is stamped in Thistle ink on White Daisy cardstock and then sprinkled with Diamond glitter by Ranger. The patterned paper is from Simon Says Stamp's March card kit, and the Pixie Pink cardstock is by Close to My Heart. I embossed the cardstock using the CTMH Confetti embossing folder. I then flipped the cardstock so the debossed side was facing up. For the shaker, I added a variety of colors of iridescent hearts by Martha Stewart and part of the yellow sequin mix that came with the card kit. I then added a little gold thread under the larger Peep for some extra shine and popped my sentiment (stamped in Pear and Thistle inks) under that.

Here's a collage of close ups:

And that's it! Hope you enjoyed this little homage to one of my favorite Peeps! (I'm so glad she's home!)

Have a fabulously creative week!

SSS March 2016 Card Kit	SSS My Kind of Peeps	CTMH White Daisy Cardstock	CTMH Pixie Cardstock
CTMH Pear Ink	CTMH Thistle Ink	CTMH Pixie Exclusive Ink	CTMH Crystal Blue Ink
CTMH Canary Ink	Martha Stewart Glitter

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