A Little Merry Midweek Mojo

Hi All! Welcome to a little midweek mojo! It's been awhile since we played along with the folks over at Mojo Monday, but I just couldn't pass up this week's sketch.

Here's my take on it:

I created this card using a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch base created from Kraft Cardstock. For the card front, I layered a 3 3/4 x 5 inch piece of Cranberry cardstock with scraps of patterned paper from the My Crush and Picture My Life Happy, Happy Christmas collections by Close To My Heart. I stamped "Wishing You" on a scrap of a Picture My Life card in New England Ivy Ink, and "Peace" and the ampersand on a Picture My Life card that I cut down to 2 3/4 x 4 inches. "Peace" is stamped in Cranberry Ink and the ampersand is in New England Ivy. For these sentiments, I used the XXX stamp set by Concord & 9th. The gold foiled star is from Close To My Heart's Oh Deer! Complements. I then tied red seam binding ribbon (from my stash) around the card front and added the star and "Wishing You" to it with thin foam tape. I then added the whole thing to the card base using my ATG adhesive.

Here's a collage of close-ups:

And here's the card again:

Hope you enjoyed a this little midweek mojo!

Have a wonderfully creative day!

CTMH Happy, Happy Christmas (Picture My Life	CTMH Oh Deer! Complements	Concord & 9th Perfectly Penned Stamp Set	CTMH Kraft Cardstock
CTMH Cranberry Cardstock	CTMH Cranberry Exclusive Ink	CTMH New England Ivy Ink	CTMH 3D Foam Tape (Thin)
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A Little Weekend Mojo: Thanks

Hi all! Happy Friday! Just wanted to share a little card I made that was inspired by this week's Mojo Monday Sketch.

So here's the sketch:

And here's my take on it:

For this 4-Bar note card, I began with a layer of Kraft cardstock that I attached directly to the card base. I then used patterned papers from Close To My Heart's new Memo Fundamentals collection to build the card front. I added a strip of this fun copper-foiled vellum from the new Rustic Home Fundamentals (also by Close To My Heart) along with a wood grained embossed oval of Kraft cardstock to the memo paper using my mini stapler. I then added a scrap from the Memo Fundamentals papers to the oval with regular adhesive. I layered a strip of Sea Glass Glitter paper and a bit of lace from the Rustic Home ribbon pack and stapled it to the card front. I added a button from my 28 Lilac Lane Attic Findings Embellishment Kit with a bit of jute from the Rustic Home ribbon pack to cover the staple. I cut the "thanks" from black card stock using Close To My Heart's new "Thanks" Thin Cut die and added it to the front with liquid mat adhesive. I then glued the front of the card to the Kraft cardstock layer on the card base. I finished everything off with sequins from 28 Lilac Lane's Pastels Sequin Tin and some liquid glass to make the thanks shine.

Here are a couple of close ups

I hope you enjoyed this bit of Mojo! Stay tuned for the Rose Blossom Blog Hop coming up on Monday. We'll be featuring the new Rustic Home and Uptown Fundamentals collections. You won't want to miss it!

Have a wonderfully creative and restful weekend!

CTMH Memo Fundamentals Paper Pack	CTMH Rustic Home Fundamentals	CTMH Sea Glass Glitter Paper	CTMH Kraft Cardstock
CTMH Black Cardstock	CTMH Rustic Home Ribbon Pack	CTMH Hello & Thanks Thin Cust Dies	CTMH White Daisy Ink Pad
CTMH Cocoa Exclusive Ink	Attic Findings Embellishment Kit (28 Lilac Lane)	Pastels Sequin Tin (28 Lilac Lane)	CTMH Mini Stapler
CTMH Liquid Glass	ATG Gun	Neenah Exact Index Cardstock (white)

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A Bit of Springtime Mojo

Hi All! Welcome to another Mojo Monday challenge. I just found out that I was one of the lucky winners for the January contest sketch from last week! (You can see the post on that card here, and you can see the other winners here.)  Have to say, I'm pretty stoked about it! 

Still, it's a new week and a new challenge, so let's take a look. 

 Here's my take on the sketch:

Close To My Heart is celebrating National Papercrafting Month with an exclusive set of Picture My Life cards called Live Your Day. They are designed to work well with planners or pocket scrapbooking. I'll show you how I used them with my planner in another post, but for now, I've been wanting to use them in other ways. So the striped paper I used here is actually one of the Live Your Day cards that I cut to fit. 

To make the front of this card, I started with a piece of White Daisy cardstock and masked off a circle. I used some of the small floral images from the Woodland Romance stamp set to create a background pattern. The images are second generation stamping using Gypsy, Pixie, Juniper, and Whisper inks. I then layered the front with the striped card.

The sentiment and accent flowers are from the Springtime Wishes stamp set. I stamped the sentiment on vellum in VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I rounded the corners and popped it up with dimensional adhesive. I then used the coordinating dies to cut out the floral and leaf images and added them to the vellum to hide the dimensional adhesive. I popped the purple flower up with more dimensional adhesive for interest. I then finished the card off with some seam binding ribbon and sparkles from my stash.

Here are a couple of close ups:

And here it is on my sunny kitchen table. (I had to document the sunshine because it's been such a rarity these days!)

I hope you enjoyed my bit of springtime mojo. Most of the supplies I used are linked below.

Have a wonderful and creative week! And for more ideas on using your Live Your Day stop back by on Friday, January 15th for the Rose Blossom Blog Hop where we'll be featuring Live Your Day.

Live Your Day	Woodland Romance Stamp Set	Springtime Wishes	Springtime Wishes Thin Cuts
Clear Sparkles	Bitty Sparkles	Gypsy Exclusive Ink	Pixie Exclusive Ink
Juniper Exclusive Ink	Whisper Exclusive Ink	VersaMark Watermark Ink	Ranger White Super Fine Embossing Powder
Heat Tool	ATG Gun	CTMH White Daisy Cardstock	Heavy Black Cardstock

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