Archives for May 2017

Great Pattern (12 cards)

Club night project used the new “Anniversary Cards” workshop guide.  Everyone got to pick their own patterned paper & cardstock.  I choose For Always for my bulk and one of my old favorites “Dutch Blue”  for the cardstock.    I really like this pattern as it doesn’t need a lot of different patterned papers.   I don’t know about you, but  I have lots of old paper packs that have big scraps.  This pattern will be great for working through some of my old partial paper packs.

You can save and print these images,  or if you click on the “Anniversary Card” link you can download the original PDF file.  (I’ve been told the PDF prints much clearer.)

This first card represents all 6 cards I made from pattern 2.  I had 6 of the polka-dotty flowers in my embellishment stash and used one on each card.   Yea it’s a  win/win.  I get quick beautiful cards & use up a miniscule portion of my embellishment stash.  Love how the butterfly accented this card.   Looks even better in person.Love the mix of flowers on this one! Another butterfly,  can’t lose with a butterfly (or balloon). These flowers are made from a beautiful white shinny vellum and add some elegance to this card. Almost didn’t want to give up this gorgeous butterfly,  but it looked so perfect I had to use it! 

Now this is my favorite of the bunch.   Wish I had more big blue flowers,  or little ones for that matter.

If you create some cards using this “Happy Anniversary” pattern,  please share your artwork with me!

Happy Crafting!

 

Card cutting Guides For quick cards

If you haven’t already tuned in,  I have begun doing facebook live videos for scrapbooking & card making.   Today I’ve decided to share a few of the cutting guides for the card workshops, and the links to the videos that walk you through the cuts and assembly.  

The first video & patterns (hopscotch) can be found in this post

Here is the pattern and some sample artwork for our second video.

 

The papers are old retired (Avonlea & Blossom)  and the cuts are from the new cricut cartridge Flower Market.

I really like how the sails turned out on the Avonlea cards.   Here is the video if you want to see how they come together.

Happy Crafting!

Life Took off, and boy what a journey

As I finished updating the information for May on this website, I knew I had not posted any blogs for a while. I did not know I had not posted for a whole month! Oops.

Unforeseen circumstances aside, I will do better this month.

For today, I will share this video CTMH put together showing how to make a beautiful wall hanging using their Flower Market Cartridge.

 

I wouldn’t have thought of doing this,  but I can see endless possibilities.

Happy Crafting!