Artwork

Where’s the creative time?

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, Stamping | 2 Comments

I got to golf today and it wasn’t raining.  This in of itself is unusual for July.  In addition to that, I actually felt pretty good about my playing (other than a couple of shots, I was pleased with my ball striking.)

Next I came home, packed the kids up and we heading to the Sault for some errands.  We had lots of success and they should be ready to head to Grandma’s on Friday.  Sunscreen, new swimsuits, new shoes, a sundress for the girl and snacks.  I also picked up some necessities for the house.  With the 95+ temps and HIGH humidity, it was all I could do to bring the bags in and put the few cold items away.  Dinner still needed to be fixed and as I didn’t have a kitchen sink I needed to tackle that too.

So, now dinner is over, still missing a kitchen sink, but I decided it was creative time.  I’ve learned that crafting makes me happy and I’m much nicer to be around when I’m happy!  I highly recommend finding some creative time each day.  It doesn’t have to be long, but if I set a timer for 30 minutes I tend to stay focus and get something done!  I have some cards that were cut out for a May scrapbooking weekend, but just haven’t had time to assemble/stamp/embellish them.  This was a perfect place for me to start.

I’m making 4 (or 5 sometimes) of each of the cards, so I can just repeat what I did for the first one and wah-lah I have 4 cards ready in no time.

Here is the card. and some instructions.

avonlea  I cut a 4×12″ base (that way you can get three from one 12×12) out of juniper CS and top folded it.  I then cut a
mat that was 3.5 x 5.5 out of black CS.   Using the Cricut Artist cartridge and my gypsy (You can do the same on
Cricut craft room), I modified the image on p60 to be a rectangle rather than a square.  I also cut 3 of the
lacy circles for the bottom, both out of black CS.    I used a 3.25×5.25 piece of paper from the Avonlea paper pack . I used Colonial White CS for my sentiments and centers of my lacy circles.  I stamped a circle flourish with juniper ink in the circles.  I punched a butterfly using a neighbors punch.  You could cut one from the Cricut Cartridge Art Philosophy too.  Added rickrack Colonial White ribbon and using the distressing tool roughed up all the edges of the base papers.  The flowers are  wooden flowers from trinkets wooden shapes.

I’m including the same card using Buzz and Bumble paper, so you can see that too. The base is Sorbet CS.buzznbumble

Another Card from Club Night & Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, CTMH, Stamping | 2 Comments

The sun is still shining so I am outside makin’ hay. Literally in my case.
Thought I would share another one of the cards we did at our last club night.  I really like this one, and as it uses cut outs from the CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, it was easy to prep for everyone!

birdhouse cardI used the bird  and wing from p51  and cut them out of Chocolate CS.  I used the sanding block to “ruffle” the birds feathers and also used the end of the rub on tool to break some of the fibers in the body of the bird so it would “puff out” a little.  Once it was puffed I attached it to the card using foam tape.

The Branches are from p35 in 2 sizes (don’t recall the size, sorry) and the leaves were cut off the branch with leaves on p43.  I then creased the leaves down the center to give them more appeal.

The bird house in used on this card was from a free set I picked up at a craft show, but for club night I used a solid arrow(p64) pointed up, trimmed the shaft of the arrow and added a strip along the bottom for a base.  You can trim the points of the arrows to really make it look like a real bird house.

I sponged “clouds” with sky ink (what else)  to make the words look like they were in the clouds.

Have a great day!

 

Yes, It’s Definitely July

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Stamping | Leave a comment

Well, as I spent my morning doing computer/house work, and my afternoon on a tractor being hot and sweating while bailing hay, I would say it must be July.

Once more no crafting was done, but the house is still fairing well thanks to my push to stay on top of things, and my daughter’s motivation to get paid for babysitting her brother.  She really has done well keeping things better than she normally would with few complaints.

Looks like I’ll be able to go to the all day crop on Thursday as the weather forecast is for thunder storms. Maybe I should try and use the alcohol markers to color in the July Stamp of the Month images as that is going to be use on our project in August.  Hmmm.  Perhaps I will.  I’ll put a sneak peak up tomorrow if I do manage to keep my eyes open.

So today I’ll show off one the cards we did in June at club night!  I used the Art Philosophy cartridge for both ovals and the sentiment piece on the bottom of the card.

Lighthouse CTMH

Birthday Card

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Happy Crafting!

 

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