Great Pattern (12 cards)

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Pattern | 1 Comment

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

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

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!

Scrapbook & Card Workshop Video

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Pattern, Scrapbook, Stamping, Video, Workshop On the Go | 1 Comment

Hi,

After much consideration and planning, I jumped in with both feet and have started Facebook Live Video Workshop. Currently I am doing them once a week on Friday Mornings and I hope I’m making improvements each week. This video has both the scrapbook & Card workshop cuts at the beginning of the video, then assembly is after. If you just want cards, skip to about minute 30 and that’s where I start the card set cuts walk through. Here are the links to the Cutting Guides:

Blossom Scrapbook Layout

Hopscotch Card Set

Here is some of the artwork created with this video.

In the above cards, I tried both the slate & the pacifica inks for the car/watch, and I prefer the pacifica blue. Which do you like?

I also made some cards with scraps from the layout. I will post those soon!

Happy Crafting!

Pop & Twist!

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Pattern | 3 Comments

Yes, I have joined the pop and twist card fan club. We did this at our Fall Craft Weekend and everyone loved it! Here are the instructions I gave out at the retreat.

Open Office Format Word Document Format

And now, here are my samples! The first one I am going to show you is the very first pop up & twist card that I ever did. I was using older papers from a bag under my craft table as I didn’t think it was going to see the light of day. (Typically I learn something when I do fancy folding cards and end up scraping the first one or two.) Not this one, and I LOVE how it turned out. I just put it in the mail today for a friend. After I had successfully mastered the card, and I was finding (creating) things to decorate it, I knew who it would be going to as soon as I had used it as a sample for people to look at!

The flowers are all done with the new Flower Market Cartridge. (Loving it!) Hint, I needed to add an extra 23 cents when I mailed it.

This next sample is more a result of me playing with the new cricut explore and the cool layers in our images on our cartridges. I have a feeling this will be going to a 2nd grade teacher soon!

The papers are fundamental papers and everything else is cricut cuts!

Happy Crafting!

Revisiting old favorites

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, CTMH, Pattern | 2 Comments

Do you have those paper packs that you just loved but can’t get anymore? Me too. I have LOTS of partial packs left over from scrapbook workshops and other projects. I’ve decided to love it or leave it. Meaning I am going to use up the partial packets or give them new homes. This will free up some space for other papers that I can use!

In the quest to use old papers, I have more card photos to share. These were from an old paper pack called Miracle and I used Kathryn’s 6×6 patterns again. (Found them here http://kathrynscards.blogspot.com/2013/05/6×6-cutting-formula.html)

Pattern #1 Card #1 Pattern #1 Card #2Pattern #1 Card #3 If you didn’t notice I split the triangles up and made more cards from the same pattern. I had some extra scraps left, so I was able to incorporate those papers with the open space.