So, Here is the last installment of the Urban Insider guide card leftovers from Club night. If you want to create your own cards from this guide, you can download it from here.
These use a combination of Bliss and Frosted bulk papers.
The next sets are from Roxie bulk.
So you can really see the versatility with the papers and the pattern.
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Well, This next set of cards comes from the insider guide Urban.
I am loving this guide for some quick cards that have some punch!
These samples use the bulk paper from Jubilee and a stamp set my Mom got me several years ago. (It has been unearthed in my household diet project. One of the few rubber stamps that survived the purge!)
You might notice that I trimmed down (or lost, whichever works for you) some of the pieces from this set. It gives the cards a completely different look and shows some versatility of these guides. Make the paper work for you and your stamps!
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Once a month a great group of ladies haul their crafting tools and supplies to the church and create some beautiful artwork. For the past several months the project I have provided comes from CTMH (close to my heart) Insider guides and their choice of bulk papers and cardstock from my stash. Each insider guide is designed for creating 10 cards. So my girls either pair up and split the set with a friend, or if no one else wanted the same paper, I got the other half of the set. So, the following few posts will be my use of those shared packs. The first set comes from the Urban Insider Guide. Urban_Creative_IG
This first set of cards use the For Always bulk paper. 
The stamp sets used are both older stamps of the month so they aren’t available, but I’m sure you can find something that will work for you! The last set of cards of were colored using the watercolor paints. (So much fun!)
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My Mom is an amazing woman. She has always embraced technology and was quick to use design studio with her Cricut Expression machine. When she learned about the gypsy, she got one of those and quickly fell in love. I wasn’t sold on the cricut line as I sell CTMH and wanted something that would help me cut the stamped images. I looked into the Sure Cuts A Lot and Makes the Cuts and decided there was too much grey area for my comfort and researched other cutting machines. I ended up purchasing a machine that allowed me to scan my stamped images and it would cut that exact shape/size. I was in heaven.
Then, CTMH had to jump into the Cricut Cartridge wagon and I had to have a cricut. Once I got the first CTMH cartridge Art Philosophy I was impressed with all the great things I could cut and with a little imagination I could do so many cool things! I did think I was wasting time when I wanted to do many images at different sizes, but I worked my way around that problem too.
As we do with family, I asked Mom to watch the kids for me so I could go to a scrap camp. We arrived a couple days before the camp to settle in and have some fun with grandma. I had a camp roommate project in mind and as I knew Mom had a cricut I packed my paper & tool bag ready to create some cool gifts in the evenings before camp. This is when I fell in love with the Gypsy. Mom is fortunate enough to have a summer place and a winter place. She doesn’t carry all her stuff back and forth, so her cartridges were only on her gypsy and I would have to use it to create my gifts. After very little time and a few pointers from Mom, I was designing and cutting using the gypsy. Now I wanted one, but the practical side of me rebelled against the price tag. Patience paid off and I found a used gypsy with some cartridges already loaded on it for a great price. (Part of the cost was covered by bartered crafting supplies!)
Jumping ahead 4 years, I use the Gypsy for all my workshops and in day to day personal crafting. It’s so nice to have all the cuts that I made for a workshop sample layout all ready to go when the ladies are here. We just load their paper and presto, the cuts are exactly the same. It also means that they will have the same amount of paper left that I did so they can create their layouts the same if they want.
Why do I share all this with you? This winter was strange for many of my ladies. Some were out of town taking care of family, other’s left us and the snow for a while and headed south, and a couple who did stay in town were also dealing with family health issues, or the occasional snow storm prevented us from getting together. As we were scattered to the winds, it was hard to have everyone order the workshops at the right time. Wanting to have a workshop with my gals, I decided I would create one of my own using the bulk papers from one of the new paper packs. (At that time the new seasonal book had just come out so I choose the Heartstrings paper pack.) I got out my Wishes book and my gypsy and came up with these three cards.
The top card (card #1) is from page 53, the middle card (card #2) p89 and the bottom card (card #3) was inspired by p 97.
Each lady would make 5 of each card and have 15 cards to take home at the end of the workshop. The gypsy files are set up to cut for 2 sets of workshops, so if you cut all the different sheets you will have pieces to create 30 cards! There is also an instruction file that you don’t really cut, but I use it for instructions as there are some simple squares and rectangles that you can cut with a straight cutter. I think I limited myself to the Artbooking Cartridge & Art Philosophy.
Here are the files.
Heartstrings Cranberry
Heartstrings Neutral CS
Heartstrings Dark CS
Heartstrings Other Cut Info
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Hi Everyone. I know I owe you some more technique tags, and you will get to see them and earn more entries into the contest, but I wanted to show you want I was able to do this past weekend. (In addition to being a Mom, wife, Christian and pig farmer.)
One of my friends couldn’t join me and a couple other gals for a crafty retreat earlier in the month, so I booked the church for a two day mini retreat. Unfortunately, she still was unable to join us as she and her husband are dealing with his medical issues, but the ladies that were there got a LOT accomplished. (In addition to eating, laughing, crying and telling stories.)
So, on day one I was in “I need to relax” mode.” I choose to get out my new quilling goodies and see what I could do. I’ve been searching for quilling ideas as my wind down to sleep, and I wanted to try some. I’m just learning, and there are aspects of quilling I love, and some not so much. Here’s what I did.
I really like the look of the loose scrolls in the leaves. I created this pattern myself as I wanted to “play.”
This was with manufactured paper for quilling. I was curious how our cardstock would do, so I made this too.
What I learned was because of our white core, you need to have open quilling or loose quilling. The tight wraps show more as white than the color paper you used when using a tight shape. In good news, these “open” pieces make up very quickly and give lots of impact as far as an image goes. I used a 1/4″ strip, but next time I’ll cut 1/8″ and see how they look.
Happy Crafting!
