I am out of practice making any pages, so what do I decide to do as my first offering of a scrapbook process on YouTube? Choose a cricut layout with dozens of pieces AND one that doesn’t have a companion page. I mean just because we are living in a house that is a construction zone in EVERY room and currently practicing Safer at Home, why make it simple?
Everyday Moments – CTMH Cricut
So jumped in with both feet and over several days finished my first scrapbook layout in over a year! I don’t have any photos for it yet, but I am sure I will find just the right ones.
I love that I used the scraps from the cricut cuts and went through several iterations until we landed at this combination. You can check out the whole process, sped up to save time here.
I saw these cards in the July/August idea book and I had to order the stamp set. For whatever reason, I fell in love with mushroom stamps when CTMH released it’s Twitterpated workshop YEARS ago. Between the cute gnomes and the mushrooms, I was sold.
You can buy the stamp set alone, or get the coordinating thin cuts so you can avoid fussy cutting. My die/embossing machine is currently safely packed away in storage so I choose to get the stamp set only.
When I first started playing with the stamps, I thought, oh this will be fun I can color with markers and have a relaxing time doing that. . . life laughed at me and workers showed and started pounding, sawing and in general making lots of noise in a room that will eventually be next to my studio, but currently has some opened walls into my studio. The plastic barrier does not do anything to prevent the noise. I did color for a bit, but then put it aside and fled the studio in hopes to find a quiet(er) sanctuary.
The next morning, not sure what day, but a day when workers were not scheduled to be here, I found my colored images and started fussy cutting them. I am not typically a fussy cutter, but at this point I was grateful for some quiet studio time. Here is the card that resulted from 45 minutes of sheer crafting bliss!
top view
I did a bendi fold as I wanted to use more of the mushrooms as background and was enjoying the coloring. For the base of the card I only used shimmer brushes to color. By making multiple passes over some of the areas I was able to achieve some shading. Most of that doesn’t show up in the photo, but if you look in the back left under the white flower you can see a bit of it on a small mushroom.
These are instructions from a series of fun fold classes I did. I plan to do some videos walking through the folds and providing the handouts so you can create your own book of fun folds to refer to when you make cards. (Hopefully this fall?)
It was nice having some play time again! I did use the sentiment and the butterfly in the upper right corner from the July Stamp of the Month!
In the midst of a world of chaos, and I’m not just referring to COVID-19, I decided to take on the project of re-developing my CTMH business from California. In Michigan, we have a great group of crafty ladies and before all the safer at home orders, the group met at least once a month. This monthly gather was a day that could bring crafting, good stories, food, always fellowship, and also included a new technique, card fold, or some other project. We have all missed this. And I want to find that again here in Southern California
Along the lines of finding that again here, I had not chosen to make it a priority. When we first moved, there were other duties that needed attending. Now that we are all here, in a house that is under construction, (and because we hired a contractor, nothing we can do to help move it along) I found myself with time to craft. Thankfully I had kept SOME of my crafty tools and supplies out when we packed the rental house. So, what do I do with all this “free time?” I watch videos of other ladies crafting, videos of how to edit videos, make lists of things I feel I could teach others, and try to find fun new techniques for cards & scrapbooking.
Cards 3 & 4 from Craft with Heart Cards May-Aug 2020
One of the items that got “kept out” was the Craft with Heart subscriptions boxes that arrived as we were packing the house. Since I needed some material for making video content, and I had time to craft, wah-la videos of me making the crafting with heart cards in “My” style.
I’m learning lots and looking forward to learning more. If you have any suggestions for changes, video content, or other comments, please share.
Close to My Heart has been hosting workshops for the paper kits in the Idea books and special paper packs on Facebook. If you indicate you’re going you will be eligible for prizes from CTMH. You can find the list of upcoming events here https://www.facebook.com/CloseToMyHeartOfficial/events/?ref=page_internal
June 30, 2020, Brushed Bundle (CC6204) Brushed Workshop (This is the link for the instructions for the to make 3 double layouts, 1 single layout & 8 cards.
July 7, 2020, Stitched Together Card making Workshop Kit (G1206)
July 14, 2020 Stitched Together Scrapbooking Workshop Kit (G1202)
August 11, 2020, Summer Vibes Card making Workshop Kit (G1209)
August 18, 2020, Summer Vibes Scrapbooking Workshop Kit (G1207)
August 26, 27 & 28, 2020, Happiest Place Scrapbooking and Card making Workshops (TBA)
September 19, 2020 National Stamping Day Workshops (TBA)
December FLEW by. Between Community Chorus concerts and rehearsals, music rehearsals for church, family needs (many doctor appointments and an outpatient surgery for one) and preparing for Christmas some things had to “give.” The house and the blog were the two that “gave” the most. The house is slowly returning to tame, so now if the time to bring the blog back into repair.
Way back in September our monthly group started learning/relearning some fun folds for cards. Thankfully at that time I did some research and prepared for the next few months of projects. Now it is time to share with you those instruction sheets & cards.
Basic Z fold cards.
I use Pinterest and good ol’ Google for researching different card folds & such. I then compiled a list and tried to start with the basic ones, and, as we continue down this road build into more advance folding cards.
We started with “Fun Fold,” “Z fold” and “Double Z.” I also gave everyone a blank notebook and some tips for modifying it so we could all create a place for all our samples and notes of all these great cards in one place. I will have more on that in another post.
Just so you can catch up, here is my sheet of instructions for the Fun, Z & Double Z folds.
Soon I’ll post my completed Christmas card for 2017. It too utilizes one of our recent folding techniques.
Basic Z fold cards.
Happy Crafting!
