Color Challenge

This week's Heart 2 Heart Challenge  is a color challenge: Autumn Terracota, Juniper and Bamboo.  With my newly organized Room (see previous post) I have a new spot for taking pictures and the colors don't seem to be showing up quite right. But here's my take:

Recipe: Perfect Day paper, Typeset Paper,  autumn terracota, and juniper and bamboo cardsotck. Miscellaneous ribbon and stick pins, Thank You stamp set.  All products CTMH except stick pins and ribbon. The butterfly was cut with the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge.

Thanks for taking a peek,

Marie with a :)

A Real Challenge...

(If you've visited this blog before I'd love your input on the new look.)

Anyway...I always look forward to the Monday Heart To Heart challenge...but this week's was a REAL challenge... some sketches just don't come easy and this was one of those:

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Here are a couple of other recent cards:

This is one that I case'd from a convention swap but I don't remember who I case'd it from :( 

H2H challenge, Anniversary card and lotsa photos

Can't seem to eke out Craft Room Art Room time these days. BUT! This weekend the HH and I celebrated our 24th anniversary. Since it was also Homecoming weekend for a couple of our kids, we celebrated at home...I surprised him by clearing off part off a huge table in the, um, Art Room and designating it his spot (he told me we had to change the name of the room though 'cause craft room apparently wasn't masculine enough.) Friday night we enjoyed time in the craft room  Art Room (this is going to take some getting used to) while the oldest daughter and her fiance cooked dinner; Saturday night we went and saw Seven Days in Utopia and Sunday after church we went for a hike.  Today is officially our anniversary and here's the card I made for him:

Here's a photo of the HH and I taken yesterday:

 The following cards were created (mostly) using Typeset scraps and diecuts:

 This last photo is the invite I made for a CTMH open house:

 And finally: I think if Dr. Seuss was still around he'd be writing a book on the Art Philosophy cartridge: OH THE THINGS YOU CAN DO...

Thanks for stopping by,
Marie with a :)

FBTSOMP Birthday Banner

Yesterday afternoon we had a surprise birthday party for my daughter's fiance.
And of course I was flying-by-the-seat-of-my-pants when I decided to make a birthday banner and layouts before the guests arrived.
This has to be some of the fastest work I have EVER done. The cricut and Art Philosophy cartridge helped A LOT!  I didn't take pictures in my craft room, so the photos aren't so great. Here's the banner:

This layout I created as a sort of supersized birthday card from our church where Caleb is the worship leader, and asked guests to sign the back:

I used the front of the CTMH Idea Book for my inspiration so I didn't have to take a lot of time designing the page.  Have I mentioned lately that I love the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge for the Cricut? ( All products used were Close To My Heart)

Thanks for stopping by,
Marie with a :)

Hurry Up, Maggie! (A card, a layout and a question answered...)

Some sweet folks at our church are expecting their third baby girl this week and there are a lot of us who are nearly as impatient as they are for Baby Maggie's arrival.  Here's a card I made to go into a gift basket:

 This is an "easel" card and there is a youtube video for creating this type of card under my page "tutorials and such."  These are tutorials I have collected not written!

 I used one of our new 6 x 6 craft cards for this.

 The Cricut cuts the "scrolls" for the 3D flowers.  I'm still a little inept at rolling them though!

 Another Cricut butterfly :)

 I LOVE the old paper pack "More to Adore" and my stash is dwindling away. The stamps sets are retired ones (Sweet Baby and Solos W)

  

 Isn't this envelope adorable? Yep, it was cut with the Cricut to use on my layout:

 I used mostly new products on this, with a few retired thrown in.  New: Journaling spots, Typeset paper pack, Just Blooms butterflies, the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, Love Life stamp set (large scroll)  I also used the Token Alphabet stamp set, The You and Me stamp set (small scroll) and the Comments stamp set (retired) 

Oops! Wasn't until I posted this photo that I realized I am missing an opaque on the half cricle...

I was asked three times this week how I store my stamps.  My sister Samantha (http://samiesentiments.blogspot.com) is super organized...me, not so much. I simply put mine in dollar store crates according to size (A, B, C, D or E) and then alphabetically EXCEPT I keep a couple of crates with my "new" sets, a couple of photo storage boxes with stamp sets that are just sentiments and my Christmas sets are put away until I start making Christmas cards.  Wanna guess how many sets I have? 

274. Yep.  I 've been hostess for most of my workshops and working CTMH as a hobby, I had been putting everything back into more hobby supplies. Now it's time to get serious though and I am planning to move  from hobby to more of a fun job.  I'll be posting up coming classes and workshops soon!

Thanks for stopping by,

Marie with a :) 

Un.Believe.Able

Did I say that already?  Well let me repeat myself: the new CTMH cricut cartridge is unbelievable.  I'm somewhat inept when it comes to technology but I've managed (with a little help from my CTMH sisters) to figure it out. This is like having a kazillion different dies all in one place: fonts, cards (I haven't counted the exact number of shaped cards yet but it's A LOT), boxes, shapes, tags, buckles, and on and on and on.  Notice the butterfly on my french fry box and the one in front of it, in my last photo?  That's just two of the dozens of sizes I can created with this one cartridge. The cartridge has been so exciting that I haven't even mentioned all of the other new products we've got: great new cardstock weight papers (and let's face it, CTMH papers have always been the best in the industry!), fun embellishments, great new workshops on the go and stamp sets....and LOWER PRICES!

I filled the box with cards, inspired by one of my CTMH bloggers (I'll add a link to her blog when I find it!)

Just a couple of the hundreds of  shapes, including round cards.

Found it! Here's a link to the artwork that inspired this card box: Lori Miller's Clearly From The Heart Blog 

Thanks for stopping by!

Marie with a :)