Catching Up from August

I've been on a "work break" -- see my Cards & Craft Garden Blog for details -- mostly working massive OT on a project and catching up with life afterwards.  No time to stamp when I'm working 80 hours.

Best laid plans for a girls weekend was going to feature CTMH workshops...which went awry with a sick niece.  While she was in the hospital the girls lugged all of the necessary card making stuff up there and we made many cards while entertaining. She had a couch and small table so we had plenty of room. We used materials from the CTMH Workshop on the Go Frosted Cardmaking Kit for this one! 

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Another quick Mojo card using CTMH Laughing Lola cardstock. See all the great Mojo cards here http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/.

I'm still having my love affair with the July stamp of the month, Sweet Life, I have a stack of these beautifully colored fruits and need to use them up and it fit perfectly with the design this week. I also selected the fruit because in all honesty it needed to be a quick card and these were already colored and fussy cut. :)
The background layers are Laughing Lola patterned paper paired with Twilight on the bottom stamped with Gypsy ink using the chicken wire background stamp. The layers are tied together with a beautiful aqua ribbon.

I cut the background doily circle using the artiste Cricut cartridge on Gypsy cardstock. 
The olive circle is patterned paper that comes specially in the Laughing Lola paper pack. I used a spellbinder circle die to get the right size to fit the fruit.

The sentiment is also from the Sweet Life set, and I decided I didn't need anything more than a matching aqua bow. Thanks for stopping by have a great week!

Mojo305 - Affair

A Chocolate Affair

August 2013

In honor of the new CTMH stamp of the month I've matched up the Mojo#305 sketch with A Chocolate Affair.

I started with a nice chocolate brown on top of the card base, then added rectangles of Avonlea paper. I didn't realize I used the same paper last week...but I do love it, so I guess it's not that surprising!

 










The Sentiment is stamped with Cocoa ink on a pretty fancy oval die cut using my new CTMH Artbooking Cricut cartridge!!!!  I set the Cricut at 1-1/2" real dial size. 

I added glitter glue to the Cupcake and fussy cut it, then added some ribbon and viola!





Thanks for looking! See all the wonderful MOJO305 cards at the MOJO MONDAY site!

MOJO304 The Best

Good Mojo Monday morning!

Today's mojo card features the Artiste Cricut cartridge. 

I used the CTMH Pirouette and Artiste Kudos stamp sets combined with the Avonlea paper. 

The card base is Whisper cardstock, which matches the Avonlea paper nicely. 

The pirouette is stamped in Cocoa ink on a coordinating die cut shape on the Cricut.


I circle-punched a patterned circle from the Avonlea B&T Duos paper. 

The sentiment, circle and banner stamp are from the Kudos set, and are also stamped in Cocoa ink on champagne and whisper cardstock.

I added some BoBunny lace and a ribbon to "fancy" it up!

The challenge today was round or square. 

Enjoy & thanks for stopping by!
See all the Mojo cards for today's sketch here.

MOJO303 Friend

Good Mojo Monday morning! 

To see all the beautiful cards at the Mojo Monday blog, click here!

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Today's card is for a friend of mine, to celebrate her birthday and her graduation. 

On Champagne cardstock, I stamped the chicken wire CTMH Distressed Background in Desert Sand Ink. 

I layered that on top of craft card stock, then layered and added a sentiment from the My Stickease Buzz and Bumble package.

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One of the fruits that's been lying on my work desk added a beautiful touch to the sentiment. It's the peach branch from the  Sweet Life set, which I colored with watercolor pencils.

The wooden button and the twine are from the wooden mini-medley set, and I placed them on tip of an extra fussy-cut leaf, which is on one of the pieces of zip-strip from the Buzz and Bumble papers, layered on Creme Brulee cardstock.

Thank you for looking today!
 

SWEET Card!

The other week, I posted my work desk picture with assorted fruits and some pretty pink Chantilly paper spread out across it. I couldn't show the card I was planning because I was going to submit it to Take Ten magazine. But before I put it in the mail I took another look at it and realized that it wasn't quite good enough. I had some stray embossing powder all over the front that I didn't catch.
I used the design challenge that was in the Summer 2013 Take Ten magazine.
The main layer is the sweetest Chantilly pink. I stamped and embossed the sentiment from the CTMH Sweet Life set right on that layer.
I used the Cricut Artiste cartridge to cut the CTMH cotton candy pink border, and fussy-cut one edge of a Buttercup strip to layer underneath it. On the other edge I used a petite scallop border punch.
I had colored the fruits from the Sweet Life set several days prior and I used a round punch to frame the cherries and inked the edges with cotton candy pink. The ruby cardstock shape was also cut on my Cricut using the Artiste cartridge. A couple of coordinating ribbons - one for a border and one for a bow - finished the card.

MOJO302 - Home&Comfy

Today's Mojo Monday sketch is so clean and simple, I was able to make 2 cards this morning!

I haven't had a chance to use the February 13 Stamp of the Month I bought in April...and I thought it might be a good Get Well Card theme for someone recuperating at home. You know, staying at home is so much more comfortable than anywhere else.

I stamped the design in Cocoa ink on Champagne cardstock.


My "go to" theme is lacy and old fashioned, and the CTMH Buzz & Bumble paper assortment has 2 sheets of double-sided paper with old-time newsprint on one side that worked well for this. The packet includes Cocoa cardstock, and I made the card base using Kraft paper.

My other card is highlighted on my Cards and Crafts blog (see link on the right). 

I didn't think to take a picture of the My Stickease assortment that included the flower and leaf until AFTER I used them, so there are couple of missing parts on the sheets.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!