Scrapbooking with Artiste!

Yesterday I participated in a Stop-n-Shop event and I wanted to be sure to show the great ideas of the new Cricut Artiste cartridge from Close To My Heart. Since I took a lot of high school senior pictures in the past few months I had a large selection of photos to choose from to copy this scrapbooking layout that was featured here on Jeanette Lynton's blog. I loved this lay-out as soon as I saw it and this photo worked great to duplicate the idea and show all the fun embellishments that the Cricut Artiste cartridge has to offer.

This photo is my son's friend "Dalton" so his mom really wanted a picture of him next to the sign of the city he was named after! So fun!
The base cardstock is CTMH whisper, with a layer of CTMH lagoon cardstock and then black and honey cardstock. The arrow was cut from CTMH Ruby cardstock.
The stamp set is called School is Here from CTMH (B1407 $9.95) I stamped the apple image in Honey ink and the "heart" school was stamped in CTMH White Daisy ink (which takes a little while to dry but the results are stunning!) I think it looks like chalk on a chalkboard! I did not sew the edges, instead I used the stamp set Stitched Together which works amazingly for creating a sewn border look on your cards of lay-outs!
Here's a few pictures of my stand at the Stop-n-Shop:

It was a pretty small crowd but you never know who might later become a customer because they saw you at an event like this.
Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Hope you're having a wonderful Valentine's Day! I've been working on projects for the upcoming Open House and here are a couple make-n-take options that people can create:

This first one uses the B&T paper called "Typeset". I used a couple different stamp sets: "Vintage Type" (D1481 $17.95) and "Blue Ribbon" (C1464 $13.95). I used the Art Philosophy cartridge to cut the letters, star, tab and banner shapes. I sewed the banner with embroidery thread and used buttons on the ends attached with glue dots. This scrapbook page also features my youngest son, Josiah, who is in the 10th grade and truly thinks "School Rocks"!!! I think he does:-)

This second lay-out uses the B&T paper called Roxie.
I used the AP cartridge to cut the flowers at 2 1/2" and 3" and then overlayed them and used an adorable button from the Buttons Basic Assortment Collection. I used picot ribbon and punched holes in the base cardstock using my eyelet tool. The stamp set is called Instant Memories. The photo mat is cut at 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" from black cardstock. The leaves were cut with the Cricut as well and I cut them at 2 1/2" and then used my Scor-Pal to add scored lines to look like veining. The tag was cut and stamped with words from the retired set Fill in the Blank. The letters "perfect" were also cut using the AP cartridge. Thanks for stopping by!

Elemental Paper is so Versatile!

This paper is so useful for many different cards or scrapbook lay-outs. It can be a Christmas paper (as it's shown on page 141 of the catalog), a baby paper (like my baby card below), a friendship paper and a scrapbook paper with the one you love. Very fun color choices and this is only a few ideas. Thanks for stopping by!