Cricut Sampler - Rose Blossoms Blog Hop

Here we are with our mid-month Rose Blossoms Blog Hop. We're teaming up to show you what our fantastic Cricut cartridges can do. Pleeeeeeeeeease be aware that we can't possibly cover the amazingness of these cartridges in just one blog hop. This is a smidgen of their greatness.

If you came from Marg's Marvelous Blog then you're right on track. If you're starting right here that will work. Just make sure to hop all the way through so you don't miss anything.


In my zeal for all things Cricut I thought I would create one project for each of the retiring cartridges we're highlighting. Realism set in pretty fast so I chose to show off three cartridges on one layout. This is the first time I've ever been thankful for my box that says "needs embellishing". I pulled out this layout that had only photos and paper and had a BLAST cutting and pasting all of this Cricut goodness. It's a little crazy but just enough!!

Guess what I like?? A LOT!! Did you say flowers? You nailed it! All of the flowers you see here are from the Art Philosophy cartridge. I could cut and play with those flowers all day long. How awesome would it be to cut and play all day long?

THIS circle of flowers is SO much fun to play with.

THIS border of flowers is ALSO a blast.  Thank You CTMH for offering the Art Philosophy Cricut collection. Why does it have to go away? I don't know but I urge you to get your own before it does. It's probably my favorite.


How about this title? I love a good mix and match title.  I used the letters from the Artiste and the Art Philosophy cartridge to make this one. I mixed and matched so much that I'm just now noticing that I glued the "i" backwards. Most of you never would've noticed but for those of you who would ... oops, I know.

You've see the flowers and the title. Did you notice the images? There's a clock & scissors (Artiste), and a camera (Artfully Sent).

I thought I was going to make my border Juniper colored before I changed my mind to Kraft. You can't let those extra Cricut cuts go to waste. My scissors looked so lonely there before I figured this out.

Artfully Sent may seem like it's just for cards but I use it for scrapbooking elements all the time. There are some VERY unique images there. If you have an Explore you can pick and choose just parts of a cut that you want to use. This camera was part of a card but I isolated it to cut only the camera. Because what's scrapbooking without a camera?

 I'm so happy when one page of a layout can stand alone. This page by itself has everything. Well, everything except that wonderful flower border!!

Thank you so much for stopping today. Please keep hopping to see what the Kreatively Klever Kim has created for you today. I can't wait to see it myself.

Just Make Something

Sometimes creative juices just won't flow. Nothing looks right together and a girl gets downright stuck. There are a LOT of solutions to that problem. BUT the best answer I know overall is that when I'm stuck I just have to make something ... anything. 

I love how "old" CTMH things stay fresh. AND it's even fun to combine products from the past with things that are current. There are so many papers that haven't gotten to mix it up with our outstanding Cricut cartridges just because the timing was off.

So today ... I made this. I'm excited to get some Summer photos on it. 

AND another thing I'm excited about is that while I was cutting everything up I quadruplicated my efforts. I cut everything times four. For the first time (and definitely not the last) I'm going to be able to add a layout to the Al A Carte section of the Pretty Pieces Café. Three people are going to be able to add this to their scrapbooks!!

Find out more about the Pretty Pieces Café by clicking HERE!!

Mission Possible Sarita Layouts

Each month I present two different Mission Possible kits you can pre-order. The cards were introduced just last week and today here are the layouts.

Please forgive this one small change!! After creating and taking photos I changed the title cut of this page. Trust me when I tell you it's a great improvement. The photo here shows the current title ... "Party Time". The original title said "on this day" and after looking at it all for awhile I decided to reserve that title for something different. SO ... now you have a truly celebratory layout!!

There are two ways to purchase the layout kit.

1 - BASIC KIT ... $15 for all of the supplies you will need to put together the two layouts shown above. All of the pieces are cut for you to assemble and you receive a full pack of clear sparkles. You can purchase as many of these kits as you like ... no limit.

2 - MISSION PLUS KIT ... $34 for all of the supplies you need to put together the layouts PLUS items that will upgrade your layouts and leave you with more things to create with at home. The entire pack of Sarita paper is yours (except for the pieces I cut to make your kit). You also receive a package of tiny epoxy bubble letters, Sarita My Stickease and Pink Glitz. Of course you also receive the package of clear sparkles too. 

WHY UPGRADE???

When you make the basic kit it's ... well, basic. With the PLUS kit you can customize your layouts with the letter bubbles to do something like the pictures here. You'll also have nearly four sheets of the Sarita patterned paper to create even more excitement with when you get home or go to your next crop. There are a LOT more options with PLUS

AFTER

BEFORE

The Pink Glitz gives you the ability to take your embellishments up a notch. Check out what I did to the presents!! AND the title below is sparkly now too.

How can you get the kits for these two layouts? You have to contact me to pre-order so I have time to gather the supplies and cut out all of the pieces for you.

The pre-order period for this kit starts NOW and last until August 23rd.

The assembly date is September 13th, 2013. 

If you pre-order and can't come to the workshop you will still receive your kit ready to assemble when it best fits your schedule.

Send me an email at shellynemitz@gmail.com.

Information about both kits is under the "Mission Possible" tab above.

Start Collecting Cardstock

This is my first opportunity to cut an Artbooking overlay. In case you've been on an island vacation, Artbooking is the most amazing Cricut cartridge that Close To My Heart has come out with yet!! It's truly a whole new way to scrapbook. This page is done with ONLY paper. It was tempting to add a whole bunch of other embellishments, but look how wonderful it is just by cutting out a few different Artbooking items. AND it's NOT fussy, even though it looks that way.

Thank you to Atlantic Heart Sketches for giving me the design. AND thank you to Color My Heart for picking the "colors".  Hopefully gold glitter is a color because the challenge is to use Champagne and Cashmere with an added color. You have both made me very happy!!

The items are 1-overlay (the big conglomeration of circles ... I'm so happy to use the word conglomeration on my blog!!) 2-white scalloped piece (this is actually an album page for one of the mini albums you can make) 3-Glitter letters (this is what the new alpabet looks like) 4-circle with a star in the center (I cut several sizes and used them all to "decorate") THAT'S IT!! The only other ingredient is adhesive!

The latest CTMH Cricut alphabet .. pretty.

  I used the  glittered circles AND the inside stars. Not a bit of waste!

N is for Family

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop! For this hop we will be featuring the letter N. This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as her N element will be featured in her post.

If you came from Linda Norman at Scrappy Therapy then you're on the right track! 
If you came from Celebrate Crafts then click HERE to jump to Scrappy Therapy.

N is for Family. Thankfully I'm not a first grade teacher because I'd have some pretty confused 7 year olds on my hands here. BUT N is for my family ... Nemitz. This layout is for made specifically for our ABC blog hop. I'm so happy to have a reason to go all out and try a few things I've been thinking about doing for awhile. AND I'm even more happy that I finally had an opportunity to play with some of my newest Close To My Heart toys and supplies.  This is my first stab at Artbooking (the newest Cricut cartridge from CTMH). It was a BIG learning experience because a girl REALLY has to pay attention to whether that "real dial size" button is lit up or not. I don't always like to pay attention. I just want to cut. SO ... I did a whole bunch of cutting because I didn't pay attention.

This sort of thing have been popping up all over.  This was created by yours truly using the Cricut Craft Room and the Artiste alphabet. In less than two weeks Artbooking will be available in CCR too. BUT I really couldn't wait for that!!

How do you like these little sneak peeks??? I learned that from a friend of mine. If she's reading this she'll be able to see that it's far more rewarding to see sneak peeks when you actually get to see the real thing shortly after the sneak peeks.

It's soooooo hard to throw letters away that come out of negative cuts. BUT truthfully I know that it's very unlikely that I'll ever need my last name cut out this size in this color ever again. REALLY ... pretty much NEVER again. I saved one set right here. It ended up creating a little visual triangle. That's one of those "rules" that I try to follow regularly.

Check out these Artbooking frames. I've never owned a polaroid camera. Now that doesn't matter any more. To spruce them up I used this amazing technique to add color. It's called put the frame down on a piece of paper that can get inky and then drag the ink pad across as straight as possible. You might just be learning that technique right now. That's because I made it up. I am NOT afraid to try anything. I did one test of this that really didn't work like I thought it would. Then I went ahead and did it anyway. Ink and cardstock. They're like warm chocolate chip cookies and milk. They go best together. Even though each can be used alone there's just something about the combination.

If you're wondering about the little aqua dot. It's a new product available on August 1st. When you call me to order it just say you want some Aqua Dots ... because that's exactly what they're called in the Idea Book!!

OK ... I think you've seen enough of the pieces. Here is the whole layout. It's colorful because so are we.

Here are the pages alone.

The large frame is cut using Artbooking. I chose it because I love my family EVERY day. I love them especially on the days that don't seem like much.  If you're one of my Mission Possible customers you might just see that frame again in a layout I'll be creating with this exact paper pack. 

Look at my precious kids!! Well, actually they're mostly adults now. These photos are about 2 years old. I wanted to pick a few pictures where they weren't trying to "smile for the camera".  They smile a lot, but this is just their regular old every day face. In case you're worried that I'm wasting a bunch of space on this page ... don't. I have plans to write sweet things about them that I just don't you to see it.

Here's my family just a few days ago having dinner. It's so much fun to have my college boys home in the summer. I look forward to printing this up and getting it in a scrapbook some day. This is one of my favorite parts of our life ... sharing a meal together. Are you taking pictures of things that don't seem like they have that WOW factor? Trust me when I tell you that these kind of little things turn out to be the big things when time passes.

Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog Hop is Theodora at Celebrate Crafts 

There are just three of us in this hop so you probably won't get lost. BUT in case you want to jump around ...

Linda Norman - Scrappy Therapy

 Shelly Nemitz - Just One Piece

 Theodora~ celebratecrafts.com