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.

Rose Blossoms Blog Hop

Welcome to the Rose Blossoms Blog Hop. We are highlighting our favorite C and D sized stamps sets to help you do your "Deal of the Decade" shopping. When you get done hopping come back and read about additional specials for those who shop with me this December.

If you have come from lovely Barbara's Blog ... Welcome. If you're just getting started you'll find a whole circle of Rose Blossoms with beautiful art for you to see. All you have to do is look through my blog. Then toward the end you will see who is next. Keep hopping all the way through like this until you come back to me. Enjoy!! Here's what I'll be working with.

Can we start with a little straight up honesty? There's NO WAY to have a favorite stamp set. NONE.  With that said we can move on. I'm highlighting this amazing stamp set that you can add to your collection for only $10. And the main sentiment in this set could just be my favorite ... for now.

We really should always strive to be the best version of ourselves and not try to be anyone else. I love that God says we are "fearfully and wonderfully made". That goes perfectly with this sentiment. I kept the front of this card simple because I wanted the inside of the card to be a great big surprise.

What do you think?? That beautiful butterfly really doesn't need much BUT I stamped and inked and cut more Cricut shapes because I wanted to go all out to contrast the simplicity of the front. (by the way ... this is a white card and I had a dickens of a time setting the WB on my camera to capture it accurately. At least it came out pinkish which goes with the color scheme)

Here are a couple of other things I put together while I had these items out on my desk.

I love stamp sets that have a nice selection of sentiments to go along with the images. These sentiments cover a broad range of card making needs. 

NOW you can move on to the oh so talented Brenda Rose to see what she has made with this month's Stamp Of the Month. When you take advantage of the Deal of the Decade you will qualify for the SOTM for only $5. Make sure you take a good look at her amazing artwork.

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HERE ARE SPECIALS YOU WILL RECEIVE FROM ONLY ME WHEN YOU SHOP ON MY WEBSITE IN DECEMBER. I looooooove to give things away when I can. I hope you'll participate. I will be getting the free things into your hands in January so don't add them to your order.

1 - Order $100 or more and you will receive a FREE paper pack of your choice from me.

2 - Order $50 or more and receive a FREE M-sized stamp set of your choice from me.

3 - Every order placed in December qualifies for a drawing that I'm holding in early January. I'll be giving away 2 FREE ink pads (your choice of color) and 2 rolls of shimmer trim (your choice of color). Plus I have a special surprise coupon for a discount on a future purchase.

You will receive one ticket in the drawing for every $10 in product.

Artfully Sent Blog Hop

Thank You for stopping to see the Artfully Sent Blog Hop by the Rose Blossoms. This is a fun hop with a handful of bloggers that are sure to give you some creative inspiration. You have either started here or come from Tweetscraps with Morgan Vogt. Make sure you go around the whole circle!!

Our goal is to make something for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas using the latest CTMH Cricut cartridge. I made one card for each. AND in order to make sure that I wouldn't duplicate another one of the projects in this hop I steered away from the actual keys that are specifically for those things.

I used what I like to call the "Sock Monkey" key!! It's also known as "F". The main thing that this key is used for is baby cards BUT there are no rules when it comes to creativity.

 Here's a 10 minute Christmas card!! Really, it was that fast! I cut out the liner for the pop up card at 8.5 inches and real dial size. Then I folded it in half. There's a little cardstock attached behind the stockings. A Picture My Life card creates the sentiment and then it's just a piece of bakers twine, some bling and those adorable little enamel stars to finish it off. 

Now let's look at the Thanksgiving card ... NOT a ten minute card but worth every second.

This card is from the same key. It's the folded over version of the sleeve card. So ... in some of the circles I added gold bling gems and circles from the Pathfinding Assortment, in some I stamped and in some I added patterned papers. The whole thing is covered with patterned paper from behind. I personally love the result ... like I said, worth every second.

Now you get to hop on over to Lynn's blog. I can guarantee that you'll see something wonderful.

M - Mr. & Mrs.

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter M. This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as her M element will be featured in her post.

If you came from Linda at Scrappy Therapy then you're on the right track!

Thank You for visiting my blog today. It looks like we're at the half way point in the ABC Blog Hop. I hope you've seen A-L!! It's been so fun to see what everyone chooses to represent each letter. I love a little something with guidelines BUT not strict rules!! I have had a lot of M ideas and here's where I landed ... "Mr. & Mrs.".  Isn't this title cut from the Cricut Artiste cartridge adorable? 

The Mission Possible kit for August is just a few days away from being revealed. For Always is the last paper pack I'll be working with from the existing Close To My Heart Idea Book. BECAUSE ... drum roll please ... on August 1st a brand new Fall/Winter Idea Book hits the streets. It would be an understatement to say that I'm over the top excited!!! To say more would take me down a long rabbit trail. 

So, back to the Mr. & Mrs. ...

The paper here is mostly card stock. The mat for the photo is made with the For Always paper. This paper is so beautifully elegant that I had to do a little something wedding. It's simple. They say less is more and sometimes I agree. I thought there would be clusters of everything on this page when I was dreaming it up in my mind. But photos should always be the highlight of any scrapbook layout. AND I wanted to keep things flexible for those who will be creating this layout with me in August.

Here's the whole layout. Even though there's a single photo page, the other half leaves lots of room for additional photos of various shapes and sizes. Remember guidelines and not too many rules!!! Here's what it looks like all together.

I plan to put photos of my darling husband and I over the years on the right hand page. The strip across the bottom says "Everyone says you only fall in love once, but that's not true, because every time I see you, I fall in love all over again." All together now, awwwwwwwwwwwwe. What a fun way to celebrate your marriage relationship!

It's tough to capture the beauty of glitter and bling in a photograph. Here's my attempt at showing you that glimmer trim and sparkles are the anchor to the right hand page. It's so much better in real life. Once I add the photos there will probably be sparkles all over the page.

Do you love this as much as I do? Come back next week to see the Mission Possible scrapbook layout kit I'm in the process of making. There will be two layouts in the kit. The other one will have a pop of color. I'm thinking PINK!!

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

We have a short hop today but here is the complete lineup in case you want to jump around.

1.  Theo ~ Celebrate Crafts

2. Linda Norman-Scrappy Therapy

3.  Shelly Nemitz - Just One Piece

Artbooking

If anyone asks ... the very first thing I will be ordering at full price from the Fall/Winter Close To My Heart Idea Book is the new Artbooking Cricut Cartridge. I have to have it NOW!!!!

What's all the fuss??? The photo above just shows you what comes with it. Wait until you see what it can do!  I'll be able to show you more when it's in my hands but for now we'll all have to drool over these pages from the Cricut handbook. The first several show Some of the images that this cartridge can cut.

Don't those look like fun? The VERY best part is what this cartridge can do. Here's just a small sampling of pages to give you an idea. You can use just one key to make a two page layout with backgrounds, titles and picture spaces. Everything is created to scale with just one size setting!! There's a layout option shown for each key, but that's really just a start. It seems nearly infinite once you start combining all of the images!!

Are you still with me??? I'll be taking pre-orders for this cartridge in a couple of weeks. There will be a special for those who pre-order in July. It's available on August 1st to the general public. If you want to order it early you can join my team and become a consultant yourself for $49. The kit contains all NEW products. Click here on or after July 1st to order --> SIGN ME UP!!!

What do you think???