Be Mine

A little late for Valentines Day - but I wanted to share with you a little project that was recently published in Let's Get Sketchy's Get Inspired digi-magazine.

Love the versatility of CTMH's Cricut cartridges!!   Embellished this little gift box with CTMH Flirty paper (retired), CTMH Black Pearls, CTMH Black Tulle.

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Dreams

Good morning!   Wanted to share with you today the gifts I made for my Orlando roomie, my CTMH bestie, and my downline attending Convention.   

The first gift was this layout.   Sketch is from CTMH's Make it From Your Heart Volume 1 book. 

Materials Used:
CTMH Surf's Up Paper Collection
CTMH For Always Paper Collection
Die Cuts & Title Alpha: CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge
CTMH Flutter Paper Shapes
CTMH Black Pearl Flourishes
Stamp Set: An exclusive set given to 2011 Convention Go-ers in Anaheim
CTMH Cardstock:  Black, Lagoon, Sorbet, White Daisy

PS.   Watch my blog coming soon -- I'm going to be creating page kits for sale here on the blog & this layout will be one of them!  Email me if you'd like to reserve yours now.  

In addition to the layout, I also created this little gift canister for each of 'my girls' and filled them with Convention survival supplies (i.e. snacks, kleenex, chocolate, gum, etc.).  

Materials Used:
CTMH My Creations Kraft Canister/Container
CTMH For Always Paper Collection
CTMH Black Tulle Ribbon
CTMH Cardstock: Lagoon
Circle Die Cuts cut with CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

Let's Get Sketchy Birthday Blog Hop

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  Let’s Get Sketchy is turning ONE and to celebrate we are having a Birthday Bash Blog hop.  As you make your way along our hop to visit each of our DT blogs you will find lots of birthday inspired projects.   If you have arrived here from Laurie's Blog welcome to the LGS blog hop!! If you have stumbled across this by chance and want to play along then you can head back to the Let's Get Sketchy site to start at the beginning and to start collecting your Birthday challenge words. These words should be bolded on each DT member’s pages.

  Birthday Bash Challenge- To create any birthday inspired project from an example you see on any one of the DT pages and upload at LGS.  If the DT project is a layout then do a lift of that page, if it’s a project of sorts then do that project.  You can pick from ANY DT member’s blog project for the hop. 

  The winner of the hop will be randomly selected and will win a nice bag of scrap goodies from Lets Get Sketchy.  As always there are rules for playing!

  
  

  Here are the rules for playing and winning:

  1. You MUST be a follower of each LGS team members blog and leave a comment on each blog and;

  2. You MUST also be a follower of the LGS blog.

  Please make sure you visit the entire team today as some members are hosting additional blog challenges during the hop and offering their own extra goodies for you so the more you play the more chances you win!

  Also as you hop along the way you will find clue words on each of the Design Team member’s blogs.  Once you have gathered all the words they will form a quote related to our Birthday. Tell us that quote by emailing letsgetsketchygmail.com and get your name in the pot for an extra drawing.

  MY CLUE WORD is "YOU".

  All blog hop entries are due by midnight, March 8th, 2013. CST.   

  My birthday project for you today is a card and matching gift box.

  

  Project features CTMH Chantilly paper, Shimmer Trim, Card Chatter stamp set, Sweet Leaf Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Paradise Bakers Twine, Red/Pink Button Assortment.   Flowers and Gift Box were cut with the CTMH Artiste Cricut cartridge.

  

  
  

  

  As a bonus -- I will also be randomly drawing from all the commenters here on this post to give away a CTMH Birthday Card kit!   Good luck!!!

  Now hop on over to MICHELLE's BLOG to see what she has in store for you!

  Here is the full hop lineup in case you get lost:

  Let's Get Sketchy

  Brenshevia

  Debbie

  Stacia

  Laurie

  Carla - - YOU ARE HERE

  Michelle

  Lynn

  Alison

  Melinda

  Tracy

  Sherri

  Marit

  Lanette

  Bev

  Stephanie

  Stacey

  LGS

  
  

  Thanks for hopping with us today!

  

  
  

"The Good Stuff" Canvas Wall Decor

Good morning all!   I haven't had a lot of artwork to share over the last 2 weeks, and the reason . . . I was completely obsessed with Downton Abbey.  I just discovered the show recently so I downloaded all three seasons on my laptop and spent every spare minute I had over the last two weeks or so enjoying every minute of every episode!   Fantastic show.     Was so disappointed to find out when I finished that new episodes for Season 4 will not air here in North America until next JANUARY!!! Are you kidding me?   I have to wait a whole year!!  Uuughhh!   Had I known that I think I would have taken my time a bit more catching up on the previous seasons so the wait wouldn't seem so long.  
Oh well- - maybe I'll re-watch them!   Ha ha.

Anyway - - now that life is back to normal, I'm back to the craft room.   Wanted to share with you today my FAVOURITE new item in the Spring/Summer CTMH Idea Book.      Check out this great canvas wall decor kit!     There are a ton of pieces to choose from in the kit - so you can decorate your canvas as shown in the workshop guide, or get more creative and design your own.   Mine here is based on the workshop guide layout.   (I've used my 'extra' pieces from the kit on other projects, such as this LAYOUT).  

This kit was super easy and super fast to put together - - took about an hour total to create.     Better buy multiples - keep one for yourself and give one as a gift!  

Materials Used:
CTMH Cocoa Pigment Ink
CTMH Canvas Art Workshop Kit
Glue Dots
Foam Tape

Spring/Summer Releases from CTMH

CTMH launched its' new Spring/Summer collections on February 1st.   I've dug into a few of these packs already and they are fantastic.  (Warning: Photo heavy post!!)

They are:

Chantilly

Tommy

Claire

Surf's Up

Later Sk8r

For Always

Buzz & Bumble

Watch for many new projects using these seven new collections here on my blog in the coming weeks!

You can check out the entire Spring/Summer Idea Book online HERE.   Enjoy!

Happy New Year & My Display Tray Project Kit

Hi everyone!
Happy 2013 to you.   Glad to be back!   I'm in the craft room today and hope to have some new creations to share with you soon!   The new Spring/Summer 2013 CTMH Idea Book has also landed on my desk & it is fantastic!    It goes live to the public on February 1st - - and I'll start sneaking you some peeks of the new products as soon as my order of the new goodies arrives!  

Thought I'd start out the new year by sharing a project I worked on before Christmas, but couldn't share here previously as it was a gift for my Mom & Dad and I didn't want them to see it before they actually opened it!

This is a home decor piece - the CTMH Display Tray:

Materials Used:
CTMH Display Tray
CTMH Paper Packs: Florentine, Cruisin', Dakota, Avonlea
Heart & Flourish cut with the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge
Black & Colonial White Waxy Flax
CTMH Buttons
Family Love stamp set
Love stamp set
Bitty Pearl Opaques
Ink: Archival Black & Black
DE Monograms Chipboard
Rosette Ribbon
Flutter Paper Shapes

Anyone who orders the Display Tray from me can also purchase a pre-cut, pre-stamped 'embellishment kit' to decorate their tray as shown.   (You choose your own monogram letter and add your own photos).   The embellishment kit is just $5 (mailed to you) with the purchase of the display tray.   Email me if you are interested.