Artboooking Made Easy (S01E02): A+ School Layouts

Welcome to the Joyful Stars blog hop for October!

Here is a quick card I created.  I actually used the border stamp from the Stamp of the Month for October and curved it so it matched the oval shape (this is just one of the wonderful aspects of our stamps).  I used the adorable penguin from one of our Hostess rewards sets C1560.   I also used the snow flake stamp from the Frosted Cardmaking Workshop on the go which has a corresponding cut from our Artiste Cricut Cartridge.  This is just to show that you can mix and match our stamps.

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Stephanie is next in our blog hop.  If you get lost along the way here are the other links to the members of our hop or you can always start at the beginning with Joyce.

Stephanie Huber         lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com
Cindy Leek                 savingmemorieswithcindy.com
Helen Gullett               byheleng.wordpress.com

Meredith Hainsworth  craftyschemings.blogspot.com
Angelina Romero         papercraftingwithangelina.blogspot.com
Nickie Hoffer            nickiehoffer.blogspot.com

Elizabeth Mindemann   ejoym.blogspot.com
Joyce Houck             joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

Betty Locco                scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com
Nancy Brown            creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com 

Krista Hershberger     Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com

Artbooking Made Easy (S01E01)

Getting Started with Cricut Artbooking  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, this cartridge!  So far I have been having fun with overlays with layouts and mini albums.

Simply Stitch It

We now have a great stitch guide for all of you interested in adding additional dimension to your artwork.  Check out this quick video for a brief introduction to using the guide.

Joyful Stars Blog Hop for September

I am still in a home decor mood so I made this simple little frame.

I absolutely love the Huntington papers so I used that for the photo mat. I used the original photo mat that came with the frame as a template.

 The Stamp set is called Poster Tidings and is the Stamp of the Month for September. If you place an order for $50 or more you can get the Stamp of the Month for only $5 (a 17.95 value).

 I wanted to highlight a few of the words in the stamp. There are couple different ways you can do this. For this frame I decided to use sponge daubers to apply different ink colors to different areas of the stamp. Since this can take a little time to cover the entire stamp via a sponge dauber I "huffed" warm breath onto the stamp to moisten it and then stamped onto the "Sunset" card stock.

 I decorated the frame with a strip of our new Jute Ribbon and some retired wooden shapes. Our current Idea Book has Trinkets Wooden Shapes that are just adorable. All our wooden shapes are stampable. I just used daubers again to add ink to the wooden shapes. I then added Liquid Glass to give it a nice sheen.

This project was inspired by a project Joyce shared with me a few months ago.  Thanks Joyce!

Thank you for visiting, your next stop is Betty Locco - just follow the link below.  Have Fun!

Betty Locco                scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com

Angelina Romero         papercraftingwithangelina.blogspot.com

Nancy Brown            creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com

Joyce Houck            Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

Nickie Hoffer            nickiehoffer.blogspot.com

Krista Hershberger     Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com

Stephanie Huber         lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com

Helen Gullett               byheleng.wordpress.com

Cindy Leek                 savingmemorieswithcindy.com

Elizabeth Mindemann   ejoym.blogspot.com

Meredith Hainsworth        craftyschemings.blogspot.com

Convert our page protectors to work in a CM album.

A CM customer contacted me to see if our Close To My Heart page protectors would work in her album. They will and here is a video to show you how. I wanted to share this with anyone who is no longer able to purchase CM products to complete their albums. Our Close To My Heart page protectors are a great value at $22.95 for 50 and they are an exceptional quality too. Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Welcome to the Joyful Stars August Blog Hop.

For August we decided to showcase anything from the new Fall/Winter Idea Book.  It was a difficult choice because there are so many great new items.  Our 4-H Poultry Club has a silent auction to raise money at our Fair every year.  I thought the new Designed Decor Frame would be perfect.  I wanted to keep it fairly generic so I held off on stamping sentiments on the photo frames but added a note to let everyone I would gladly customize it for their family.

I loved working on this project because it is a very high quality product.  The frame is beautiful, sturdy, and has perfectly mitered corners.  The chicken wire is a single insert that is on a wire frame with nice clean edges and it can easily be removed if you want to place fabric or paper between the frame and the chicken wire.

I used the Artiste Cartridge to create the coop with the nesting box.

Please hop on over to Krista's blog next:

Krista Hershberger     Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com
Nickie Hoffer            nickiehoffer.blogspot.com
 Meredith Hainsworth    craftyschemings.blogspot.com 
Stephanie Huber       lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com
Hellen Gullett             byheleng.wordpress.com
Elizabeth Mindemann   ejoym.blogspot.com
Betty Locco                 scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com

Angelina Romero         papercraftingwithangelina.blogspot.com

Cindy Leek              savingmemorieswithcindy.com
Joyce Houck             Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com
Nancy Brown          creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com