When I first saw the sticker sheets that come in the White Pines Complements I knew I had to do a card using the singing animals and the MOOSE! These cards actually went thru several variations until I found the right combo of elements. The problem was I wanted to show off the super cute animals but the background couldn't be too busy or they would get lost. The solution turned out to be creating my own background and I used the cute little star from the Festive Trees (B1493) stamp set. This is a hostess rewards stamp and I also use it for my sentiments on both cards. I random stamped the stars, the sentiments and sponge distressed the banners using Glacier ink. Other products I used are White Pines Paper Packet for my little banners, Red Shimmer Trim, Gold Foil Tape and the green strip and blue holly and berries strip are from the compliment sticker sheets.
For today's Christmas card reveal... La Vie en Rose and Poppy! Do the design look familiar?? I have used it before but it comes from Make It from Your Heart Volume 2, Pattern 28. I love all the how to books from CTMH. They are a great source to help jump start the creative mojo.
I seem to have a love of Kraft Paper and really like to use it whenever I can. I recently designed this card for my big Christmas Card Workshops and I LOVE the Wood Grain Embossing Folder with the Kraft Paper.
The lovely sentiment and holly leaves are from CTMH's White Pines Scrapbooking Workshop on the Go stamp set and was stamped using Topiary Ink. All the shapes are from the Cricut Artistry Collection and the patterned paper is from the White Pines Paper Packet. I finished this card off with a few bitty sparkles and Red Enamel Gems.
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I totally forgot that this week was one of my weeks to create with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. In my defense I have been very busy creating, cutting, sorting, counting, re counting, double checking and finalizing all the details for my upcoming Christmas Card Workshops. These workshops are huge in that my crafting friends are creating 20 cards (2 each of 10 designs) that I have designed and pre-cut, etc. for them. Some of my regular crafters call this annual workshop our yearly epic event and they do work hard!
Three of the cards for this years workshop are from CTMH's White Pines Cardmaking Workshop on the go. I like to use the WOTG's as a starting point and of course I love that I can make the cards cards my own... some years I change the cards a lot and other years not so much. This year, not so much.
Last month I upgraded to a Cricut Explore Air and honestly I was very hesitant to do it but my poor Cricut Expression 2 was just done, I create a lot of workshops and that machine has seen some heavy use over the past few years. Why was I hesitant? Well I wasn't sure if having to upload my cartridges to the Cricut Design Space was a good idea, what if they don't load and how will I find what I want and what if the internet is down and how long will it take? Seriously what if I just want to cut a quick circle.. will it take 20 minutes to load everything? Well, I am happy to say most of my worries have been appeased. It does take a few minutes to load the program and find what design I want to cut but the program is super user friendly and as I play with it I am getting more confident.