"Your Beautiful Self" Workshop

Last nights workshop was a  busy one! It included a double paged layout and 2 cards.
We used the watercolor paints to "splatter" the background of the base pages and then we used the watercolor paper to paint, stamp and cut out our butterflies.
The workshop also included the stamp set to take home :)

Enjoy! 
Jackie

Sand Castle Card

Today is the first day of summer and to celebrate I am posting a card that we made as a make and take at my last open house.
This sand castle card with the sun reminds me so much of summer!

I hope you all have a wonderful FIRST DAY OF SUMMER and here's to many days at the beach this year!!

Enjoy! 
Jackie

Georgie Card Workshop

This months Card Workshop used the Georgie bulk B&T paper and the stamp sets "For Every Occasion" and "Words of Comfort". We created 6 cards (3 styles; 2 of each) and all the patterns are from the book Wishes (available through Close To My Heart).

Enjoy! 
Jackie

Chocolate Bar Cards

What do you get when you have some Georgie B&T paper, a lot of chocolate cardstock, tin foil and a super cute chocolate stamp set from the past?
Chocolate Bar Cards!!
These cards were from our card club last month and were a lot more work than they appeared.
Those girls had to work hard for their cards! Each piece of "chocolate" had to be cut, distressed with re inker and attached with 3D tape, but they were worth the time and effort :)

Enjoy! 
Jackie

Spring Workshop Part 2 - Charlotte

This was a huge workshop and in total, using Charlotte and Penelope, we ended the day with 6 - 2 page layouts and 12 cards.

Part 2 of my Spring Workshop was using the "Charlotte" paper and compliments. We created (3) 2 page layouts and (6) cards.

Layout #1: TODAY IS YOUR DAY

Layout #2: CELEBRATE ME & YOU

Layout #3: HOME IS WHEREVER I'M WITH YOU

"Charlotte" Scrap cards:

Enjoy! 
Jackie

Spring Workshop Part 1 - Penelope

Part 1 of my Spring Workshop was using the "Penelope" paper and compliments. We created (3) 2 page layouts and (6) cards.

Layout #1: MAKE TODAY FUN

Layout #2: SPRING IS HERE

Layout #3: HAPPY SMILES

Penelope "Scrap" cards:

Enjoy!
Jackie

Watercolor Cards

If you haven't tried the Watercolor Paints from Close To My Heart... What are you waiting for?
Here are some cards from a past card club made with the Watercolor Paints and Watercolor Paper.
These cards are so fast and so cute!!

Enjoy!
Jackie

February Card Swap

Today I finished my cards for the monthly card swap I take part in. The theme... Animal Cards.
I used 2 stamp sets on this card. 1. Baby Zoo (C1620) and 2. So Many Smiles (C1619).

"So Many Smiles" is in my top 10 (maybe even 5) favorite stamp sets of all times and I seem to find away to use it in almost every project I do that involves stamping.

So here are my "Animal" cards...

Enjoy! 
Jackie

Minion Cards!

So a couple months ago I received a card in the mail from another CTMH Consultant, Jennifer Kelly. This card was the cutest card I had ever seen. I LOVE Minions and her card  inspired me to do a card workshop on these little guys!
Here are the 2 cards being done at the workshop :)

Enjoy! 
Jackie

Barn Board Swap Cards

Tomorrow is the big day!! I leave for the CTMH Convention in Disneyland!
I can't wait to see all the new products coming out and the best part... see the CTMH consultants I have become friends with over the years again :)

So I made some card swap cards. I did a barn board layout for a workshop not long ago, and loved the technique so much, I decided to use it on my cards. The barn boards are made with cardstock, cocoa re inker and a toothbrush.
And here are the cards I made for card swap...

And more...

And even more...

Enjoy! 
Jackie.

You're A Star!!

Last months card club theme was "You're A Star".

We took stars and covered them with strips of B&T paper and washi tape. We finished them off with twine and little cardstock stars. 

Enjoy!
Jackie

Scrap Flowers

I remember when I started scrapbooking, I kept every piece of scrap paper!
Really, I had to... It was all in the name "SCRAPBOOKING"
All of a sudden all my scraps were taking over my craft room... so one day I went down there with a recycle bag and that was the end of my scraps :(

This months card club was focused on our "scraps". No rhyme; no reason... just beautiful patterns and colors!!

Scrap Flowers!!

We spent a lot of time at card club cutting out petals.

Enjoy!
Jackie

Masculine Cards

This months card club theme was masculine cards.
With Fathers Day just around the corner, I thought this would be a good month to make some fun cards just for him.

Enjoy!
Jackie

Bendy Fold Card

This month we had a special project called the "Bendy Fold Card". 

This card can be as dressed up or down as you want, because the beautiful Skylark paper is so decorative, you really don't need much more.

The stamp sets used were "Give a Lift" (D1581) and "Banner Wishes" (B1438)

Throw a few cricut flowers on and,Ta Da...

Enjoy! 

Jackie

Overlay Cards

As many of you know, The Cricut Artbooking Collection has so many wonderful overlays designed for your scrapbook layouts and mini albums, but these overlays are just way to cute to be stuck with 1 job... 

So for this months Card Club we gave these overlays another job, to dress up our cards!! 

We started with "The Wave" overlay (pg 53/Artbooking). It is cut at 5 3/4" (and then trimmed 3/4" off the end), laid it over some B&T, added some stamping and got these fancy little cards! 

Our next card was using the "Sunshine" overlay (pg 52/Artbooking). This was cut at 5 1/2" and fit perfectly over a 4 x 5 1/2" card. I put some Honey card stock behind it and added some stamping and the "sunshine banner" which was cut at 1" (Artbooking).

The last overlay we used was the "Stars" overlay (pg 86/Artbooking). It is cut at 3 3/4" and used on a 4 x 4" card. Again, just added some stamping & we were done.

Enjoy!

Jackie

Crop Card Challenge

On Saturday was my crop and this month I decided to have a card challenge / contest. Each person recieved a blank card base and a copy of the Oct. CTMH free download, which was a sheet of banners.
They could use anything on the card they wanted & they did not have to use all the banners, then they were all put out on a table and numbered. Everyone got 1 vote and the only rule was they could not vote for thier own.
My plan was to have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place card, but we ended up having a 4 way tie for 2nd place.
So here are the winning cards, as voted on by my Crop Girls...

In second place (x4)

Congratulations Candace G.

Congratulations Michele M.

Congratulations Candace B.

Congratulations Louise D.

And in 1st place... Congratulations to Dawn K.

This was such a fun card challenge!! Thanks to all the girls who participated. It was soooo hard to only have 1 vote!!
I can't wait until our next challenge!!!


Enjoy!!
Jackie