Floating Your Fancy

Get the most out of Close To My Heart’s Cricut® Artbooking cartridge with these fun home décor ideas. Create decorative floating frames and functional message boards quickly and easily.

Awesome Deal

Discover the art of business during April and contact me to become a consultant with Close to my HEart

Dive into an incredible business opportunity and reap artistic rewards

Use your artistic and business abilities in the greatest business venture of your life by joining Close To My Heart! When you sign up as an Independent Consultant during the month of April, you’ll not only start out on your artistic journey, but you’ll also be given the right artistic tools to help you on your way: you’ll receive a FREE Close To My Heart Cricut^® collection* with your New Consultant Kit! Each collection is extremely “art-full” and makes for hours of artistic scrapbooking. Join Close To My Heart and start your journey today!

*New Consultants will have their choice of Close To My Heart Cricut^® collections currently in stock. There is no guarantee that any certain collection will be available, and new Consultants may choose only from what is available.

Artbooking Made Easy All Star Scrapbooking

Put your team spirit on paper with the sports-themed keys on Close To My Heart’s Cricut® Artbooking cartridge. The pennant banner, chevron overlays, star border, and teamwork sentiment cutouts will leave you wanting to do a victory dance!

New Heights Abound

Sometimes it’s the details of a page that makes it really shine. But adding some glitter paper, Shimmer Trim, and glitter gems doesn’t hurt, either! Learn how to make a sparkly bouquet of balloons by combining embellishments, Cricut^® cutouts, and specialty paper.

Artbooking Made Easy: Trailblazing Travel Albumns

Need a fun way to document that unforgettable vacation, getaway, or outing? The travel keys on the Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge are ideal for decorating albums, pages, or 3–D artwork with your most memorable moments.

Atlantic Hearts Sketches – Sketch 47

As everyone knows I really enjoy the Atlantic Hearts Sketches. This week I am using the new CTMH Ariana paper pack for the sketches. The mountains still are sporting a beautiful white cover that I am sure many would like to melt and finally see the beautiful lush and new green of spring.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week.

Pure Joy of Washi Tape

You already know that we are silly for stamps, passionate for papercrafting, and mad for memory keeping, but do you know that we are wild for washi tape? With eight different colors and fun patterns like stripes, polka dots, chevron, and houndstooth, how could we resist?

Color My Heart

This week’s Color My Heart colors were Autumn Terracotta, Barn Red, Olive, Hollyhock. I made this card with CTMH stamp and inks!

Heart 2 Heart – Pantone Colors

This week at Heart 2 Heart the challenge is to use pantone colors. I used the blue pantone colors for my project and included a fancy fold inside the card.

 

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Heart 2 Heart – Skylark Flip Fold Album

The finished flip fold album measures 6 x 6 x 3/4 inches. The basic construction directions are below. Once you have constructed the album, you are free to decorate it in any style you wish. These basic instructions are adopted from a post December 18, 2012 at http://g45papers.typepad.com/graphic45/2012/12/dec-18-gloria-nicole-arlene.html

Basic Instructions

1. Cut (1) 6 x 12 piece of cardstock. Score at 2 1/4, 3, 9, and 9 3/4 inches.
2. Cut (4) 6 x 6 pieces of cardstock.
3. Attach 2 pieces of 6 x 6 cardstock to the 2 1/4 inch left flap at the 2 1/4 inch fold, sandwiching the flap between the cardstock.  Repeat the process by attaching the other 2 pieces of 6 x 6 cardstock to the 2 1/4 inch right flap.
4. You will end up with a base page that is 6 inches tall and 19 1/2 inches wide. Score again at 6 and 6 3/4 inches from each end. This is your Album Base. Set this aside.

1. Cut (3) pieces of cardstock to 6 x 12 inches. Score each piece at 3 and 9 inches. Attach the three pieces of cardstock together by the 3 x 6 inch flaps to form a 6 x 24 inch section that has a center section with “doors.”
2. Fold the two 3-inch center flaps towards the center.

1. Fold the 3-inch right flap in and fold the 6-inch right panel towards the center.
2. Fold the 3-inch left flap in and fold the 6-inch left panel towards the center. Now you have the Album Core. Once it is folded, it will measure 6 x 6 inches.
3. Attach the Album Core to the inside 6×6 center panel of your Album Base, by attaching adhesive to the back of the Album Core and placing it onto the center of the Album Base.
4. Fold the right panel to the center.
5. Fold the left cover panel to the center.
6. You may choose to ink all edges and folds.
7. Now you are ready to decorate!

This is a picture heavy blog entry as I have included each page of the mini album. What do you think of the project?

As always I greatly appreciate your feedback and comments. Are the directions helpful?

 

With left over materials I made the double matchbox drawer set. What do you think of the match box?