Paper Trail Blog Hop for December... Roxie

Welcome to the December Paper Trail Blog Hop!

You should have arrived from Melinda's blog, but this is a circular hop, so it doesn't really matter where you begin the journey...  ;)

This month we are featuring the Roxie Level 2 Paper Pack.

I've made many a project with this pack, as it is one of my favourite ones from the Fall/Winter Idea Book.

This is what I first made for the Paper Trail Blog Hop.

Inspiration for my card came from this one (scroll down to the green card).

The ribbon is hard to see in my photo, but it's pleated and so adorable!

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Secondly, I have a layout to share with you.

I love how it turned out.

It's about the things I love to do... what I seem to spend most of my free time doing.

{In no particular order:  my Blackberry, laptop, coffee, scrapbooking/papercrafts.}

I just have to add the photos.

I hope you enjoyed your stop here.

Please continue along the Paper Trail Blog Hop by hopping over to Karen's blog.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

CARD

Paper:  Roxie B&T; Colonial White, Black CS

Stamps:  Love Life, I Believe (retired), Tannenbaum (retired)

Inks:  Black, Desert Sand

Embellishments:  Wings Black Pleated ribbon, Tulip button, Red & Clear sparkles, Foundry Pin Clip, Milepost Shapes star, Natural Hemp

Other:  Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, 3D foam tape, Sponge, ScorTape (ScorPal)

LAYOUT

Paper:  Roxie B&Ts; Desert Sand, Black, Colonial White CS

Stamps:  Live Live, Trinity Alphabet, Two-Step Backgrounds - retired

Inks:  Black, Desert Sand, Chocolate

Embellishments:  Color Ready Cork Alphabets, Milepost Shapes stars, Clear sparkles, Bling pins, Bling buttons, Rhinestone designer brad, Pewter frame/brads

Other:  Magic - Lovely Assistant, Sponge, Scallop border punch (SU)

My Wonderland Christmas Cards... individual photos

Well, we made it back safe and sound from our trip to Banff for the company Christmas party.

We got busy last night (after unloading our truck) building 4 more Expedit Ikea shelves for my scrapbooking room.  Yay!

Hopefully today I will find some time to organize in there...  ;)

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This morning I realized that I hadn't shared the individual photos of the cards from my Wonderland Christmas Cards Workshop that I held on November 19th.

So here they are...

{inspired by Leisa Hubley}

{inspired by Kristine Ponte}

{inspired by Emilee Smith}

I'll be back tomorrow with the Paper Trails Blog Hop, so be sure to come back.

I have something special to share with you.

Happy creating!  :)

Always Be Yourself Layout...

I love this sketch.  So much that it just had to be put into action...

This layout mostly consists of Chocolate, Sky and Colonial White cardstock, along with a little B&T from Believe and the retired Olivia paper packs.

I did very little stamping, using Trinity Alphabet for "always" and photo sizes, and Love Life for the swirls.

I used Color Ready Cork Alphabets for "BE" and the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to cut out "yourself".

And the circles are cut with the 1 1/4" circle punch.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Believe B&T, Olivia B&T - retired; Chocolate, Sky, Colonial White CS

Stamps:  Trinity Alphabet, Love Life

Ink:  Chocolate

Embellishments:  Dk. Chocolate Striped grosgrain, Sky bigger brads, Milepost shapes stars, Color Ready Cork alphabets, Chocolate buttons, Natural hemp

Other:  Upper Crest border punch (Fiskars), Sponge, 3D foam tape, Micro-tip scissors

Masculine Gift Card Holder

Inspiration for this card came from SU.

This is a great card to tuck a gift card into.

{I'd suggest using a glue dot or two to hold it in place on the pull-out tag.}

I used B&T from Typeset, and my most loved birthday set called Card Chatter - Birthday.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Typeset B&Ts; Desert Sand, Juniper, Colonial White CS

Stamp:  Card Chatter - Birthday

Inks:  Black, Chocolate

Embellishments:  Milepost shapes - star, Dk. Chocolate Striped grosgrain, Wooden button, Natural hemp

Punches:  1 1/4" circle, Corner rounder, Upper Crest border (Fiskars), Slot (SU)

Other:  3D foam tape, Sponge

Acorn Love...

Yesterday turned out to be a snow day, with well over a foot of snow that fell overnight, and it continued to snow all day.  School buses weren't running in our district, and there was no way my little Jetta was gonna make it through to take Cole to school, so we took a snow day.

I played in my scraproom and created a bunch of acorn cards, and then I shovelled snow...

Aren't they super adorable?!

That's what I call acorn love!

I started with this shaped card first.

Inspiration came from two different people: Aaron's card, and Christine's card.

I cut the shape at 5 1/2" using the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, then traced it onto a folded base, and hand cut the shape, with the fold at the top.

Then I created some 3x3 customer thank you cards.

For these ones, I cut the acorn shapes at 3".

And lastly, I made this card.

Inspiration came from this card by Jeanette Lynton. 

It had been sitting in my "lift" files for a year now.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):

Acorn Shaped Card:

Paper:  Sonoma B&T; Chocolate, Colonial White CS

Stamp:  Tag the Occasion

Inks:  Chocolate, Bamboo

Embellishments:  Dk. Chocolate Striped grosgrain, Pewter designer brad

Other:  Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, 3D foam tape, Sponge

3x3 Acorn Cards:

Paper:  Sonoma B&T, Zippidee B&T - retired; Chocolate, Colonial White CS

Stamp:  Tag the Occasion

Ink:  Chocolate

Embellishments:  Wooden buttons, Natural hemp

Other:  Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, 3D foam tape, Sponge, Micro-tip scissors

Many Thanks Acorn Card:

Paper:  Olivia B&T - retired; Chocolate, Colonial White, Bamboo CS

Stamps:  Many Thanks - retired, Boutique Borders - retired

Inks:  Chocolate, Bamboo

Embellishments:  Colonial White organdy, Wooden button, Natural Hemp

Other:  White Daisy Die-cut card, Micro-tip scissors, 3D foam tape, Micro-tip scissors

Christmas Photo Card

Here's a simple Christmas photo card, perfect for your family photo that you can mail out to family and friends this Christmas.

I like to use 4x6 photos whenever I can, but with a 3x4 size, you can have 2 photos printed onto one 4x6... so affordable.

I used B&Ts from the Believe paper pack, and the tree image is from Seasons, one of the stamps sets in the Cricut Art Philosophy bundle.

I didn't have any Holiday Red ribbon, so I improvised and sponged Holiday Red ink onto some Sorbet ribbon.  Worked perfectly.  ;)

I added some clear Bitty Sparkles to the trees, and some Red Sparkles to their tops.

Simple and cute!

 

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Believe B&Ts; White Daisy CS

Stamps:  Art Philosophy Seasons, Tannenbaum - retired, Trinity Alphabet

Inks:  Black, Sweet Leaf, Topiary, Holiday Red

Embellishments:  Clear Bitty Sparkles, Red Sparkles, Sorbet ribbon - sponged with Holiday Red ink

Other:  Sponge, 3D foam tape

Chrismtas Card Re-do

I loved the simple look of this card when I created it back in 2010, so I re-did it using Olive more prominently.

This was my original...

Design lifted from Andrea Walford.

Love them both!

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Mistletoe B&T - retired; Olive, Colonial White CS

Stamp:  Christmas Love

Ink:  Black

Embellishments:  Cranberry buttons, Olive ribbon

Other:  Scallop border punch (SU)

Staying at the Castle layout...

It's getting close to that time of year again...

the time of year when we get to travel to Banff for the company Christmas party.

While there, we stay and party at the Banff Springs Hotel, aka The Castle.

Cole's coming with us this year, so it should be fun!

I chose to use B&Ts from the Sonoma paper pack because of the Smokey Plum colour in it. 

Whenever I think of purple, I think of royalty, castles...

Anyways, I created this layout for some of the numerous photos I will undoubtedly take while there.  ;)

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Sonoma B&Ts; Cocoa, Bamboo, Olive, Colonial White CS

Stamps:  Trinity Alphabet, Thrill Ride, Little Princess, Sonoma WOTG set, Comments - retired

Inks:  Cocoa, Chocolate, Smokey Plum, Desert Sand, Gypsy; Chocolate marker

Embellishments:  Irresistibles Eclectic Alphabet, Olive buttons, Cocoa buttons, Colonial White buttons, Wooden button, Shimmer designer brads, Clear sparkles, Olive metal tab, Colonial White embroidery floss, Olive embroidery floss

Other:  Magic - Magician's Choice, Scallop border punch (SU), Sponges

On Island Time...

As promised, here's my other layout that I CASEd from this post on Jeanette Lynton's blog.

I wanted to use Kraft cardstock for my bases, but alas, I only had one full sheet left.  Somehow I kept forgetting to order more...

I wasn't sure what was used for the film strips, so I improvised with a stamp from Take a Picture.

I also switched the Sunset B&T from Mischief to a retired polka dot one from Olivia, simply because I don't have the Mischief paper pack.

I also switched up the flowers to some from the White Daisy Variety pack. 

I just inked the little one with Sunset ink and layered them with an Antique Copper brad in their centers.

The layered flowers kinda look like an island flower, which when paired with the Bohemian Alphabet for the title, I knew that I would use this layout for some of our Hawaiian photos.

Now I just need to get some printed in the right sizes.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Dreamin' B&T, Olivia B&T - retired; Desert Sand, Sunset, Chocolate, Colonial White, Kraft CS

Stamps:  Live Life, Take a Picture, Bohemian Alphabet, Trinity Alphabet, You & Me (from a past special)

Inks:  Chocolate, Sunset; Chocolate marker

Embellishments:  White Daisy Variety Pack flowers, Antique Copper brads

Other:  Imagine - Thumbnails, Sponge, Ruler, Paper piercer, Micro-tip scissors

Just Us Layout

Isn't this just the cutest?

I can't take credit for it.

I saw it here on Jeanette Lynton's blog yesterday morning... just scroll down to the last picture on the post.

I made a few changes to make it my own.  ;)

Like the tags and the flowers, which I cut with the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.

All of those layouts are so inspiring. 

So inspiring in fact, that I made another one of those layouts shown in her post, but I will save it to share with you on Monday.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Dreamin' B&Ts; Kraft, Chocolate, Goldrush, Pacifica, Sky, Honey, Colonial White CS

Stamps:  Love Life, Trinity Alphabet

Inks:  Chocolate, Pacifica

Embellishments:  Dk. Chocolate Striped grosgrain, Shimmer designer brads

Other:  Magic - Abracadabra, Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, Paper piercer, Micro-tip scissors, ScorTape (ScorPal)

Peace on Earth...

Inspiration came from this card (just scroll down).

It was so eye-catching that I had to re-create it for myself.

  The overall size of this card is 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 (the base is 2 3/4 x 5 1/2).

My Christmas card stash is doing well.

I've got lots for mailing, but never quite enough...  ;)

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Cranberry, Olive, White Daisy CS

Stamps:  Love Life, Just for the Holidays (Retired), Argyle Backgrounds (retired)

Inks:  Olive, Cranberry

Embellishments:  Gold satin ribbon - from Creative Basics Mistletoe (retired), Red sparkles

Punches/Dies:  1" circle, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/2" circle (all EK Success); Ad Sense die (Papertrey Ink)

Other:  3D foam tape, ScorTape (ScorPal)

A lifted card idea... super easy Christmas card

When I saw Tosha Leyendekker's card, I knew I wanted to lift it.

This is my version of her very simple Christmas card.

First I used a Martha Stewart border punch called Doily Lace to punch the sides, and then simply stamped the wreath and berries from the Remarkable Wreath stamp set.

The sentiment and holly are from Christmas Love, and I simply stamped the holly in Topiary ink onto scrap White Daisy cardstock, trimmed it out and glued it onto the wreath.

I then added some Red Glitz Glitter glue to the holly berries.

Easy, peasy.  Just how I like it.  ;)

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  White Daisy CS

Stamps:  Remarkable Wreath, Christmas Love

Inks:  Black, Cranberry, Topiary

Embellishment:  Red Glitz Glitter glue

Other:  Micro-tip scissors, Doily Lace border punch (Martha Stewart)

Wonderland Christmas Card Class

Please join me for my Christmas card class using B&Ts from Wonderland.

The class includes 4 cards (as shown) and 4 envelopes.

Everything will be pre-cut, so all you have to do is stamp and assemble.

When:  Saturday, November 19th

Time:  2:00 PM

Where:  13413 Sunnyside Cove {aka Wizard's Hangout}

Cost:  $15 (or 2 sets for $25)

RSVP:  250-263-1489

Please reserve your spot by November 15th.

{And let me know if you want to do more than 1 set so I can have everything prepped for class.}

CASEd Gratitude Card

Here's another card that's been sitting in my files for awhile, waiting it's turn to be shared.

I loved this card when I saw it and had to re-create it myself.

The original idea came from Leisa Hubley and you can view her card here.

I didn't have the B&T that Leisa used, so I created my own background paper using the Two-Step Backgrounds stamp set and Creme Brulee and Sunset inks.

At the time, I didn't have the So Grateful stamp set that Leisa used, so I improvised with a retired set called Spooky Smiles.

The shape that the pumpkin image is stamped onto was cut using my Cricut and the CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):

Paper:  Colonial White, Chocolate, Sunset CS

Stamps:  Two-Step Backgrounds, Spooky Smiles, Thank You

Inks:  Sunset, Creme Brulee, Chocolate, Garden Green

Embellishments:  Wooden buttons, Chocolate embroidery floss, Dk. Chocolate Striped grosgrain

Other:  Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge, 3D foam tape

Count Your Blessings

I'm still playing catch-up with some cards that hadn't yet been posted.

Here's another one of those, this one using B&Ts from the Dreamin' Level 2 paper pack, and a past SOTM from June called Jubilation.

I also used another retired set called November Word Puzzle for the sentiment and the wheat image.

Though it doesn't show well in the photo, I ran a strip of Bronze Glitz Glitter glue along the strip of colored circles and then wiped away the excess with a tissue.

It seems to show up as dark blotches in the photo, but it actually left a light shimmery effect that catches your eye.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):

Paper:  Dreamin' B&Ts; Kraft, Colonial White CS

Stamps:  Jubilation - June SOTM, November Word Puzzle - retired

Inks:  Pacifica, Chocolate, Honey, Goldrush

Embellishments:  Bronze Glitz Glitter glue, Antique Copper brads

Other:  1 1/4" circle punch, Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, 3D foam tape, Sponge

What's new this month?

CTMH November Stamp of the Month - Cherish the Day

This versatile set is available only for the month of November.

It can be purchased for $19.95 (plus shipping and tax),

or with a minimum $55 order you can get it for just $5.50.

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Holiday Wishes stamp set

From November 1-30, when you purchase $25 in stamp sets, you can get this D-sized set for $5.

*Note:  Many of the images from this set coordinate with the CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.

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Scentsy - November

You can browse my Scentsy website here.

The warmers and scentsy bars make great gifts!  ;)

Simple Christmas Card

I was looking through some projects that haven't yet been posted from last month and thought this one is a good one to share...

We all like to have a quick and easy Christmas card design, don't we?

And when you have to make a gazillion Christmas cards to mail out to family and friends, this one doesn't break the bank, either... bonus!

I simply used a B&T from Sonoma and the sentiment and tree is from a set called Christmas Love.  Love that set!

Add a little ribbon, and a button, and voila, you're done!

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):

Paper:  Sonoma B&T; Colonial White CS

Stamp:  Christmas Love

Inks:  Olive, Cocoa

Embellishments:  Cocoa grosgrain, New England Ivy button, Natural hemp, Bronze Glitz Glitter glue

Other:  Corner rounder

New Card Styles #4 & #5 Now Available

 

I was able to get some cards created for purchase for Card Styles #4 and #5.

With the purchase of one of my cards that I have for sale, you get to pick one of my box templates as a bonus, plus I also email the card sketch/instructions to you for that specific card, and of course you also get an envelope.

You can view the details here on my blog.

 

Happy creating!  :)