A "Special" Card from Artbooking

Hello Crafty Friends,

I'd like to share a card I made using the newest

Close To My Heart cartridge, Artbooking.

Although I LOVE coloring digi stamps, my card making journey began with the Cricut and I still love using my cartridges and my E2.  The cartridges that are CTMH exclusives have to be among my favorites and this newest one is fabulous.  It is a scrapbooker's dream but can easily be modified to create wonderful cards. 

The damask design can be found on page 46.  I used my E2 so I placed a 3.75x5 mat on the screen and then scaled my cuts to fit.  The overlay is on page 47 along with the sentiment.

The papers are from the DCWV Lavender Chateau Stack

The leaves are the Martha Stewart leaf punch.  I traced inside the damask with an atYou Spica glitter pen and then added pearls from Recollections.

I used the same glitter pen to trace around the sentiment since I wasn't using my Gypsy or CCR, I had no way to create a shadow.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I really loved sharing something from my Cricut - it's still one of my favorite crafting tools.

Cricut Saturday!

Good Morning!  I'm so glad you're here to see my projects for My Paper Crafting's Cricut Saturday I have been so busy creating digital image projects that I'd forgotten just how much I enjoy using my Cricut.  I know many of you have switched to other cutters (ok, I also have a Pazzles), but I really do love using my E2 and the huge cartridge collection that I have. For today's projects, I used all three of the CTMH cartridges - they are so versatile!

For this first card I used the new Artbooking cartridge.  Using the E2 made it so easy to size the images I selected because I could see them right on the screen (I don't use CCR).  Since all of the feature sizes are proportioned to the base images which are sized for page layouts, I used Real Dial size.

"Sweet" is the title feature on page 49.  The flower uses the icon images on page 48.  The tag is a border inage on page 50.  I also used the Paper Crafting World digi image Bear in Sundress with Daisies and colored her with Copics.  The ribbon is my own hand-died crinkle ribbon.  Finally, I embossed the mat and added Stickles for a little bling.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

 Die Cuttin Divas "Orange and White" 

Crafting by Designs "Anything Goes" 

Craftin Boutique Challenges "Anything Goes" 

Jo's Scrap Shack Fun-day Friday "Anything Goes"

Creative Corner Challenges "Anything Goes"

For the flower and leaf on this card I used the Art Philosophy cartridge.

The flower can be found on page 50 and the leaf on page 56.  I used a Pearl Pen to add some accents to the flower and card border and adhesive lace strips to border the sentiment strip.  

The base and pop-up are from the Artiste cartridge on page 51.  The parts cut to the perfect size for an A2 card.  The papers are from the Carta Bella Cowgirl line.  I love colors!! Finding the different cuts for these projects really made me want to spend more time exploring these cartridges.  Next, I want to use the fabulous stamps that came with the set. Thanks for joining me today.  I hope you'll visit My Paper Crafting to see more Cricut projects. If you're interested in these CTMH cartridges you can contact my consultant, Melinda Beltran (also owner of  Paper Crafting World) HERE.