CTMH Cricut Artfully Sent: Rest, Relax, Repeat Card

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Just one week until CTMH Consultants are able to pre-order the new CTMH Cricut Cartridge!
It will be revealed at this week's Convention - until then it is a secret!  I can't wait to see what it will be!

While I'm waiting for the new cartridge I will be playing with the four CTMH cartridges that I already own.

Here is today's Cricut project featuring a card from the CTMH Artfully Sent Cartridge that was released last fall.

I designed this card using the new Cricut Design Space App for iPhone. 

I was able to use the weld feature to cut out extra images of the stem and flower without wasting a bunch of paper cutting the entire card base of the card.   I took the leftover raindrops that were cut out of the patterned paper and added some glitter and glued them over some of the Crystal Blue drops.

CTMH Products Used:

CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut Collection

CTMH Crystal Blue Cardstock

CTMH Juniper Cardstock

CTMH Hollyhock Cardstock

CTMH Bitty Sparkles

From My Stash:

Raindrop Patterned Paper by Pink Paislee "Hello Sunshine" Paper Pack

Glitter

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Bendy Fold Anniversary Card

My Grandparents are celebrating their 65th Wedding Anniversary this month and I wanted to make them a special card.

I ended up going with a free file from Birds Cards that I had downloaded earlier this month.

I went online to see what the traditional colours are for 65th Anniversary - 

Sky Blue according to About.com

In Cricut Design Space I resized the card so that the back part of the card measured 5x5.

Then I made 2 labels - one for the back of the card that was personalized and another for the inside with an Anna Griffin Anniversary sentiment that I found in Design Space.

I used the writing feature with my Cricut Explore with the Pilot Precise V5 pens - I was so impressed with these pens in the Explore.  I took a short video clip with my iPhone as it was writing.  

The fine detail is amazing!  

Inner label with Sentiment from Anna's Garden Cards & Embellishments written with Cricut Explore.

I cut the base of my card using CTMH White Daisy Cardstock 

and covered the front opening with light blue vellum.

I cut the outer frame piece out of CTMH Silver Glitter paper and carefully attached it so nothing stuck to the vellum.  I wanted the vellum to bend with the front of the card and hide the inner sentiment label.   

                                                

I used my CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge to cut a 5x7 Envelope out of CTMH Glacier Cardstock in keeping with the 65th Sky Blue Anniversary theme. 

Birds Cards cutting files are available free for personal use only.

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CTMH Artfully Sent Worlds Best Father

Here's another card I've been working on for Greta's Craft Fair.

I used the CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge with some CTMH Timberline cardstock that I received as samples in my Consultant Kit last year.

I used CTMH Bamboo for the card base and CTMH Chocolate cardstock for the moustaches.

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Cards for Greta's Craft Fair

Just a week and a half until Greta's Craft Fair, a fundraiser to help out a little girl with a rare form of Cancer.

I've been busy working on cards to sell at the craft fair - I will be donating 50% of my sales from all handmade items that day along with 15% of all catalogue or internet orders with Close To My Heart

These cards were made with CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge & CTMH Skylark cardstock (retired).   I used CTMH Desert Sand Ink to stamp the sentiment and sponged around the edges of the tag. 

The Dream Big Sentiment is from CTMH Your Own Kind of Wonderful Stamp Set

This card is the other side of the Skylark cardstock,  with a layer of CTMH Kraft cardstock behind the bird cut-out.

I resized the Scottie card in Cricut Design Space Ipad app - the one on the left is slightly smaller than an A2 card.  The one on the right is sized at 5x7.  I used CTMH Ruby cardstock, CTMH Red Enamel Hearts, CTMH White Daisy Cardstock and backed the dog and word bubble with scraps of black and yellow.

On these cards I used the Slice feature in Cricut Design Space to cut off the card front so I could add coloured cardstock behind the cutouts.  I resized it a little smaller than the original card front so it would have a border show around it also.  The card front and the Aliens are all from the CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge.  I used CTMH Chalk It Up Cardstock for the card front, CTMH Pear and Sunset Cardstock for the card bases and CTMH Silver Shimmer Trim (cut in half to 1/4 inch) along the top and bottom edges. 

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Cricut Explore Artfully Sent Balloon Scene Card

Here is a quick card that I made with my new Cricut Explore and CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge.   

The Cricut Explore scored and cut the outer card.  Then cut the clouds out the card liner which I then backed with white.

I fastened it with a piece of Flaxen Extra-Thick Twine which co-ordinates with the patterned cardstock.

Here's a really quick video I took with my phone to show how the score and cut feature works.

CTMH products used:

Chalk It Up paper pack

Glacier cardstock

White Daisy cardstock

Flaxen Extra-Thick Twine

Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge

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MOJO381 with Artfully Sent and Chalk It Up

Here is my card using Mojo Monday Sketch 381 using CTMH Chalk It Up paper pack with CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge.

Lagoon Base - A2 size

White Daisy with Faux Stitching - 4 x 5.25

Lagoon Chalk It Up Pattern - 3.25 x 4.5 liner, Page 2 CTMH Artfully Sent Pop Up 

White Daisy Circle cut at 3.25, sponged with Lagoon Ink and trimmed.

Chalk It Up circle cut at 3 inches

Artfully Sent Phone - Page 2 Icon Feature, highlighted with white gel pen.

CTMH Silver Shimmer trim behind "ring, ring" cut out.

Inner Liner Chalk It Up Paper cut from CTMH Artfully Sent Page 1, Pop Up Liner.

Speech Bubbles - CTMH Artfully Sent Page 1, cut in CTMH Flaxen & CTMH Sorbet 

Liner was sized in Cricut Craftroom to fit A2 size card.

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Christmas Cards for Local Craft Fair using Artfully Sent

I was busy preparing cards for a craft fair that was held today at the local high school.  My Cricut machine got a workout with the CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge.  I was able to make up a bunch of cards without aggravating my tendinitis very much, which is good, as I am now getting the early symptoms in the other hand and have had to leave my day job so I can let it settle a bit before my specialist appointment in January.

I turned the HO HO HO card from the Artfully Sent cartridge into a Santa by adding a 1/2 scallop circle and a mustache from Artiste along with a strip of black cardstock and some gold glitter paper for the belt buckle.  Very easy and a lot of fun.  

The Holly Jolly card was nice and quick - just added some glitter paper behind the bells and finished it off with some Ruby cardstock to fill in the rest of the letters. 

I added glitter paper and a holly image to dress up this Merry Christmas card and used the Christmas Tree pop up card inside it.  The Holly was cut with the Art Philosophy cartridge.

Here's another Holly Jolly - this time I used Lagoon cardstock and pink glitter paper.  And I used my score board to emboss a quick border around the outer edges.

I used the Art Philosophy cartridge to cut the banners out for this card and the poinsetta is from the Artiste cartridge.  The layout is from Make It From The Heart Volume 1 - Pattern 22.  And the paper is from the Yuletide Carol paper pack.

For more information on these products visit my website at:

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CTMH Artfully Sent Joy Card

I used my CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge to make the card that is shown on page 65 of the Annual Inspirations catalogue.  I sized it in Cricut Craftroom so it would cut at a standard A2 size.

I used some of the leftover cardstock from the Yuletide Carol Workshop on the Go Kit to line the bottom half of the cardfront and for the green strip on the front that covers the top of the inner cardstock.    I stamped JOY on Colonial White cardstock with black ink and coloured in holly leaves and the top of the ornament with my ShinHan Markers.  I also added a few rhinestones from my stash to the snowflakes. 

CTMH Products used:

CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut Collection  (z3017)  $109.00

Noel Stamp Set (c1598) $15.25

Yuletide Carol cardstock (x7187b) $10.95

Black Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad (z2105) $6.50

ShinHan Touch Twin Marker Sap Green  (z2463) $6.50

ShinHan Touch Twin Marker Pastel Green (z2459) $6.50

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CTMH Artfully Sent Snowman Swing Card

Here's another quick card that I made with the new CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge.  I saw this card on Facebook done in pink and white - check out Create with Julie to see my inspiration.

This card was so easy - just two cuts with my Cricut & some embellishments.

This cartridge comes with over 700 images - there are pop-up cards, swing cards, pocket cards, scene cards and you can make your own Picture My Life cards.

For more information check it out on my Close To My Heart website:

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CTMH Artfully Sent Scene Card - Scottie Dog

I finally had some time to play with my CTMH Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge today.  I decided to make the cute phone booth scene card. The Scottie dog is so cute.  The card was really easy to put together - just two cuts.  I changed the size to 5.5" relative size instead of the 7" shown in the handbook. 

I cut the main part of the card in red cardstock with a white liner. I put scraps of cardstock in yellow and black behind the cutouts. 

The Artfully Sent Cartridge is exclusive to CTMH - check it out on my website:

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