Masculine Birthday Card using New CTMH Products

It's what I refer to as Birthday Week in our household.  Three birthday's in less than a week just in my immediate family, plus a few more in our extended family.

Here's the first card, a masculine card using some products from the new CTMH Annual Inspirations Idea Book with a few tiny scraps from my Urban paper packet from last year.

I used Sapphire Ink on Sapphire Cardstock using my Ink Blot stamp set on the strip of cardstock on the left.  I embossed the Whisper Cardstock (and sponged the edges) with the new Simple Chevron embossing folder,  the star is from our new Thin-Cuts Stars Die.   The Saffron pieces are also sponged with Saffron Ink

The patterned pieces are all leftover from the CTMH Urban pack - I stretched that pack so far that all I have left right now are some pieces that are about an inch or so wide and the zip-strips that I cut off the top of the 12x12 sheets.

I also used my Mini Stapler and add some staples to the edge of the Whisper Twine and the Pennants at the top.  I really love using the mini-staples when doing masculine cards or layouts. 

It was hard to get a good photo, but the sparkle that you see on the star die cut is from the new Clear Shimmer Brush, it leaves just a little shine and I love that I didn't have to pull out the glue and glitter. 

Close To My Heart Products Used:

12" × 12" Whisper Cardstock

12" × 12" Sapphire Cardstock

12" × 12" Saffron Cardstock

12" × 12" Colonial White Cardstock

Urban Paper Pack (retired)

Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Whisper Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Saffron Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Shimmer Brush—Clear

Thin Cuts—Stars

Simple Chevron Embossing Folder

Mini Stapler

Mini Staples

Round Sponge

Whisper Thick Twine

5 1/2" × 4 1/4" White Cards & Envelopes, Value Pack

Hello, Life - Scrapbooking stamp set (retired)

Hello, Life - Cardmaking stamp set (retired)

Ink Blot

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Layout for National Dog Day with CTMH Artistry Cricut Cartridge

Yesterday was National Dog Day - I figured that was a good enough reason to spend some time in my craftroom playing with my new CTMH Artistry Cricut Cartridge.

I had a lot of fun putting this layout together and using the 

different dog cuts for embellishments and titles on my page.

I added a shadow layer to the Paw Print overlay by 

duplicating the original image then using hide contour in my Design Space App.

I added the September 2014 to the Paw Print Tag by 

using the Design Space Slice feature with the Artistry font.

I sponged the edges of all my cardstock with CTMH Desert Sand Exclusive Ink.  

 I added a piece of CTMH Red Shimmer Trim behind the heart cut out on both of my dog cuts.

                                   

I popped up this Heart Paw Print cut with some foam tape.

I used a Pilot Precise V5 Pen in my Cricut Explore to write 

on this tag using the Artistry font with the Writing Style option.

I cut out another Heart Paw Print in a smaller size and added it 

the tag which I also popped up with foam tape.

Close To My Heart Products used:

CTMH Artistry Collection

CTMH Kraft Cardstock

CTMH Saddle Cardstock

CTMH Cashmere Cardstock

CTMH Champagne Cardstock

CTMH Black Cardstock

CTMH Red Shimmer Trim

CTMH Desert Sand Exclusive Ink

CTMH Thin 3-D Foam Tape

CTMH Make It From Your Heart Volume 1 Layout Book (Pattern12)

CTMH Camper Crazy with Timberline

I made this card with CTMH Camper Crazy Stamp Set & retired CTMH Timberline cardstock. 

I inked the edges of the cardstock with CTMH Desert Sand Ink and stamped the RV and the sentiment in CTMH Chocolate ink. The card base is CTMH Bamboo and I used CTMH Twilight (retired) under the wood-grain cardstock strip.  I embellished it with CTMH Durables Triangle Studs and some Twine that I had in my stash.

The card pattern is from CTMH Make It From Your Heart Volume 2 Pattern 23.

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Disney Country Bears Scrapbook Page with CTMH Jubilee

Here's another Disney layout using my Mickey Font Cricut cartridge with CTMH Jubilee B&T Duos paper with coordinating solid colours.

The layout is from CTMH Make It from Your Heart - Volume 2, Pattern 10 from page 24/25.

I've done everything except journal on it.
I'll add that to the left page and try to add a bit of red on that side.

CTMH Products used:

Jubilee B&T Duos (retired)
Cocoa cardstock
Cranberry cardstock
Indian Corn Blue cardstock
Kraft cardstock
Sweet Leaf cardstock.

The twine was from my stash.  I used the Cricut Mickey Font cartridge for the Main Street USA title and the Cricut Country Life for the Country Bears title.

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