My Dad is Rad Birthday Card - Artistry and Artiste with FREE DS link!

My older son designed this card for his Dad's birthday using My Dad is Rad from Artistry as the focal point and building a background with some cogs cut from Artiste. He is a pretty artistic guy so watching him pick out pieces and colors to create the design he wanted to make was a lot of fun!

Here is the DS file link:  https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/36846915

My younger boy isn't very artsy so he just picks a pre-made card from one of my cartridges and maybe gives a color that he wants on the card before he leaves my craft room for me to make it - LOL. He picked this one is from Classically Modern Cards cartridge for his Dad.

I jazzed this one up with some tone on tone background stamping with an older retired set called Gear Up.  You may notice a mechanical/robotic theme to their selections - my husband was involved with my both the middle school and high school Robotics teams that both went to the state competition this year!  It was really awesome having that moment with both my boys as this is my older son's senior year and the last possible time that both boys would be eligible for state competition.  They didn't win but just being invited to the competition was awesome.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Stay crafty my friends!

Paige

Life is a Beach - Heart 2 Heart Challenges

Today is my first post for my new role in the Slate Design Team at Heart 2 Heart Challenges!  Our theme of the week is Life is a Beach so get out the sunscreen and join me by surfing through all our beachy themed projects today at the Heart 2 Heart Challenges Blog!  I hope you'll join the fun by posting your beach themed project (must contain some CTMH product) on our linky at the H2H Challenges Blog!

I made this card for my beach loving 17 year old's birthday. One of his gifts will be a day trip to the ocean when I get back from Convention. There is nothing he likes better than spending the day checking out the critters in tide pools and the sand!

This card uses lots of bits from different paper packs - so fun pulling colors to make my scene come alive!

Palm Trees - Jackson Paper Pack, Olive and New England Ivy CS

Waves - Seaside Paper Pack

Sand - Champagne CS

Sun and Paradise sign - Honey CS

Surf Boards - Scaredy Cat and Wanderful

Sky - Glacier Ink

If you'd like to purchase any of these materials you can visit my shopping site at:

www.Paige.CTMH.com

If you have an Explore and the Artbooking Cartridge and would like to duplicate this card, here is the Design Space file for you to use:

https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/29212672

This is posting while I'm away to CTMH Convention in Disneyland.  I'll be home soon and I'm sure just bursting with excitement over what is coming this year from CTMH! I already know there is a new Cricut cartridge on the way and you KNOW how much I love those!  Thanks for stopping by today and come back soon!

Stay crafty my friends,

Paige

June Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Ice Cream Dream

Welcome to the June SOTM Blog Hop featuring the adorable Ice Cream Dream stamp set!  If you've come here from Alyson's Blog you are on the right track. This hop is one big circle so if you keep going you'll eventually come back here. If you get lost along the way you can find the full list of participating CTMH Consultant Blogs by clicking HERE.

With Father's Day just around the corner I decided to create a card for one of my kiddos to give their Dad using the fun popsicle image and bright, summery colors.  I love the way this one turned out!

The yellow paper is the shiny side of a piece of Honey Paper Fundamentals in the Adventure Collection.  Because this is such a simple card I wanted to focus on adding texture so Paper Fundamentals and Liquid Glass on the popsicles were just the ticket!

This cut is from our Artiste cartridge which is also the cartridge I used for my Explore to write Coolest Pop Ever on the front of the card.

Love our Shinhan Touch Twin Markers!

Close up of the fun texture on our Paper Fundamentals.

To get your own adorable Ice Cream Dream SOTM for just $5 with a $50 purchase or any of the products used in this post, visit my online shopping site at:

www.Paige.CTMH.com

Here is the Explore Design Space File if you'd like to cut one of these cute cards for yourself!

https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/28261791

Now hop on over to Tracey's blog and see what she has created for us!

Thanks for stopping by today! Stay crafty my friends!

Paige