Picture Frame Birthday Gift with CTMH Chantilly, Wonderland and Create a Critter Cartridge

This cutie patootie puppy frame is a gift for one of my kids to give to a friend for her birthday.  I love using the Michael's $1 picture frames and making them into something special as a keepsake of the party or the day.  

Our Glitter paper was the perfect accent along with some pinks from the Chantilly paper pack.  The blue background is our long retired Wonderland paper.  I used Create a Critter to cut out the decorations for the frame.  This one got a resounding "awwwwww" from my daughter so I hope the girl this is meant for likes it as much!  I'll be pairing this up with the Chantilly cupcake card I made last week. for a nice gift set.

Hope you are having a fabulous weekend!  We are getting rain all weekend after a gorgeous sunny week.  My morning walk turned into quite a moist experience so I'm hoping the sunshine comes back again on Monday.  The joke out where we live is how do you know its a Monday?  Because the sun is out again.  Seriously, I don't know why but we get a whole lot of crappy weekends after beautiful work week weather - just so unfair to the kiddos!

Stay crafty my friends,

Paige

PS - I'm adding this one to the Heart2Heart Challenge "Button it Up" from last week.  Don't you love it when you use your stash, make something cute AND get to submit a new piece of art for a challenge site?

Clear Acrylic Dry Embossed Winter Card

I made this card for this week's Snow Much Fun challenge at Heart2Heart Challenges.   There were so many beautiful samples from Team A that I just had to play along even though its not my Design Team week!  Go check it out by visiting Heart2HeartChallenges.blogspot.com.

I used one of our recently retired acrylic cards and put it through my Cuttlebug to give it some swirls of snow.  After I embossed it, I put some Silver Glitz Glitter Gel on the inside of the swirls and backed that with some of our retired Wonderland paper, the reverse side of the paper is the blue I used for the snow drift.  The trees were cut from the old Jingle paper pack using my new Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge that my kids gave me for Christmas.   A bit of cheery red baker's twine and some Stardust Glitz on the tree tops and snowy hill tops this one off.

I had so much fun using these acrylic cards!  I picked up several packs when they were in the clearance section on my website at www.Paige.CTMH.com because I wanted to play around with embossing on them.  

Thanks for stopping by today!  Stay crafty my friends!

Paige

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Day #8

I love making Z-fold cards! They aren't difficult at all (basically you flip back a section of the front panel and then adhere an overlapping element) but the 3-D effect is jolly good fun! This one is based on a lovely card posted on the CTMH consultant BB by fellow consultant Kandi Gallegos-Garcia.

The snowflake is lined up so when its close you can't see the sentiment - but as soon as it starts to open you see...

Christmas Scene 12x12 Home Decor with CTMH Wonderland and Holiday Magic

Welcome to the CTMH October Stamp of the Month blog hop featuring the set Holiday Magic!  If you have come here from Tamytha's blog, you are on the right path!  We have over 50 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. To hop through the whole list simply click on the link at the end of each post on the hop. 

This stamp set is the perfect vintage holiday set for cards, layouts and home decor items.  I couldn't wait to start playing with this one to create another scenic holiday home decor piece for my front room.  I wanted to get a lot of depth on this piece so there is a whole lot of layering going on - its the most foam tape I've ever used on one project!  I'm going to have to get a shadow box 12x12 fame for this one!

Trying to show the depth of the layers and those cute Red Assortment Buttons!

I gathered Sweet Leaf ribbon and layered with some Cranberry Velvet...

If you'd like to make this project, get these supplies:
Paper:  Wonderland, Colonial White CS, Twilight CS
Stamp:  Holiday Magic
Ink:  Olive, New England Ivy, Tulip, Versamark
Other:  Art Philosophy Cartridge Collection, Clear Embossing Powder, White Daisy Embossing Powder, Cocoa Embossing Powder, Red Assortment Buttons, Colonial White Waxy Flax, Sweet Leaf Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Cranberry Designer Ribbon Rounds, Twinkle Brads

Now "Hop" on over to Dawn's Blog to see her work!

Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the October SOTM is only available until the 31st!  To order your set and start getting ready for the holidays, click here!