Artbooking Made Easy - Spooky Layouts - Video!

Another great video using the Artbooking Cartridge and your Cricut:

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Artbooking made easy! Video

Check out this great video from Close To My Heart to see how easy it is to make Mini Halloween Albums!

Shop for these and many more items on my website: Mary Eisen @ CTMH

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

More art from Chicago

The photo above is a picture of Monica's family on the beach with a rug under the chairs - how cool is that!?

Some of these items won awards - like the picture frame below and others were auctioned off to raise money for Operation Smile

Above is a chalk board with our new fabrics. I think the canvas 6x6 are the bases!

Love the balloon PARTY banner on the left! 

Cupcake cards that the wrapper opens - all on our Cricut Cartridges!

See the pie boxes above too?!

Paper Doll house!

Learned some great techniques with our markers and stamps!  I'll have to do a class!

The cat has sparkles on the pillow, don't know if you click on the photo if they will show!

Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - My Sunshine

We are hopping around for the Stamp of the Month again - even on Easter!

If you are coming from Laurie's Blog, you are on the right track! 

If not, keep jumping and you will do a complete circle.

Here is the stamp set this month:

Remember, that all the items outlined in red are on our Cricut Cartridge - Artiste.

So I cut a few of them out . . .

I layered the balloons after stamping them in different colors.  I used foam tape to make them pop!

I sponged the baskets to add color to them. I used Sky Ink for the clouds and sponged the edges. The hard part was lining up the stamps with the balloon pieces.

Of course, I've been in the kitchen creating too . . .

(He now has a dark purple jelly bean nose)

Thanks for looking, now hop over to Krista's Blog to see what she has created!

Happy Easter!

Consultant's Meeting in August - Highlights

We had our meeting last month and I took some pictures of what the other consultants did in our group.  Check out what great work they came up with!

 Sorry a little fuzzy - great fall layout

 click on the photos to make larger

                                            

What a great Grad layout

 Altering a clipboard

 Bev in our group made us all these adorable little boxes with a pumpkin on top! All made with the Cricut Cartridge from CTMH called Artiste!

 Our My Creations Frame and My Creations Star

Check out how this Display Tray was altered!

Bev made a "box" to cover the 2 center rectangles and make one larger one!

Love this stamp set - Pun Fun!

And to show off the cupcake wrappers on the new Cricut Cartridge - Artiste,
Amy made these - and yes we got to take home 2 of them - I'll post the to go box we made next time!

Thanks for looking!

Great Idea for Gifts

Check out how you can turn some treats into a great gift idea!

(Great since school is starting soon - teacher gifts - hint hint hint)

If you have questions or would like help with making these items please contact me.  

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New Advent Calendar and Scroll Album Kits

Get an overview of the two new home décor Workshops on the Go^® kits—so cute, you’ll want to make both projects!  Start getting ready for Christmas now!

Interested in making this?  How about I set it up for a Workshop??  Call me if interested!

Order your supplies HERE.

New Paper, New Workshops on the Go - New Twist!

Check out some of our new papers in this video and while you are doing so see a new twist with our Workshops on the Go.

If you have questions please feel free to contact me. You can order these items HERE.

New Cricut Cartridge Fun!

Check out this video to see how you can make a little boy's birthday party out of this world!

If you would like to learn more about this cartridge, please email me or check out the link listed on the last post below.  You can order these items HERE.

CTMH - New Cartridge

WE HAVE ANOTHER NEW CARTRIDGE!!!

http://www.cricut.com/res/handbooks/artiste_handbook_web.pdf

If you click on this link above you can see full color pages of the book - showing you all the great items you can cut from this cartridge - and as always, if you purchase from me 

I will be giving a 20% the cartridge price! 

Email me your order: MaryEisen@live.com

July Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Live Out Loud

IT'S JULY ALREADY

SLOW DOWN SUMMER!!!!!

I need to slow down.  I'll be attending my 2nd Graduation Party tomorrow, I've been to 4 birthday parties and there is still 3 to go!  Relatives coming in from out of state in August and we still haven't taken the new camper to a site - but we did sleep in it 2 nights this week via back yard - REALLY testing that air conditioner!

Anyway, if you came from Pamela's blog, then you are going in the right direction, if not, keep jumping and you will do a complete circle.  This month it's these cute word stamps!

I decided to do something black and white. A simple card on my
Cricut using the AP Cartridge. 

The top butterfly was cut out of the bottom of the card.  I cut the center frame out but not before I cut an additional one so that this one nested better (frame in a frame).  So there is a thin 1/4 inch frame scrapped.

I stamped the word Soar in black and used foam tape to make the frame stand off the card.  

Thanks for looking, please feel free to comment.  Now hop over to Wanda's blog and see what great ideas she had!

Weekend Retreat Layout Project

 Here is the layout we will be doing this weekend at my retreat!

 The shapes are all cut out with our new Art Philosophy Cartridge!

The letters were too!  I have 3 more words to add to the right page.

 The flags below are from the Cricut too!

 I have foam squares under the flags to pop them off the page.  

I have our new orange bakers string over the top of the flags!

Thanks for looking!

The Philosophy of Fun

There is a great video showing how you can get up to $124 valued products for free - in March only!

Up Close with Close To My Heart!

Art Philosophy & Fondant Flowers

Remember this photo from the last post?

This is what it made when I rolled it up and TRIED to create a flower:

It's SOOOOO small that it barely photographs well.  

I rolled the petals down so it opened up.

Here's a few other views.

Next time I'll do a bigger flower - 

also, it was crazy trying to roll it up like you would do with paper.  

I started to melt into itself making it mush.

Thanks for looking!

Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - February

 We are hopping again!  This month the stamp set is called Thoughtful Tidings.

If you came from Nikka Geers' Blog, you are on the right track - if you are starting here, just keep hopping and you will do a complete circle!

I had technical difficulties that can't be fixed. I found out that my ink pads that match the colors used in LUCY Paper Kit are not juicy.  I had a hard time stamping the solid letters except for my newer Pear ink pad!  So I only did 3 cards.  I need re-inkers!

 Love this paper!  I made these from the scraps from the New Product Blog Hop project!

 You can never have enough thank you cards.  I have a goal to hand out more this year.

 I used the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge to cut the ovals, and shapes to stamp on.

To layer the two colors of paper, the back one I added 1/4 more to the size.

Here is a picture of all the stamps on this set - don't forget 2 things:

1) Everything with a red line around it can be cut with the Art Philosophy Cartridge

2) This stamp set can be yours for as low as $5 with a qualified purchase 

- email or go to my CTMH site for details.

 

Thanks for looking, 

now hop over to Georgia Hauglid's Blog for more great ideas for this stamp set.