Artfully Sent Sympathy Card for Bitten by the Bug 2

My new Cricut Explore and I are becoming better acquainted and I'm having fun learning how to do new things.  While making this card I taught myself how to "attach" an element from a different cartridge and "draw" it rather than cut it. (Initially I tried to "weld" and "slice" the greeting but I didn't like how it looked when it was cut).

Here's a second copy with some sparkles added as flower centers:

Close to My Heart products used:

     Artfully Sent cartridge page 37 (pocket card)

     Garden Green CS (retired)

     Vineyard Berry CS (retired)

     New England Ivy CS

     Bakers Twine from Laughing Lola Cardmaking Kit (retired)

Other products

     Jasmine cartridge--With Sympathy greeting

     Cricut silver and black pens (Explore outlined in silver and then I filled it in with Black ink by   

         hand)  

I'm entering this card into the challenge at Bitten by the Bug 2 to make a sympathy card and Heart2Heart Tic Tac Toe Challenge--(center column vertical--cricut, ribbon, bling)

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Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!
:) Marie

Love and Hugs for CAS(E) this Sketch #56

I love the simplicity of the CAS(E) This Sketch challenges and was inspired to participate in this challenge.

Materials Used:

       Avonlea paper (retired Close To My Heart)

       Garden Green CS (retired Close To My Heart)

       Words of Comfort

       Twilight Ink

Here is the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

My Rock the Block Challenge--Day 6--Sympathy

I'm back to using the corner stamp today--my favorite stamp of the Rock the Block set which can be found here. The CS colors are Garden Green and Twilight. I used Twilight ink to stamp the corner floral stamp and the greeting. Next I stamped over both images with Versamark ink and then embossed with CTMH Polysparkle Clear embossing powder (retired). I carefully cut out the corner floral image and used foam tape to raise it up. Licorice adhesive gems (CTMH) were placed on the flower centers. The greeting is from B1369 Rosy Regards also from CTMH.

Thanks for visiting my blog. I still have lots of great ideas of how to use this set!

Creative Basics Mistletoe and Card Patterns Sketch 90

I enjoy creating cards using a sketch pattern and this one came pretty easily to me.

I used a 3/4" paper punch to stamp out ornaments from the Creative Basics Mistletoe patterned paper from Close To My Heart and glued them onto a cranberry CS strip.  The same ornament paper was glued onto cranberry CS and then punched with a square scallop punch.  The greeting from D1324 Christmas Melodies was stamped in Cranberry Ink on Garden Green CS.  The cardfront was texturized with a scrunched up piece of plastic wrap and Garden Green Ink. It was pretty simple and fun to do!  You can join in on the challenge here.