Monthly Archives: April 2022

Will it be Flora or Fauna?

As you have seen, H2H Challenge Blog does challenges twice a month. If you haven’t played along yet, you really should! The prompts are great, and the artwork is pretty splendid as well! The second challenge for April is Flora or Fauna. That leaves so many different options! You can do almost anything with this!

So, I decided to go with Flora. My card is more of a masculine card, even though it has flowers and butterflies on it. (Guys do actually like flowers, too!)

This is called a Bookbinding Card. It is sealed at the far right, with a ‘lip’. (as opposed to the normal fold) It gives you a smaller space to write on the inside, but that’s ok too, sometimes!

I stamped on the charcoal piece with white craft ink. Once dried, it comes to this nice almost faded look that I think fits and pairs well with the B&T from In Full Bloom.

The sentiment is heat embossed in white powder, so that it would stand out from the card.

I really like how this card turned out! Simple and elegant, and can be used for so many reasons, just by changing the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping in to see my card! I hope you will leave a comment below, for me!

Then, hop over to the H2H Challenge Blog and play along!

Keep being Crafty!

~Michelle

Layered Flowers

Welcome to the Technique blog hop! This month our focus is on layered flowers! There are so many different ways that you could do that! The Layered Flowers Thin Cuts might be the easiest way to do that! I will link some other projects below, that I had fun making in different ways. If you are following the hop, you should have arrived here from Michelle’s blog. If you started here, that’s ok!! You will continue around in a circle until you get back to here! I know you will find a bunch of great ideas that you will want to copy!

So, for my card, I used a few different things! I used the stencil from the In Full Bloom Scrapbooking workshop, the stamped sentiment from the cardmaking workshop, and the layered flowers thin cuts.

I used the stencil a few different times with shortbread ink. The sentiment is stamped in grape ink to coordinate with the grape cardstock of the flowers. The leaves are cut from both light and dark sides of sage cardstock. Tof finish it off, I used some liquid pearls! (I don’t know about you, but I tend to forget how much I like them!)

I hope that you like the card that I shared today! I have a short video that you can watch of me putting it together, here.

I said I would link some other cards that I have made thatw ould fit for this blog hop. I have this card here that shows how to use different colors of cricut cuts for a flower. This one uses a different style of cricut cuts, that are similar to what I have done today with the large flower. Last but not least, this is a whole different style, with multiple layers of the B&T paper being cut and layered.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Next you should be going to Lauren’s blog. Before you hop away, however, I would love it if you left me a comment about my project!

Have a crafty day!

~ Michelle

CTMH Items used:

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Online Bingo!

It’s Bingo Time!

We are going to play bingo AND make cards!

With your registration, you will get:

4 pre-cut projects
5 numbers of your choice, between 1 & 25
Video putting the cards together
Fun embellishments for your projects, with some left over to use on other projects
PRIZES! (prizes will be based on the number of registered players! The more that play, the more (or bigger!) prizes!

Once you have paid your registration fee, I will send you the link to finish your registration (where you will pick your numbers).

We will be live on FB on April 28th at 6pm

Your kits will be mailed AFTER the video, so that you won’t miss your numbers during game play!

If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below, or message me!

Thanks friends!

~ Michelle

Crafting Bee

It is time for the Crafters to re-unite!

We WILL come together again!

With many things there is change, as is so with this! What is now Crafting Bee, was once known as a Crop.

In the ‘olden days’, ladies got together for Quilting Bees. So, we are going to bring that back to life, in a way, with our Crafting Bees!

I can’t wait to see you all again! Old friends and new friends alike!

I know many of us have been working on many ‘different things! I would love for everyone to bring 2 or 3 projects that they would like to ‘share with the class’, things that helped to keep you a bit sane during the pandemic! (there might even ‘bee’ a small prize for those that do!)

12 pm to 8pm

Dinner Included
6 feet of table space
Time with the ladies
Always a fun table treat!

**All Crafters Northwest Events require that participants have their vaccines and boosters up to date. Thank you for your understanding!**

It will be so good to see you all!