Welcome back to the Just Crazy Blessed Team Blog Hop! I don’t know about you, but summer here is craaaazy busy! We have only a few stops for you today, but I know you will LOVE what you see! And, if you missed it earlier, check out my other blog hop post from earlier today! There are some fun new products over there too!

Today, we are using the Rustic Home papers! I will also be showing you the school kids stamp set. I LOVE it! It works REALLY well with the Operation Smile stamp set for the year. That means that we have FIVE of these little people that we can color to our little heart’s content!

First up, though, is the Rustic Home papers. I saw a card similar to this on Pinterest, and of course, had to re-create it with our new products, and the fantastic Flower Market cartridge!

It’s a fairly simple card, but absolutely gorgeous (even if I do say so myself!). This card would even work well as a sympathy card, all you would need to do is change the sentiment. Speaking of sentiment, this fabulous little sentiment is just ONE of the MANY that are on one of the stamp sets that come with the Flower Market cricut bundle! I love the fonts that they chose for this set!

As you can see, these flowers are 3 pieces for the bloom, plus the stem. I used the new Raspberry color, colonial white, and pixie for the flower, and fern as the stem. The fun vase is from the Whimsy fundamentals paper pack. I just popped up the flowers and the vase on some foam tape to give it a bit more pop, and there you have it!

Now, take a look at this FUN card! It was also inspired by a card I saw on pinterest. That person had used a Magnolia stamp as her person on the front, and other dies/cartridges for the whole thing. So, I took her idea, switched it up just a bit, and it came out TOTALLY cute!

As you can see, this is not your traditional card! It folds out to be a free standing card, but folds up flat to fit into an envelope! The little girl is colored with Water Color Pencils and a Small Waterbrush.

I had a lot of fun piecing the bits and pieces of this card! The trees and the grass are all on the new Flower Market cartridge!

I know that this will be a super fun cartridge for you to own!

Thanks for stopping by my spot in the mini blog hop! I know you will enjoy the other stops, and it’s super short, so you can enjoy the rest of your day!

Until next time, have a crafty day!
~Michelle

Welcome hoppers! Today I joined a new Blog hop group, that also loves Close to my Heart products! Today we are hopping about, showing you how passionate we are about pockets! While I have to have pockets on my pants, I also LOVE to use them in my scrapbooking! Usually you will see me use Flip Flaps on my pages, but today I wanted to try something different! I’m sure Jenifer showed you some super fun pockets, now let’s check out what I have done, below!

Today, I am using one of the new Everyday Life Album. It’s a fun album that fits pages that are 6″ x 8″! So, compact scrapbooking! I LOVE it! I’ve used a page from the 4×6 and a page of the 3×4 page protectors that are made just for this album! {Doesn’t it just scream “put some vinyl on me!!”? I just need to figure out WHAT that vinyl needs to say!}

I am also using the Picture My Life Overlays – White Frames. These are such fun little overlays! There are 24 in a package, with both 4×6 and 3×4 sizes. I used 3 of them here. Such fun little sentiments for pics of my hubby!

See that little grey tab there on the right of the picture? The one that says “This Happened”? That is one of the new tabbed journaling cards!

As you can see, I haven’t journaled on it yet (I will!) I want to get it just right, though, before I start writing! (maybe even have my cricut write it for me! hahaha!)

Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the web! I hope you enjoyed my little project! (Hopefully hubby won’t be too upset that I put his pics up for all to see!) Now, hop off to Tonya’s blog for pocket project!

Stop by later this afternoon for another blog hop, with even more new products from CTMH!

Until then!

~Michelle

Welcome to the Just Crazy Blessed Team blog hop! This week we are showcasing the Whimsy Fundamentals papers, and a few different stamps!

Today I am working with the Sweet Birthday Occasions stamp set. It has an adorable cupcake image with a few other images on it. You can see this same set in the post about my free cards, here. It includes a few faces, a candle, a party hat, sprinkles, and 2 sentiments in addition to the cupcake image itself.

Isn’t it so fun? I used the sweet leaf dotted paper in the Whimsy Paper Fundamentals pack for the circle that is behind the cupcake. I thought it was perfect, since it matched the cupcake wrapper! I used some sweet leaf cardstock that I stamped the sprinkles in sweet leaf ink for a bit of fun texture on the piece.

Both the sentiment and the cupcake are stamped in archival black ink, and after I fussy cut my cupcake, I lined the cut edges with the journaling pen, just to give it a nice, clean image. I cut the hearts out of pixie cardstock, and after I glued them on with the liquid glass, I covered them with the new shimmer brush. LOVE it! I also used that shimmer brush on the white dots on the cupcake wrapper.

I colored the cupcake and wrapper with the Shinhan Touch Twin markers, they color so nicely, gives such a great creamy image!

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I’m trying something new with the new Annual Inspirations! You guys will have to let me know how you like it.

Keep reading to see how you can earn a kit for each of these cards! (Aren’t they sooo cute??)

This fun little guy uses the Sweet Birthday stamp set. Isn’t it adorable?? And the faces! Oh the faces! I can see those going on so many other little things, not just this cupcake!! When you place an order for $20 on my website, you will earn this kit free!

Supply list:
Sweet Birthday Stamp Set B1532
Archival Black Ink 44751
Watercolor pencils 3505
Waterbrush – Small Round Z3224
Thin 3-D Foam Tape Z2060

I LOVE this stamp set! There is soooo much humor in it! You will get it free, as well as the one above, when you place a $40 order on my website.

Supply list:
Get Better B1543
Archival Black Ink 44751
Watercolor pencils 3505
Waterbrush – Small Round Z3224
Thin 3-D Foam Tape Z2060
Embossing Folder of your choice (I thought the one shown was staying, and I was wrong, sorry!)

This one is SOOOOO FUN!! A little shaker card of smiles! Your piece will have the jar cut, the lid cut, and the words outlined. You will need to fill in the outlines of the letters. When you order $60 on my website, you will get this one free, as well as the two other cards above.

Supply list:
Emojis C1669
Archival Black Ink 44751
Adventure Exclusive Mini Pigment Inks Z2506
Marvy® Uchida® LePen™ Journaling Pen Z1979
3-D Foam Tape Z1151

Each week for all of August and September we will be showing you some of the fantastic new products in the CTMH Annual Inspirations book! This book is chalk full of FANTASTIC products! I know you will be as excited about it as I am!! This week we are showing you the Adventure Fundamentals and ALL THE NEW COLORS!! Yes, we have new colors! They are so bright and fun and vibrant! I KNOW you will love them!

Today I am going to start off with a little mini card that I made for a friend. This was a somewhat odd sized card, but it was so so so cute!!

This uses the new Raspberry color, it’s just one of the sheets in the new Adventure Fundamentals line! This adorable little guy is from the Brand Spankin’ New Operation Smile set! I am LOVING it!! $7 of every OS stamp set goes to help kids with cleft lip and cleft palette receive life saving surgery!

After I colored the balloon, I used the new glitter brush to make it glittery! Then I did a light coat of liquid glass to make it shiny!

The sentiment for the outside of this little card is from the new Cricut bundle, Flower Market. You will see plenty of stuff from me with that, because it is fantastic! (like the other cartridges that CTMH offers!) The sentiment on the inside is from the same OS stamp set, and is the PERFECT little sentiment for a card!

I put a tiny little strip along the inside of the card too, just to dress it up a smidge.

The next card that I have for you uses the Flower Market Cartridge as well! I am a bit hooked on this cartridge, I tell ya! I am CERTAIN that you will be seeing a lot of it!

Now, this card is super fun! I used a small piece of sheet protector to create the “clear” part of the jar. I sliced off the top of the jar to create a lid, and then embossed that with Silver Embossing powder.

Then I cut circles with my cricut for all of the bitty emoji smiles! I stamped each with the solid color stamp, and then went back with the smiles! I needed a LOT of smiles for this fun little shaker card!

The fun font that you see on this card? It’s on the new Flower Market cartridge too! I used my journaling pen in my explore machine to create the outlines, and then I ever so carefully colored in the lines to give me a solid image.

Isn’t it a great little card? I had so much fun making it! (in fact, it’s my second version! My first version used the Enchantment Fundamentals paper, and you will see it again, soon!)

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Have you seen this fantastic Magical Layout yet? I am IN LOVE with this layout!! {and, not to mention a tad impressed with it!}

This layout has spaces for 37 photos, as shown in these photos! THIRTY SEVEN!!

It is like a mini album mixed with a traditional album!

There is so much interactivity with this layout!

There are flips and flaps EVERYWHERE!!

I even did a quick video for you to see it in action!!

{If you are reading this in email, click through to see this video, if it doesn’t show up!}

How would YOU like to have one of these layouts for your own book? It can easily be yours!! I am taking orders for this kit! Orders will be accepted until July 15th and will be shipped out on August 1st. Make sure you get your order in! Both the paper and the flip flaps retire at the end of July, so you want to make sure you don’t miss out!!

Magical Flip Flap Layout, Instructions Only

With this option, you will receive a PDF file from me with the cutting guides and photos on how to put the layout together. You will NOT receive any product from me other than the PDF.

It’s time for another Weekend Challenge on one of the FB groups!

So, I used two of the shapes that were in the challenge, but I used a lot of them!

I used CTMH White Daisy cardstock and Thin 3-D foam tape. (I LOVE that stuff!) I’m able to give dimension, but be able to get MANY layers without it being too bulky!

What you can’t see very well in the pictures is that the Mr. & Mrs. is shiny as well as the corner pieces. I used Liquid Glass on them to give them a bit of pop, without having yet another popped up layer.

I was going in a direction similar to this originally, but wasn’t terribly happy with it, when someone posted in another group a card somewhat similar to this one, and I knew exactly what I was going to do! If my order had gotten here, I would have done one of the circles and the corner pieces in silver embossing powder, but it won’t be here until Tuesday!

I hope you enjoyed my little card!

Until tomorrow!

~Michelle

Huh? What? 15,341?

Yesterday was my hubby’s birthday, and that is the number of days that he’s been around!

I used a sheet of B&T from the Urban paper pack for the front. Originally I was going to make a shaker card with some beer caps inside, but I couldn’t get it to work how I wanted it to!

So, instead I made it an easel card, on some black cardstock. I used the cricut gold pens to write the sentiment on the inside.

I used the gold Triangle Durables(on clearance right now) to have a spot for the front of the card to ‘lean on’ to help it to stay standing up.

I had fun making the card! And he caught on pretty quick as to what the numbers were!

Until tomorrow!

~Michelle

I have created a small card kit that is available to purchase, I only have a few left. I have used some of the retired CTMH papers to make up these kits. They are all pre-stamped and pre-cut and ready for you to put together!

There are 8 cards in the set, and some papers that work for girls and some for guys!

The embellishments are also included, as are the envelopes and a fun bag like the one I used for the Georgie gift card holder the other day.

All you need to add is the distressing ink (if you want) . . . I used Desert Sand and a sponge, some glue, and some foam tape. SUPER simple!

The card kits are just $15 plus shipping (if you aren’t local). You can use the paypal button below!

I hope that you like the cards! I have other kits that I will be sharing within the next couple of days!

Until tomorrow!
~Michelle

My Father in Law works out of state, and isn’t home often. He came home just the other day and we had a birthday celebration for him this evening. My youngest, Audrey, decided that she wanted to make him a birthday cake! (She’s recently gotten into baking, and makes a killer banana bread!)

So, she made a devils food chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and mini reese’s on top.

To make it more fun, and not have to have a million candles on top, we went with a cake topper. One of the great things about my cricut explore, is that I can use any of my fonts that I have. And Photoshop makes the other two layers possible!

I used Black, Chocolate, and Autumn Terracotta (retired) cardstocks from Close to my Heart to make this fun topper! I cut two of the brown so that I could hide the toothpicks between the two layers to make the back look good too!

I glued the letters and layers together with Liquid Glass, and then used foam tape between the two brown layers.

The whole thing came together in about 10 minutes! It was nice and fast, and added just a little extra to the cake!

What do you think? What topper would you like to see?

Until tomorrow!

~Michelle