Mojo 326

Hello Friends!
Its the last Mojo Monday of the year so I had to play along!  This is actually the second card I made using the sketch.  The first one just did not go well.  I had it in my mind to use specific paper and a specific stamp set and forcing them together was a bad idea!  So, I started over and came up with this:

Supplies used in this card:

Paper:Yours Truly by Echo Park, Cardstock-Holiday Red, Black and Blush by CTMH

Stamps: A Love by CTMH (Disc.)

Inks: Slate Dye Ink and Cranberry Pigment Ink by CTMH

Accessories: Gems by Recollections, Ribbon from the Ribbon Retreat

I cut the card and the black ring from the Cricut Wild Card cartridge.

Thanks for taking a look, have a crafty day!

Layout Share

Hello friends!

I hope you had a fabulous Christmas!  The hubs had to go back to work today, I guess that's the first step back to real life.  But the kids and I still have a whole week until school starts again, we plan to take full advantage of that fact, too.  Today I want to share with you a couple of layouts that I've been able to complete so far this break (hopefully I'll be able to complete several more before break is over!)

The first layout is from when H was only about 11 months old, she was finally big enough to wear her cheerleading outfit that we had purchased for her and I was able to do her first ever ponytail!  For this layout I followed the Spellbound pattern from CTMH's Magic book.  The bottom pic shows where I put in a little booklet under a picture to be able to fit more pictures of her little ponytail on the layout.  I keep the booklet closed with a string wrapped around a button that is adhered to the picture on the top of the booklet.

Supplies used in this layout:

Paper: Playground by Echo Park, CTMH Cardstock in Holiday Red (DIsc.), Outdoor Denim and White Daisy

Inks: Slate by CTMH

Accessories: Brads by The Paper Studio, Ribbon from The Ribbon Retreat, Thread is Fancy Floss in black magic by We R Memory Keepers, Heart Button from my button jar.

I also used the Elmo's Party cricut cartridge to cut out the title.  

The second layout delves back into the archives.  I was cleaning my craft room last weekend and came across these pictures that I hadn't scrapbooked yet, they're from C's 2nd birthday party (he's 7 1/2 now)!

For this layout I used a variation of a layout found in Becky Higgins' Creative Sketches 2 book.

Supplies used in this layout:

Paper: Babycakes paper pack from CTMH

Inks: Slate and Chocolate from CTMH

Stamps: Hero Alphabet (Disc.) from CTMH

Accessories: Babycakes badge buttons from CTMH, glitter wall tape from Hobby Lobby

I used the Artbooking cricut cartridge from CTMH to cut out the '2'

Thanks for coming to visit me today!  Remember you can visit my website www.shellydavis.ctmh.com to purchase any of the current CTMH products used in these projects.

Have a crafty day!

Snow Days!

Hello Friends!
We got a nice little winter storm late last week which means the kids were out of school on Friday and again yesterday and today! 

 

Ready to go play in the snow!

Since I wasn't going anywhere for awhile I got to do a lot of catching up on my crafting!  Here are a few projects that I was able to finish in the past few days:

 A Christmas table runner for a friend.

 A card using an older Mojo Monday sketch (I can't remember now which one)

 A card using scraps left over from a scrapbook page

Two single page layouts using pictures from several years ago (sorry for the bad picture, I was too lazy to take them out of the album before I took the pic). 

I also got my aunt's Christmas present done, I got the binding sewn onto a quilt that I'm making for my husband, I made a Christmas present for a friend and an ornament to decorate the package, and I got the chance to play around with a couple of other techniques.  Not a bad way to spend an unexpected long weekend!

Well, the kids are back to school tomorrow and I'm back to work.  I'm happy about it because I miss my job but now I'm going to miss all my extra crafting time!