Happy Birthday Ashley!

My beautiful daughter, Ashley, celebrated her 19th birthday! Man they grow up so fast. She is our baby, so this is the hardest one!

Ashley loves anything "Owl" so I made this card for her which was Inspired by Doreen Watkins - Independent Close To My Heart Consultant.

I used the Artbooking Cricut Cartridge in the Cricut Craft Room to cut the elements for this project. Here is how I laid my paper out on the cutting mat. I always prefer to layout all of the paper that I will need so that I don't have to unload and reload the mat. What do you think?

All papers and stamps are from Close To My Heart as well as the Artbooking cartridge.

Here are some close ups of the Owl and Balloons, which I covered with Liquid Glass and secured with Baker's Twine. I also applied the Liquid Glass on the eyes of the owl. You can't really appreciate it in the picture, but trust me, ADORABLE!

Lastly, I usually decorate the inside of my cards as well, and this one is no exception.

So please join me in wishing Ashley a Happy Birthday!

This Birthday Card is also being submitted to The Card Concepts challenge for Birthday Cards. Great timing! My card is what I consider a Clean & Layered style.

A Note For You..

Creating cards is always easier when you have a sketch to go by. And even easier when the colors are chosen for you as well. Well, at least I think so. So for today's card I got my inspiration/direction from two separate challenge blogs. The sketch is from Mojo Monday challenge #332 and the colors are from Color Throwdown #279.

Since I don't have the exact colors called for I substituted Slate for Basic Gray, Cotton Candy for Melon Mambo, Chantilly patterned paper for Pink Pirouette and Ruby for Real Red. I think they are pretty close.

The sentiment is from the Just For You stamp set and I just love using it on my cards. It has so many applications.

I always love to add at least a little bling to my card and I did so on this one with the Sparkles!

To see how I constructed this card, including my use of the Cricut, please watch this video.

Thank you for stopping by and I just love reading comments on my blog, so PLEASE, take a moment to say hello!

In the meantime, Happy Paper Crafting!
~Angelina~

All products from Close To My Heart unless otherwise stated.
Stamps: Just For You (B1398)
Papers:   Diasy White, Ruby, Slate, and Cotton Candy
Inks/Markers: Ruby, Slate, Blush, and Archival Black
Dies/Punches: Cricut® Artiste Collection, Cricut® Artbooking Collection, and Cricut® Art Philosophy Collection

Accessories:  Sparkles, Ribbon (Stampin' Up)

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Artbooking Made Easy Sweet Smiles

Have you seen the amazing Artbooking cartridge yet? Take a quick look at a simply sweet memory book you can make with just a few buttons from this wonderful cartridge.

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You And Me - Artbooking Layout

I am finally getting around to working on our 2008 Cruise Vacation to the Caribbean and thought it is a perfect time to pull out my Cricut® Artbooking cartridge and put it to good use. 

Here is a quick video where I explain how I put this together, if you don't have time to read the entire post. But all dimensions are here.

I started out by trimming down our 8" X 10" photo to 7.5" X 9.5". I then took a 7-11/16" X 9-11/16" piece of Indian Corn Blue cardstock and mounted the picture onto that. Next I mounted this panel onto an 8" X 10" piece of from the Sarita Paper Packet. I set this panel aside for later.

Using my Cricut® Artbooking cartridge I took another piece of patterned paper from the Sarita Paper Packet and cut out a 5" X 5" scalloped square found on page 59. Using the Photo Mat 1, Real Dial, Shift, and the 's' keys, I cut this image out. I then cut it in half. I also cut out the "You+Me" from the same piece of paper. This was done by using the Title, Real Dial Size, Shift and 'a' key. I cut this image at 2-1/4".  This image is found on page 58. Next I used a piece of Colonial White cardstock and repeated this same cut three times. I then glued all three together with my glue pen and added the patterned paper piece on top. I did this to create a 'chipboard' effect.

Next I cut out the rectangle heart overlay, found on page 59, using the Overlay, Real Dial Size, Shift and 's' keys. This was cut at 2-1/2" out of the same patterned paper as I used to mount the photo. I then mounted this piece onto a piece of Daisy White cardstock and trimmed it down to the size of the overlay. Then I attached the "You+Me" piece to this overlay.

The two sweetheart birds where cut at 1-1/4" from Indian Corn Blue cardstock and are also found on page 59.

Next I cut the fancy shape (don't really know what to call it) out of piece of Daisy White cardstock at 4". This shape is found on page 81. I used the Icon and "10 Things" keys. I used a stamp from the "Sweet & Lovely" Cricut bundle and stamped it in Outdoor Denim ink. I then wrote my message with a Outdoor Denim marker. To get the same fancy shape in a slightly larger size, I went online to the Cricut Craft Room and sized the shape to create a mat. Then cut it out using my Expression from Indian Corn Blue cardstock. I mounted the first piece onto the second piece with 3D Foam tape.

I cut a piece of 12" X 12" Goldrush cardstock down to 11" X 11" and then attached the two scalloped pieces to opposite corners. The larger piece on top. Next I stamped the "YOU mean the WORLD to me" stamp from the Pemberley Workshop stamp set (no longer available) onto the 12" X 12" Daisy White cardstock. I then lined the Goldrush paper up where I wanted it and figured out where I was going to stamp the second line of the stamp. 

Now I was ready to assemble the page. I attached the Goldrush panel to the Daisy White paper leaving a 1/2" boarder all around. Then I attached the photo panel. I did not apply any adhesive to the area where I was going to put the Love Birds so that I could tuck one end under the photo panel. Next I attached the overlay panel with 3D foam tape only on the left side. I attached the right side with glue. Now I attached the Love Birds. I put 3D foam tape under the birds and used glue at the ends of the branch. Now I took the sentiment panel and attached that with glue keeping it centered between the overlay and the birds.

I had a little booboo when I went to remove the washi tape that I was using to hold the page in place. When I removed the washi tape from the bottom right corner it took off some of the paper. So I attached the flowers to cover that up and then decided to add the flower at the top left-hand corner to balance everything out.

Well that is it. If you have any questions or comments, I would love for you to leave them below. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and in the meantime!
Happy Paper Crafting
Angelina~

All products from Close To My Heart unless otherwise stated.
Stamps:  Sweet & Lovely (Artbooking Cricut Bundle), Pemberley (no longer available)
Papers:  Goldrush, Indian Corn Blue, Sarita Paper Packet, Diasy White, and Coloinial White
Inks/Markers: Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink and Markers
Dies/Punches: Cricut® Artbooking Collection
Accessories:  Recollections flowers, Stampin' Up-Buttons N Blossoms clay molds

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Joyful Stars Aug blog hop - Hello Little One

Welcome to the August Joyful Stars blog hop!  Your in for a treat, we had one month to get our hands on our wonderful NEW products and stamps from the Autumn Close to my Heart catalog and we will show you just a glimpse of what's new. I hope you enjoy this hop. If you came from Betty Locco's blog, you are in the right place.

Well I can't tell you how much fun I am having playing around with my new Cricut® Artbooking Collection cartridge! My friend recently had a baby boy so I figured that this is the perfect occasion to put this baby to use! I created this adorable Baby Mini Album using the images on pages 50 and 51.

If you would like to see inside......watch this video.

Would love to get your feedback on the mini album. I hope to be doing lots of these. Still need to figure out a few details, but the fun is in the learning!

Now hop on over to Cindy Leeks' blog to continue on. 


Here is a list of bloggers for this month:

Joyce Houck            Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com
Nancy Brown            creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com
Lori Meadows           CraftyMeadows.blogspot.com

Krista Hershberger     Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com
Nickie Hoffer            nickiehoffer.blogspot.com

Stephanie Huber         lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com
Helen Gullett               byheleng.wordpress.com
Elizabeth Mindemann   ejoym.blogspot.com
Betty Locco                scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com

Angelina Romero         papercraftingwithangelina.blogspot.com You Are Here

Cindy Leek                 savingmemorieswithcindy.com

Thanks for your comments.
Happy Paper Crafting!
~Angelina