More Cricut fun!

Recently, I invited the ladies of my Close To My Heart downline over to my house for a team meeting. I wanted to share a bit of what I learned at Convention, including showing off new products, talking about the changes, and going over new policies. As a treat for coming, I made each of them a little gift bag of goodies. I wanted it to be something fun that they could use as hobbyists but also be something they could use as a business building tool if they chose. Since the new Cricut cartridge is the company's biggest new product reveal of the year, I decided to make the bags with the Art Philosophy cartridge and also fill them with goodies made with the Cricut.
Here are the bags:

Inside these adorable little bags, I put a couple little boxes...

and these little lovelies are hiding a treat...

Finally, I cut out a sampling of shapes using the cartridge and a selection of our new paper designs so that my ladies could have samples of the fantastic things you can make with the Cricut Art Philosphy cartridge.

I was so happy to have them over! Thanks, ladies, for making it such an awesome day!

10 Things

I'm joining in with Shimelle's Ten Things again this month...
Ten things I've cut out using my brand new Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge!

 I'm having so much fun with this cartridge...and this is just the shapes! Don't get me started on the coordinating stamps and chipboard...

Want to see more Ten Things? There are lots of people joining in! Start your adventure here.

Home at Last

Hello friends!
 So far this summer has been a whirlwind of travel and adventure. For the past two months, I have only been home for a day or two at a time in between trips. I'm a wee bit worn out! I'm glad to be home with no plans to leave again for awhile. At some point in the packing and unpacking of suitcases, I just plain ran out of energy for auto-posts, so I'm sorry that I've been quiet for a bit. Thanks for checking in again!
 This past weekend we were in New York City for my brother's wedding. It was a fun, hectic trip, and the wedding at Battery Park Gardens was truly lovely.
 Everyone needs a card to take to a wedding, right? I was SO excited to get my new Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosophy Collection last week that I went right to work playing with it. I absolutely love the innumerable things this cartridge can do and that it coordinates with stamp sets and chipboard!
 Here's the card I made for my brother and his wife:

Pretty much everything on this card was done using the Cricut. The card base is one of the many card choices and I used CTMH's new Sonoma paper to cut the swirly medallion in the middle. There are several dimensional flower shapes available and I chose to use the rose in several sizes. For the title/sentiment piece I cut the shape, stamped on it with the coordinating stamp, and mounted it on the matching chipboard piece (after inking it and covering it with Liquid Glass). It's so fantastic to have all these pieces that are made to go together. I love it!!!
  I kept the inside simple, just masked the swirly cut-out shape from the front onto a piece of bamboo cardstock and stamped the sentiment I wanted:

Isn't this so much fun?! If you want to get your hands on this awesome Cricut collection, visit my website. International friends - if you can't live without it, I can ship it to you. Email me at willsmomma07{at}yahoo{dot}com.

Stamping and die-cutting combined...I'm in loooooove!

Want to see more new Close To My Heart products? Tresa at Fabulously Artsy is hosting a new product blog hop. Check it out the entries below or visit Tresa's blog!