My Own Grateful Heart Layout with Monarchs

Autumn colors are my favorite. Grateful Heart Workshop Your Way is a kit with the fall colors on full display. The guidelines that come with the kit are easy to follow and will give you three 2-page layouts with enough additional material to make a number of cards. 

Here are the papers showing front and back:

This is the Workshop Your Way kit with all the elements included in the kit:

Here is my layout for the pictures I took recently in my backyard of many Monarchs feeding on their way to Mexico. 

I added an additional element to the title using the Thin Cuts Block Numbers.

This layout is for the Heart 2 Heart Pumpkin Spice challenge. I do love the pumpkins from the CTMH Cricut cartridges! 

I made a video for my YouTube channel to show how I put it together along with a cutting guide.

Supply List:

1. Grateful Heart Workshop Your Way G1161 

2. Grateful Heart Paper Packet (X7237B) 

3. Grateful Heart Complements (X7237C) 

4. Grateful Heart Cork Shapes (Z4229) 

5. Fern-stitched Ribbon (Z4215) 

6. Watercolor pencils 

7. Versamat 

8. Micro-tip scissors 

9. Grateful Heart Cardmaking stamp set 

10. Flower Market Cricut cartridge 

11. Artistry Cricut collection 

12. Thin Cuts Block Alphabet 

13. Thin Cuts Block Numbers

14. Intense Black ink pad 

Here is my video with a special clip of the monarchs in my backyard:

Hope you enjoy the video! Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

Dots

Holiday Sparkle Cards Easy Peasy

Shake things up this holiday season with the Holiday Sparkle Cut Above® card kit! This kit contains materials for creating 12 festive shaker cards, including printed card bases, die-cut pieces, stickers, sparkly sequins, and simple assembly instructions. Get a 20% discount when you get the Holiday Sparkle Bundle, which pairs the card kit with the My Acrylix® Love with All the Trimmings stamp set, specially designed to further customize the insides of your cards.

These cards are so easy to make. I added some silver glitter snowflakes to the shaker windows. I made a video to show you how easy they are to create. You can get your cards ready well before Christmas.

Order by October 31, 2018!!!

Here's my video:

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7xeuYiNkIKA97dH93tMA7g

Supply List

1. Holiday Sparkle Bundle kit:  https://goo.gl/YszKdN
2. Thin Cuts Winter Flurries:  https://goo.gl/2y1XcL
3. Silver Glitter paper:  https://goo.gl/4xBAcs
4. Raspberry Ink:  https://goo.gl/yFAVNi
5. Peacock Ink:  https://goo.gl/AmTUzt
6. Anit-static pouch:  https://goo.gl/wf6KcD
7. Rub & Remover eraser:  https://goo.gl/JLu1CA
8. Block Starter kit:  https://goo.gl/izXkby

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

Dots

A Double Z Fold Card

I have a new (to me) favorite card to make. It is called a double z fold card. I isn't new, I just haven't made it before. They are an easy, yet a showy little card. I made a video so you can see how easy it is.

Cutting Instructions:

Outer card-4 1/2" X 11 " scoring at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2"

Inner card-3 1/2" X 10"  scoring at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2"

Supply List

1. Bunches of Love Stamp Set:  https://goo.gl/H19SSe
2. Acyrlic Blocks:  https://goo.gl/RVDNcJ
3. Intense Black Ink:  https://goo.gl/k4tVkH
4. Sugarplum ink:  https://goo.gl/ZM5qFn
5. Vivid Green ShinHan Marker:  https://goo.gl/v8dbx6
6. Marigold ShinHan Marker:  https://goo.gl/4hJxw6
7. Foam Glue Dots:  https://goo.gl/WfWj1U
8. Bonding Memories Glue Pen:  https://goo.gl/kT8rn7
9. Scissors Micro tip:  https://goo.gl/GdbXE7
10. Tombow Adhesive:  https://goo.gl/N45H4S
11. Shimmer Brush Clear:  https://goo.gl/EnYAtA
12. Shimmer Brush Gold:  https://goo.gl/C5ZbjF
13. Pewter Cardstock:  https://goo.gl/YBa1tn
14. Boutique Paper Pack:  https://goo.gl/QUEcxs
15. Sugarplum Glitter Paper:  https://goo.gl/2YCi9S
16. Border Thin Cuts:  https://goo.gl/xZmRVU

Hope you try to make a z fold card and find out how easy it is to create.

Thanks for stopping by.

XOXO

Dots

A Monarch Butterfly Stamp

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge are combined here using one of my new favorite stamp sets that has a Monarch butterfly in it. This is my new favorite because my somewhat new perennial garden was filled with Monarchs along with other beautiful butterflies this week. At one point there were probably 50 or more Monarchs. That is a success to me because that was my purpose to feed bees and butterflies. 

Here is my tribute to the butterflies that brought me so much pleasure and joy this week. For that, I am grateful!

Supply List:

1. Grateful Heart Cardmaking Stamp Set
2. Watercolor Pencils
3. Value Card Pack
4. White Daisy cardstock
5. Black cardstock
6. Lemon cardstock
7. Nectarine cardstock
8. Gold-flecked Gems

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

Dots

Homegrown Subscription Layouts

Creativity is more than something you do — it’s who you are. Keep your creativity flowing with Close To My Heart’s Craft with Heart™ club, where you receive regular deliveries of project kits that will keep you connected with your passion.

Close To My Heart now offers a monthly subscription service that offers easy to do layouts that are no muss, no fuss, no cuts layouts. You get two 2-page layouts for each month. These are the two layouts for October 2018. They are perfect for your fall pictures and can be put together in about 30 minutes. You can add embellishments if you want, it is up to you. Just adding your pictures and journaling are really all you need for attractive pages. If you purchase the full year at one time, you get the best deal and you end up with a year of your life in pictures in very little time, and your pictures have a permanent home!

I put the pages together for my YouTube channel so you can see how easy it is to put together.

Here is my video:

Supply List:

1.  Subscription  

2.  Foam Dots

3.  Tombow Adhesive

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

Dots