Art Philosophy Blog Hop

Welcome to the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop.
All the stops along this blog hop will be show casing projects made with the very versatile Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. If you are visiting from Amanda's blog then you are in the right place, if not, please go and start from the beginning at my team member Courtney's blog.

I always struggle coming up with new ideas for masculine cards so I challenged my self to make one for this and here is what I came up with:

Original Artwork c CTMH
Card design by: Darla Haverstock

I used the paper lace 2 cartridge to make my own embossing folder for the background (if you're local I teach classes on how to do this). I then inked the embossed panel by lightly rubbing the ink pad over the raised parts (I used Silver Staz-on ink). The bike image and sentimetnt tag is from C1483 Born To Ride and the sentiment tag coordinates with which is the 4th row 5th column of the white buttons on the keypad overlay and is cut at 1 1/2" (which it tells you right on the stamp set what size to cut it at). The "tire tread" strip is from the stamp set that comes in the Cruisin' Workshop on the Go kit (I love this one!!).

Hope you enjoyed my project today.

Next you should go to Connie's blog and see what she has in store for you. :)


If you get lost along the way here is the entire line up

1. Courtney - http://www.creatingwithcourtney.blogspot.com
2. Brandy- http://www.canadianscrappers.blogspot.ca
3. Audrey- http://scrappingwithscrappy.blogspot.com
4. Amanda- http://ajcreationsfromtheheart.blogspot.com
5. Darla - http://www.stampingunderdoctorsorders.blogspot.com  <---YOU ARE HERE
6. Connie - http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com  <---GO HERE NEXT!!
7. Stephanie- http://www.quiltedscrapper.blogspot.com
8. Erin - http://www.imcreaterin.blogspot.ca
9. Lucy - http://love2createitall.blogspot.com
10. Vanessa http://wwwpaperkraftsunlimiteddesings.blogspot.com/
11. Carol http://CarolLoftus.blogspot.com
12. Eva- http://www.loveofcreating.blogspot.com
13. Wendy K. http://www.myscrapbookingblog.com
14. Michelle http://www.myflightsoffancy.com/blog
15. Gloria - http://www.purpleglocreations.blogspot.com
16. Chrissy - http://www.chrissycurtiscrafts.blogspot.com
17. Ann Marie Lessner - www.creativeramblings345.blogspot.com
18. Michelle Degnan Powell - http://scrappinprincess-michelle.blogspot.com/

INSIDE THE CRAFTERS STUDIO - Celebrate easel card

This is my project that I made for my guest designer spot over at CreatingwithArtPhilosophy for February 10th, 2012. If you attended my full day cricut class in Truro you got to make this for yourself. :) For this card I used the center point feature with the cricut marker to create the white shaped layer with the brown frame inside. I made a video on how to do this which you can find here

Everything for this card was cut using the Art Philosophy cricut cartridge. The stamps used were the ones that come bundled with the cartridge as well. :)

My Mystery box from Scrapbook and Cards Today!!

Thanks to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine for my 90 piece mystery box (I haven't counted but I have a feeling there is mre than 90 pieces in there!!

If you're wondering what was in the box... here's my video:

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Learn to make your own embossing folders using your cricut!!!

Book now for Sunday April 15th class at Carousel Rubber Stamps in Dartmouth, NS!! Phone 464-9474 to reserve your spot in the class.

Learn how to make a traditional cuttlebug style embossing folder, make a card with it and take them home as well as learn to make an impressabilities style embossing stencil, make a card with it and take them.
I will also show another couple ways to make them as well.