Day 22 - Icicles and Snowflakes

Tonight's layout was created with this fan-favorite's from years past - Wonderland.  The blues (Twilight, Crystal Blue, Heavenly Blue) and the browns (Chocolate) compliment each other beautifully.  

To see a larger view of the layout, click on the picture above and it will open in a new window.

Snowflake and title details.

Additional snowflake details.  The white snowflakes are popped up with Thin 3-d Foam tape to have some depth.  The blue snowflakes are all adhered flat.

Stickles detail - a small dot was applied to all of the polka dots of the patterned paper.  The picture doesn't show it very well but the color really shows through the Stickles.  You can add a bottle of the Diamond Stickles to your kit for a discounted price of $3.

 This is a 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" mat that I created in Cricut Design Space using our Complete Creativity collection.  The Crystal blue snowflakes are actually apart of the mat itself.  The White Daisy corresponding snowflakes are adhered with Thin 3-d Foam dots to the top of the blue snowflakes and slightly rotated.  Each of the snowflakes then has a Silver Glitter Gem in the center.

Supplies used: (Z4191) Silver Glitter Gems, (1385) White Daisy cs, (Z3341) Thin 3-d Foam Dots, (Z2060) Thin 3-d Foam Tape, (Z3372) Adhesive runner.  (retired) Chocolate cs, Crystal Blue cs, Wonderland paper suite.  The current supplies are available for ordering on my CTMH website at: www.tonyasheridan.ctmh.com.

This kit is available in my In All Sassiness Designs shop.  Until midnight on December 31st, you may purchase it at the special price of $12.  After that, it will return to the original price of $15.  The kit includes all of the pre-cut snowflakes, strips as well as the bases and straight cuts, 1/2 pack of Silver Glitter Gems, detailed instructions and a color photo.

Today's product special is the Small organizer for $14.  This is a savings of over $8.  

Both specials are available until midnight on 12-31-19 in my In All Sassiness Designs shop.  Click here to order.

12 Days of Christmas Cricut Layout

Such a whimsical layout for Christmas!  This design was originally a one-page layout design in CTMH's new Cricut Collection Complete Creativity.  

To see a larger version of this layout, click the picture and it will open up larger in a new window.

Because most of my customers, and myself, prefer 2 page layouts, I tweaked the layout to covert it to a two-page layout instead.  I was able to separate some of the elements from the one page to the others, such as the song lyrics, and other elements, such as the hearts, I simply duplicated them to the second page.

Here is what the original design looked like:

I also opted to change the colors a little to have a brighter and bold statement verses the more muted colors.  By incorporating the black as the inner base, all of the other colors were able to POP and I love it!

So a few notes to share in regards to this layout:

Song lyrics details - I designed this kit so that a single picture could be in the center of the circle of lyrics, or the lyrics page could be treated as a background paper and multiple photos could be placed over the paper showing blurps of the words.  Instead of cutting a photo mat for the page that is as I used it, I included a full 12" x 12" sheet of Candy Apple cs so you could adapt to the sizes that you desire.

Font of lyrics - This type of font in quite popular currently in the world of paper crafting.  Many choose to omit the insets of the letters (such as the centers of the o or the top inset of the g etc and others choose to re-adhere these on the new project.  Most of the letters did not have an inset to adhere so I went with it.  When pulling this oversized overlay, some of the more intricate letters did separate - I went in and reattached the little humps of the m's and n's but mostly left as it.  If re-attaching any of the letters, I highly recommend using a fine tip glue pen.  The same in true when adhering the entire piece to the base - use the glue pen around the letters etc and then a regular adhesive runner along the outside edges of the overlay.

There are many little pieces, and details, in this layout.  These are overlaid and Thin 3-d Foam Tape is used to add depth within the layers.  For i.e., the bottom layer of the hearts are adhered flat and the top layer is adhered with Thin 3-d Foam tape.  The snowflakes are all adhered flat and have a White Dot in the center of each center for added dimension.

Here, you are a few of the more intricate details - the tag underneath the "25" is two layered so that the Clover shows under the stitching of the Juelp and there is a delicate Candy Apple outline that is adhered around the cluster of photos.  

Supplies used:  (Z3314) Black and White Dots, (1385) White Daisy cs, (X6047) Black cs, (X6038) Candy Apple cs, (X6029) Julep cs, (X6040) Clover cs, (Z2060) Thin 3-d Foam Tape and (Z3372) Adhesive Runner.  Complete Creativity Cricut Collection.  You can purchase any of these item on my Close To My Heart website by clicking here.

Photo sizes:  (4x) 3" x 3"

If you would like to purchase this pre-cut class kit, they are available for purchase in my In All Sassiness Designs Shop.  These come with all of the pre-cut pieces, a sheet of Candy Apple cs to tailor your photo mats for the right side of the layout, bulk embellishments, detailed instructions and a color photo.  If you own the Complete Creativity Cricut Collection by Close To My Heart, use Design Space, and would like to create the layout yourself, I am happy to share the file with you here - https://design.cricut.com/#/design/183296805https://design.cricut.com/#/design/183296805

To order the CTMH Complete Creativity Cricut Collections that is exclusive offered by Close To My Heart consultants, click here and I will receive a small commissions (and thank you!) as CTMH consultants are now also official affiliates of Cricut.

So, now that I have shown this layout that was true to the original design, I wanted to share a personal layout that I created using the same file, but tweaked it to my photos and story.  I used this file to teach a Cricut technique class and each person was given the task of creating a different version of the words to suit their needs.  I was absolutely delighted with how my project turned out!

You will note that I changed the font for the words on the right page - I wanted something more whimsical- it is a Close To My Heart font.  The other significant change that I made was to add a third tier to the pyramid of photos on the left page - this allowed me to add additional photos.  I also changed the second tier's well from two square pictures to a rectangle picture.  The jar was created from a Flower Market image as was the bow, and I purchased the coin image from Cricut.com which just added the perfect finishing touch to my layout.

 

Day 11 - Go Farther Layout

Today's layout for my Sassy 25 Days of Christmas was created with much love for one of my loves.  My little guy has been polar bear passionate since he was 9 months old so when I get an opportunity to scrapbook this love, I jump at it!  The graphic can be as I designed it, or the white inset can be left out and he becomes a brown bear.  How fun right?

For a larger view of the layout, simply click on the layout and it will open in a new window.

The title circle was quite the challenge to create but I am over the moon excited with the end result.  I created shadows to go behind the various elements so that multiple colors could be seen in the graphic.  The end result was so much brighter and cheerful than just having all of the back color Cocoa.

title and embellishing detail

The trees were cut using our new Close To My Heart Complete Creativity Cricut cartridge.  These were layered with Thin 3-d foam tape to create depth.  In addition, all of the photo mats are popped up on foam which really makes them stand out.  White brads and Cocoa ribbon were added to embellish the layout.

tree details

Supplies used:  (X5959) New England Ivy cs, (1385) White Daisy cs, (X5980) Sweet Leaf cs, (Z2060) Thin 3-d Foam Tape, (Z341) Mini- Glue Dots, (retired) Cocoa cs, Wings Creative Basics, White Brads and Bigger Brads, Cocoa Ribbon.  To order the current supplies, you can shop my website by clicking here.

To purchase any of the Close To My Heart Cricut Collections, use the link here and I will receive a small commission for your purchase.

This kit is available at a discounted price of $12 until midnight on December 13th and after that it will return to it's regular price of $15.  The kit includes all of the pre-cut pieces to create the layout, bulk embellishments and ribbons, a package of Thin 3-d Foam Dots, detailed instructions and a color photo.  

Today's product special is on our classic My Legacy 12" x 12" Albums. These are just $25 each. You select the color and the style. And even better, this special is repeatable!

As my In All Sassiness Designs Shop is still down for maintenance /connecting to the new system, if you would like to order either the layout special or the product special, e-mail me at: inallsassiness@gmail.com.  I will send you an invoice on a secure website.

Day 2 - Sassy 25 Days of Christmas - Strong is the new Beautiful Layout

Welcome to Day 2 of my Sassy 25 Days of Christmas specials!  If this is your first day reading about my Sassy 25 Days of Christmas specials, click here to find out all of the details of this special program that I am offering during the month of December!

Today's layout is called "Strong is the new Beautiful!"  It features the retired colors of Crystal Blue, Sunset, Chocolate and Colonial White and a canvas sticker set that I just L-O-V-E!  I have held on to these canvas stickers for quite some time just waiting for the perfect layout design to use them with and when I saw the bat layout on Close To My Heart's new Cricut Collection Complete Creativity, I knew that was the design I had been looking for!  

This is the design that I used for my layout.  

And here is the layout that I created with the design.  To see this layout more in detail, simply click on the photograph and it will open larger in a new window.

To start, I did a little "housekeeping" - I removed the spider webs and replaced them with canvas stickers and then deleted the "eek" and the black bats.  Some of these flowers are popped up with Thin 3-d Foam tape while others are flat.  I also added a second layer of the stickers to some of the flowers with additional 3-d foam tape to make the centers really pop!

 I used the contour function to remove the bats that were cut from the base. I cut the slice tool to cut the "too cute to spook" title from the photo mats.  I then changed the colors to my desired colors.  Next, I found a title "strong is the new beautiful" from Cricut.com and added the bars from Cricut basic shapes and welded the newly created title to my photo mat where the "too cute to spook" was originally attached. 

I loved the border design at the bottom of the layout, but instead of the regular cardstock strip that was in the original design, I positioned the design over canvas border stickers.

From here, I adhered everything down and added additional layers of the canvas stickers as well as added sequins and ribbon knots to add some more embellishing.  I also used two of the canvas corners over one of the photo wells.

Because there were some stickers left over, I created a card using the same elements that were used in the layout.  The kit includes two sets of pieces to create two cards as well.

Supplies used:  (all supplies that were used are retired) - Chocolate cs, Sunset cs, Crystal Blue cs, Colonial White cs, sequins, Chocolate ribbon, Scroll canvas stickers.

This layout is available in my shop for $18.00 HOWEVER if you purchase it before 6PM on Tuesday, December 3rd you may purchase it for the special price of $15.00!  Bonus right?  Remember, this layout is available in limited quantity.

To purchase any of the Close To My Heart Cricut Collections, use the link here and I will receive a small commission for your purchase.

And today's product special:

Day 2 - Sassy 25 Days of Christmas - Product Special - 

3 packages of 3-d Foam Tape and 1 package of 3-d Foam Circles for $20!

And yes, this offer is repeatable!

Both the discounted layout special and the Foam Tape product special are available exclusively through myself, Tonya Sheridan, and until 6PM on Tuesday, December 3rd. 

To take advantage of either these specials, shop here!

Sassy 25 Days of Christmas - Let it Snow! Layout

Welcome to Day 1 of my Sassy 25 Days of Christmas!  Each night, between now and Christmas, I will be sharing a layout that I have created both here and in my In All Sassiness Scrapbooking Group on Facebook that is for my VIP customers.  The layouts may be purchased as kits in my In All Sassiness Designs Shop (click here to visit my shop) and note that they will be available in limited quantity.  The day that kits are introduced, and for 24 hours following that time, the kits will be available at a discounted rate.  You may purchase, and collect your kits, until the end of the Sassy 25 Days of Christmas and pay only one shipping charge. (should you need your selections BEFORE Christmas, e-mail me and we will work out the details on an individual basis). In addition, I will have a product special that corresponds with the layout for that day.  You may also take advantage of these as you so desire.  These specials are inly available for 24 hours as well.  The links will be available in my shop!  

As a bonus, should your combined totals of layout kits and product specials reach $150 ($25 in Hostess Rewards), $250 ($40 in Hostess Rewards and one 1/2 item) or $350 ($60 in Hostess Rewards and 1 1/2 off item) you will be entitled to the Hostess Rewards that correspond with those party amounts.  And, for each layout kit you purchase, or daily deal, your name will be added into a drawing for a $100 Close To My Heart Gift Certificate.

(Special note:  If you would like to join this group, e-mail me at: inallsassiness@gmail.com with your request and I will send you an invite.  Note this group is for my customers, and team only.  While I appreciate interest of other consultants, I keep this group private for my customers - you are welcome to follow me on my public Facebook page at: In All Sassiness - Tonya Sheridan Independent Close To My Heart Consultant.)

Sassy 25 Days of Christmas Day 1:  Let it Snow Layout

This layout was created with our new Close To My Heart Cricut Collection Complete Creativity!  The original design for the left page was altered from one of the designs that was purposed as a 6" x 8" scrapbook page. 

I altered the size in design space and made it 11.5" x 11.5" and sliced out the snow slope.  When cutting this title frame out, I was left with a perfect 1/4" x 12" border which I then used on the right page of the layout.  I then used a CTMH layout pattern that was designed for the Charlotte paper collection but altered it to work with the Oh, Deer paper.  I balanced out the White Glitter Paper with the Sea Glass Glitter paper and let me tell you - it is so much prettier in true life!  The combinations of the glitter paper against the Whisper cs make the perfect winter combination!  To add a finishing touch, I cut the large snowflakes out using the Snowflake Thin Cuts. 

pattern paper details

border title

snowflake details

This layout is available in my shop for $15.00 HOWEVER if you purchase it before 6PM on Tuesday, December 3rd you may purchase it for the special price of $12.00!  Bonus right?  Remember, this layout is available in limited quantity.

Supplies used:  (Z3237) White Glitter Paper, (Z4191) Silver Glitter Gems, (Z2060) Thin 3-d Foam Tape, (Z3233) 2" x 2" Flip Flaps. (retired) Whisper cs, Sea Glass cs, Sea Glass Glitter Paper, Oh, Deer Paper Collection, Snowflake Thin Cuts. These supplies may be purchased on my CTMH website by clicking here.   Complete Creativity Cricut Collection (see below).

To purchase any of the Close To My Heart Cricut Collections, use the link here and I will receive a small commission for your purchase.

Sassy 25 Days of Christmas - Product Special - 3 sets of Glitter Paper for $18.00!

(nothing else for shipping or tax!  for a total savings of $5.82!)

Colors available:  White, Black, Gold, Silver, Julep, Sugarplum.

And yes, this offer is repeatable!

Both the discounted layout special and the Glitter Paper product special are available exclusively through myself, Tonya Sheridan, and until 6PM on Tuesday, December 3rd. 

(as this is day 1, and I am setting up all of the links, this first day will be available a little longer than 24 hours)

To take advantage of either these specials, shop here!

Nativity artwork

This post is a work in progress....so check back for it's completion at a later time.

I absolutely cannot get enough of the Nativity scene image that is on Close To My Heart's new Complete Creativity Cricut Collection!  This Cricut collection is filled with many intricate and amazing designs, but the Nativity one is by far my favorite!  This image was originally designed as a 5" x 7" card however, in my card class we work with 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cards so initially I changed the card size and then continued to create additional cards with different parts of the images (see the cards below).  My favorite project was however the Nativity Shadow Box.  

I designed the shadow box inset initially for a dear friend, and truly had no plans to create additional boxes but I was so delighted with the results that I wanted to make one for myself and then my customers who I had showed it to asked for me to teach it as a class, so here we are!  

The first obstacle in creating the box is that the box is a square and the card format was a rectangle.  Simply changing the size stretched the image too much and distorted it.  So, with that being said, I used duplication tools, the slice tools and the welding tools to change the original image to a new size and shape.  Along with that, I found there was too much height and white space in the image for the new shape, so I duplicated, heightened, flipped, and created a third middle layer in my scene.  This also allowed me to add a third color and create a more depth--and a more 3-d appearance.

12" x 12" Nativity Shadow Box

12" x 12" Nativity inset without glass

details of the depth

Nativity Cricut Card Set

The featured colors are: Sapphire, Black, Pewter, Charcoal and White Daisy.

If you would like to create this shadow box inset, or the card set, both are available in digital files and as traditional kits in my In All Sassiness Designs Shop.

Peace, love and joy.

Old meets new and together they can create fabulous artwork!  I love that we keep the same color palettes from year to year and just update come of the colors!  I created a layout as an i.e. for my crop next weekend that you can go back and use older items in your stash and pair them with new collections and the results can be amazing!  This paper, called Evensong - Creative Basics - is multiple years old but it was one of my absolute favorites so I (OMG) hoarded it.  When I saw this layout design on our new Complete Creativity Cricut Cartridge, I had to bring the paper out of the archives and create with it.  Luckily for me, New England Ivy is still a popular, and current, color and now it is two-toned allowing me to use the softer side of NEI for my bases.  This is an awesome perk as the weight of our patterned paper years ago was very thin compared to what we have now, and having it backed on cardstock was quite helpful.  The details in this Cricut designed layout create quite the harmony together.  If you look closely (click on the photo for a larger view if need be), you will see that the wreath is three layers deep - the first, loose leaves, the second - a wreath of the NEI printed paper and the third Colonial White (now retired).  Other details to note: there are scallops on the top borders, and a very intricate design in the photo mats on the right page.  

Supplies used:  CTMH Complete Creativity Cricut Collection (see below to order).  (retired) Evensong Creative Basics; (retired) New England Ivy ribbon; (retired) Red glitter gems.  (retired) Colonial White cs.  (X5959) New England Ivy cs; (Z2060) Thin 3-d Foam Tape.

A very limited supply of this layout is available in my In All Sassiness Designs shop for $15.  They are pre-cut for you, include bulk embellishments, detailed instructions and a color photo to assist you in the creation process.  You can combine with other kits there to save on shipping cost.  Click here to see the kits.

To order the CTMH Complete Creativity Cricut Collections, click here and I will receive a small commissions (and thank you!) as CTMH consultants are now also official affiliates of Cricut.

Have a delightful day!

Sunflower cards

Don't these sunflower cards just brighten your day?  And make you smile?  I adore sunflowers and they always bring a smile to my heart, but they never seem to last very long (which I have no doubt is contributed to my extreme lack of a any sort of green thumb!) but these cards will help those sunflowers last a little bit longer and hopefully have the same result - bringing a smile to the recipient's face!  Created, and inspired by Pinterest, I created these cards to reflect various styles and techniques using Close To My Heart's Sunflower stamp/Thin Cuts and our fabulous Cricut Collections - Flower Market and Complete Creativity!  I also opted to use multi-types of embellishments for the variety, but in recreating them you of course could use just one or two styles (no doubt the power of the bling!)

They will be available at my (rescheduled) Sunflower Event on Friday, September 20th (from 2-10PM) and Saturday, September 21st (from 9am-8PM) at the Timberville Church of the Brethren as a part of my card buffet, or you can purchase the pre-stamped, pre-cut kit or the digital files from me in my In All Sassiness Designs Shop by clicking here.

For the stamped images, I used the Sunflower Sympathy Thin Cuts and stamp set.  This stamp was a lot of fun to create with as the sunflower itself is stamped in three layers - I tried all sorts of color combinations and fell in love with many of them - each one was a little different sort of like the flowers themselves!  On the Sangria Sunflower, I even painted the center with the Gold Shimmer Brush to create that wow! effect.  I also love the sympathy sentiments that this set features - many of my card makers are always looking for nice sympathy sentiments and this one certainly provides them.  Most of the sentiments were stamped with the September Stamp of the Month - Random Acts of Cardness - which in only available during the month of September when you place a $50 qualifying order on my website.  This is most certainly a sentiment stamp that I will hold onto as the sentiments really spoke to me!  

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Z3544 Sunflower Sympathy Stamp and Thin Cuts

(S1909) September Stamp of the Month - Random Act of Kindness

Additional supplies used: (retired) Bronze sequins, (retired) Gold Sparkles, (retired) Burlap Ribbon, (X6034) Sangria cs, (Z3569) Sangria Ribbon, (currently unavailable) Sangria Exclusive Ink Pad, (X5951) Espresso cs, (Z2829) Espresso Exclusive Ink Pad, (Z3312) Gold Glitter Gems, (Z4054) Gold Embellishing Thread, (Z3316) Gold Shimmer Brush, (X5961) Saffron cs, (Z2851) Saffron Exclusive Ink pad, (X7249B) Hawthorn Paper Pack, (X9007) Mix-Ins Paper Pack, (Z4065) Rose Gold Loose Sequins, (Z4235) Gold Loose Sequins, (Z4304) Silver Loose Sequins, (Z341) Mini Glue Dots, (X254) Value Pack Cards and Envelopes, ()Thin 3-d Foam Tape.  These items may be purchased by clicking here.

To order the Complete Creativity and Flower Market Cricut Collections, click here and I will receive a small commissions (and thank you!).

Make sure to have a sunflowery day and create something beautiful today!

Sassfully yours,

Tonya