H2H Halloween/ Autumn Challenge

This weeks challenge at Heart 2 Heart Challenges is your choice of something Halloween or Autumn. It just so happened I had the perfect Autumn card made up for my card class this evening. It was created almost entirely using our new Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge. I sooo love that cartridge and don't feel like I've hardly begun to use it. And I only have about 3 other Cricut cartridges, not a real huge cartridge buyer, but I do love this one for sure.

I used all Close To My Heart products on this card.

The card base is 5.5 x 5.5 in the Kraft cardstock

The B&T papers are from Lucky

All the cutouts were cut from our very own Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge and the stamping was done with coordinating stamps.

I ink distressed in Chocolate, used Sunset for the label, and New England Ivy for the cap of the acorn that's near the label. (That acorn is the cut-out from the card base. I used the Hooray Bouquet to stamp texture on that acorn)

I crumpled the leaf that is cut from B&T paper and ink distressed it.

Twill tape

Garden Green brad

Want to see what others have created? Go check them out at heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by and blessings to you all.         Polly

H2H Challenge

This weeks challenge over at heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com is a sketch. Here is my take on it.

 

All products were Close To My Heart.

I used:

          Typeset Level 2 papers

          Cardstock: Colonial White & Desert Sand

          Inks: Desert Sand & Vineyard Berry

          Stamp sets: Enjoy Life  C1439

                            Card Chatter-Sympathy   D1476

          Color Ready Borders Z1377

          Twill   Z1099

          Juniper Ribbon  Z1616

          Art Philosophy Cricut Cart. for the tag shape

I love love this Cricut cartridge and can't hardly create without it! 

Go over to H2H and check out what others came up with. Or join the fun!

BlogtoberFest

   What is this you ask? Its the time of year for bloggers to be motivated, learn new tips and tricks, and to challenge themselves to new blogging goals. Being a new blogger, I am excited to join in and hopefully be motivated to blog more, create more, and learn lots of new stuff. A big "thanks" goes out to Tresa Black @ Fabulously Artsy for doing this. Go on over and join in the fun or just see what she has to share each day.

Twin Girls!!

I barely get this started and already I am failing....no post for quite some time. But I can at least try to prove that I have a good excuse. Our son and his wife had twin girls on Aug. 8th. Twins are exciting, but getting 2
girls shocked the whole family. We don't have an abundance of girls around here. We have 1 daughter and 3 sons. Our daughter has 5 boys, thus the reason for the shock. They were born a couple wks early, but are healthy contented babies. We weren't able to be there right away and in my hurry to pack ( we live several states away) I forgot my camera, so I have had to wait on others to get pictures from. Our daughter has her own part time photography business so I thank her for providing this beautiful picture of them. She likes doing newborn photography, but I will say that twins was a test of patience and endurance for her. You can check out her photography at http://photographybyleticia.blogspot.com/.
 I plan to be here in IN for another couple of weeks helping out my children and enjoying the grandchildren, and I will also be helping a friend whose daughter will be getting married. I will be leaving the day after that wedding. I am missing my husband, who could only be here for a week.
 I hope to attend an all day crop up here with friends this week, so maybe I'll have something creative to post later this week.
   Blessings,      Polly

New Product Blog Hop

So excited to finally be joining a blog hop and thanks to Tresa Black of http://www.fabulouslyartsy.com/ for sponsoring this hop.
I am thoroughly enjoying a lot of the new products and I used a few on this card:
Kraft Die-Cut cards and envelopes (Z1474)
Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge (Z1686) partial scallop circle, scallop border, label, and flowers are all created       with this cartridge
Art Philosophy Celebration stamp set  (comes with the Art Philosophy bundle)
Dimensional Elements mixed shapes (label)    (Z1683 and comes with the cartridge when the bundle is ordered)
Sonoma  Level 2 paper packet  (X7143B)
Just Blooms Paper Shapes    Flutter Paper Shapes  (Z1463) 
In addition I used:
Mocha Opaque pearls (Z1333)
Glitz Glitter Gel  Stardust   (Z1313)
Inks:  Smokey Plum  and Cocoa

I am very much new to this whole blogging thing and still very much under construction, so please excuse me.
Blessings,  Polly

Close To My Heart new Idea Book is here!

Lots and lots of new changes and new product. You can access the Idea Book at Closetomyheart.com or go to my website pollylewis.myctmh.com, where you can both access the book, but also put in an order and have it shipped right to you. One of the cool changes - if you place a $150 order, you will qualify for Hostess Rewards! It used to be that there had to be 2 people on an order and  the $150, in order to get the Hostess Rewards. Another change - the Stamp of the Month set can now be purchased for $5 if you have a $50 order and from Aug. 1-31, 2011, we are celebrating that change with an A size stamp set for free!

Art Philosophy Cricut® Collection

One of the new products- A Cricut cartridges filled with shapes to go with our stamps and chipboard Elements! This cartridge has 700 shapes and 6 feature keys, plus lots of 3D items. Our Idea Book has red lines around the stamp images that have a cut out to match. The cartridge comes as a bundle, with 3 stamp sets and 3 chipboard Elements that coordinate with images on cartridge. A super deal for $99.