So much more than crafting—it's about connection, community, and the friendships that blossom along the way. Yes, I offer workshops, classes, and retreats where I teach card-making, scrapbooking, and journaling techniques, but what truly matters is the sharing of stories, the support we give each other, and the laughter we share.
The nights are getting shorter and chillier as we walk through this season. The warmth of nature’s colors brings me joy.
This card was created using a puddle pad of Crème Brulee, Autumn Terracotta, and New England Ivy. You can get details on this technique here.
The stamp set used here comes from the Artbooking Cricut collection.
Products used to create these cards.
As Thanksgiving approaches and family comes to town, I am excited to capture some of the special moments and scrapbook them! If you have purchased the Artbooking Cartridge, contact me and I will send you the Cricut Craftroom File to create your own layout.
Here’s what I used to create this page.
Create a beautiful tablescape for Thanksgiving with items in your craft room. Here, I used the idea from the Close to My Heart catalog, to create a *candle “holder” decorated with leaves. All the items were cut using the Artbooking Cricut cartridge. The lattice was cut four times and then hinged together with matching cardstock. The leaves were cut from a variety of papers from the Huntington Paper packet and then I added faux stitching for detail. The place card was made using the Cricut Craftroom and welding together a shape to also create a folded piece and then added the overlay for a border.
Happy Thanksgiving was stamped from the set “Perfect Fit: Thanksgiving”
Faux stitching is really easy with the two different rulers Close to My Heart offers.
First, our basic ruler functions as a measure tool as well as a basic stitch guide and useful to align and space embellishments such as sparkles or brads. Use the paper piercer and pad to poke starting holes.
Second, our stitch guide has multiple stitch options as well as shapes such as hearts, circles, and stars. You can use this to create holes if preparation for stitching or just create a pattern with the holes as a background on a card or scrapbook page.
Finally, after creating my stitch line or pattern, I connect the dots with a fine tip marker to mimic a thread and thus create a faux stitch look. Fast, simple and easy with the tools from Close to My Heart.
*I would recommend that you only use the “battery operated” candles in these holders to prevent fire.
Keep a look out for my next tablescape idea: placemats.
I hope your day is filled with frightful fun.
Do you have Halloween photos that need to be shown off? I used this layout to document our Halloween last year. My youngest was the only one to dress up and I was sick with the flu therefore my documentation in the photo of my Halloween “accessories”.
I used the Artbooking Cricut Cartridge to create this spooky page. The haunted mansion is cut from the black glitter paper and I love how easily this cuts on the Cricut. I also cut the title, bats, cat and fence in the black glitter paper. The background is from the Huntington Paper packet but I also think it would look great on the Lola purple paper.
The photo frames are also on the key on this Artbooking layout. I cut the fence out of the one in the bottom right and added the cat so the photo would fit.
