Love Your Stash - May | Mother Shaker Layout...

Earlier this month, I used up some more of my stash...if you recall the Creative Design Team did a series in February about LOVING YOUR STASH. We LOVED it so much, we decided to make it a monthly thing for those that want to participate. Well, I have PLENTY of stash so I'm pretty sure I'll be participating every month 😂

This month's layout was all about my mamma using a super old stamp set for my focal journaling and a shaker layout we created during January's Virtual Album Retreat. I hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed making it.

Holidays Reimagined with Creative Design Team Collab...

What to you get when you use Cedar & Pine Christmas stickers and some very Christmasy patterned B&T from the Mix-Ins paper packet? NOT a Christmas layout!

This is HOLIDAYS REIMAGINED and I am joining several other VERY TALENTED CTMH Consultants in bringing you different ways to use your Holiday (no matter the Holiday) items for projects not intended for that Holiday.

Here are some photos of my layout and although the background is a black & white Christmas tree pattern, I think it goes perfectly with the photos of the girls and their shopping trip!

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Here are some closeups...the Cricut cuts are made by contouring, duplicating, splicing and welding some images together (here's the design space file if you own the Complete Creativity cartridge and want to make your own...if you don't own it yet, click on the link above to purchase yours)...

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The OH WHAT FUN pennant is from the Cedar & Pine Complements and the Candy Apple enamel dots are from the Holly Jolly Assortment...

Here's my process video...go check it out then click on the description to see the links to the other girls' videos! Thanks for stopping by and stayed tuned for more video collabs SOON!

Christmas Tags & a FREE Cut File from CTMH...

SHARED FROM CTMH'S BLOG...

Free Cricut Design Space™ File for Holiday Gift Tags

There are only 15 days between now and Christmas day…EEK! Is anyone else bursting with anticipation? By now (crossing our fingers), all if not most of the gift shopping is done and taken care of, and it’s time to start thinking of gift wrapping and accessorizing these sought after treasures into the decorative masterpieces that we’ll place under our trees or personally hand deliver.

With our love for paper, ribbon, and celebrating anything that allows us to apply both in a meaningful way, we could not help but create some beautiful gift tags using shapes from our newest Cricut® collection, Complete Creativity.

If you’re not familiar with the Complete Creativity Cricut® collection, this collection is divided up by whole card and scrapbook projects, providing all the shapes you need to create complete cards and scrapbook pages for a variety of themes and occasions. Each project is made up of components that can also be used independent of the layout or card they were designed for.

To illustrate the flexibility of this collection, we pulled individual icons, shapes, and sentiments from several of the projects, manipulated their orientation and size, and then grouped them to create the 15 delightful tags you see here!

All of the shapes, including the tag bases, come from separate projects in the Complete Creativity collection. As a special Christmas treat from us to you, we’re giving you our design space file so you, too, can create these little beauties and can use them in your holiday gift decorating!

To give you an idea of their size, the “Merry Christmas” tags are approximately 5¼” x 3⅛” and the “tis the season” tags are 4½” x 1¾”. If you look closely at each of the pictures above, you will see that there is a total of five tag designs created with three different sets of patterned papers and cardstock. The Design Space file provided will recreate all 15 tags, so you will see 19 different paper requests from your machine as you go through the “Make It” process. (Take a look at our “recipe” below for a complete list of the papers we used in our tags.)

In the provided file, you may also notice a green stand-alone T-shape only in the middle set of tags. This shape is the background ribbon for the small present in the tag next to it. Both, the “Merry Christmas” tag and the T-shape are cut from the same patterned paper in all three sets of tags. Since the patterned paper used for these two shapes in the middle set of tags is a plaid pattern, we wanted to cut it straight in the tag base but not in the ribbon, because we liked the effect of cutting the pattern at an angle better. Therefore, we straightened the tag shape out on the Design Space Canvas Grid and removed the T-shape from the present at the angle shown. This way, the ribbon will be cut with the pattern at the preferred angle as well.

We hope you enjoy putting this fun Christmas project together and sharing it with friends. As always, make sure you let us know if you have any questions in the comment section below! Happy Holidays!