Display Tray

Every time I travel to Western New York to visit my grandmother, my aunt and uncle host a family dinner, bonfire or barbeque in their barn.  It's a highlight for us all to gather together, sharing old family memories and watching the youngest cousins create new ones.

We're heading up for a visit this Labor Day weekend, and I wanted to take a special gift to my Uncle Terry and Aunt Donna to thank them for their hospitality.  I took some great photos of their daughter's family a few weeks ago when we gathered at my parents' lake house.  I made this Display Tray featuring Clementine and two very cute children, Addie and Drew.

 

Close To My Heart's Display Tray is such a great value.  At only $19.95, this wooden tray has sturdy hangars and is finished beautifully.  You can't find this quality for the price anywhere!  Contact me today if you'd like to order a Display Tray (Z1750) or click on Shop With Me on the left side of my blog.

I'm an Artiste!

I was planning to do a blog post on CTMH's new colors (and retiring ones) today.  But, then I got the CTMH Artiste Cricut Cartridge in the mail and I just couldn't resist using it!

So, here's a card I made (in about 5 minutes), using the Artiste Cartridge, one of the accompanying stamp sets and an accompanying Dimensional Element.

Every inch of this card is new!  The paper pack is Clementine...isn't it just sweet?  I used one of the new cardstock colors, Saddle as the card base and the Saddle ink to distress the edges.  That quaint flower with button in the top, left corner is from the Cottage Assortment.  I cut out the banner from page 35 of the Artiste Cartridge.  It was hard to choose just one of the 700 images on this cartridge, but I wanted to show you all you get from this cartridge.  OH, want to know how I knew what page to find the banner on?  Well, I just looked at the stamp set and the overlay has the page listed, along with the cartridge (Artiste) on the top left!  See:

So smart of CTMH to tell us which cartridge to use and the coordinating page number!  This is just one of the THREE coordinating stamp sets included with the Artiste Cricut cartridge.  The cartridge also comes with three sets of Dimensional Elements that perfectly coordinate.

You can pre-order the Artiste Cricut Cartridge now, or order August 1st from my website.  Check back next week for more Artiste inspiration!

Card supplies used:

• Cricut Artiste Cartridge, Z1790
• Clementine Paper Pack, X7156B
• Cottage Assortment, Z1794
• Saddle Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad, Z2171