Heart2Heart Challenge Anything But A Card

This week over at Heart2Heart Challenge Blog, we will be sharing Anything But A Card. My project is a candy bar wrapper.

EASY PEASY is what I love and this is so easy!!

Jolly Holiday (C1654)

Instructions:
5" x 5 1/4" Lagoon cardstock (score at 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 on each end of the 5 1/4 sides)
4 3/4" x 5 1/4" City Sidewalks Wreath pattern piece (score at 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 on each end of the 5 1/4 sides)
Jolly Holiday (C1654) stamp set
Bakers Twine
White Daisy cardstock 1 1/4" circles (cut from Artistry Cricut cartridge)
Heavy duty adhesive (I used red line tape)

Attach the pattern piece to the Lagoon cardstock leaving a border at the top and bottom, matching the score lines. Using the heavy duty adhesive, attach it to one of the 5 1/4" sides.

Fold around the candy bar.

Add tag or sentiment piece of your choice.

All That Glitters just for Girl Scouts

I was honored to create a card class for a friend's crafty girl scout troop. These 10 year olds wanted to create some Christmas cards that included stamping and embossing.

In looking through my stash, I found some glitter paper and added that to my favorite Christmas paper, City Sidewalks, well it is my favorite for November. Added some White embossing powder, Versamark ink, thin dies, and a few Cricut cuts and some FUN!

These cards are based on workshop that Close To My Heart shared with us (they love to make our job easier). The present is a stand alone thin die (no coordinating stamp set), the ribbon is from Flower Market Cricut cartridge and the wreath is from City Sidewalks digital images.

Don't you love a stamp set that gives you ALL you need to create your project? Very Merry is perfect, it has sentiments for the outside and sayings for the inside -- a complete package! The Joy is great for embossing and there are some images just ready for coloring!!

Very Merry (D1694)

And to make creating the kits EASY PEASY, I used the White Daisy Cards and Envelope Value Pack (X254), 50 card bases and envelopes for ONLY $14.95!!

Here is the City Sidewalks paper pack that inspired these cards --

City Sidewalks (X7213B)

City Sidewalks Workshop Your Way Bonus Cards

Add a few products to your purchase of the City Sidewalks Workshop Your Way and you can make NINE Christmas cards!! Easy Peasy!!

I stamped and cut the Lagoon house on a stash piece of White Daisy and cut it out so I could pop it up with 3D Thin Foam Tape.

One City Sidewalks Workshop Your Way (G1114)
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ADDITIONAL MATERIALS NEEDED
C1656 My Acrylix® Joy to You & Me
Blocks - 1" × 1" (Y1000), 2" × 2" (Y1003), 3" × 3" (Y1006), 2" × 3½" (Y1009)
Z2816 Cranberry Exclusive Inks ™ Stamp Pad
Z2895 Lagoon Exclusive Inks ™ Stamp Pad
Z2849 Peacock Exclusive Inks ™ Stamp Pad
Z2807 Willow Exclusive Inks ™ Stamp Pad
Z2060 Thin 3-D Foam Tape
X254 White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack (50 so you have plenty for other projects)

City Sidewalks Third Layout

The City Sidewalks Workshop Your Way makes creating layouts so EASY PEASY! Here is the final layout you can create using the downloadable guide. 

Again, as I did in the earlier layout, instead of using the full sheet of Willow B&T (CTMH for pattern paper), I cut it down and attached it to a White Daisy piece, which I used as the base pages.

I love the Lagoon additions to this layout!

Both stickers and glitter die cuts come in the Workshop Your Way as do the red enamel dots!! All you need in one package!!

You can use the City Sidwalks coordinating Complements for the title and for embellishments.

Using the Picture My Life cards makes journaling easy, don't you love lines!!

Pick up your City Sidewalks Workshop Your Way HERE

City Sidewalks Featured Paper Collection

Getting ready to preserve those Christmas memories is easy when you have the City Sidewalks paper collection. Cranberry (red) and Willow (green) with the pretty added blue hue of Lagoon makes this a very versatile collection.

Completing the first two layouts from the Workshop Your Way was easy peasy. Using the downloadable cutting diagram, I whipped up these two layouts in record time. Adding the bling from the coordinating Complements and the use of Washi tape and zip strips (the top piece of CTMH pattern paper) are an easy way to add a title and the pop your layout needs. The cool thing, you can mix and match to meet your needs. 

Add a quick journaling box using the Picture My Life sheet of pattern paper. Cut these PML cards apart to use them on layouts, cards, or in your pocket page scrapbook.

The second layout uses more of the Cranberry (red) with little bows and a great big sparkly, glittered Merry Christmas.

And because I love that word puzzle pattern paper, I changed the layout by cutting out the piece I needed from that sheet of pattern paper instead of using the whole sheet. Now I have a little leftover to play with in another project. To do this, I subtracted the measurement of the houses pattern paper which was 4" from 12" the size of the paper, making the word puzzle piece needed 8"x12". I attached the 4" x 12" houses pattern piece and the 8"x12" word puzzle piece to a 12" x 12" White Daisy sheet of cardstock. This is a great way to use up a piece of cardstock that has been damaged, make it the base, no one will see it as it will be totally covered.

City Sidewalks Workshop Your Way (G1114)

City Sidewalks Paper Collection (X7213B)

City Sidewalks Complements (X7213C)

City Sidewalks Washi Tape (Z4013)

Red Enamel Gems (Z3090)

Enjoy your holidays and take LOTS of photos!!