Design Space Friday See Through Cards

 Today I am sharing how to create a see through card using an overlay in Design Space. The card features the Close To My Heart Cricut Image Set, Everyday Moments and the Gnome Matter stamp set and thin cut bundle (Z3741)

Enjoy

Shirley

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Design Space Friday Peek A Boo Window Card

Hello and welcome to another Design Space Friday! Today we will work on peek a boo cards. Here are three different designs I have created so far (as you will hear in the video, I have already started a New Year version) --

Design Space Friday Welding and Slice

In today's Design Space Friday video, learn how to slice out sections of text using weld and slice.

Design Space Friday Overlay Mashup

What would we get if we mashup a Mickey glove and a spiderweb. A great layout embellishment just waiting for those Halloween Disney photos!! Here is your Design Space Friday FUN!!

Design Space Friday creating Monograms Two Ways

Do you love to monogram everything you own? Today you will learn how to create a monogram for each project.

Design Space Friday Creating Your Own Cut Files

This past weekend was our Close To My Heart convention. I wanted to create a T-shirt for each day and a gift for my Team members.

Here is what I came up with for my T-shirt design. I create different color schemes - silver and pink on a yellow t-shirt, bright pink and white on a black t-shirt, and red and white on a blue t-shirt.

I also cut a red (heart) and white (logo) for each of my team members who joined me at Convention.

Here is a video on how I brought in the logo. July's videos will be on creating your own cut files.

Enjoy

Design Space Friday Window Pane Card

Design Space Friday is all about slicing a window pane card base.

The two templates created today may be used to create a window pane that may be placed atop a card base (the gray piece).

And a template for a window pane card front. A card front for this tutorial would be a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 rectangle with a window pane cut and this piece may be placed atop a card base (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 folded to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2).

Enjoy the video

Link to Design Space file https://design.cricut.com/#/design/62290306

Design Space Friday Nine Space Overlay

Today let's create a nine square overlay.

We will use one of last weeks shapes and weld it to our base overlay.

Enjoy!

Design Space Friday Welding Words To Shapes

Another Design Space Friday on Saturday. Have you ever got your days mixed up? Well, that was me.

I saw this neat Mickey with the word Love welded and thought, I can do that. So here are a couple of versions I came up with.

I love playing with shapes and words so look for more in the future.

 

Design Space Friday Pop Up Peek A Boo Card

I was inspired by the video from Deb Valder on how to make a Pop Up Peek A Boo card and knew it would work as a great Design Space file.

I used the Live Beautifully National Scrapbooking Month paper pack, New England Ivy cardstock and ink and white and gold ribbon to create my first card. Since it is now a Design Space file, I will be able to cut enough for my upcoming card class!

Here I used the gold foiled floral sheet. It is white on the back side, making it a perfect choice for this card. The inside insert is cut on Close To My Heart White Daisy cardstock, our thickest cardstock, This combination created a sturdy card base but not to thick.

The frame and the vase are from Close To My Heart Cricut cartridges, Art Philosophy (retired) and Flower Market and cut in Glacier cardstock. A strip of New England Ivy cardstock is a great backdrop to the sending smiles sentiment stamped in New England Ivy ink.. The sentiment is from the Flower Market collection exclusive stamp set. 

Design Space Friday True 12x12 Overlay

Today's Design Space Friday project is a true 12"x 12" overlay.

We will use a 12"x12" square. Next we will place the photo wells within the 11 1/2" x 11 1/2" cutting space. Now add any titles and shapes.

Last you will hide the 12"x12" square, select all the other images and ATTACH, making one image.

When you hit the Make It button, remember to move the image into the center of the mat and continue on to cut, creating a true 12"x12" overlay.

And a video is found below.

Design Space Friday Banner Overlays

I saw a simple and easy overlay on Pinterest with just open rectangles and a title. I took the challenge and recreated it adding the little car from the retired Close To My Heart Artfully Sent.

Today I am going to share how to create the base overlay with the cutout rectangles AND add a little banner fun.

Enjoy.

Design Space Friday create an Image Base

Have you tried the new BETA version of Design Space 3? Today's video will share a little about the changes.

I have been working on several new overlays, playing with positioning and adding borders and more.

Today's overlay was created for a friend who had a cute photo of her fur baby getting a bath. I may have gotten a little carried away with the bubbles, LOL! 

The video will show how to create a base for piecing a multi-piece image. The bath tub and all the parts are separate and there is not a base for the image. I like to have a base for a paper pieced image to make it easier to assemble. And I wanted to add the puppy. 

Design Space Friday Split Images

I love the Cricut Design Space and my favorite is what I call the Slice and Dice feature. Really it is slicing and welding to create new more personalized images.

This last week I saw a cute Easter split image and thought I would love to try this with flowers and the word Spring.

Also some exciting news, I will be teaching my fav Slice and Dice and Weld at a new event, Crazy Crafters Convention. There is also a Facebook group for this FUN event.

And just for a little sneak peek at how much FUN slicing and dicing can be, here is a video sharing how I split my floral image and added the word 'Spring'. Enjoy!

FUN with Shapes and Rockin' heARTs

Do you know what I love the most about being a part of the Close To My Heart family? My Rockin' heART team members!! We are a CRAFTY group who love to share our PASSION for Close To My Heart through our artwork --

At one of our Cricut team trainings, Carol Barfield, asked if we could create a card using the scrolly heart shape.

By welding the shape in a rectangle frame, it turned out pretty cute and I saw a great card to share at our November team training.

Stamping the sentiment Believe from the Jolly Holiday (C1654) stamp set. I love when a stamp set can be used in many ways.

I used both the cutout and the pieces to create TWO versions of the card.




And a great inside sentiment was created with the This & That (C1667).

Are you looking to join the Close To My Heart family? We would love to have you as a part of the Rockin' heARTS!! Contact me at shirleyross66@gmail.com

Holly Jolly (C1654)

This & That (1667)

Join the Rockin' heARTs!! 

Close To My Heart Cricut Cartridges Retiring

Did I get your attention? Well, it is true! Three of our AWESOME cartridges are retiring, does that mean a new one is coming soon? Excitement builds!!

Haven't purchased yours yet? NOW is the time to do just that OR host a June Gathering and earn at least one or maybe MORE for 1/2 price!! Any gathering with sales of $250 (way doable) earns you a 1/2 price item AND the cartridge CAN be that 1/2 priced item!!

Art Philosophy

Artiste

Artfully Sent

Click HERE to start shopping OR contact me (shirleyross66@gmail.com or 334-868-1358) to schedule your June Gathering!!

Monday Morning Cricut Fun

A little Monday morning fun with the new Close To My Heart Cricut cartridge, Artistry! This cartridge comes with a full pack of our new Enchantment cardstock full of colors like peacock, eggplant, fern and more (be the first on your block to have it) and you can purchase it DIGITALLY!! Oh what fun for us Explore lovers!!

Well, enough of that and on to some fun. Our Stamp of the Month, Framed, is the perfect subject for using the Artistry cartridge, BUT the carrier sheet does not give us any clue as to shape sizes so let me share with you how to figure this out.

If you find a stamp set that seems to share a coordinating shape, put the stamp on your Versamat (if you don't have this wonderful mat, use a ruler or something to measure the size by) and write down the height and width.

Here you can see that the shape measures 1 1/4 x 2 1/2. For Design Space and Cricut Craft Room users this is pretty easy as you may adjust both the height and width. For Expression and Expression 2, I would try using the height and see if it will adjust correctly. 

For Explore users, I like to search by cartridge, so click on Cartridge, type in the search bar the cartridge you are looking for which is Artistry and then scroll down. This shape is part of a layer, so look for the shape. 

You may want to ungroup and delete the overlay and only size the shape. I keep a Design Space file for all stamps with a coordinating shape for easy access. Click here for the link to the Framed Design Space file.

And one more card using the Zoe Creative Insider (it is great to be a Close To My Heart consultant and have so many resources at our fingertips -- ask me how you can get a brand NEW consultant kit and the Creative Insider) and the Framed Stamp of the Month.