Cricut | Papercrafting with Kelly Janes

Welcome to the 2nd Blog Hops with Heart blog hop! If you started from the beginning you would have come from Amie Kiger’s Blog, but if you’ve started here you can still make your way through the entire hop by clicking the link on the bottom of my post! This month we are featuring the CTMH White Pines Paper Packet with a “12 Days of Christmas” theme. My take on the hop this month is slightly modified. Modified in the way that I changed the lyrics to fit my project! Ha! Instead of “Partridge in a Pear Tree” I have a project highlighting us decorating our Christmas Tree. I did incorporate some gold into the layout so that counts for something, right?!?

I used a cut file from The Cut Shoppe to create my background on a piece of B&T paper from the White Pines Paper Packet. I then backed the cut file with a piece of Colonial White Cardstock. Next I started layering other pieces of B&T and cardstock from the White Pines Paper Packet. I tore the edges to expose the white core of the papers. Once I had the general feel of how this layout was going to go down I started adding flair, including stickers from the White Pines Complements and Assortment. I added gold stitching around the layout and also tucked some messy leftover strands under the flair button. The title is another cut file from The Cut Shoppe and is painted in Heidi Swapp Gold Color Shine. I finished with my journaling, a Heidi Swapp date stamp, and a few splashes of Gold Color Shine.

These photos are dear to my heart. This Christmas tree was the tree my siblings and I would decorate each year growing up. It’s one of those pain in the rear, fluff each branch, find the peg hole for the branch to fit in, not pre-lit Christmas trees. BUT I LOVE IT! So many memories tied into this tree. These photos were taken as I was walking into our living room, the french doors framing the scene, Aidan reaching up to place an ornament, me having a flashback of decorating the tree with my mom when I was his age. Maybe any tree would remind me of the memories of decorating the tree when I was younger but it seems that this tree is special.

Now make your way to Becca Whitham’s Blog to see what she has created using the White Pines Paper Packet.

Thanks for stopping by!
-Kelly

It’s Monday! Time for another Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!!
I actually created two cards for this sketch. My first card was so loosely based on the sketch I didn’t feel it warranted being posted as my design team example, but I’ve included it in my blog post. I started by rotating the sketch (found at the bottom of my post) clockwise and used wider strips of paper. Using a white cardstock panel I then added a little mixed media using gelatos. The strips of patterned paper are from the CTMH Paper Fundamentals Collections along with a piece of Silver Shimmer Trim. The patterns on these particular papers are retired but there is a whole new collection available. Once I had all the pieces aligned the way I wanted I ran a few rows of stitching through the panels. For the sentiment I used The Small Talk cut file from The Cut Shoppe Etsy Store and cut the same “Hey” sentiment in multiple layers including vellum. I used pop dots on the sentiment to add dimension and then added a few Clear Sparkles. In addition to AHSC, I’m also linking this card to the November Cut It Up Challenge on The Cut Shoppe Blog.

For my second card (my design team sample) I used a white card base followed by a layer of Whisper Cardstock. Then I added a row of multiple Shimmer Trims, a black hemp bow, a couple wood veneer accents, a few white sequins and a flair button from a retired CTMH collection.