You Anchor Me Back Down - Cricut

So if you were watching my blog this month you know that I recently discovered an even greater love of the Workshops on the Go for Close to my Heart.  You really ought to take advantage of these products, you certainly get your money's worth.   AND if you really like working with these types of patterns where you are given step by step directions to make the most beautiful layouts, check out the Magic book that I've put up on Ebay.  It's a retired Magic book and it's quite rare these days, this is my last one too!

 

Today I'm doing the Tommy Workshop on the Go.  I also added a touch of my own by using our next shape on the Cricut cartridge.  We're on page 23 in your Art Philosophy cartridge book.  We're going to make the little "buckle" piece.  Cut it at 1 1/4 inches using the "square 1" key with the "tag" key.   Cut the yellow pattern paper from your Tommy set.   As mentioned before, I'm not allowed to do the step by step for the two page layout because it's a copyrighted pattern so I'm just showing you how I added this buckle accent.

 

 

For this two page layout I needed to decorate up a square accent that measured 2 1/4 so I cut a strip of cranberry cardstock 1 inch by 2 1/4 inches.  Distress both pieces with desert sand.

 

Now, on the pre-cut accent square, add the buckle and paper ribbon using 3-d foam tape.  

 

Add the cute little flags from the Tommy Assortment pack that comes with your Workshop on the Go.  I just poked them right through the foam tape that was under the buckle, super easy and no adhesive needed. 

 

Here's the whole layout, make sure you click twice on it to see it in detail.  Don't forget that if you place an order on my website before midnight on Sunday you will be in the running for a brand new Art Philosophy cartridge.  Make sure to hit the JOIN button when you order.  

UR My Favorite - Cricut

Only one person has ordered off my website so your chances at winning the Art Philosophy cartridge are very good!!!!   Order here by March 31st and don't forget to hit the JOIN button when you do.  www.barbraotten.ctmh.com

 

Want to try something different with your Cricut shapes?  How about layering them on each other, and I mean really layering them!   We're on page 23 on the Art Philosophy book using the "square 1" key along with the "layer" key and the "shift" key.  I'm using white daisy and sky cardstocks only.  Cut the star at 2 1/2 inches and cut it out 14 times from the sky paper.  Using some adhesive (I used Tombow), glue seven of the stars on top of each other.  Be careful to line it up the best you can. 

Once you're finished cut your background.

 

White daisy cardstock - 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 folded in half for a card base.

Sky cardstock - 2 strips 1/2 by 4 1/4 inches, one strip 2 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches and one cut 1 inches by 4 1/4 inches.  Distress with sky ink and attach to card base as shown below, leave a one inch space between the two strips on top and your large center strip.  Now glue your stars onto the large center strip, do not distress them.

 

 

Use shimmer trim cut at 4 1/4 inches across the largest white space to add a little pizazz.  It's always good to repeat one or two elements on a page so that there is a group of three so here I've added two buttons that also are a silver glitter look on each star.  Using the Whooo's Your Valentine stamp set (and I still have some of these for sale), stamp UR My Favorite on the bottom sky blue strip in outdoor denim ink. 

 

Here's a side view at how cool these stars look, you could even layer them more (or even less) depending on the look you want.  The photos don't do them justice, these are really neat.