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Save on Simple Scrapbook Pages & Calendar Kits

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Celebrate your journey and milestones along the way with the Remember Today special! This month, you can save on a beautifully designed set of pre-cut scrapbook layout kits which can be used to record your memories or used to create a personalized calendar.

This October special includes an exclusive stamp set, an exclusive set of Cut Above layouts, and two discounted kit bundles. Each of the layout kits includes thirteen full size pages that you can use in your scrapbooks to record your memories. You can also use these layouts to create a unique calendar for your home or to give as a gift.

Take a look at what is included in each bundle!

Remember Today Calendar Kit (no stamp)
(13) Remember Today Cut Above® Layouts
(1) Base Calendar

Purchase kit & Save 10%

Remember Today Calendar Kit (with stamp)
(13) Remember Today Cut Above® Layouts
(1) Base Calendar
(1) Remember Today Stamp Set

Purchase kit & Save 20%

All the products available in the Remember Today special are also available individually. You can pick and choose the items to match your individual creativity.

If you are a memory keeper, like me, you will want to get ahold of these layout kits. They are simply stunning, easy to assemble, and come pre-cut in an organized kit.

Don’t forget, VIPs get 15% back in rewards with the purchase of this kit and a free stamp of the month when you purchase one of the discounted bundles. While you’re at it, grab a few of the exclusive kits only available to VIPs.

There will be a virtual Facebook live crafting event on November 12 where you will learn how to create a Remember Today calendar using one of the two kit bundles available through the special. This event is free for crafters everywhere to view, but to fully participate, you will want to have one of the bundles to create along with the members of the CTMH team.

The Remember Today special is available from October 1 through December 31, while supplies last. I can’t wait for mine to arrive so that I can start creating!

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Create a Nativity Card with the Wander Dies

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Many of you who follow me know that I like to find new ways to use the items in my craft room. My frugal brain likes to discover multiple uses for the supplies I have purchased, and I love showing you how to do the same. This past week, I created a Reason for the Season Nativity card using a cityscape silhouette thin cut die from the Wander Cardmaking kit.

The minute I saw this kit in the catalog, I saw the town of Bethlehem in the cityscape die, and I knew right away that I wanted to make a Christmas card. Doesn’t it make the perfect backdrop for the Nativity scene?

The Wander Cardmaking kit includes all the supplies you need to create sixteen cards. The cards in the kit use the bright summery papers from the Wander collection along with the dies and stamps that come in the kit to make the cards.

The only item I used in the Wander Kit to make my Reason for the Season card was the city scene thin cut die. All the remaining items will be used to make the cards at my retreat in September.

I used the metal die to form the town of Bethlehem on a piece of Kraft cardstock. Behind the city, I created a night scene with Distress Oxide inks and a heat embossed star.

The card is a smaller A2 size design, so I wanted to keep the images and sentiments simple in proportion to the town silhouette. The Reason for the Season stamp set was perfect for this card.

I paper-pieced the cloaks on Mary & Joseph using pattern paper from the White Pines collection then shaded the images using TriBlend Markers. In my video below, I walk you through the whole process.

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I hope that today’s project inspired you and showed you another way to use the thin cut from the Wander Cardmaking Kit. If you wish to make this card for Christmas, you will need to purchase this kit soon because it will be retiring at the end of August.

If you have any questions about the project or the kit, please feel free to leave a comment below.

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Use Cricut Contour to Create a Sunburst Layout

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This past week, I shared my Fourth of July sunburst layout with you for the Here Comes the Sun blog bop. This red, white, and blue layout looked like a firework exploding on the Fourth of July. Did you happen to wonder how I created that background? Well, today you are being blessed, because I am going to show you how to make a sunburst background of your own in Cricut Design Space.

To make this background, I used an image from the Artbooking collection and altered it with the Cricut Contour Tool. The Contour tool allows you to hide a portion of an image by removing any unwanted cut lines or contours. In Windows or Mac, the Contour Tool is located on the right side of the Canvas below the Layers Panel. In the Android and iOS app, you can find Contour under Actions.

Before you start to Contour an image, you will need to select it. For my project, I duplicated the image twice. One image will create the Kraft background and the other two images are going to be used to create the red and blue sunburst rays.

To create the first set of sunburst rays, I selected one of the images and clicked on the Contour Tool. When the tool is selected, a Hide Contour window opens with a close-up view of the contours, or cuts, on the image. You will see the contours in the image photo and as a list on the right side of the window.

When you click on the cut line you wish to hide or select the contour to be hidden from the menu at the right of the window, the hidden contour will change to a lighter shade. This indicates that the portion of the image chosen will no longer show as part of the image and will not cut.

On my project, I removed the background image and selected every other sunburst to create the red striped rays. I repeated this process with the second image to create the blue star pattern rays.

Once all the contours had been hidden, I could cut out my project from the pattern papers in the Stars & Sparklers collection. The rays fit perfectly into the background design and could easily be added to my project.

After assembling the Sunburst background, I added my photo, some stickers and Cricut cut stars, and a few star-shaped wooden images.

If you would like to learn more about using the Contour Tool and watch this layout come together, I have created a simple tutorial and process video for you.

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For those who missed out on my original post showing the layout, here are a few photos of the embellishment clusters. You can learn more about how it all came together, here on my blog, and check out some other artwork showing you how to use sunbursts.

I hope that today’s project inspired you and taught you a few new tricks in Cricut Design Space. If you are wanting to learn how to use your Cricut machine and would like to create some projects in Cricut Design Space, I invite you to join my Cricut Classroom.

Each week, I teach an hour-long Live class which is recorded and uploaded to a classroom website. You are also provided with free project links and downloadable notes for your Cricut Classroom Notebook.

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Make sure to check out a few of my other Cricut tutorials, here on my blog and my YouTube channel. My hope is that you dust off that Cricut machine and create something new.

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here is a list of some supplies I used today (View All My Supplies Here)