Pemberly Cards

I've had a lot of requests to show all of the cards in my Pemberly Card Class we did back in March, so here's all 15 cards, for your viewing pleasure.

Don't forget - you can click on the image to see it larger! If you want the instructions, there's still a consultant kit available: CLICK HERE (until the end of this week).

I just love the stamp set we used here, C1494 Card Word Puzzle, which is just so pretty and so versatile!  Enjoy!

New Offering for Consultants!

Relax with a Stamping Rules Workshop! 
If you are a CTMH consultant looking for an awesome workshop to offer your lovely customers, you've come to the right place! Easy to prep and order kits use full packages of products. To Pre-cut, or not pre-cut - you can choose the level of service you’ll provide and the full color instructions for your students include the cutting guides. This is a nice benefit, as they can replicate the fabulous project you’ve taught them with more product (from you!).

The Consultant Workshop Kit provides you with the instructional materials you need to quickly put together your own sample, plus you’ll still earn your own consultant discount by purchasing the majority of the project materials yourself. With the purchase of the consultant Workshop kit, you'll have permission to use my designs, photos and cutting guides/instructions, (not only to create for your own personal scrapbooking) but you'll also be receiving the consultant guide and license to hold your own workshop for your customers.

What’s in a Consultant kit?
*1 level 2 paper packet shipped directly to you (US Only, for Canadian Kits it will be two packs of Mini Medleys to keep the reshipping cost reasonable!).
*Full color Workshop guide with cutting and assembly instructions (emailed PDF files).
*Consultant Guide, Supply List, and License (PDF) to help you successfully plan, market, and host your own workshop! The license allows you to distribute Workshop Guide in a specific way: one hard copy per student who attends your workshop or purchases a kit from you. The Supply list enables you to use your own stash, or earn your own commission by ordering for yourself the majority of the items for your workshop sample.
*(1) Web Ready Jpg file for use in advertising the workshop on your blog or in your newsletter.
By purchasing this consultant kit, you agree to abide by the consultant license copyright regarding the use and distribution of this workshop and any instructions, designs and photos provided. This is my personal work – thanks for playing fair!

Consultant Only Price - $15 

Price includes shipping and tax. US consultant orders accepted online here. Canadian friends, a solution is coming soon! 

Want it All Prepped for you? No need to place a separate order, you can purchase the full customer style workshop kit for everything you need to create your workshop. You'll receive the same pre-cut workshop kit that I create for my own awesome customers, shipped directly to you, but as a CTMH consultant you will also receive the PDF Consultant Guide and License for hosting your own workshop!

Available Kits:

Stunning Stella Mini Album  (See more pictures)

Consultant Kit Options

Stella Consultant Kit $15.00 USD  Stella Consultant Full Kit $30.00 USD

 

Superhero Chipboard Album (See more pictures)

Consultant Kit Options

Superhero Consultant Kit $15.00 USD  Superhero Consultant Full Kit $30.00 USD

 

Pemberly Card Box (See more pictures)

Consultant Kit Options

Pemberly Consultant Kit $15.00 USD  Pemberly Consultant Full Kit $30.00 USD

 

Want All Three Kits?
Get all three consultant kits or three full customer kits with a nice discount on shipping!

I Want It All Kit Options

Consultant Kit Only : Stella, Pemberly, Superhero $35.00 USD  Full Kits: Stella, Pemberly, Superhero $85.00 USD

 

Why buy a Consultant Kit? 

Q: Can I just buy the instructions without the paper pack? 

A: No. Corporate policy does not allow CTMH consultants to sell instructions or templates without the purchase of product. This consultant "mini kit" adheres to corporate policy. 

Q: Can you ship to Canada? 

A: Yes. There is a Candian shipping option in the drop down menu for the mini kit. The full kit option is not available for international shipping. 

Q: Can I just stamplift your project? 

A: Sure thing! I love stamplifting (with proper credit, of course). The point of the consultant kit is for you to make use of my professional looking computer generated instructional handouts (which take me hours to put together, in the middle of the night, while my three small boys sleep if I’m lucky). If you want to stamplift my project from a few blog photos and create your own handouts, please do so and enjoy – sharing is caring! But you cannot use my personal photos, illustrations, or wording to create your handout, or ask me for the instructions without a kit purchase. Thanks for playing fair!
Q: Why are the US and Canadian Kits different? 

A: Since I live the the US, I didn't realize that shipping a paper packet to Canada would cost me an arm, a leg, and my first born child - crazy! To make it fair, I'll be sending two Mini-Medleys for each kit purchased to our Canadian friends, so everyone gets a similar amount of retail product for their kit purchase, and it won't force me to make the Canadian Kit cost more for shipping (I hope!)
Q: When will  get my kit? 

A: You should receive the PDF files for the Workshop Guide and the Consultant Guide/License within 24 hours of placing your purchase. US product orders will be placed within 3 days of the order and shipped to you within the standard CTMH turnaround time for your location. Canadian product orders will be placed within 3 days of the the order and re-shipped to you once CTMH delivers product to me! The three day window allows for Paypal transfer time. Questions? Contact me for more details!

Pemberly Club Pages!

Ah! At long last - I've been promising these for a week now, but life really kept me hopping (and far from blogging) last week! Here's our pages for the Pemberly version of Monthly Memories Club in March-  on Friday! We do six pages each month with kits starting at $15! Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but where does the time go? These first two pages are from the CTMH brochure (mostly). I think that the stamp set that comes in this kit may be my favorite new stamp set of the whole catalog...for now...

These second pages are adapted from the picture on the back of the StickEase, with more stamping and lumpy bumpy. I love the StickEase that coordinate with this kit - such pretty watercolored flowers. Check out the twine bodies on those butterfly stickers!

And the last two pages are my favorites of course. Here's a close up of the stitch/pearl detail under the title area. I'm submitting this layout for the Heart 2 Heart 1-2-3 Challenge: that's 1 stamp set, 2 patterned papers, and 3 embellishments! In this case, I used the yellow floral and large floral B&Ts from the Pemberly paper pack, plus the stamp set from the WOTG. My Embellishments were the Bouquet Assortment resin flowers, the Pemberly StickEase, and the Bitty Pearls. What a fun challenge!

See ya at club on Friday, Monthly Memories!

Creative Club: Pemberly Card Box

Pemberly is one of my favorite new paper packets. I love the bold Blue florals, and I just couldn't wait to get my inky paws on this collection! For our new March Creative Club I've created this beautiful Card Box complete with 15 unique card fronts! When you've used up the cards, you'll still have the pretty box for storing trinkets or photos.

The Pemberly Card Box Creative Club Workshop will be held on March 17th at Wendy's Stamp Pad. You can attend in person and enjoy a day of stamping and a light lunch, or you can order your kit to complete at home for a small shipping charge.

Each kit includes pre-cut papers, the card box, embellishments including the new Sparkle Flourishes and Seam Binding Ribbon plus full color instructions to make everything pictured - just add adhesive! We are making card fronts only so we can get more cards from our paper supplies for the kit while keeping the price reasonable. The Creative Club Pemberly Card Box kit is just $25!

All of the stamping on these cards is done with a new stamp set call Card Word Puzzle - a beautiful collection of floral/nature images and  individual words you can combine to make dozens of phrases! If you are attending the workshop in person (held at my 900 square foot Stamp Pad!) you are welcome to stamp with my set, or you can upgrade your kit to include the stamp set, which you'll want to use again and again!

Please RSVP by March 1st to reserve your kit for this elegant workshop. You can contact me via email, or reserve your spot via the Paypal Link below. You don't have to have a Paypal account to use this feature! To Go kits are not limited to quantity, but the March 17th Workshop (which includes a light lunch at no extra charge) is limited to 16 attendees total. Bring a friend I haven't met for a free Bonus prize!

Inks used: Outdoor Denim, Indian Corn Blue, Creme Brule, Desert Sand, Sweet Leaf

Workshop and TO GO Kits

Pemberly Card Kit (no stamps) $25.00 USD Pemberly Card Kit Deluxe (stamps included) $44.00 USD TO GO Pemberly Card Kit (no stamps, shipped to you) $30.00 USD TO GO Pemberly Card Kit Deluxe (stamps included, shipped to you) $49.00 USD

Mojo Monday 225: Black & White

I'm so excited to share my card for Mojo Monday this week! I am in love with my new Pemberly stamp set, and when I saw the CAS-ual Friday Clean and Simple Penguin Awareness Challenge, I knew that my favorite new stamp set would look amazing in Black and White (even if I found them too late to play this time)!

I used the Mojo Monday 225 Sketch, which is a blocking sketch - love those! I filled each block on the background with one impressions of the largest paisley-ish flower image. That's it - one stamp per block! Each flower got a few bitty sparkles on the swirls in the flower centers.

I used my CTMH Piercing Ruler to pierce a line of holes 1/4" from the edge of of each block. Then I used my .05 tip My Legacy Writer to draw a dash from each hole to make a line of faux stitching around my blocks. I love faux stitching - whyen you do it with the actual holes pierced it looks so real, without the time consumption of actual hand stitching. I made my whole card in a half hour while my boys played at Munchkin Playland...with coffee. Woo!

Then I cut a frame on my cricut at 2 1/4" to use for the center bar of the sketch, which I rotated to be a tall card. I made a faux stitched box in the center of my Cricut Frame. The grid on the ruler makes it so easy - I just lined it up with the corners of my frame and poked away! Then I masked off the center of my box with a handy post-it and stamped the solid mum image repeatedly to fill in the outer edges of my cricut frame. I added one of the sentiments from the stamp set (Don't you just LOVE the mixed fonts?) and topped it off in the bottom corner with a couple of Rhinestone Designer Brads, an old retired black button, and a smidgen of Black Ribbon Rounds (on clearance on my site for just $4 for 6 awesome patterned ribbons!).

Finally, I finished it off with a couple of hand cut dragon flies that I stamped and cut out with my microtip scissors. I love it when you finish a project and you get the glowy, I-made-something-I-adore feeling!

New Catalog Sneak Peek Pemberly Card

I got in some bonus stamping time on my birthday today, as the snow was coming down so thick that my dear hubby couldn't get out of the driveway. I used it to goo advantage, working on another card swap for the new catalog, inspired by the Moxie Fab Cool Tools Diecut Challenge!

I stamped the card background using my new Pemberly WOTG stamp set - I am dying over that beautiful swirly stylized flower! I slightly modified an awesome ghost stamping technique I saw in a Betsy Veldman video. I wanted the effect of the flowers flowing onto my diecut, but I also wanted the dimension of the actual diecut.

I cut my focus embellishment Banner diecut using my Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. I also cut that adorable scalloped border using the same cartridge. The border is actually a double width ribbon border Cricut cut that I love to trim in half and use for edging - double the edging with less waiting!

After I stamped the background images using Outdoor Denim, Indian Corn Blue, and Desert Sand inks I covered my card with vellum. I laid the Banner diecut on top of the vellum and used the vellum as a mask to protect my card while I stamped coordinating images onto the diecut so it looks like the flowers are flowing onto the banner diecut. I stamped off the inked images two or three times to get the muted tones I needed on the diecut to let me sentiment really pop at full strength. It was easy to make the images wrap onto the diecut using the vellum as a mask, since you can
(almost) see right through it.
After wrapping the diecut with B&T and some of the new Baker's Twine in Grey Wool, I felt it needed a bit more shine. So I painted a few of my new Bitty Pearls with a dab of pearl paint mixed with Outdoor Denim Reinker to get blue pearl opaques.

Cricut Mat Tip: There's been lots of chatter about the new Cricut mats not being sticky enough. One of the Cruisers got an email from Cricut today that says when you get the new style mats for Cricut expressions (with the dark outline around the edge) you will need to activate the adhesive by running the mat under warm water and letting it air dry or burnish the mat with the plastic cover on top. I just ran my new mats under the water, and they already seem stickier. I wasn't having too big a problem, and I like that they aren't as sticky as the old style mats...but I'm glad there's a trick to amp up the stickiness! 

Card Patterns & H2H New Catalog Sneak Peek!

OK. I admit I'm a hardcore CTMH fanatic. I scared my father-in-law by leaping and bounding over a small child and various train tracks and toys to get to the door when FedEx delivered my new catalog shipment after Christmas. I literally giggle and bounce in my seat when I'm sitting down with a pile of new CTMH goodness to design a new project. Those who've scrapped with me know that I TALK to my projects...complimenting them on how cute they will be when the "grow up." I love what I do...

So you can see how out of commission I must have been last week. All of my new stuff came in - not catalogs this time, but actual scrumptious new product...and there it sat. I had the boxes here for a few hours before I busted them open. Then I left them on the table until John came home and he moved them upstairs for me...where they sat untouched until today. Thanks goodness for acupuncture - pain be gone, and let the wild stamping begin!

I used sketch #148 from the Card Patterns blog to kick off the stamping tonight. Don't you just love the broken background? I stamped the largest flower from my new Card Word Puzzle set in Colonial White pigment ink all over a sheet of Bamboo Cardstock, then cut it into 1 x 3 inch strips to use for my background. I inked each panel with Outdoor denim ink, then mounted those onto heavily sanded Desert sand CS. I stamped and embossed the same flower image on my card base using a pearlescent embossing powder.

I accented on the left side with a bit of Cricut cut scalloped border, which I also (carefully) sanded. I love that border on the Art Philosophy cartridge particularly because, as a busy mama who loves a good shortcut, that border is actually a double sided border. I like to trim it in half and get two for the wait of cutting once intricate border. Impatience, thy name might be Wendy...or in this case, as I got 4 cards out of each border, perhaps I'm a clever clogs!

The little scalloped edge square (at 1 1/2") was also cut on my trusty Cricut. I topped it off with a bit of the new Pemberly Paper packet, and a stamped butterfly. I stamped the butterfly onto the B&T square and onto some scrap Desert Sand paper. Then I got out my fabulous Pearl Paint, tinted a couple shades of blue using a Outdoor Denim reinker and detailed my butterfly with a fine tipped brush.

I added a strip of the new Color Ready Seam Binding, which I kept in the original creamy color for this card. It's super light and flexible, easy to tie and work with, and almost sheer, but with more heft than an organdy ribbon. I love it! An adorably dotted new Just Blooms flower and a few Pearl Opaques finish off my embellishments. Now my card is all grown up (with 11 siblings) and ready to fly off to Tina Lovell's swap group. Bon voyage!

I linked this blog post to the H2H Ready For A New Year challenge, which asks everyone to use a brand new stamp set you haven't briken out of your stash before.  Check it out, then play along, too!