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Wonderful School Year Layout Featuring Art Philosophy Bear Piecings

Happy Tuesday crafty friends,

Well it has been a few days since my last post. Boy, sometimes life just throws you a bunch of curve balls and they are usually all at once. But praise God we get through them. So today’s project features some more of the wonderful Chalk It up Paper pack and chalk it up complements that I have been working with. So let’s get right to it.

Here’s a look at the entire layout. I used some kraft cardstock for the background and then used papers from the Chalk It Up Paper pack. I did also use some white cardstock for the white mats.

Here’s a closer look at the cute little Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge

Bear paper piecing. He is created with cardstock, My Expression machine and the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge bundle. I used my water color pencils to add a little “rosy” to his cheeks. The glint in his eyes are from y Chalk Marker and then I used a fine tip black pen for his mouth and eyelashes. I Inked the edges of the pieces with my desert sand ink from the Basics Ink Pad set.

Here’s a closer look at the cute little Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge bear paper piecing I created.

Here are a few more of the Chalk It Up Chipboard Complements that I used. You can also see that I used my Lagoon ink from my Adventure Ink Pad set to ink the edges of the mats.

Here’s a closer look at the chipboard elements from the Chalk It Up Complements set. I added a little foam tape under the arrow to give it just a bit of dimension.

Here’s a closer look at the chipboard Year element.

Of course it is national Stamping month so I had to include a bit of stamping. These two stamps are from the 30 years of happy set that you can get for FREE this month only. See details below. I used my Lagoon Ink Pad to stamp them and then used my circle punch to punch out the black circles and then used a smaller punch I had on hand to punch out the stamped images.

Here is one last look at the super cute layout. Perfect for those back to school pics and really pretty easy to do.

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Products Used For This Project

Cricut Expression	Cricut Art Philosophy	Chalk It Up Paper Pack
Chalk It Up Complements	Basic Cardstock Pack (Champagne, Black & Cream)	Kraft Cardstock

White Cardstock	Basics Ink Pad Set	Adventure Ink Pad Set
Lagoon ink pad	30 years of happy	blending pen

Water Color Pencils	Circle Punch	Chalk Marker
ez dots runner	glue pen	foam tape

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Well, that about covers it for today. As always, thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your crafty time with me. I appreciate it so very much. Be sure to stop back by tomorrow as I share another fun and hopefully inspiring project. Until then,

Fontastic Friday and Freebie

Happy Friday crafty friends,

Yesterday I shared my first of hopefully many Throwback Thursday posts and today is another first. I have decided to do new posts on Fridays called Fontastic Fridays. Trolling through Pinterest this summer was a great source of inspiration. But I am adding a twist on mine. Instead of just compiling a list and sharing the links, I am also going to be sharing a project with one of the free fonts and or possibly use them for the free svg file or digi stamp. So let’s get started.

Top 12 School Fonts

My projects this week have all focused on back to school. So I thought it was only appropriate that I should share some fonts that are school themed. I found a nice mix of them and thought they would be great for a variety of projects. Here are the links to each file.

Fontastic Friday #1

Top 10 School Fonts

Disclaimer: Please note: you download anything off the internet at your own risk. I do not have any control over the content and quality of these links. I do use anti-virus and malware, spyware software when surfing and hope that you do the same. I will be sharing something I created with one of these fonts tomorrow. So be sure to come back then.

So now on to today’s project

Here’s a look at my finished card. Finished size is 5.5 x 5.5. I used the Charming Chevrons Stamp set. The base is kraft cardstock. I created a matching SVG cut file for the background frame. I created three size frames. One 5.25 x 5.25 (the one I used) as well as one, 4x5.25 and one 4.75 x 6.25. I also created some cuts for the stamps themselves. The grey area (pic below) is solid paper and the white pieces are the cut outs in the files.

Here’s what the base looks like. I cut the frame out in plain white cardstock and then added a piece of the chalk it up paper pack as a mat. I then used my Charming Chevrons stamp set to stamp out the different colored stamped images on the frame. I used my Smoothie Ink Pad , My Lagoon Ink Pad, My Slate Ink Pad and my Flaxen Ink Pad.

I then stamped the sentiment from the You Mean The World To Me stamp set. I used my lagoon ink pad and some blue cardstock. I then created a mat from black cardstock and then a larger one from the white cardstock. I used my EK Success corner punch to punch out the corners. I then added a little arrow from the Chalk It Up stickers set. I added a little foam tape underneath to give it a little lift.

I then used a couple of my Martha Stewart punches to punch out the little butterflies.

Here you can see where I “added back In” the large chevron shape. I thought it worked well so I used my lagoon ink pad and stamped out and added some foam tape underneath to give it a little lift.

Here is a closer look at the pretty little bow. I used some ribbon in my stash.

Here is one last look at the card.

Products Used For This Project

Pazzles Inspiration Vue	Charming Chevrons SVG Cut File Set	Charming Chevrons Stamp Set
Chalk It Up Paper Pack	Chalk It Up Stickers	Flaxen Ink Pad
Lagoon Ink Pad	Slate Ink Pad	Smoothie Ink Pad
Kraft Cardstock	White Cardstock	Basic Cardstock Pack
EZ Dots	Foam Tape	MS Butterfly Punch 3-1
MS Butterfly Punch	Black & White Gingham Ribbon	-