Waiting for Santa with Chomas Creations embossing kit

I'm lucky to be a guest designer for the 12 days of Christmas blog hop going on over at Honeybearz Designs!  I've also donated a Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder & all 20 mini gel pens over there as part of some stocking stuffers.  For a chance to win, hop on over to Honeybearz Designs and check out what they have going on!
Well with all the fun and excitement of my new Chomas Creations adjustable holders, I've been missing playing with my Chomas Creations embossing kit for the Cricut!  So I got it out to play hehe!  I used it to make the reindeer and candy cane border on a metal sheet with the Christmas Cheer cartridge.  After I embossed it, I sanded the raised image.

I then designed the title with Doodletype and the Santa with Christmas Cheer and cut them out.  I used fuzzy vinyl from Silhouette to add the beard and trim on Santa!

Here is the completed page along with my boys.  It is a few years ago, but this sweet picture finally has its own page hehe! 

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More happy holiday cards with the Chomas Creations embossing kit

The other day when I was making Happy Holidays embossed designs with the Chomas Creations embossing kit on Ten Seconds Studios metal sheets, I did a bunch at the same time!  I added glitter to the raised image side that was embossed, then sanded off the raised image to make the design pop!  Here are some more cards that look just a bit different then the last set I did!  Because I had smaller scraps this time, I cut the paper into smaller pieces and got more cards out of it! 

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Happy Holidays cards with Chomas Creations embossing kit

I'm making some Christmas cards for a craft show I'm doing! I figure if they don't sell, then I can mail them out hehe! 
Just a reminder that the Veteran's Day sale is still going on in the Chomas Creations store!  Use the coupon code veteran10 to save 10% off your entire order!
For these cards I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit with the new Expression 2 to emboss my sentiment. 

Believe it or not, these were kinda a mistake!  I always say when you use the Chomas Creations embossing kit to emboss words with the Cricut, you need to flip the images.  Well I FORGOT!!!  And the worst part was this was the Ten Seconds Studio metal sheets that are adhesive on one side!  Of course that left the sticky side up!  So I though, what if I take some glitter and add it to the raised image.  So I did, and then I sanded some off the raised image so you could see it better, and it looks soooo cool!  Ok, I will admit, it was MESSY!  Very MESSY!  And glitter was on everyone in the room after awhile hehe!  But look how cool...

I'm sure if you can't find adhesive metal sheets you could always use adhesive spray to do the same thing!

The sentiment is from Lyrical Letters, I used Cricut Craftroom to do these.

And I added some rectangles to Cricut Craftroom to cut all the rectangles for these cards to make it a quick process!   Click on the image to enlarge it!

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Cider mill with Chomas Creations embossing kit

One of our favorite family fall traditions is a trip to the cider mill!  Nothing like a cold cider and warm doughnuts!  And then of course you have to walk it off hehe! 
I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit for the Cricut to emboss the border title for this page using From the Kitchen and Lyrical Letters.  You can get the border to use for download here... cider mill

I used the Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder for the journaling circle.  You can the tutorial and download for that here... journaling circles

Here is the 2 page layout using Imaginesce papers.  The little apples were also done with the Chomas Creations embossing kit! 

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Embossed card set with Chomas Creations embossing kit

I'm trying to get a bunch of cards done for the craft show I'll be doing this weekend!  I would love to have your opinions on how to package these, or if I should sell them seperate?  Let me know what you think!
I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit with Lyrical Letters to emboss all the sentiments on these cards.  You can get the Design Studio file to do a bunch at the same time here... DS file
The papers and chipboard stickers are all Basic Grey.

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Custom Crops trick or treat layout with Chomas Creations embossing kit

I have another layout up at Custom Crops!  Just in time for Halloween, here is a page for all your little trick or treaters!  You can get step by step instructions on how I did this layout as well as the file for it using Happy Hauntings here...  trick or treat layout

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Princess frames with Chomas Creations embossing kit

OOoh nothing like some girly pretty princess frames!!!  I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit on Ten Seconds Studios metal sheets to make these designs! 
Perfect for my pink sale in the Chomas Creations store!  Use the code pink10 to save 10% off your purchase at checkout.  And to see the pink cards I did for the Link Up for Pink party click here...  pink post

I used Design Studio with Once Upon A Princess for the designs, which you can download here...  princess crowns  Notice when you download that if you want the words made by single letters (I used the font from Once Upon A Princess to make the word princess) in Design Studio to face the right way, you have to write the word backwards, then click on it and use the flip feature. 
Here is a close up of the princess crown!

I added some circles with an embossed outer edge so you could see the stickers better.

And here are the frames!  The paper, ribbon and stickers are all Imaginesce.

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Detroit Tigers with Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder & embossing kit

OOoh today is game 4 for the Tigers, and I'm ready for the win!  So I thought I would scrap a page of the Tigers game we went to with all 4 of my kids this summer.  While I would love to say it went smoothly, it kinda didn't as my youngest was too young to deal with baseball, especially at 8:30 pm, eeeek!  But we did have fun, and the Tigers did smoke 'em!  18-2!  WOW!
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So here is my page hehe!  And if you want the baseball border for Make-the-Cut to use with the Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder, you can download it here... baseball border
First I drew the baseball border with the Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder & the black metallic mini gel pen.  As you can see you can get very fine details!

Then I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit to make the "D" designs as well.  I flipped the blue metal sheet face down and then sanded the raised image.  Make-the-Cut now has a dashed line feature and I used it on this image!

Here is the finished page!  We got lucky to go to such an action packed game where the Tigers won 18-2!  There were lots of hits and home runs and waves and junk food and fun!  Well for the adults, the 2 littlest didn't much care for it hehe!

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Boy frame with Chomas Creations embossing kit

A few more boy frames for you to see!  I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit to make the stars for these frames.  You can download the DS file here to use... striped stars

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Diva frames with Chomas Creations embossing kit

Ok, I had a ton of fun with these frames (minus the burns on my finger tips from the hot glue gun, eeek!  Turning your head to see what your daughter is trying to show you while using hot glue is a BAD idea!)
 My fav things to craft with are bling, glitter, this feather boa, and metal! 
I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit with Make-the-Cut to make the diva titles for these frames. You can download the file here... diva

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Halloween frames with Chomas Creations embossing kit & engraving tip

I like to show the difference between the Chomas Creations embossing kit & the Chomas Crations engraving tip from time to time using the same image, so you can get a better idea of what they each do!  With the Chomas Creations embossing kit you get a raised image on things such as metal or vellum.  Here I used it on a metal sheet to make the spooky title and the embossed cirlce image.  I sanded the raised image to give it this look.

I used the Chomas Creations engraving tips with Core'dinations cardstock on these frames to do the spooky title and circles. 

I decided to try something a bit different this time and added some Mod Podge to the engraved cardstock to see what would happen, and I really like how it glossied it up just a bit.

Notice the difference?  One is more for embossing (leaving a raised surface with the Chomas Creations embossing kit), and the other for engraving, or etching (scratching into the material with the Chomas Creations engraving tip). 
If you have ever looked at the tips together, they do have different tips to them.  The Chomas Creations embossing tip is an aluminum tip, which the Chomas Creations engraving tip has a tip made of carbide. 
Here are all 4 of the finished Halloween frames I did!  The papers and goodies are all Making Memories.

You can get both the Chomas Creations embossing kit or engraving tip on sale this week in the Chomas Creations store when you use the coupon code pink10 at checkout for 10% off your entire order!

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