Rock On birthday card with Chomas Creations micro Sharpie holder

My youngest son's 5th birthday is right around the corner (ok, now how did my baby get to be 5??) so I wanted to make him a fun rock star birthday card, as he totally rocks hehe!  I love the clear cardstock for making cards and layering them, and what could be better on the clear cardstock then the Chomas Creations micrio Sharpie holder?  The Sharpies are permanent and don't smear on slippery surfaces like this.  And I also offer 8 colors of micro Sharpies for sale on my blog!
I designed a rock star card with Design Studio and the Birthday Bash cartridge using 2 different layers for the red & blue stars on the card.  The file is available for download here... Rock on birthday card file

To get this effect is easy!  First you add the Chomas Creations micro Sharpie holder and the red micro Sharpie.  Use the red draw page in the Design Studio file to draw the red stars.

Now without removing your mat from the machine, using a scrap piece of paper under your micro Sharpie to protect your card, remove the micro Sharpie holder from the machine.  Replace it with the blue micro Sharpie and draw the blue draw page in the Design Studio file.

Again without removing the mat from the machine, using a scrap piece of paper remove the micro Sharpie holder from the machine.  Replace your blade and cut the cut card page layer.

Now you have 2 different colors of drawn stars on your card.  If you want to do something similar, you could add as many layers as you need to, just make sure everything lines up by copying and pasting on different layers.

Here is the front of the card with the title also added on.  I cut 4 layers of the title to add to the front of my card to make it pop up even more.

So where do your write your card sentiments for these cards?  Well for this one I cut 2 big yellow stars and added an extra to the back of the card to write on for the birthday boy!

Also!  Tomorrow is the big Disney/Pixar blog hop!  Be sure to drop by at 6 am eastern time (ok, so I'm posting ahead of time, I don't get up that early, hehe) for the start of the hop!  Lots of awesome blogs for this 2 day hop this time!!

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Mommy I'm a good morning with Chomas Creations engraving tip!

Every morning when my youngest would wake up, he would yell "mommy I'm a good morning" and this meant I was to go and get him out of bed!  How can you not smile every morning hearing that?
I used the Chomas Creations engraving tip on the clear plastic sheet to make the small circles, then added a navy blue paper behind it.  It really shows up nicely!

For the title I used Boys WIll Be Boys and welded the letters from it together and cut it in yellow cardstock.  I also used the sailboat and rocket from Boys Will Be Boys.

The journaling is a file I made for Make-the-Cut with my Wacom tablet that I will be sharing soon!

And here is my little sunshine waking up in the morn calling to me!

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Welcome little one card with Chomas Creations engraving tip

A friend of mine had a bouncing baby boy and I need to make a trip over for a visit, just trying to get rid of all the sickness in our house first, not good timing hehe!
Here is the card I made for her with the Chomas Cretions engraving tip for the engraving on the clear cardstock.  I also used the Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder with the light blue glitter gel pen for the star front!  I used the Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge for the title and star. 

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Birthday card with Chomas Creations micro Sharpie holder

It is my Gramp's 92nd birthday (WOW) so I made him this card!  It was actually quite simple.  I used the Birthday Bash cartridge for the title, and the card shape. 
 Black, blue, red, green, orange, purple, aqua and berry!!!  I used a pressure of minimum and multi-cut of 2 to get a nice look to the writing.
When cutting through clear cardstock I use multi-cut on 4, this gets it through all the way.

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Love is in the Air blog hop!

Amber from Staying Crafty told me she was going to do a blog hop in honor of Samantha of Scrapmaster's Paradise, and how could I resist?  Samantha is newly married!!!  1-11-11!  Congrats Samantha!  So when you stop by her blog after mine, send your congrats to Samantha!
If you have come from Sea Steph's Creations, you are in the right place!  If not, you can start at the beginning of this blog hop with Staying Crafty cause you aern't going to want to miss a blog on this hop!  Lots of great inspiration and give aways!  And the grand prize of the hop is going to be 2 sets of your choice of the SP and Company stamps!  There is also a challenge at the beginning of the hop with Staying Crafty!  All of the blogs on the hop are listed at the bottom of this post!
When I saw the Artsy Heartsy Stamps so many fun things came to mind for me!  The first of course was to make a cut file with Make-the-Cut for the heart shapes so I could play around with them!  I have this file for free download here... Artsy Heartsy MTC file 
Come back tomorrow to see another project I've done with the Artsy Heartsy stamps and the MTC file!
I used the full heart page for this layout, and used the Chomas Creations engraving tip in place of the blade to engrave or etch onto a clear sheat of Grafix 12x12 plastic.  It is thin like a transparency. 

I then took the SP and Company Artsy Heatsy patterned stamps with StayzOn to randomly stamp inside some of the etched hearts.  Click on the picture to view it even better.

I added the plastic sheet on top of a white piece of cardstock, hiding the double sided adhesive behind my photo.  I then used Zip Dry to adhere the ribbon under my photo.  Zip Dry works fantastic with ribbon and you can't see it after it dries.  I used Make-the-Cut for the word "love" which I drew with my Wacom tablet and I will be sharing at a later date on my blog.  Click on the picture to view it even better.

I will admit to keeping scraps, all kinds of scraps, ribbon, paper, and now metal sheets of scraps.  That is how I made the hearts on my page, more details on the hearts are right below this blog post.  I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit on Ten Seconds Studio's metal sheet for these hearts.

Here is the completed page with my and my hubby!  Again click on the picture to see even more detail!

**Closed**Well if you have read this far, here is your reward, hehe!

Leave a comment on this post below for a chance to win a Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder and 10 pack of assorted Chomas Creations mini gel pens!  The rules are simple, only one comment per person!  Following is not required, but why not follow? hehe  I do need a way to contact you!  Very important!  I will leave the winners name on my blog as well after I pick it on Saturday, and you have a week to get back to me, or I will pick another winner.

Next and last on the hop is Samantha at Scrapmaster's Paradise so hop on by!  She has some awesome stuff in store for you!  And again, if you haven't started with Amber at Staying Crafty head there now for a great challenge!

I'm also having some specials on my blog!  You can get the Chomas Creations embossing kit, mini gel pen holder with all 20 mini gel pens, mini Sharpie holder and micro Sharpie holder with a micro Sharpie all for $100 shipped in the US!  And all of that for $105 shipped outside the US.

I also have the Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder with 10 mini gel pens for $27.50 shipped in the US, or with all 20 gel pens for $32.50 shipped in the US. 

And I've also added a bunch of colors of micro Sharpies to my blog for those interested as well!

In case you got lost anywhere along the hop, here is a list of all the blogs on the hop!

Amber - Staying Crafty

Momo - Made by Momo

Linda -  Scrapcat Cards

Tracy - Craft Junkie Too

Stephanie - Sea Steph's Creations

Amy -  Chomas Creations

Samantha -  Scrapmaster's Paradise
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Make A Wish with Chomas Creations engraving tip

Don't mind me, but sometimes I get excited on how something turns out, like I get this idea in my head, get started, and it turns out better then I  thought.  That was this page!  I LOVE IT!  Don't mean to toot my own horn hehe!
My son turned 12 in March and this page is just now getting done!  He is such a great kid, and is turning into an awesome young man, I'm sooo lucky!
For this page, I took some 12x12 clear plastic sheets from Grafix (these are thin like acetate) and ran the graph paper pattern, which is available here... graph paper  I used the Chomas Creations engraving tip to engrave, or etch into the plastic sheet.  I wanted to add it to a piece of white cardstock, so I had to get creative with my adhesive!  It is hidden behind the picture and cardstock, title, and journaling.
The title was made and layered with Cricut's Birthday Bash cartridge.  Click on this photo for a better close up of the title and the graph paper etching!

Again my journaling was done with one of my journaling circles and then layered on patterned paper.

The papers I used for this page are all Imaginesce, as well as the ribbon and silver sticker.  Again click on the photo to see it even larger.

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Chomas Creations engraving tip video

   Sorry it took me so long, and excuse the mess, but I've been trying to clean my craft area and it keeps piling up, so I gave up and just did the Chomas Creations engraving tip video some of you have been waiting for!  Here is the card that I got done!  I used the Chomas Creations engraving tip on clear cardstock, and used George and Just Because Cards cartridges.  The paper is all October Afternoon and the vellum spray is called V2 by Helmar.

And here is the video!!!  Again don't mind the mess hehe!  Looks like you might have to watch it on youtube as you can't see the whole screen on here... Chomas Creations engraving video


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Thank Ewe card wtih Chomas Creations engraving kit!

I thought it would be fun to engrave the little sheep from Just Because Cards with the Chomas Creations engraving tip on the clear cardstock for a "thank ewe" card!  I designed the card in Design Studio, used the engraving tip to engrave, or etch the little sheep figures onto the front of my card, then without removing the mat from the Cricut, I took out the engraving tip and added the blade, and used multi-cut of 4 to cut out the card.  It was actually a pretty simple card, but I love how it turned out!  Click on the pics below to see the details even better!

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Snow much fun with the Chomas Creations engraving tip!

Well now, back to the season we are in!  The snow season in Michigan that is!  Of course snow and summer toys don't mix well...
For this page I designed the title in Design Studio with Winter Frolic and used the Chomas Creations engraving tip on clear cardstock (like a clear, thin plastic sheet) to etch into the plastic. I etched the whole pattern into the clear cardstock, then cut the letters for "snow" to add to the layer. The etched clear cardstock shows up good on lighter color cardstock, but not so much on the darker ones, so I layered it on kraft cardstock that had the edges rubbed with ink to age them.

The journaling was from the stamps from SP & Company and I have a tutorial and download for that here... stamp download

I used Basic Grey papers and snowmen for this page and the snowflakes and brads are from Making Memories.  Here is my lil man out in the snow!
 

The Chomas Creations engraving tips are in stock and shipping!

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Last Christmas project for the year with the Chomas Creations engraving tip!

Tomorrow is officially Christmas Eve, and I'm offically done with Christmas projects for the year!  I didn't get a lot of the things I wanted to get done, but this was a fun one!
I found these clear acrylic mini photo albums from Clear Scraps, and the cool news is they have more then just Christmas shapes!  I picked these up at Archivers.

They had snowmen, snowflakes, stars and Christmas trees and I saw them as the perfect ornaments after I used the Chomas Creations engraving tip on them to write the kids names!
But how to get them to fit right?  Well I traced the shapes on a piece of paper, scanned that in my computer, and then used Make-the-Cut to do an image trace of the images. 
Then I used the Chomas Creations mini gel pen holder in the Cricut to draw these images onto a sheet of paper, which I left in the machine.  I then added adhesive to the backs of my acrylic shapes (without removing the protective sheet that was on the backs of each piece), and then laid them on the piece of paper I used the Chomas Creations gel pen holder to draw on, so they were in the right spot. 
With MTC I added my names in each shape, then used the Chomas Creations engraving tip to etch into each plastic shape.  They were always in the right spot!
I simply finished with a piece of ribbon on each!  They look so pretty on the tree with the light shining through!  I made one for each of my nieces and nephews!

I hope all of you in blog land have a wonderful Christmas!!!  Take the time to be thankful for all those special people in your life and make sure you tell them how much you love them!  I'm so excited to be able to spend the holiday with my family!  I'll be back next week with more fun ideas!

Merry Christmas!

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All 4 of my acrylic frames together!

Here are the 4 acrylic frames I have made all together!  They hang above my Ikea shelves on my dining room wall.  It is hard to get a good pic of acrylic because of the glare, so I have a few different shots! 

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