More Back to School Cards with Chalk It Up

By the end of the week my eight grandkids were now all back in school, ranging from fourth grade to ninth grade. As a retired reading teacher I still get excited about the beginning of school. When they were younger they used to read to me, but they all think they're too old for that now! But I can still send them messages of encouragement. Here are five cards all made from either the retired CTMH paper pack, Chalk It Up, and their related Picture My Life cards. The first two use retired CTMH stamps that I've collected for quite a few years.

I love the retired CTMH silhouette stamp of the kids walking to school. I stamped it on a 3"x4" PML card, matted it with the star background paper and mounted it on the 4"x6" PML alphabet card.

The last three are simple using sentiments that are part of the PML cards with a few embellishments-quick and easy!

This last one has a sentiment that's my favorite of the three:

Thank you for visiting! I hope you'll also encourage the students and the teachers in your life as they begin the learning adventures of another year!


I'm sharing this project with the following challenges:

Cute as a Button #37 - Back to School
Hiding in My Craft Room #314 - Back to School
Pink and Main Challenge #24 - School

Five Back to School Cards with Chalk It Up

Come back tomorrow and join our blog hop to see what's new at CTMH!

I retired from 30 years of teaching eleven years ago, but I still get excited about school this time of year. Today two of my oldest grandsons started back to school. By tomorrow all eight of them will be in school. According to one of the youngest grandsons, he's not ready to go back to school. It does seem to come earlier each year before some of us are even ready to let them go. Here are five of my cards I just made for back to school notes. I had some retired CTMH Chalk It Up paper and remembered I also had a set of  matching PML cards that can fit in scrapbook pockets that are 4"x6" or 3"x4." That helped my cardmaking go really fast! I think I've collected all of the CTMH school stamp sets since 2004, so I used quite a variety of them that I won't name.

Thanks for visiting! I'm sharing these cards with the following challenges:

Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge #12- anything goes, twist Back to School
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Back to School
heARTful Stamping August Challenge - Back to School plus stamping
Inky Chicks #86 - use a sentiment instead of an image

Dress for a Lady with Chalk It Up

When I was a teenager our girls group at church was challenged to memorize Proverbs 31: 10 - 31. The real challenge wasn't in the memorizing, but in living up to the high standards set in the beautiful verses. Many of them were for married women, but even as a teen I wanted to build godly attitudes and character encouraged in the verses. I designed this card with a young lady in mind. It was inspired by the sketch at Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge and Bitten by the Bug's 2 challenge to use a dress or dress form cut on the Cricut. This dress was cut using my Nifty Fifties cartridge and the tiny sorbet patterned paper from CTMH Chalk It Up.

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:

Bitten By the Bug 2 - Dress or dress form cut on Cricut
Little Red Wagon Challenge #252 - Girl Power
Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge #118 - 2 or more patterned papers
Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge #212 - sketch



PDE Linky Party #17 - dies or punches (scalloped circle punch)

Shopping Our Stash #166 - use things starting with ABC ( arrows on dress, blue papers, crocheted flower)

Word Art Wednesday #147 - anything uplifting

Mojo Monday 359 Chalk It Up Cards

Today I'll be picking up four grandchildren from their Christian school. The staff is always amazing. They work hard and keep such a wonderful atmosphere in the school. I made this first card today to give to the school secretary who is the first contact anyone has with the school and works overtime to make sure everything gets completed. She gets to know every child, every family in this large K-12 school. I want to encourage her and show my appreciation for a job well done.


This week I'm playing with my CTMH Chalk It Up paper and embellishments. I had already selected the chipboard I'd use on two layouts so I selected some for these cards. The package still has more for additional layouts or cards. (The Cricut Artbooking cut file on this card was designed and shared by Melanie Brown, another one of our CTMH consultants.) I love the new black striped twill ribbon that comes with the Chalk It Up Workshop on the Go. It's fairly thick but ties beautifully. I used Mojo Monday's sketch from this week:

 Her card has this stamped sentiment inside from the CTMH stamp set "Greatest Love."

Here's an example with other chipboard embellishments from the set of Chalk It Up Complements.

If you enjoy this Cricut Artbooking cartridge project but don't have your own cartridge you can shop for it here. If you'd like to get it for half the price, you can email me for details. Also, Close To My Heart will have a new card-making Cricut cartridge, Artfully Sent, in September, so keep checking here for details.


I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
Craftin' Desert Divas Linky Party #38 - Back to School
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Back to School
Cute Card Thursday #335 - Back to School
Delightful Challenges - School Daze
Lexi's Creations #123 - Back to School
Melonheadz Friends - Back to School
Mojo Monday #359 - sketch
Ruby's Rainbow #86 - Back to School
Shopping Our Stash #165 - Chipboard
Word Art Wednesday #146 - anything goes with uplifting message