CTMH Spotlight Hop - Cricut Art Philosophy Collection

Welcome to this month's CTMH Spotlight Blog Hop.  We are featuring the new Cricut Art Philosophy Collection from Close To My Heart - you don't want to miss this!  If you came here from Lori's Blog, you're on the right track.  If you're starting here, just keep hopping along and you'll catch everyone's awesome creations!

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As for me, I never thought I would ever own a Cricut - didn't think I would need one or even enjoy using it.  In fact, for Christmas a couple years ago David got me one, but I had also won a free Creatopia on Christmas Eve so I talked him into letting me take the Cricut back.  So this summer when Close To My Heart came out with their Cricut Art Philosophy Collection, I was interested.  After I started seeing everything you could create with just this one cartridge, I was sold.  Luckily it was my birthday last month so I knew exactly what to ask for ;-)  I am so glad I did - I have had so much fun with this cartridge and I have barely scratched the surface on what you can do with it.  Here are some of my favorite creations - there are a lot more floating around up in my head, and a lot that I want to recreate - hopefully I'll get more chances to play and share!

Something I have had fun creating are these drink pouches using the Door Hanger Pouch (cut at 9" or 9 1/2").  I made these ones for the attendees at my Crop 'Til You Drop event last month.  I was addicted to these spiral flowers before I got this cartridge - now that they are so much easier and there are 6 different styles of flowers, I am even more addicted!

Then I made these ones for the girls' teachers, the principal, and office ladies for the first day of school.  I wish I had come up with more things to put in the pouches, but it was such a last minute project (literally the morning they started school) so I didn't have time.

The first day the girls finally rode the bus we made a quick one for their bus driver.

Now it's time to hop over to Haley's Blog. 
I can't wait to see what everyone else has come up with using this versatile collection!

Here are a few other things I have created lately using this collection.
Here is a large jar I decorated for Primary (the children program at church) to remind them to R.E.D. -Read Every Day (their scriptures).  I used the Cricut for the scallop circle on the top, the pennants and letters, and the tag.

Here is a project that I've previously posted but it's a favorite - I plan on creating a few more of these!  The letters, flowers, and swirl were all created using this collection.

Thanks for looking!