A Child's Year Christmas

I had a bunch of Christmas Cards to finish up this weekend and had to keep them simple. I decided to use the A Child's Year Cricut cartridge for a few of the cards.

My cards are both 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I used white for my card base and my top layer. Both card images were cut at 3 1/2". I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder on the white and red card. The paper on the green card is from Echo Park.

Cherry Wishes!

I recently received the Preserves cartridge and a 6 X 6 pack of Basic Grey paper called Lemonade that I ordered. I loved the Cherry paper in the pack and knew just wanted I wanted to do with it. Well today I finally had time to put my idea together, and I am pleased how it turned out. The card is 4 1/2 X 6". The card base is Core de'nations gemstone card stock. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey and the pink paper as well as the paper for the cherries are all from scraps in my stash. I cut the cherries and the layers at 3".  I used my Gypsy to weld the Cherry Wishes together using the font from A Child's Year and it is cut at 2". I used my EK Success dotted scallop border punch to punch the edge of the patterned paper. I embossed the pink paper with the three dots embossing folder from Sizzix using my Cuttlebug. The green ribbon is some I picked up at Michaels. I added some bling to the words and the dark cherry with my pink stickles and used the fruit punch stickles for the lighter cherry. I am pleased how it turned out and it was a nice cheery card to make on this cold, wet, rainy, windy day.

Luck O' the Irish Card

Just Buggin has a challenge going on to make something green for St. Patrick's Day. Here is what I came up with. It was a lot of fun to make. The card base is from the A Child's Year cricut cartridge and was cut at 5 1/2" and will fit an A2 envelope. I used some Core'denations  Gemstone card stock for the card base. The hat is also from A Child's Year and was cut at 2 1/2". I put a piece of green card stock behind the hat band and the shamrock in the hat and then to give them some bling I used some lime green stickles. The ribbon is from a small Martha Stewart pack that I picked up at Big Lots. The stamp is a dollar stamp I got at Craft Warehouse. The tag that I stamped the sentiment on I cut also from A Child's Year. I re sized it with my Gypsy to fit the stamp. The hat is attached with foam tape to pop it up. Thanks for looking.

Circle Card

There was a challenge in the Gypsy Forum on the Cricut Message board for a project created using circles. The Cricut Cardz Challenge had a challenge to make a Spring project using, flowers, butterflies, or birds. So, I thought I would do both challenges with one card. Here is what I came up with.

The card base is from the Sentimental cartridge and cut at 5 1/2", the pink circle is from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge and cut at 5". I ran the pink circle through my Cuttlebug using the Sizzix trio dots folder. The flowers were cut from the Forever Young cartridge and cut at 1 1/2". I cut the shadow and both layers. The word Enjoy I welded with my Gypsy and is the font from A Child's Year. I used buttons for the flower centers and used Stickles to give the flowers some glitz. I cut a butterfly from Gypsy Wanderings at 1 1/4" and used the Cotton Candy Stickles to give the butterfly some sparkle. I then covered everything with Glossy Accents to further jazz it up.

My Favorite Color

I made this card for a challenge on the My Pink Stamper blog. A lot of folks including her are snowed and iced in this weekend. So Robyn has posted a couple of challenges on her blog. This card is for the first one. The challenge was to use your favorite color and black and make a project. Purple is one of my favorite colors so I decided to use that. My card base is 4 1/2" X 6 and is some purple bazzill card stock I had on hand. The black mat is cut at 4 1/4" X 5 3/4" and is Die Cuts With A View card stock. The green patterned paper is from a K & Company super pack that I got at Joann's this morning and is cut at 4" x 5 1/2".  I used A Child's Year Cricut cartridge to cut the little girl with the umbrella. I chose that cut because it went with the kind of weather we are having here today. I cut the girl and the shadow at 3". The Just a Note is cut at 2' and is from the Wild Card Cricut cartridge. Since the phrases don't have a shadow feature I just cut the phrase twice and offset it slightly to give a shadow effect. The flowers are Prima flowers that I held together with flower shaped brade and the ribbon is some I bought at Michaels. I used foam tape to adhere the girl and the phrase and a glue dot to adhere the flower.