Celebrate Spring

Spring has finally arrived and I decided to make a card to celebrate that fact. Here is what I have for you today.

My card base is 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I added a black mat cut at 4 1/8" X 5 3/8". The pink patterned paper is cut at 4" X 5 1/4". I then cut another black mat at 3 1/2" X 4 3/4". The smaller patterned paper piece is cut at 3 1/4" X 4 1/2". Both patterned papers come from the Olive Collection which is a Anna Griffin 6" X 6" Paper Pad that I got through Cutters Creek. I after adhere the larger mats together and the smaller mats together, I adhered the first two mats to my card base using my ATG gun. I then used some foam squares to pop up the smaller mats. I pulled out an old Cricut cartridge and cut my poppy from the Storybook Cartridge. I added some pearls to the middle of the flower and adhered it to my card front also with some foam squares. My sentiment is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. To finish the card I added 3 more pearls to the lower left hand corner and some white doodle dots to the flower that I added with my white gel pen.

Celebrate the Season

I've had the new Anna Griffin Winter Wonderland Cricut cartridge for awhile now but haven't had a chance to use it. Then I got a 6 X 6 Anna Griffin paper pad and figured it was time to breakout the cartridge. This is what I came up with.

My card base is ivory card stock and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added a dark gold mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then the textured gold mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". The snowflake paper is from the Anna Griffin paper pad and was cut at 3 1/2" X 4 3/4".

The snowflake is from the Winter Wonderland cartridge and was cut at 3".  I cut the base layer out of white card stock and then painted it with the Tarnished Brass Distress Stain.

I embossed my sentiment with some Silver WOW embossing powder. To finish the card, I added some Platinum Pearl Liquid Pearls to the sentiment and the center of the flower.