Plant a Flower Day Card

Abby over at Scrapbookaholic by Abby is having a Pick Your Own Holiday challenge over on her blog. I picked March 12th, Plant a Flower Day.

My card is a 4 1/4” X 5 1/2” Kraft card stock base. I added a white mat sized to 4” X 5 1/4”. I then used my Imagine and the 1:2 proportional rectangle sized at 2.5” and my Hopscotch colors and patterns Imagine cartridge to create the sky and the green “grass” section of the cards. I cut these down to 1 7/8” X 5”. I added some olive green ribbon from my stash over the seam where the two papers met. For my flowers I used my Freshly Picked Cricut cartridge and colors from my faulty Audrey Imagine cartridge for the colors of the flowers and the planter box and from the Imagine More Cards cartridge for the green leaves of the flowers. I cut the tulips and the layers at 2.7”. I ran the pink layer of the planter box through my Cuttlebug. Not sure what the name of the embossing folder is but it has a wood grain texture to it which I thought added to the planter. I pop dotted the flowers to the card for some dimension to the card.  The sentiment I added is from The Greeting Farm Because of You sentiment I bought at Cutters Creek and says Everyone needs a Friend like you. Sorry it doesn’t show up better in the photo. Thanks for visiting.

Feeling Green? Twisted Easel Card

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  Janis at Pause Dream Enjoy is having a Fun Fold card challenge on her blog and a chance to win a set of Peachy Keen stamps. I wanted to play along and just recently heard about a twist on the Easel card. It is a Twisted Easel card and thought it would work great for this challenge. While blog hopping recently I saw a really cute St. Patrick’s Day card with some frogs and the saying Feeling Green. I just thought it was so super cute and wanted to make my own version of the card and knew it would be perfect for this challenge.
To make the card I followed the tutorial on Pam Sparks blog. I can’t take credit for finding the tutorial Bob at Happy  Cardmaker posted the link and was my inspiration to give this a try.
My finished card is a 6” X 6” Square card.  I started with a piece of card stock cut 6” X 12” and scored it at 6”, then scored one side from corner to corner diagonally.  I used some dark green card stock I had in my stash for the card base. The patterned paper on the card is from a K & Co paper stack.  I used my Cricut Imagine and the Audrey cartridge for frog. The frog cut was cut at 2.7” and is  from the Once Upon a Princess cricut cartridge. The shamrocks on the inside of the card are cut at 2” and are from the Celebrate With Flourish Cricut Lite cartridge and I again flooded the layers with colors and patterns from the Audrey Cricut Imagine cartridge.  I ran the frog's stomach through my Cuttlebug and embossed it with the Tiny Bubbles embossing folder. I printed the Feeling Green sentiment out on my computer.

I am really pleased how this turned out. I hope you give this card a try, it was a lot of fun to make and actually very easy. Thanks for visiting