Baby Shower Cards

A co-worker asked me if I could make a couple of baby shower cards for her. She doesn’t know if the babies are boys or girls so it was a bit of a challenge. Most of the patterned paper I had was either for a girl or boy. This is the first one I came up with.

I started with a 4 1/4” X 5 1/2” white card stock base. I then added a green mat cut at 4” X 5 1/4” and then the patterned paper cut at 3 3/4” X 5”. I used a corner rounder to round the two outside corners on each layer. I cut the Bundle of Joy at 3 1/2” from the Everyday Pop Up Cricut Cartridge. I added a light yellow ribbon and pop dotted the image to my card.

For the second card I again started with a 4 1/4” X 5 1/2” white cardstock card base. I added a teal blue mat cut at 4” X 5 1/4” and my patterned paper cut at 3 3/4” X 5”. I wrapped some teal twine around the card and adhered it to my base. I cut the baby carriage from the Mother’s Day 2010 seasonal cartridge at 3 1/2”. I cut the base layer from green and the top layer from yellow cardstock. I added some tiny white buttons to the center of the wheels and pop dotted the whole thing to my card front. I stamped my image with some yellow ink on white cardstock and cut it down and matted it with some green card stock and then added it to my card with some foam tape as well. I hope she likes them.

Happy 21st Birthday

The challenge this week over at Paper Playtime is to make an easel card. Since my son was turning 21 (last week, can't believe he is 21 already!) I decided to make his birthday card an easel card. This is what I came up with.

I started with a piece of tan colored card stock cut to 4 1/4" X 11". I then scored this card stock at 2 1/4" and 5 1/2". My mug is cut from the Everyday Pop Up Cricut cartridge at 5". I used my Imagine and the Hopscotch color cartridge for the colors on the mug. I cut all the layers and adhered them together after inking everything lightly with some Wild Honey distress ink. I added some Rock Candy stickles to the foam at the top of the mug and covered the entire mug with Glossy Accents so it gave the appearance of glass. Cheers is also cut from the Everyday Pop Up Cartridge and was cut at 1 1/2". I again used the Hopscotch cartridge and flood filled the shadow layer with a dark blue from the cartidge and the top layer with a pattern. I attached Cheers with pop dots to the inside of my card. Finally I cut a circle from Birthday Bash at 2" and stamped my sentiment in dark blue ink. I threaded some twine through the tag and tied it to the handle of the much and attached the the tag to the front of the mug with a glue dot. He loved the card and had a great birthday!

Oh, by the way, Mary at CardzTV is our guest designer this week at Paper Playtime and has a video tutorial on her blog on how to make an Easel Card. Be sure to pay her a visit. Thanks for visiting and I hope you will play along with us at Paper Playtime.

Z-Fold Welcome Baby Card

The challenge this week at Paper Playtime is to make a Z-Fold card. I started with a piece of card  stock 4 1/4" X 11" and scored and folded it at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2". I then cut two pieces of patterned paper 2 1/2" X 5 1/4" and one piece cut at 4" X 5 1/4". I cut the baby carriage at 3" from the Everyday Popup Cricut cartridge and added some lace trim to the carriage and some pink brads to the wheels.

Here is  a look at the inside of the card.

I cut the onesie at 2" also from the Everyday Popup Cartridge. I added a purple mat and white cardstock and stamped my sentiment that says good things come in small packages. To finish the card I tied a pink ribbon around the card and added a prima flower pink pearl in the center.  I want to apologize for the poor pictures. I killed my new laptop by spilling water on it and the pictures were on there and on facebook. I had to download these from facebook. I hope you join in the challenge this week at Paper Playtime.

Everyday Pop Up Card

I had a chance to try out my new Everyday Pop Up Card Cricut Cartridge this morning. Got to love some days off of work! Any how, this cartridge was a bit of a challenge for me and I don’t think I have it quite figured out yet. With 6 birthdays over the next several weeks in my family I opted to try one of the birthday cards on the cartridge.  Here is the first card I made with the cartridge. I opted to use the pop up phrase inside and put a cricut cut on the outside of the card.

All of the cuts I used are from page 61 of the handbook. I used colors and patterns from the Yummy Imagine cartridge and cut everything on my Imagine. I cut the card base at 5 1/2”. I cut the cupcake and it’s layers at  4”. I think my cupcake is a little too big but didn’t have time to redo it. I ran the layer for the wrapper through the cuttlebug and I believe that is the herringbone pattern embossing folder. I also ran the chocolate frosting layer through the cuttlebug and embossed it with the swirls embossing folder. I adhered everything together and and added some Firefly, Fruit Punch, and Tropical Tangerine stickles to the sprinkles.  To finish off the cupcake I wrapped some dotted ribbon from my stash around the cupcake and added a flower.

For the popup inside, I wasn’t sure what size to cut it but also cut it at 4”. I flooded it with a blue pattern from the Yummy cartridge. There were no real score marks on the tabs that cut attached to the words so it was a little bit of a guess as to where to fold them. The bottom of this cut is fairly lacey and didn’t fold real well. I used Scor-Tape on the tabs to adhere it to the card.

Overall I am pleased with how it turned out. I will be playing with this more and would like to try out the image pop up next time.  I do think there were easier images to try as the first time but you know me, never can seem to do anything that is too easy.