Anniversary Card

My 23rd wedding anniversary is this Saturday. My husband and I are headed to a bed and breakfast at the Oregon Coast to celebrate.  Because May is such a full month for us with birthdays, Mother’s Day and our Anniversary we usually don’t do much other than go to dinner. I decided to make a card and take with me to give to my husband while we are gone. My card base is an 9” X 4 1/2” rectangle flooded with a green gingham pattern from the Imagine More Cricut Imagine cartridge. I then used one of the images from the Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge and flooded each layer with  a pattern or color from the Imagine More cartridge. I adhered the layers and shadow together and pop dotted to the from of my card. I then cut the Happy Anniversary from the Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge and a dark brown and blue and flooded each layer with the colors from the Imagine More cartridge. I cut the sentiment at 1 1/4”. I then cut the butterfly also from the Imagine More cartridge at 1 1/2”. I cut the image using the combine feature and cut it twice. I layered the butterfly cuts with a glue dot in the middle and some small pieces of foam tape under each wing so the butterfly wings were raised. To finish the card I used some clear heat set rhinestones under the butterfly and added a cream colored ribbon. I think the colors and simplicity of the card will work well for my husband. Thanks for visiting.

It’s a Girl Mini Album

The challenge this week over at Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog  anything goes. Here is my first post as a Design Team Member. I recently bought the Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge and knew the book creative feature would make a great mini album. I also had the want to make a mini album for a co-worker who is having her first baby, a girl this summer. Mindy challenged us to go out of our comfort zone and make something we don’t usually make. Since I am a diehard card maker what a perfect time to challenge myself to make a mini album.  The album isn’t bound yet, I am waiting for my wires for my Bind-It-All to arrive probably Monday or Tuesday and will get it bound and a picture added to this post when I do.  I used the Elegant Edges and one of the images from the cartridge to cut the image for the cover. I cut the wording from the Nursery Rhymes cricut cartridge. I sprayed the green mat with some Honey Dew Mist Glimmer Mist and the pink with Pearl Glimmer Mist.

I used the Lace Edge image from page 44 of the handbook and use the book creative feature to cut my pages at 5” for my mini album. Since I didn’t have chipboard I cut each image twice out of colored cardstock and then again from my patterned paper. To cover the base pages I used some heavy patterned paper from K & Company.

I also used Images printed and cut from my Imagine and the Nursery Tails cartridge. Lace, and trims from my stash adorn many of the pages as well as some stickers and embellishments from K & Company and from my stash.

The tag on this page is actually from the Imagine More cartridge. It is the one with the little strawberry on it. I cut it at 3” and flooded the base layer with green, the next layer with pink and then left the lined paper image as is. I did not use the strawberry or the word Sweet. All of the frames in the book are also cut from the Elegant Edges cartridge. I left the back of the back cover as is. It is the same patterned paper as the front cover. This was a huge challenge for me as I do not scrapbook and have never made a layout. This is the second mini album I have made and the first of this kind. It was a lot of work but I am very happy how it turned out.

Celebrate Sunshine

Jen over at Jen's Scrap Closet is having an Imagine Challenge. The Challenge is to use the Sun from the Image More cartridge that came with most machines. This is what I came up with.
I started a with a 4 1/4” X 5 1/2” portrait card base from Kraft card stock. I used my Imagine More Card cartridge and printed a 5” blue mat and the patterned mat using the square stock image in the Imagine. I cut the blue mat down to 4” X 5 1/4” and the patterned paper mat to 3 3/4” X 5”. I cut the sun from the Imagine More cartridge at 2” using the layer feature.  Using the Straight From the Nest cricut cartridge I cut the grass image from page 41 of the handbook. I flooded the the layers with two different green patterned papers from the Imagine More cartridge. I used the border feature shift image to cut the flowers also at 2” and flooded them with a light purple color from the Imagine More Cards cartridge. I pop dotted the grass and the flowers. I also pop dotted the sun image between the layers as well as to the card. I added some yellow pearls to the middle of the flowers and stamped my sentiment Celebrate Sunshine.

Your My Cup of Tea Card

The Challenge this week over at Cricut Cardz Challenge blog is to make a project using a cricut cut of a cup. Here is what I came up with.

I started with a Kraft card stock folded to 5” x 7” for my card base. I inked the edges used the Tim Holtz Tea Dye and Wild Honey distress inks.  I used the cup from the Joys of the Season cricut cartridge found on page 51 of the handbook, flooded it with a flower pattern from the Imagine More cartridge. The cup and the shadow were cut at 2.3”. The shadow was cut flooded with a dark brown also from the Imagine More cartridge.  My tag is is also from the Imagine More cartridge found on page 17 of the handbook. The tag was cut at 6” using the layers feature. I flooded the top layer of the tag with a gold dotted pattern from the cartridge and cut this layer only at 6.2”.  My sentiment is from Kate’s Kitchen and I cut it using the layers feature. My cup and sentiment are attached using foam tape. I used my ATG gun to adhere the other layers. I added some faux stitching to each layer and the card base. I also inked the edges of all of my cuts with the  Tea Dye distress ink. I believe the ribbon is from Stampin’ Up.  Thanks for visiting.