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.

Birthday Card

My niece turns 24 on Monday so I had to come up with a quick card to get in the mail in the morning. This is what I came up with.

I started with a piece of white card stock folded to 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” as my base. I used the 8:10 stock image on my Imagine and cut it at sized it to print and cut at 4 1/2” and flooded it with a light olive green from the Imagine More Cards cartridge. I cut this mat down to 4” x 5 1/4” and ran it through my cuttlebug using the Paisley embossing folder. I then cut the Happy Birthday Chick image found on page 10 of the handbook for the Image More Cards cartridge at 3 1/2” using the layers feature and deleted the chick and his hat so it didn’t cut. I then cut just the birthday cake from the image on page 2 of the handbook. I again did this using the layers feature and deleting the images I did not want. I cut the cake at 2.3”. I added some yellow and orange stickles to the candle flame. Since I have to mail this card I limited the use of foam tape to just the back of the striped paper to adhere the image to the card. All the other layers were adhered together using my Zig Two Way glue pen and  added some ribbon from my stash. Thanks for visiting.

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.