It's Your Day

 

Today I have another birthday card. Most of it was made using my Cricut Maker. This card is for my oldest grandson who is turning seven next week.

 For the card base I used some light orange card stock from my stash. The card base is from the Alexis Mattox - Classically Modern Cards image set and is the Congratulations balloon card. The card has balloons cut out of the top layer and then a slightly smaller layer behind it to give the balloons color. I used the contour feature to remove the balloons from the top layer. I then resized the card to 8.5 wide and kept the lock closed so it resized proportionately. I then took the second layer and made it a bit smaller as I wanted a bigger border on the front of my card.

Next I went to the Star Wars™ - The Child Season 2 image set and found my Baby Yoda I liked. This image set is included in a Cricut Digital Mystery Box that was released today, April 22, 2021.  My balloons come from the Disney® - UP image set. It was also in a digital mystery box that was released several months ago so I am not sure if it is available in Cricut Access. The original image has the balloons attached to a house which I didn't want. I was able to ungroup everything and delete  all the layers of the house. There are also some black balloon strings and I sliced those off. I then arranged Yoda in front and to the side of the balloons and then flattened the images together.

I then did the print and cut for my Yoda image. Next I had my Cricut cut out my card base and then the patterned paper layer. I folded the card base and then added the pattern paper. The pattern paper is from an Echo Park It's Your Birthday Boy 6" X 6" paper pad. Next I popped up my image. My sentiment is from the Whimsy Stamp Simple Sentiments stamp set. I embossed the sentiment on a scrap of the orange card stock.  I stamped the sentiment using Versamark Embossing ink then used some California Sunshine Wow embossing powder.  I love how it looks more orange after it melted.

To finish the card I added some Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the balloons and sprinkled them with a little glitter. The crystal glaze was still wet when I took my picture so I have a bit of a glare. Then I added the blue stars which were from Sizzix. This card will fit in a standard A2 size envelope.

Thanks for visiting today. I hope you enjoyed your time here.

I have entered this project to the April Anything Goes Challenge over at Love to Craft Challenge blog.

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #170

I am super excited to be joining the Let's Craft and Create Design Team. Let's Craft and Create is a fun challenge blog. I hope you will go check them out. The new challenge starting today is Anything Goes with the option to add Flowers.

For my project today I started with some heavy weight card stock cut, scored, and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I used patterned paper from the Honey Bee Stamps Birthday Bash 6" X 6" paper pad. The back mat is cut from an ombre paper and is cut to 3 3/4" X 5". The plaid patterned paper is cut to 3 1/2" X 4 3/4".

The happy birthday was cut using a My Favorite Things (MFT) die from some of the ombre paper. I cut the die also from white card stock three times and glued them together before adding the colored die cut to add some dimension to the sentiment. I attached the sentiment to the shadow die cut which was cut from vellum.

The flowers and leaves were die cut using the the MFT Stitched Garden die set. I used some scraps from the orange ombre paper as well as a green blue ombre paper from the Birthday Bash paper pad. The flower centers were cut from some yellow card stock in my stash.  To finish the card I added some Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the centers of my flowers.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Now pop on over to the Let's Craft and Create and check out the rest of the design team projects and enter the challenge.

Sunny Day Crafting H is for Heart

It is time for a new challenge over at Sunny Day Crafting.  This week's challenge is H is for Heart.  Here is what I made.

I started with a white card base cut and scored to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2".  I added a frame cut from My Favorite Things new single stitch line tag-corner rectangle frame die set. I used the largest die in the set for my blue frame.  The frame was cut from some blue water color wishes paper by Lawn Fawn.

Next I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the heart flowers image.  I adhered the flowers to my card and added some white gel pen stitching to the flowers and some highlights to the stems.  To finish off my card I added some nuvo crystal glaze to the hearts and added some colored gems to the card around the flowers.  My sentiment is from an altenew stamp set and is stamped with some hero arts passion flower ink.

Now it is your turn. Head on over to Sunny Day Crafting and link up your project using hearts.