An Experiment

I just recently bought the Cricut Cartridge Lyrical Letters. I was amazed at all the extra stuff there is on the cartridge besides the 6 font styles. One of the designs I wanted to cut out was a lacy Christmas tree that is on the cartridge. I cut it out just using some scrap paper I had in peach. Once I cut it out I got out my craft mat and spread a bunch of the Ranger's distress ink in Pine Needle on my mat and lightly misted it. I then ran the tree through the ink to color it green. When I do this again, I will just sponge the ink onto the tree. With all the little twists and turns I had a difficult time getting it covered completely in ink. I decided I wanted to emboss the tree so once it was wet with ink I covered in embossing powder. All I had was a transparent powder Kaleidoscope in color, which gave it an iridescent look. I cut this one out at 5" and it is too big for a quarter-fold card front. I think if I cut it at 4" it should fit the front of a card. I have other ideas floating around in my head about this little tree and what I could do with it but wanted to share what I came up with. The picture above shows the tree before and after the inking and embossing and does do the embossing justice. Thanks for looking.

It's the Great Pumpkin

My daughter asked me to make a Halloween card this afternoon. I bought the Wild Card Cricut cartridge a while back and haven't really had time to play with it so I thought I would use that to make the card. I cut the pumpkin card out of orange card stock and the in blackout on black card stock and glued them together. I cut out the grass on stem in green and the word Boo in orange. I layered the pieces together. I then used some brown chalk to place a slight shadow under the the stem and along the lines in the pumpkin. It doesn't really show in the picture but it does give it some definition when looking at the card. It was a really quick easy card to put together.