Cricut Card Monday #6

Potted Sunflowers -   This version of the Cricut Card cuts was a basic A2 card cut from page 28 of A Child Year.  I used actual size and my Gypsy to cut the base of the card at 4.25" by 11".

The card stock and papers are from the 6" 12" stacks of Cricut paper.  I used a MS Border punch to accent the green center panel.  The flower pot, sunflowers, and garden tools are cut from A Walk In My Garden cartridge.  I used the Cuttlebug to distress the pot and "gripper dots" to the handles of the garden tools.
Here are closeups and details:

Here is the inside of the card:

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.

Sue

Cricut Card Monday #5

I needed a masculine get well card for a relative who had extensive surgery and is facing a long recovery time.  When I saw this card in the Wrap It Up Cartridge, I had to make it since he loves cars.

It's a standard A2 portrait with  5.5" as the width.  I cut the card out of Craft card stock.  The background paper is from DCWV Flower Shower stack.  The brown, orange, olive and yellow are from a Recollections stack of 4.5" by 6.5" Fall colors.  I made the road using My Community Cartridge and I kerned it on my gypsy.  [There's a video on kerning here KERNING.  The car is cut at 3.5", the road was 2.5" before kerning.  I laid a strip of white under the cuts to make it look like the center of the road.

 Here's a closer look at the car.  I didn't put to much bling on it, just four nail heads and a few silver beads.

 The font is Road Race and I made the saying fit road side assistance.

The green car in the inside is actually the image to use for the tag.  I just made it 1.75" by 3".
I didn't take many how to pictures, but if you'd like, I will make another one and take pics as I go.

Thanks for stopping by.
Sue

Cricut Card Monday #4

As much as I complain about the snow, I must admit I love beauty of the cardinals in my snow covered pines.  This is a different approach to Cricut Card Monday.

I used a very, basic card - A rectangle from George cut at 8.5" by 5.5".  The light blue card stock is cut at 4.0" by 5.25".  I chalked around the edges and the center with a brighter blue shimmer chalk. 

The focal of the card is the branch frame from the Home Decor cartridge. I picked 3 different cardinal images from the 50 States cartridge, cut them in red and shadowed them in black. I used a yellow gel pen to highlight the beaks and feet' and a green gel pen to highlight just the center of the leaves on the branch frame.  Then I placed light green tinted pearls around the branches where there were berries.  The two snowflakes in the center are from Michaels and are glue dotted onto the card stock.  Here are the gypsy screen shots.

The frame is located on the second row, tenth column.

This shot shows the dimensions of the branch frame, and cardinal images-cut at 1.5".

This is a picture of the birds that 50 States offers.  I am truly amazed at the amount of imagery on this cartridge.  I would highly suggest it as a purchase if you like birds and flowers.

I am sending this to my cousin who is going in for a difficult surgery.  He loves birds and I thought these cardinals might cheer him up.

Thanks for stopping by.  Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Sue

Cricut Card Monday #2

Ok, so it's Tuesday :(  sorry.   I entered this at Top Tip Tuesday Challenge.

I had to really step out of my comfort zone on this one.  These are not the colors I am the most fond of, but I just love this saying, and it came printed on the green/purple card stock.  So here's the paper I started with.

I picked a card base from Paisley - cut at 5.5" x 11"

I didn't want the small cuts to show (I think they distract from the folds on the cards and are ragged looking).  So I used one of my favorite features on the Gypsy to hide elements of the design.

So now I have the card to cut without the small slits

The saying came on a rectangular card that was 3.75" by 4.25".  I wanted to frame it for the front of the card.  So I used two elements from George and Basic shapes to make the frame.

The outside of the frame is the square and the inside is the rounded poly gram directly under it.

I joined them together and cut it out.

Now this card is a tri-fold, so I wanted the frame to fit on the far left of the front of the card.

The green semi circle on the right is the slot the shuts the card together.

Here is a closeup of the front of the card:

When you open the card these is 11" of inside.  I only placed the purple wood grain paper in the center.  I added a cutout to the left side for a design element. This would make a great card for OWH.  There is plenty of room on the inside for the sender to write a message.  Or it would be a great way to send a photo.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, so I've left it blank.

Don't you just love this heart?  It looks like a frosted cake or a porcelain plaque.

 I know the print is hard to read, but this is the quote "If I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for lending me you." Flavia

The green paper and the tag are from an old collection of papers I had in my stash.  Flavia is the designer. The flowers are from Prima and the gems are from Michaels.  The heart is also an old piece from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by.
Sue

Cricut Card Monday #1

Happy 2011 everyone.  Hope your holidays were fantastic.

I decided to be a little more organized this year, LOL.  Since there are so many card cut choices throughout the Cricut cartridges, I thought I'd try to make one every Monday for a while.  So, here goes...

For this first card I used the cupcake card from A Child's Year.  It is the second image on the cartridge using the card feature.

The card was cut at 8.5" wide - which made it 5.19" high.  It was cut 3 times.  Once out of  a yellow/white card stock, then once out of red print card stock, and once out of the cupcake paper.  I cheated and used my Gypsy so I could move the second image part way off the paper so just the part I needed was cut.  Using the folded card, I traced the top of the cupcake sides. I then hand cut the cupcake paper to look like icing on the cupcake.  The icing actually is about  1/2 " taller than the card base so it could be rounded.  Also, the yellow paper was white on the back side.  I adhered the bottom and top to the white side, and I used the yellow part as the inside of the card.  When folded the card measured 5" by 5".

Here are some closeups:

The flower is cut from the 50 State cartridge.  It is the 35th design in the cartridge - the flower is the scarlet carnation from Ohio.  I cut the carnation twice and layered them with foam tape.  I cut the whole flower in green to get the leaves.  All three cuts were at 3".   Stickles give some shine to the petals.

Card ingredients:
Paper is DCWV the Birthday 12"x12" page kit.  The two square 3D word tags are also from the kit.
The presents and ballons are Recollections stickers.
Frosted Lace and Fruit Punch Stickles
3 small red self adhesive gems.
Dew Drop Ink - light brown to edge the card front.

Thanks for stopping by.  If your have any questions, please let me know.  I'd love to hear from you.

Sue