Shape Card - Glittered Black Eyed Susan

I used my Gypsy to form the card base and cut all the mats, petals and flower center.

1. Combination of  scattered straw, fired brick, and orange marmalade stickles to paint the center of the flower; antique linen and orange marmalade stickles to paint the petals.  
2. Papers: DCWV , We Are Memory Keepers 
3. Cricut Cuts:
• Gypsy Wanderings - Card base is  2 tags (Cut 38 on tag feature) welded; Heart cuts on outside rim of topper
• Easter 2010 - Inside Doily
• Walk in My Garden - Petals

A Note of Thanks

I used the blackout cut  of the musical note from Gypsy Wandering as an accent on this thank you card.  The card started with a 4.25 by 11 inch piece of white card stock folded to make a portrait A2 card.  I covered the front with a 4 by 5.25 inch piece of purple designer paper after I inked the edges with a cocoa stamp pad.  I took a piece of ivory card stock and ran it through the Cuttlebug folder Allegro.  I used ink pads to  to color the cream card stock all over - one lavender and two shades of pink were used.  I then went back over the raised embossing with lavender to make it more predominate. I inked around it with the cocoa ink.  I trimmed this piece to 4 by 3.75 inches and attached it to the upper center of the purple paper.  The musical note was cut at 3.48 inches.  I inked it with cocoa ink, tied a white ribbon to one of the note stems and added three gems then pop dotted it onto the top.  I then add a gem to each corner.  The wording was printed on the computer and tucked it under the bottom of the embossed layer.
Thanks for stopping by.  Sue

Inspiring Challenge

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long posted a beautiful Christmas picture to spark inspiration for their challenge.In this picture, it was the aluminum stocking hangers and the bows on the tree that started the imagination for this card.When I was young we didn't have a fireplace.  I was always fascinated with stocking hangers when we visited families who hung their stockings for Santa.  Probably a tad envious since ours just laid under the tree.  Here's my version, thanks for stopping by.  Please leave a comment if you have time.

May your holidays be filled with Joy!

The Cricut cuts are:
reindeer - Gypsy Wanderings
stocking - Very Merry Tags
"Joy" - Wild Card

Borders & Edging with Cricut

As soon as my PaperWishes catalog comes I start drooling.  So many things, so little time, but more than that so little money and space.  I love the Tonic border system so I thought I'd play around and see if I can duplicate some of the edges with my Gypsy.  I came up with a few so far and I thought I'd share them.  Trust me, they are easy to make.  If you click on the pictures, you'll see there are some nubs on the witch images.  Those were the only trimmings I had to make.  The red borders are cut at 1.5 inches by 11.5 inches. (I only have the baby bug.)  The white borders are cut at 2 or 2.5 inches by 11.5 inches.  These would be used for scrapbooks.  I will be trying to make some smaller ones for card.  Just think of all the possibilities. LOL

Thanks for stopping by.

Sue

5 border ideas using the Gypsy.

Hearts and Stars from George Cart

Fence from PDDU

Just love those Dinosaurs fom PDDU

Fall Card for CCC

This is my entry for Challenge #41 over at Cricut Cardz Challenge.  We were to make a fall card but not use brown, orange, or yellow.  I chose to make an easel card with cream, mauve, green  and  red.Thanks for stopping by my blog.  Please leave a comment if you have a chance.  Sue

The overall card.

Side view

Close up of card topper

Close  up of inside

OWH Halloween Card

This is a Halloween card I made for Operation Write Home (OWH).
Thanks for taking a peek.  Sue

Frame is inspired from http://capadiadesigns.blogspot.com/2009/10/happy-halloween-title.html