New Challenge at Exploring Cricut

The challenge for this week at Exploring Cricut is to create a card, layout or papercraft for Father's Day using any 2 Cricut cuts. I decided to resort to my comfort zone and do a card for my dad.

My Father's Day card is 5x7 and the pattern paper is from the Wings paper pack. I used cartridges Father's Day (of course) and Calligraphy Collection.

"Happy Father's Day" was cut using Calligraphy Collection at 3.59.
The golf club, ball, and tee was cut using Father's Day at 3.71. Since I use a Gypsy I was able to use the hide feature to make the three cuts.

I used the embossing folder "Swiss dots" to put the holes in the golf ball. The ball looks a little out of focus because I put gray ink on the raised nubs of the folder so that there would be some definition to the golf ball and it moved before I could pull the handle.

A very simple card, but my dad is a golfer so it is so perfect for him. Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope you find your inspiration to create your Father's Day project. Don't forget to post to the Exploring Cricut site so that you can be entered for the prize!

Exploring Cricut: Daily Project for 2/25

Hello one and all! This has been a busy couple of weeks with a lot of good and bad happening. One great things that is coming up this summer is a member of my church is getting married. Not really one to go to weddings (too depressing for your's truely), but I do believe they need to be celebrated. Mom and I were invited to a shower, so I decided to create the bridal shower card.

The base is white daisy 5.5x4.25
elemental pattern paper 5.25x4
Heavenly Blue heart and M
Cotton Candy heart and A
Hearts are 2.43x2.06

Initials are 2.99x2.76
The hearts were cut using Sweethearts cartridge, and the initials were cut using Calligraphy Collection.

I tried to intertwine the hearts and letters to symbolize the joining of two hearts in marriage. Not sure that shows up in the picture, but I'm pleased with the result! Since I did the hard part, Mom now gets to write on the inside.
thanks for viewing my project and have a blessed week!

Birthday Challenge

Hi All! Wow, seems January is really flying by. Before you know it we'll be smack dab into February and we'll probably finally have some snow, but it will probably be up to our kneees. Winter in Kentucky is interesting to say the least. We always tell visitors if they don't like the weather, wait a minute and it'll change. Considering we are also known as Sinus Valley, I'll take the snow and cold, at least my allergies get a little break.


For this weeks challenge we were asked to create a card, page, or paper project with a birthday theme, easy enough! To add a little twist you can only use the colors blue, green, yellow, white, and red. That made it a little more challenging for me. My resolution for this year is to really get into some of my cartridges that I havne't used in awhile, and so far I'm doing pretty good. This project is split, one cartridge I've never used and one that I use often.

I decided to create a birthday card for this challenge. I'm always needing a birthday card and by the time I realize I need one, it's too late to make one. It's kind of embarassing when the "card lady" has to send a store bought card. I started with a white base that was 5.5x4.25. I added a multi-colored stripe that was 5.25x4. The striped paper may look like I cheated a little but the darker stripes really are navy. I tried to use different colors of the blue and green. The present was cut using the Hello Kitty Greeting cartridge and the Height was cut at 4.18" as measured using the Gypsy. I believe I've been putting my dimensions down incorrectly in past projects. If I've put that I've measured using the Gypsy, then it's the height not the width that I've given. So sorry if this has caused any confusion. I used Crystal Blue, Sweet Leaf, and Sunny Yellow cardstock on the cut of the present. For the "Happy Birthday" I used the cartridge Calligraphy Collection and it was cut at 2.29" for the height. The saying was cut out using Sweet Leaf cardstock then layers onto a Sunny Yellow and White Daisy.

Recipe:
Pattern paper: stripe from Fanfare (CTMH)
Cardstock: White Daisy, Crystal Blue, Sweet Leaf, Sunny Yellow (CTMH)
Cartridges: Hello Kitty Greeting, Calligraphy Collection

Thank you for playing along with the challenge, and thanks for taking the time to look at my project!

Happy Scrapbookin'

Exploring Cricut Daily Project: Happy Birthday

I am in charge of today's daily project so my idea is for a birthday card for someone other than a child. (Not that it couldn't be for a child)

I started off with a cranberry base. I cut the cake on the plate from the cartridge From my Kitchen. The cut was made at 4" on Heavenly blue, sky, chocolate, and vanilla cream to get all of the different layers.

The font is from Calligraphy Collection and it was cut at 3" from another red cardstock (not sure of the name may be cardinal). I used my Gypsy to weld the letters together before cutting and adhered the title over the piece of cake.

This card was very simple and could be blinged up quiet a bit, but it was made for someone that prefers simple. Thanks for viewing my project! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and took tons of pictures to scrapbook!!! Til nex time, Happy Scrappin' Emily