Butterfly Pop Up

A couple of years ago Sizzix came out with this really nice looking scalloped pop-up die.  However, I didn't want to spend the money on this particular die so I took the Cricut challenge to see if I could recreate it.  Surprisingly enough I was successful and this is the first card I made using this pop-up.

 

To create the pop-up design I used:

•  Accent Essentials for the scalloped circle cut at 6"
• George for the placement of cuts to create the pop outs/ups

For the other cuts on my card I used:

Home Decor for my flourishes (coming off the top and bottom of the scallop)

April Showers for the other butterflies, trees, worm and spring banner

I even decided to break out my Cuttlebug for this one and used the Cuttlebug for the blue and green butterflies - I have the cut and emboss butterfly set

School is Cool

Happy Wednesday everyone.  I hope that your's is starting out better than ours.  We have once again begun our day with rain.  Not that I mind the rain - I just don't like having to drive in it.  :::sigh:::

Today I'd like to share a card with you that was created for the School is Cool challenge over at Cardz TV.  Our directive this week was to create a back to school card using any cartridges and colors we chose. 

I laid out several different designs until I finally decided on this one which came about as I was looking for background paper to use for the others I had in my head.  A while back I was 'RAK'd' from one of my groups and part of that RAK was this wonderful page from an old reading primer.  Seriously, how much more perfect could this paper be for back to school?  Well okay, there are probably others out there but for me this was it!

So off I went designing my new card and for this one I used:

Autumn Celebrations for the glasses (think grandparents day cut)

April Showers for the worm

Locker Talk for the book

After putting my cuts together I decided to place them on an action wobble to add a bit of fun to the card.

And now that you've seen my take on this week's challenge, why not create  your own, link up and play along with us?  You have until August 14th so get inspired.  I can't wait to see what you create.

Owl Always Love You

So this week I am the featured DT Member for the Just A Scrappin' team and as part of my feature I was asked to create a card to go along with the Q&A.  Now when I thought up (boy does that sound "Southern" lol) this card I had a much grander vision of the way it would turn out and, I guess, in the end, it's not too bad.  Although I was hoping that at the very least my appeture would work a bit better. 

Appeture Close Up

Anyhoo.....I used Create a Critter for my owl, April Showers for the butterfly, and Sweethearts for my tree.  When I laid the tree cut out on the mat though I stretched it just a bit so that my tree trunk would be a little bit wider for creating the appeture.  Once removed from the mat, I used my exacto blade to make a cross cut then grab each corner with a pair of surgical grips and rolled the paper back to create my opening.

On the inside of the card I adhered my owl so that its face fit center to the opening on the front.

Now, if you'd like to see the questions that were asked of me and delve a little bit more into what helps to keep me 'sane' take a gander over at the DT member feature on Just A Scrappin'.

God's Promise

Happy April 18th - or International Juggler's Day.  Now how's that for a bizarre 'holiday'?  Hmmmmm, I think I smell a challenge idea coming on.......

Anyhow, back to the here and now.  It's time for another installment in Cricut Cardz Challenges.  Today's challenge is brought to you by April Showers, where our directive was to make a card using an umbrella, rain boots, clouds, raindrops, puddles, etc. from any cartridge/s we choose.  As you can see I chose to use a couple of the different cuts listed. 

On to the 'recipe'.  For my card I used the following cartridges and cuts:

A Child's Year for the girl silhouette cut at 4 1/4".  I cut away the umbrella from the silhouette so I could replace it with another one in color.

Graphically Speaking for the puddles cut at 1" and 1 1/2" hiding the contour for the flowers.

Everyday Pop-up Cards was used for several cuts including:

• The clouds.  To do this I cut the pop up mechanism at 5 3/4"and 4".  I hid the contours for all the pop up pieces and the slider holes in the clouds.  After cutting and printing the verbiage on the clouds I embossed and lightly inked over them.
• The umbrella on the outside of the card cut at 2 3/4"
• The pop up on the inside of the card cut at 6 1/4"

April Showers for the worm cut at 1" and the butterfly cut at 3/4".

And now that you have seen my card, why don't you hop on over and check the other awesome designs our team came up with for this week's challenge.  Then after you've soaked in all that inspiration create your own card and play along with us.

UPDATE:  I'm excited to have found out that this card made the April 27, 2012 edition of the Cricut Chirp.

You're a Cut Above

I've had this quote running around my head for days and finally got it put into a card today.  I had fun making this card - like I do all of them of course....

For this card I used:

April Showers for the squirrel, butterflies and tree
PPDU for the frog
Plantin Schoolbook for the grass
Chore Chart for the lawnmower

I don't remember which one I used for the clouds as they were leftovers from a previous project.

Under the Weather Get Well Card

Today's card is brought to you from the wonderful new April Showers seasonal cartridge.  I just love the boots on this cartridge and truth be told were the motivating factor in my purchase.

For this card I used:

Accent Essentials for the background piece cut at 5 1/4".  I placed a 2nd second cut on the DS mat in such a manner that I could cut the bottom portion only for the grass.

Graphically Speaking for the rain puddles scaled down to sizes that were proportionate with what I was doing.

April Showers for the boots cut at 1 1/2" and the umbrella cut at 2 1/2".

To add texture to the card I used swiss dots to emboss the umbrella.  I also applied glossy accents to the rain drops and lighty sprinkled some turquoise glitter on them.  Glossy accents was also applied to the rain puddles and toes of the boots.