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.

Enormous Thanks

Tonight's card is one that I scraplifted from the January issue of Scrap & Stamp magazine.  Granted I'm not much of a stamper but the stamping magazines have a lot of great ideas and I enjoy perusing them for ideas too.

So once again, I present you with a card made using Create a Critter - my new favorite cartridge.  I tried on several different size and style of wiggle eyes and dh and I both loved this set best.  We thought they were the perfect pair for that puppy dog eye look.

The inside sentiment says, "Thanks, your help was enormous."

Edited:  May 22, 2010 - I am so excited to announce that another one of my cards made the Chirp!

Winter Wonderland Altered Clock

I love the new Winter Wonderland cartridge and when I saw the ice skater on this cartridge I knew that I had to use it with this background paper I had purchased a while back.

I've been wanting to make a clock for a little while now so I finally bought a couple from Walmart and sat down and made this one a few days ago.

And since I've been asked about how I know where to place my numbers/images on the clock face so that it will tell the correct time I created a tutorial.

If you would like a copy of the tutorial please see the tutorials tab.





UPDATED: Wow! This is the third time that one of my creations has made the Cricut Chirp! and I am excited beyond words. Check it out: http://www.cricut.com/newsletters/volume.aspx?ID=202

Sesame Street Birthday Pop-up

Today is my niece's first birthday and I wanted to:

use the Sesame Street cartridge,

make a pop-up, and

try the pop-up layering technique

With that said this is the card that I created. Not too terribly bad for a first attempt, but it was time consuming. Will I try it again? Of course! I loved the way that it turned out - even if it isn't "perfect".


My only complaint - every picture I took washed out the colors.........I really need to invest in a better camera.

My finished card measures 6 1/2" x 5". The characters were each cut at 2 1/2", the cake and the balloons were cut at 1". The banner was computer generated but is also at 1" tall.

If you would like a copy of the tutorial please see the tutorials tab.



UPDATE: I am so excited because this card actually made the August 3rd edition of the Cricut Chirp newsletter. This is the 2nd time that I have had this honor and man is it exciting to see that my work was chosen with all the hundreds of projects that were posted on the boards that week. http://www.cricut.com/newsletters/volume.aspx?ID=195

I heard him exclaim

This is a card that was buzzing around in my head while I was awake and sick in the wee hours of last night/this morning. It is also my first creation using the Christmas Noel cartridge.

For this card I stretched the window to make it fit a 5" tall card but at the same time making it wide enough to actually look like a window. The santa and moon were cut at just under 2" high. The hair is from PPDU, and the hand as well (I manuevered the 'body' so that most of it was off the cutting grid - that way I didn't waste paper).

The inside sentiment reads " I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night".

UPDATE: Oh my gosh! I made the Cricut Chirp newsletter....I have never had such an honor before - this is so exciting. Check it out http://www.cricut.com/newsletters/volume.aspx?ID=156