Baby's Toy and Action Wobbles

This past week I received my first shipment of action wobbles and I have been dying to try them out.  Ok not literally dying but I have been as anxious as a dog chasing a cat.  So with this weekend's show over and two new orders about a quarter complete I decided to set them aside and play for a few minutes.  But then my play ended up working into work for one of the orders.   Don't you just love how that happens sometimes? 

Anyhoo, I decided to go with a baby's toy as my action item because those are generally wobbly things.  I mean what better for my first use?  Baby Steps was my cartridge of choice for this card. I cut the baby girl at 5" and the toy at 2".

And in case you haven't seen or heard of action wobbles here's a little video to show you what they do.

Father's Day Tool Belt

A year or two ago these tool belts were running around the Cricut MB thanks to the creative genius of Ruelysi.  Well I just rediscovered this great project and decided to create one for my own dad this year.  With that said this tool belt and tools were created using the cut file created by Ruelysi using George and Basic Shapes.  (If you download this file from her please make a donation as a lot of work went into creating this great file.)

I also added the Super Dad badge using the new Father's Day cartridge.  The screw brads I found at Michael's yesterday and are the perfect touch for this manly belt.

Baby Dreams

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Today is Cricut Cardz Challenge day and our challenge for today was to create a baby card using any cartridges and colors we desire.  What a perfect opportunity to break out and use my brand new Baby Steps cartridge.  This is another great new cartridge that is chock full of adorable cuts and I love that they have cuts specific for a boy or a girl! 

For my card this week I used Baby Steps for the following cuts:

Baby Girl on the Moon cut at 5"
Bottles cut at 3/4"

George for the ovals, the large one skewed to measure 1 1/2" tall and 2 1/2" wide and the smaller ones skewed to a proportionate size.

Rush Delivery Birthday Pop-Up

I had some free time to sit in my craft room and play around this afternoon so I decided to break out my new Everyday Pop-Ups cartridge.  I've had it for a couple weeks now but didn't want to play with it until I had time in case I had issues figuring out whatever mechanism I chose.

So for my first card I decided to use one of the easier pop-ups and went with the airplane.  For the inside piece I cut the pop-up itself and also cut layers to add color and definition to it.  Before putting it all together I made sure to score and fold all the pieces ensuring that they would lay and work together properly.

The gifts on the front of the card were cut from Sweet Treats.

Now that I've made one of the pop-ups from this cartridge I'm anxious to do some others as I'd really love to see how they turn out.  Hopefully this will be a cartridge that won't let me down!

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.

You're Such A Stinker

As soon as I received the new Campin' Critters cartridge I knew that I wanted to use this adorable skunk cut.  I cut him out at 3" and the little frog I cut at 1".

On the inside of my card it says "...thank you for your kindness".

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