Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday



Welcome back for another

My Cricut Craft Room
On WYEGW, we can use anything on the cricut cartridge EXCEPT the main image.  For my project today, I chose the A Child's Year Cartridge.  For the longest time I hesitated on buying this cartridge, since my kids all all grown up and I thought I had no need for this cart.  I kept see projects made on other blogs and the Cricut Messageboards using this cartridge.  So I finally decided to buy it!!
I picked the image on page 39, it is using the ICON feature using the shift key.  Here is the sneak peak!!
I cut the image at 3.5" in cream color cardstock.  I knew I wanted to cover it with stickles.  When I first tried painting on the stickles, I was not getting full coverage.  You could see alot of the cream color, so I decided to wipe off the stickles and add some color with chalk. 
Here is what the image looked like with just the chalk.
Pretty good, but I needed to add the sparkle, so I added Candy Cane and Green Stickles.  All the paper is from Close to My Heart "Elegant Bouquet" paper pack.  I have alot of the older CTMH paper packs, so now I am trying to use them.  I have so much paper, I kind of vowed not to buy anymore until I used up at least some of what I have.  We will see how long that will last...LOL!! 
Here is a picture of the finished card.

I inked the edges of all the paper with Distress Ink in Tea Dye.  I used the Swiss Dots and Divine Swirls Cuttlebug folders for the two mats.  I added some My Craft Spot Crinkle Ribbon in Scarlett Red.  I finished the card off with a tag from the coordiating sticker stack from CTMH and the sentiment is from Paper Trey Inks "Birthday Basics" Set.
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17 comments:

Josie0602 said...

Very pretty Kathy!
Tracy
http://scrappininthewoods.blogspot.co

cema1cema said...

Such a great card Kathy! Christina ccapps35@gmail.com

angel4ever said...

I love it!

Samantha said...

Beautiful card!

Samantha
samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com

ClaireR said...

Love you card. Love the sparkle. Great use of the cuttlebug folders. I need to use embossing more often. Thank you for showing me that you can mix and match.
Claire -dt sista

Unknown said...

This is simply beautiful! I love all the stickles. TFS, Mary M

Anonymous said...

This is so pretty! Nice work!

Doris P. said...

what a beautiful card. I need to look at the Icon features again! - fellow dt sis

vick6740 said...

wow this is sooo amazing i loved it. Thanks for sharing your joy of card making! DT sister

Connie Can Crop said...

So gorgoeus and just have to add how sweet I think your dogs are on your blog. So fun!

Liz said...

wow very pretty and I love all the dif collections you used in this I may have to go shopping

Jen R said...

What a gorgeous card! TFS!
Jenny R
myimagitvity.blogspot.com

Jen L said...

Very Pretty ... DT Sister

Ashley Nicole said...

Very pretty. Love the embossing.
Ashley-DT sister

Sheila said...

So very beautiful and elegant!

Sheila
http://2pawprints.blogspot.com

Vicky said...

Beautiful

Shelly Lynn said...

Another beautiful card Kathy!! :)

DT Sis, Shelly Lynn