Card Creating Tuesday - Sketch

So, for today, I have a very simple card for you.

As I indicated last week, for this month,

I signed up for the sketch each week.

I am trying to expand my style...LOL

Here is the sketch we were to use today

This was a very simple card.

The only Cricut cut is the brown

frame piece in the middle.

This was cut using George and Basic Shapes.
I wanted to keep it plain because it is for my husband.
With Father's Day and his birthday both on
Sunday, I needed a couple of cards.
He likes to wear hats, so I thought
this was perfect for him!!

The darling little hat is a die cut

from My Creative Time's

newest release called

"Here's Looking at You".

The sentiment is from the same set.

The background paper is DCWV "Green Tea" Stack.

The ribbon is from my stash.

Thanks for looking and please make sure

you check out what the rest of the

design team made today at

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

I will be entering this card in a few challenges:
More than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #72 Father's Day
My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge #59 - King of the Grill
My Creative Time Throwback Thursday Color Challenge
Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge - Father's Day
DL ART - Thankful Thursday - Father's Day

WYEGW - Use the Phrase Feature or Flocking

Welcome back for another



This is a very long post with lots of pictures, so I hope you hang around til the end!!

In case you were wondering, on Would You Ever Guess Wednesday, the design team is to use only the Feature Keys and not the main image on the Cartridges.  We can also use a Cricut Cake Cartridge for a paper project or a regular cartridge for a cake project.

For this weeks WYEGW, we were asked to use the

phrase feature on any cartridge.

We could also choose to use Flocking on a project. 

I did both!!

For my project today, I used a phrase from the Florals Embellished Cartridge

and a little bit of George and Basic Shapes.

Here is a sneak peak:

The phrase I chose is Best Wishes from page

64 of the handbook.  Now I wanted to make a

shaped card using the phrase that I chose. 

The phrases on this cartridge do not have a

shadow feature, so I had to create my own.

So, using my good old gypsy, I brought the phrase

onto my mat.  I hid as many of the line that I could,

but I still had gaps that I did not want. 

So this is where I used squares,

rectangles and other shapes from the

George and Basic Shapes cartridge to fill in those

gaps and then I welded everything together!! 

I then copied the image, flipped it and

then welded that to the first piece and voila!! 

I have my shaped card base!!

Here is a picture of the whole mess on my gypsy!!

Now, I tried cutting the card base out of

pattern paper, but it was just too busy, and plain

cardstock was too plain!!  So what I did was create

my own pattern paper with a soft pattern. 

To do this, I used a background stamp,

some versamark ink, some

clear embossing powder and my heat gun. 

I just love the way it came out!!

 Here you can see how the paper looked with and

without the stamped and embossed background!

It is hard to see, the the background has a

raised, shiny look to it, so it is soft and subtle,

but really makes a big difference. 

I am definately going to use this technique again!

So, here is my finished card:

I am really happy with the way it turned out. 

I added some liquid pearl dots.

The black fuzzy dots on the butterfly is black flocking.

Thanks for hanging in there with this uber long post!!  Make sure you stop by

My Cricut Craft Room to see all the other wonderful projects today.

Here is a list of the supplies I used:

Florals Embellished (phrase from page 64 cut at 6.5"w x 3.11" h)

George and Basic Shapes

DCWV Lemon Flower Paper Stack

Close to My Heart Adorable Backgrounds Stamp Set

Versamark Dazzle Ink in Frost

Zing Clear Embossing Powder

Doodlebug Flocking

Liquid Pearls in Buttercup and Silver Pearl



Would You Ever Guess Wednesday

Today is Would You Every Guess Wednesday over at My Cricut Craft Room



We could use the feature keys on a cartridge, make a cake project with a regular cartridge, or use a regular cartridge to make a cake creation. We also had the option to use the Icon Feature Key. So there are 5 different ways that we could have made our projects today.  Now I had signed up to use the Feature key, but I misunderstood that I was supposed to use the Icon Feature key!!  I thought I could use any feature key.  Oh well, I will get the hang of this sooner or later!  Anyway, here is my project:

For this card I used the Beyond Birthdays and George and Basic Shapes cartridge.  It was a fairly simple card to make, but I had the hardest time cutting the center part with the word love.  I had to cut it 3 times because the paper kept tearing!!  UGGGG!!  And I was using one of my favorite Close to My Heart paper packs "Sillouette". 

Anyway, I finally got it cut out, and assembled the card.  I used the framed feature on the Beyond Birthdays cartridge.  This image is on the bottom row. 3rd from the left.  I cut the same image several times, each layer I hid certain cuts using my gypsy.  For the card base, I welded two of the ovals with a small little rectangle from George.  All the oval images were cut at 6" W, and the rectangle was cut at .56" H.

Here are a couple of pictures that show the images on my gypsy screen before and after welding together and then a pic of all images cut on the mat.  I added a piece of red glitter cardstock to the back of the center image, so that the red glitter would show through the word LOVE.

I inked the whole think up with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tea Dye, added some Scarlett Red Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot, and then I added some little red glitter dots from Stampendus.

FCCB Challenge #70 - Melon Time

Ok, so I am on a roll.  This is the 3rd card this week!  I am so glad I finally started a blog.  It is inspiring me to enter challenges, and build up my stash of cards.

Here is my entry for the FCCB Challenge #70 - Melon Time

The melon is from Preserves cut at 4 inches.  The little tag is from George and Basic Shapes cut at 2.5".

I used the leftover piece from the center of the melon for the flower on the tag.  The ribbon is from my stash.  All the paper except the green is from the DCWV Mango Frost stack.  As you all know, the shimmer and glitter cardstock does not phtopgraph very well.  Here is a close up of the melon, I used a little Orange Peel Stickles for the seeds.  Hope you like it and thanks for looking :)