Thanksgiving placard

Here’s a Thanksgiving placard I made.  Had a lot of fun w/ it.  J

 popdotted:-

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridges  – see below

Cricut Cartridges – see below

Chipboard

Cardstock – white (for the Imagine)

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Stickles – gold; diamond; lavender

Pop dots

Cricut Imagine Cartridges 

Best Friends – scene

Enjoy the Seasons – turkey

Hey Diddle Diddle – button word

Cricut Cartridges

Country Life – barn

Simply Charmed – happy thanksgiving signage

Wall Décor & More – fence & rooster

Even tho our Thanksgiving has come and gone, I wanted to participate in a challenge that my friendly neighbours, the US of A were hosting.  So, this is for you, neighbour!!!  J

Bee-lated Birthday

Made this card for a dear friend’s mother, who is a real sweetheart! :-)

Inside of card:-

Tools/Items:-
Cricut Imagine
Cricut Cartridges – see below
Martha Stewart Corner Punch – Eyelet Lace
Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch – Flower Bed
Glue – regular; ATG; Zig Two Way
Cardstock – blue; white (for the Cricut Imagine)
Corner rounder – Corner Stone by EK Success
Popdots
Rhinestones – on bee and butterfly

Cricut Cartridges
Disney Pooh & Friends – bee hive
Disney Happily Ever After – tree
Paisley – bee
Wall Décor & More - butterfly

This card was completely created on the Cricut Imagine, flood-filling designs, using the regular Cricut cartridges. I used the “Color Cop” to obtain the RGB codes for the hive via DisneyClipart and mimicked the same colors in the Cricut handbook for the li’l bee. What an awesome way of getting the exact colours. No fumbling thru coloured cardstock to find the right shades --- the Cricut Imagine does it all!

I attached the branch w/ the bee hive to the main tree. By using the same color, via “Color Cop”, for both the branch and the tree, it makes it seem like the branch w/ the bee hive was actually part of the tree. :-)

The inside of the card was created using the Flower Bed punch, punching it on both sides of the paper, to create a double border. Rhinestones were placed on the butterfly, which was glued to the border. The sentiment was computer-generated. Used some cute fonts:-

“LMS Spelling Bee” --- gives the look of a bee buzzing along. You can see a li’l bee attached to the “W”.
“Hunny's Bees” – the first letter has a li’l bee attached to it, w/ the rest of the letters in a “flower”.

The rest of the words were done in “Tinker Toy”.

Hope she enjoys this card, as much as I enjoyed making it for her.

Thanks so much for looking and I hope you have a great day!

Thank You Card

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine
Cricut Imagine Cartridge – (see below)
Cricut Cartridges – (see below)
Martha Stewart punch around the page – Monarch butterfly
Martha Stewart punch – Monarch butterfly
Glue – regular; ATG; Zig 2 Way Cardstock
Corner rounder – Corner Stone by EK Success
Flower – hand-crocheted
Button
Cord – Color Infusions by DMC
Rhinestones
Popdots

Cartridges:
Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Lori’s Garden
thank you – p. 21 (used layers)

Cricut Cartridges
Cindy Loo – flower, p.57
Wall Décor – butterfly, p. 29

Base card is 8 ½” x 11”, folded. Used corner rounder on bottom corners. Used the Cricut Imagine to print/cut out the flower and butterfly from the Classic Cricut carts. Attached a crocheted flower (which I finally was able to master (will share more about that in a later post); and a button w/ the latest craze, Color Infusions. LOVE that stuff. A li’l pricey here ($5.00 for one skein) but I plan on getting some when I go to the States in the summer. Yeah!

Used the MS butterfly punch, twice, to create the layered blue butterfly. Pop-dotted the “thank you” sentiment, layering each cut.

Inside:- butterfly, from Wall Décor, printed/cut w/ the Imagine and then “rhinestoned” --- if that’s even a word :-)

The inset to write a sentiment is 3.25” x 3.25” punched w/ the MS butterfly corner and border punch.

Note:- I'm entering this card in the "Blog Hop -- a New Season, a New Skill" at:- Crafting Misfit

My new skill is creating my very first crocheted flower.

Sew Tweet Imagine Card

I made this card for a friend of mine who made something awesome for me. When I receive this beautiful item, I’ll be sure to show it to you. :-)

If she checks my blog, I don’t think she’ll “clue-in” that it’s for “her”, so I think I’m safe in showing it, now. :-)

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine
Cricut Imagine Cartridge (see below)
Cricut Cartridges (see below)
Glue – regular
Double-sided Cardstock
Corner rounder
Seed beads
Wiggly eye
Hand-made pin (instructions below)

Using double-sided cardstock, I made a base card 7” x 10 ½”, folded in half, w/ the corners rounded. Added the following various items:-

Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Imagine More

Cricut Cartridges:-
3 Birds of Parade:- You’re tweet (p. 28); birdie (p. 49)
Wall Décor:- sew (p. 74)
Tear Drop:- thanks so much (p. 122)
Heritage:- sewing machine (p. 43)
Country Life:- spool (p. 65)

In order that the li’l birdie didn’t fade away into the cardstock, I hand-cut a background for him, so that he could stand out. Put li’l seed beads on the flowers.

I also printed/cut out a beautiful butterfly from Wall Décor (not for this card, tho, but so I could use up the space on the white cardstock, that I didn’t want to waste) I used the cut-out pieces that would normally be discarded and thought it would look nice on the sewing machine. I think it really adds to it. :-)

Hand-made pin:-
Head pin
Crimper
Glass bead

Put the whole thing together and threaded thru the top and then behind the sewing machine, so that it looks like a sewing machine needle. You can’t see the pin on the front of the card, as it’s behind the birdie. I really like how it turned out, even if I do say so myself. :-)

Hope I’ve inspired you to make your very own “Sew Tweet” card. :-)