Hubby's Anniversary Card

It’s our 34^th Anniversary today.  Seems like just yesterday, when we said our “I Do’s”.  J

Here’s the card I made for my sweet hubster:-

Inside:- 

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Lori’s Garden

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)

Glue – ATG

Corner Punch

EK Punch – Real Estate

K&Company -- Glitter stickers

Pop Dots

Love the Imagine Lori’s Garden cartridge.  It has so many pretty designs on it so I knew I just had to use it for my Anniversary card.

Utilized the stock images on the Cricut Imagine, using the rounded square.  Cut it at 5” and floodfilled it w/ a solid green colour.  The patterned layer is the green floral found on p. 37 of the handbook.

The “Love You” layer is found on p. 22 of the handbook.  Pop-dotted both the layer and flower layer.

Added glitter butterfly and flower stickers.

The inside of the card is the frame found on p. 33 of the handbook.

The sentiment was computer-generated and punched out w/ the Real Estate punch.

Corner-rounded the corners of the card.

Thank You card

Made this card for a dear MB friend, w/ the user name of “Pickles”.  Hence, a ladybug (me!) saying “hiya” to some pickles (her!)  J

 Inside:-

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridges: see below
Cricut Cartridge:-  Just Because Cards (pickles)

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine); patterned (for layers)

Martha Stewart Border Punch:-  Scallop 3 Dot

Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch:- Flower Bed

Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps – Sassy Alpha (for Thanx)

Scrappy Cat Clear Stamps – for “Many Thanks)

Glue – ATG; regular

Popdots

Rhinestone (for Mrs. Pickles mouth)

Ribbon

Googly Eyes

Cricut Imagine Cartridges:

Enjoy the Seasons -- patterns for pickles and layers;
images:- hat, mustache & bow

Lori’s Garden – Ladybug and necklace

Sentiment “Hiya Pickles!” was computer-generated.

Hope she gets a “kick” out of this card.  I had bought some items from her and she sent them “licketty-split” and included some “extras”; hence, the Thank You card.  J

Thank You Card #2

Made this thank you card for another dear MB friend.  J

Inside:- 

Tools/Items:-
Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridges – see below

Martha Stewart Punch – butterfly

EC Shape Studio – round 14

EC Shape bubble caps – round 14

Fiskars Circle Border Punch – Antique Elegance

Scrappy Cat Clear Stamps – Thank You (SCR 500)

Glue – ATG; regular

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)

Stickles -- Pink

Pop dots

Ribbon

Cricut Imagine Cartridges

Imagine More Cards – base card & thank you layer

Lori’s Garden – leaves, ladybug

Better Together – flower

Pretty much a duplicate of the card shown above, except for the different coloured patterns.  And the ladybug is facing a different direction on the leaf.  J Everything else is pretty much the same.  

Had some more fun w/ my EC Shape Studio.   J

Thank You Card #1

Made this thank you card for a dear MB friend.  J

Inside:- 

Tools/Items:-
Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridges – see below

Martha Stewart Punch – butterfly

EC Shape Studio – round 14

EC Shape bubble caps – round 14

Fiskars Circle Border Punch – Antique Elegance

Scrappy Cat Clear Stamps – Thank You (SCR 500)

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)

Glue – ATG; regular

Stickles -- Pink

Pop dots

Ribbon

Cricut Imagine Cartridges

Imagine More Cards – base card & thank you layer

Lori’s Garden – leaves, ladybug

Better Together – flower

I’m just lovin’ my new toy, the Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio.  It makes all kinds of cute bobbles (what I call them) J  They’re actually known as “bubble caps”.  They create hand-crafted epoxy embellies.  I used one to jazz up the “O” in “YOU”.

The sentiment inside the card was actually stamped.  Almost looks like “hand-written”, eh?  Love that font! J

Comfort Card

Made this card for a friend’s sister, who is very ill.  Thought it might cheer her up a bit.

I had a lot of fun making this card, as I was learning different techniques, along the way.

The first technique was how to place an image in a different place, on your Imagine mat.   I saw a video, here, where it’s explained how this could be accomplished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN6A_CqDoQU&feature=player_embedded#!

Here’s a shot (not very clear, sorry!) but you can sorta get an idea of how I was able to input just 4 blank squares on the mat, making my design move waaaaay over to the right.

When the paper is placed on the mat, opposite to how it was done to begin with, I was able to get the design printed on the opposite side of my card base.  Cool, eh?  J

The second technique on this card was learning how to print a sentiment on the inside of the card.  I now have a template I saved, to allow this to occur on any 5 ½” x 8 ½” card base.  I enjoy making larger size cards, instead of the usual A2 size. J

Tools/Items:-
Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridges: – see below

Cricut Cartridge – Christmas Noel

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way
Cardstock – blue for the card base; white (for the Imagine)
Patterned paper – sky background

Corner Rounder - Corner Stone by EK Success

Stickles – “Crystal”

Rhinestones

Cricut Imagine Cartridges

Lori’s Garden

Better Together

Imagine More

Firstly, I used this design (bottom), from Imagine “Lori’s Garden”  for the flourish on the card front. 

The Angel is from the “Christmas Noel” cartridge, using patterns & colors from the Imagine “Better Together” cartridge.

The frame is from the “Imagine More” cartridge (Image 25, Layer 1), floodfilled w/ the same pattern as the Angel’s dress.

Hope she likes it!  J

Card for Angel's Momma

Made this card for a friend whose li’l Chihuahua has a broken leg, because it was attacked by two larger dogs. The dogs’ owner didn’t even apologize or help my friend w/ her li’l pooch. The nerve of some people!!
Inside:

Oooops, I stickled "hugs" after I took the picture. :-)

Because I don’t have the “Four Legged Friends” cartridge, I had to improvise. I utilized my Cricut Design Studio, got the design/layers for the li’l Chihuahua; copied/pasted them and then cut out the design/layers with, you ready for it??? ----- scissors. Yeppers! --- the cutter prior to the Cricut. :-) Even tho it wasn’t a REAL troublesome design, I still really missed my Cricut cutting it out for me. And now that cart. is definitely on my “wish list”. :-)

Li’l Angel has a white spot on her forehead that looks just like a heart, so I had to put a heart on the li’l pooch. She also has a pink cast, so that’s why her hind leg is pink. She must love pink because she has this beautiful pink bed to rest her li’l body; hence, the pink pillow.

Tools/Items:

Cricut Imagine
Cricut Imagine Cartridges – see below
Cricut Cartridges – see below
Cricut Design Studio
Martha Stewart Punch –Double Loops
Glue – regular; ATG; Zig Two Way
Cardstock – blue; white (for the Imagine)
Patterned Paper
Stickles - Pink
Popdots

Cricut Imagine Cartridges
Better Together – sun; sending your way
Lori’s Garden – butterflies

Cricut Cartridges
Disney Happily Ever After – pillow
Zooballoo – grass
Beyond Birthdays – hugs
Four Legged Friends – Chihuahua/layers

I sure hope li’l Angel is up and about, real soon. Hugs to her!!!

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.