Thank You - Wild Card

Wow, the 'wild card' theme for this week took me a while... couldn't pin down a specific thing I wanted to do. I always need thank you's so here we are :)

So simple and easy to make that I am thinking I will make a few sets to have as quick gifts.

The flower border is from Holiday Cakes page 52 , cut at 1 inch from card stock from my stash. I added some dots and dashes with various gel pens.
The Many Thanks is from Wild Card ( had to do it, LOL ) page 42 and is cut at 5 inches from black card stock.
I made the card from Kraft card stock, sponged the edges with a brown ink and made a faux bow from white seam binding.
I am thinking these easy cards are going to need a cute box of some sort for giving as a set. Guess that will be my next project.

Winter Blues

 It's time to look those ole winter blues straight in the eye and make something out of them ! That's the theme this week at SweetSassyDiva ... make any type project that uses the Cricut and blue as the main color.

I pulled out an old favorite and two new cartridges for this card. The card base is from Wild Card and is cut at 4.75. I set it up on my Gypsy so I could hide the score marks.

I added dots and accented the swirl cuts with my white gel pen.
The rosette is from Ribbon and Rosettes, sized at 1.5". I welded 3 together and then 2 together. I probably could have used two cuts of the 3 welded pieces to make it just a bit fuller. I will try that next time. I punched a 1" circle from the Ballet Blue and one of the flowers from the Baja Punch from Stampin Up added a tiny flower brad to the center and hot glued it to the rosette. I cut a strip of white .75" x 11" to make the band and glued the rosette to the center.

The inside cut is from Paper Trimmings - a Cricut Circle exclusive. I have to say this is by far my favorite Circle cartridge. It has so many great features and useful cuts. This one is from the square feature cut at 4.75". The only thing I added to it was a stamped sentiment from Stampin Up.

To recap the supplies need for this card:
Cricut cartridges - Wild Card, Ribbon and Rosettes and Paper Trimmings.
Card stock - Ballet Blue - Stampin Up , White - Walmart, Patterned - DCWV
Punches -  Stampin Up - 1" Circle, Baja Flowers
Birthday Stamp - Stampin UP
Ballet Blue Ink - Stampin Up
White Gel Pen - Sakura

I hope you don't let the winter blues get you down, but instead inspire you to be creative!!!
Happy Crafting !

Strawberry Birthday

I want to say a big hello to all of the new followers to my blog ! I am so humbled that you choose to follow and I hope you keep enjoying my projects. I don't post on any special timetable.... just when I get something done, pictures taken, post written.... you get the idea :)

Todays projects were done for my grandaughters 6th birthday party that will be in May. Because she lives a couple of hours away, I wanted to get these finished and delivered early. I did the invites at home, but used our creating weekend away to do most of the assembly of the treat boxes.

All of the Strawberry Shortcake images came from Here. I printed out 16 sets of their invitations, then cut out the main image and lots of the little flowers. I added gel pen, Stickles and Puffy Paint to give them a little more.. Umph...

The Party Time is from Cutting Up, the strawberry is from Country Life and the inside wording is from Wild Card. I put Glossy Accents on the words and glittered up the edge of the strawberries :)

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For the treat box, I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More,

Nursery Rhyme for the name and Create a Critter for the cupcake. Stampin Up punches were used for the backing of the cupcake and the Strawberry Shortcake logo and the flower.

The papers are Stampin Up and DCWV.

If I have forgotten any details you would like to now, just leave me a comment and I will get them to you .

Oh yea, I made 15 invitations and 25 treat boxes... Thats alot of cutting and pasting :)

As always, thanks for stopping by.