Butterfly on Toadstool Birthday Card

Tomorrow my oldest granddaughter will be eighteen years old. It is hard to imagine it has been that long since our beautiful blue eyed baby girl was born. But, I did just attend her high school graduation last month and she will be off to college very soon.

Purple is her favorite color, so I incorporated it into the making of this 6 X 6 birthday card. DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack 2010 was used for the 6 X 6 base and the 5.5 X 5.5 mat. The corners were decorated using the WRMK Corner Chromper Cloud punch.

It has been awhile since I have used the Cricut Imagine. I used it along with the Lori’s Garden cartridge. That is my favorite Imagine cartridge. The butterfly layers (page 11) are print/cut at 1.3 inches and the toadstools layers (page 12) are print/cut at 3.0 inches.

Side views

 

All the layers were inked with Colorbox Q Brown ink before they were assembled with Recollections Foam Squares for the layering and Zig 2 Way for assembling other parts. The grass is pieces I had leftover from a Tim Holtz tag and it is made using the Tim Holtz Alterations Tapered Fringe die and inked with TH Distress Peeled Paint ink. All assembled pieces are adhered to the card using the ATG.


The butterfly is embellished with Black Diamonds (antennae) and Platinum (back wing) Stickles. Recollections Rhinestones were used on the body.



The birthday sentiment is a Sylvia Yu stamp using TH Distress Dusty Concord ink. I then heat embossed it using clear embossing powder and the Ranger Heat It tool. I cut it using a Fiskars scallop punch. The edges are inked with TH Distress Dusty Concord ink. It is adhered to the card using the Recollections Foam Squares.

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Balloon Birthday Card

Today is my son’s birthday. This is a card I had fun making for him using the Cricut Imagine.

The Cricut Celebrations cartridge(balloons pages 11 & 12, sentiment page 43) was used for the diecuts. Before cutting all the diecuts were first printed on white Bazzill Basic cardstock using the Cricut Imagine and the Imagine Hopscotch cartridge(pages 2,3,10,13).

The balloons were layered to each other using popups than adhered to the card base leaving the tails not adhered. Ribbon was tied in a bow around the tails.

The sentiment was adhered to the card front using Zig 2 Way chiseled pen.
The outer edges of the card were inked with Tim Holtz Stormy Sky Distress Ink.
Card front
Inside of Card
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Close up of balloons layered

SUPPLIES:Cardstock- Bazzill Basic; Card base and Envelope-Halcraft; Electronic machine-Provocraft Cricut Imagine; Cartridges- Provocraft Cricut Celebration and Imagine Hopscotch; Adhesive-Zig 2 Way, Popups(?); Ink-Ranger TH Distress; Ribbon(?)

Minnie Mouse Birthday Card

Valentine’s Day my great granddaughter Malia celebrated her second birthday. For her  birthday I created this Minnie Mouse birthday card using the Cricut Imagine print diecutting machine and Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridge(page 59).

White Bazzill Basic Cardstock and RGB colors for Minnie were used. The Minnie on the front of the card and all the layers were cut at 4.5 inches. Minnie’s bow was embellished with Rangers Glam Pink Stickles. Her bow and hands were adhered with Popups. The Minnie and layers on the inside of the card were cut at 3.5 inches.

The sentiment and shadow were cut using Fiskars cardstock at 1 inch using the Cricut Expression machine and Martha Stewart Birthday Cake Art cartridge(page 55).
White cardstock from The Paper Company was embossed with the Cuttlebug Seeing Spots embossing folder using a Provocraft Cuttlebug machine.

               



SUPPLIES: Cardstock-Bazzill Basic, The Paper Company(white), Fiskars(pink); Diecutters-Cricut Imagine, Cricut Expression, Provocraft Cuttlebug(embossing); Adhesives-Zig 2 Way, ATG, Popups; Ribbon-Tall Mouse; Others- Rangers Stickles