Mother's Day Cards

 This year I made Mother's Day cards for my four daughters, one daughter-in-law and one granddaughter-in-law. The cards are the same with a difference in color and sentiments on the inside.

The topnote was cut from Core'dinations Whitewash cardstock using the Cricut Songbird cartridge, edges  inked, embossed using Cuttlebug Kassie's Brocade folder and sanded to highlight the embossing. Happy Mother's Day was cut using the Cricut Wild Card cartridge and embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. The topnote is raised from the base of the card with foam popups.

Envelopes were made using the Martha Stewart scoreboard

Cardstock: Core'dinations; Wausau; AC Cardstock; K & Company

Cricut Cartridges: Songbird; Wild Card

Cuttlebug Folder: Kassie's Brocade; Swiss Dots

Ink: Ranger Distress ( Victorian Velvet and Pine Needle)

Adhesive: Xyron; ATG; Popups(?)

Ribbon: Offray

Tools: Provocraft Cricut Expression; Gypsy; Cuttlebug

           Making Memories sander

           Martha Stewart scoreboard

April Showers

Today's blog is the fulfillment for the Monday challenge on the blog Fantabulouscricut. It took me some time to get the layout done, but it allowed me to use some of the supplies I have had for years, such as chalk and rubons. As I was doing this layout, I learned a few things along the way. I had designed the layout using Design Studio one evening while watching TV. Yes, I'm usually on the laptop while I watch TV. You know killing two birds with one stone thingy. I learned how to do welding on the Design Studio. Yesterday I learned how to transfer the file from Design Studio to the Gypsy. The other thing I learned on the Gypsy was how to identify the thing on your layout design that doesn't have a downloaded cartridge.  I used the Cricut Expression and cut out  all the shapes from one layout. This layout has also been linked to another blog challenge at Cricutters Anonymous.

Cartridges: A Child's Year(Umbrella)
                  Lyrical Letters(Butterfly)
                  Indie Art(rain)
                  Going Places(cloud)
                  Songbird(Title)

Supplies: Cardstock and paper-Bazzill, AC Cardstock, DCWV(At Home-umbrella, Flower Shower-Title), Wausau, daisyds; Rubons Anna Griffin and Little Yellow Bicycle; Fiskar punch; Ranger Ink(Tea Dye); Chalk and Ribbon.