Valentine card with Cricut Craftroom Basics

Good morning! I wanted to quickly share a card that I made for the Cricut Circle Magazine Challenge, to create a project using the new online, and free, design software for the Cricut, Craftroom Basics. I still think I love my Gypsy far more, but part of that is because I have slow and imperfect internet, which is definately a drawback to an online based program! Here is what I made:

I used the free digital cartridge, Craftroom Basics, for the shaped card base, and for the heart. The silhouette is from A Child's Year - one of my all time favorite cartridges still! 

I inked the edges of everything with Tim Holtz distress ink in Antique Linen, and pop dotted the silhouette from the background. 

I used a black Sakura glaze pen for the doodling and stitching around the edges. The sentiment is from 40:31 creations, and paper is all from Echo Park's Country Drive 6x6 paper pad. 

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are having a great day!

50th Anniversary Card

Whew!!! This took most of the morning to make - but I am so excited at how it came out! One of my husbands co-workers requested a card for his parents 50th Anniversary using a wedding picture and a recent picture. The pictures were a challenge to use, because they were pictures taken by a cell phone of the orginal pictures in their frame. The second picture in particular had a lot of glare, and a perfect reflection of the person taking the picture! So I did some playing and editing in Adobe Photoshop, then printed them on vellum - I think it helped a LOT in the final quality.

And I had planned on entering this in the sketch challenge over at My Mind's Eye - but just realized I was a day late!!! Oh well!

I cut frames for the pictures from Elegant Edges, added some white ink, then glossy accents and Martha Stewart glitter around the edges, and finished them off with a couple of stick on pearls. They are also pop-dotted from the background. The doilies are inked with Tim Holtz distress ink. There is some black lace along the bottom, inking and machine stitching along the outside edges, and a lot of bling that I added with my Jolee's heat set tool.

The bow is made from a scrap of black ribbon, some crinkle ribbon, a bit of floss, and a button punched out with a Martha Stewart button punch. The button was then inked, covered with Glossy Accents, and some more Martha Stewart glitter. The "Happy Anniversary" sentiment is from a clear stamp set in my stash - I think by Fiskars, and the inside sentiment is from 40:31 Creations.

The easel card if held up by a border cut with a Fiskar's border punch which is pop-dotted from the base card. Thanks so much for looking - have  great day!!!

Wedding Card

Last week, I remembered at the last minute that I hadn't made a wedding card for a friend whose wedding we were attending! So...I pulled out their invitation as inspiration, and this is what I came up with. Sorry - I meant to take a pic of the invitation so you could see it, but I can't find it right now! The colors were black, white, and hot pink.

I had a really hard time making the colors show up correctly in the pictures, so this is the best I could get! The background is black, and I ran it through my Cuttlebug. The pink frame is cut from Elegant edges, and the bride and groom are actually Cinderella and her Prince cut from Disney Happily Ever After cartridge, using the Gypsy to hide all but the outline. The sentiment is from a stamp set by 40:31 Creations, and I finished off with some Baker's Twine and some doodling with my white gel pen.