Formal Occasion Dress

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It has been awhile since I have posted, but I found a little time to work on a shabby chic card. Inspired by the photo inspiration challenge at The Shabby Tea Room, this is the results.

Card is 5" x 6 1/2" using some pretty K&Company papers and other papers from my scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridge is Formal Occasion. The dress is on page 27. I trimmed some pretty areas off a wider piece of lace and added it to make the fancy dress. Small pearls complete the dress. A leftover piece of the lace is used in the lower left corner of the card. Dress is pop-dotted on the script mat.

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Label 10 is used for the scrip paper mat which is pop-dotted on the card.
Spellbinders Eyelet Circles is used for the sentiment mat.
Just Rite Dare to Dream set - sentiment - Dare to Dream
Just Rite Custom Dies- Corners at the top of card. Yes, I hid the right corner with the sentiment..could not find a place to put that mat!!

Recollections floral embellishments accent the pretty papers. I like to make my flowers using the Cricut machine but these bought flowers seemed to be a good choice today.
A crinkled ribbon bow and a Wimpole Street Creations fabric doily complete the look. I discovered a bag of these doilies that I had purchased many years ago from a fabric shop at a very good discount price. Thought it was time to use one!

 Close-up photos

 Challenges -
The Shabby Tea Room - Challenge 180 Material Girl - Use colors from the photo inspiration and include flowers and material.
Crafty Creations Challenges - Ch. 236 Shabby Chic
City Crafter Challenge Blog - Wk 173 - 1,2, 3- I stamp, 2 different papers and 3 embellishments.

Thanks for stopping by today! I appreciate your visits and comments!

 

Cricut Cindy Loo

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Today I am sharing a simple card made using the Cricut Cindy Loo cartridge and one of the Cuttlebug Cindy Loo companion embossing folders. The card  measures 5" x 7" and is cut from Recollections cream/ivory cardstock. Blue patterned paper is cut 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" and run through the Cuttlebug machine using one of the 5" x 7" folders. This embossing set has four folders- 2 5in x 7in  and 2 4.25 in x 5.75 in. I found this set on clearance recently at Michael's and wanted to give it a try.

Thinking of you is cut at 2" using a gold shimmer paper. The cut is found on the Cindy Loo cartridge page 68.

Other supplies include Recollection Fabric flower from the crafting stash and Versa Magic Gingerbread inking.

Challenge: 

Die Cut Divas - Ch. 97 Color Inspiration - Blue, Ivory, and Gold

Crafty Creations Challenges- Ch.204 - Something New -- Cuttlebug embossing folder

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An Umbrella Card

For My Sheri Crafts design team post, please click Here or scroll down!

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Today I am sharing a card made for a few challenges. The 5" x 7" card is cut from white Colorbok cardstock. I enjoy working with this pretty patterned K&Company Watercolor Boquet Die-Cut Mat Pad. The die-cut mat is 4.75" x 6.75" and I thought it would be perfect for my card.

Cricut Cartridge:

Paisley - Page 48. Using the main image and the image on shift, the umbrella is cut 3". I chose not to use all the layers because I wanted a pretty floral umbrella.

Flower Shoppe - Page 13 - Flower. I used the scallop 1, 2, and 4 images and it was cut at 1.875 in Cricut Craft Room.

Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots on the white mat.

Other supplies:

Creative Memories - Oval Mats 

Stamps - My Craft Spot "Friends & Neighbors" Inside and Out. I won this stamp set recently at one of Kimberly's challenges! I just love this set of stamps! Perfect for inside and out! Thanks again Kimberly for your kindness!

Recollections -Pink Rhinestones

Ribbon - From my friend! Thanks!

Inking - VersaMagic Gingerbread

Martha Stewart - Daisy Corner Punch used on the inside white mat.

Inside of card....Left blank area for a personal message.

Challenges:

My Craft Spot - #51 Inside and Out - Must use a sentiment inside and outside of card.

Simply Crafts - Paisley Umbrella  ends 4-17

Cute Card Thursday - #212 Spring Flowers ends 4-18

Die Cuttin' Divas  #60 Pastels

Celebrate The Occasion - #58 Just Because -  Must use Pink

Crafty Creations Challenge - #165 Flower Power
Exploring Cricut - April Showers Bring Us Flowers
Scapalicious USA - April Showers
Little Scrap Pieces - Use a Flower

My Sheri Crafts Ch. 77 New Things!

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It is time for another fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts! For Challenge 77, design team member Michelle chose the theme "New Things"! We are asked to include new crafting items that we may have received on our project or maybe use a new technique. I enjoyed working with a new card style technique. When you look at the front of the card, it does resemble the Triangle Trifold. However, when it is opened, you see that it is a Six-Fold Card. The inspiring tutorial can be found at SplitCoastStampers.

The base of the card is made from a 8"x 12" piece of white cardstock. Please view the tutorial to see the scoring, cutting, and folding instructions. My designer papers are from K&Company Kelly Panacci Valentine that was bought last year. In fact, most of the papers are left over scraps from last year's Valentine projects.

Cricut Cartridges:

Ribbons and Rosettes - This is one of my newest cartridges and only the second time for me to use it. I love all the beautiful rosette and border cuts that are available. The Heart rosette is on page 35. It was cut at 1.50" in the Cricut Craft Room and cut 6 times.

Elegant Edges - Page 50 -Circle 2 was cut 3.528" x 3.50" from white cardstock. I used this cut for the background mat for the rosette. Same cut using pattened paper for the mat under the word Love.
Sweethearts - Page 34 - Love is cut 1.75", Page 73- Heart flowers (6 petals) and shadow cut 1.25". I used only one of the flowers cut using the shift key for the flower at top of card. It is cut at 1.75". 

Other supplies are pink inking, Stickles Diamond on the flower centers, pink heart gemstone, and pop dots for the rosette. Happy Valentine's Day is one of the dollar wooden stamps from Michael's.

After my card was finished, I realized the triangles on the card front were in different direction than those shown on the tutorial. Hmm, I turned my paper the wrong way! Well, guess I added my own little twist because it works fine for me! Because of the thickness of the layers, I chose to do a band to go around the card rather than a ribbon.

Hope you enjoy my project trying to learn a new card technique.
Now it is your turn to play with us at My Sheri Crafts. Be sure to visit the designers to see all the great projects they have created for the challenge. We look forward to seeing your projects with new items or maybe a new technique. Remember one person will be selected to be the next guest designer and several Ooh La La awards are given!

Challenges:
The Paper Variety - Fan fold embellishments  (I used Cricut Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge.)
Docerela Creations - Ch 5 Valentine's-use a Cricut cut
Crafty Creations Challenges - Ch. 153 Valentine theme
Whimsical Designs - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Ch 5 Love Is In The Air