My First Collar Fold Card

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Looking at cards on Pinterest, I chose the Collar Fold Card to be the next challenge with my friend Cathy. I noticed this card style is also called Peek a Boo Card. Sometimes I get carried away just looking at the beautiful and inspiring cards. I should be using that time to actually make a card!

Needing a pretty double-sided paper for this card, I chose these pretty patterned papers from some K&Company paper pads. 

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Window Box Cards - Sentiment You Are In My Thoughts

Anna's Window Ledge Cards - Roses cut 2.371" wide x 1.8" high. I cut off the white rose.

Anna's Summer Soirees - Pool label is cut 4.25" wide x 3.286" high.

Anna's Garden Cards & Embellishments - Warmest Wishes sentiment is written with Cricut Midnight pen on the label. This is used inside the card.

Inside of card.

This is an easy card style. I enjoy using double-sided papers and this is a great card for that!

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Die Cuttin' Divas - Ch. 323 Wedding or Anniversary

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It is time for another fun challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas! Ch. 323 is Wedding or Anniversary. I chose to make an anniversary card for my neighbors. 

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Lovely Layered Cards 2 - Floral Banner Card is cut 8.465" wide x 5.4" high. This size does not include the envelope that comes with the image. The sentiment On Your Special Day is from the same cartridge. It is written with the Cricut Jade pen. I like the way these cards turn out by using several layers of solid colored papers.

Inside the card:

Anna's Garden Cards & Embellishments - Using Insert Shapes in Cricut Design Space, the anniversary sentiment is written on a 3.75" x 3" white rectangle. The jade mat is cut 4" x 3 1/4".

Inside the card.

 

Visit Die Cuttin' Divas to see all the pretty projects made by the design team. For more information on the projects, please visit our individual blogs. Now it is your turn to play along with us.We look forward to seeing your anniversary and wedding projects. Remember you must include a die cut.

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Challenges:

CARDZ TV  -  Crazy Crafters Anything Goes Ch. 4 

DL.ART - June Linky

Die Cuttin' Divas - Ch. 318 Graduation

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It is time again for another fun challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas. Challenge 318 is Graduation. As school is almost over and graduations are taking place, many of us may need a Graduation card. We invite you to play along with us. I used Recollections and Colorbok papers to make my project.

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Splendid Soiree  - Flourish Invitation is cut 9.9" wide x 9.983" high from the brighter red paper. Size includes the envelope. Flourish tag is cut 2.629" wide x 1.62" high. It is pop-dotted on the card.

Anna's Garden Cards & Embellishments - Dream sentiment is written on the white layer using the Cricut wine pen.

Decorate Celebrate  - Graduation cap is cut 2.245" wide x 1.025" high. This is placed on the Flourish tag.

Happy Graduation- Happy Graduation is cut 4" wide x 1.74" high. This is glued to the back of white layer.

I hand cut and made a little pocket to hold a gift card or cash. It is glued under the words Happy Graduation.

 

Back of the white layer.

Please visit Die Cuttin' Divas to see all the pretty projects by our talented design ladies. For more information, visit our individual blogs. We look forward to seeing your entries in the challenge.

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Challenges:

Always Fun Challenges - Ch. 7 Anything Goes

CARDZ TV   -   Mailbox Smiles Anything Goes Ch. 2

DL.ART    -   Ch. 204 Graduation

2017 Graduation Cards

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I was asked to make a few graduation cards. Since my time was very limited, I chose to do some simple cards for the senior guys using the school colors. Papers are Recollections and cards measure 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".

Cricut Cartridges:

Simple Everyday Cards - The red Good Luck card is cut 8.571" wide x 5.548" high.

Anna's Garden Cards & Embellishments - Sentiment is written on a 3.75" wide x 4" high white paper using a Pilot Precise V5 blue pen. This is used inside the card.

Inside

Simple Everyday Cards - The blue Best of Luck to You card is cut 8.498" wide x 5.50. That size

Thoughts and Phrases -The Little Things - Sentiment is written on a 2.927" wide x 3.25" high white paper using the same blue pen as listed above. This is used inside the card.

 

 Inside
I hand cut a piece of paper to make a little pocket for each card. The area can be used for a gift card or cash.

The two cards for the kindergarten boys are also 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" white cardstock.

Cricut Cartridges:

Wrap It Up - Graduate is cut 4" wide x 3.95" high. I also used school colors for these two cards.

Cake Basics - Best Wishes is cut 3.75" wide x 1.712" high. This image is used inside. I do not have an available photo.

Just for fun, I added some pencil and star stickers that I have had for ages! Also I added some dash marks on the hat using the Gelly Roll pen.

Challenges:

Always Fun Challenges:  Ch. 7 Anything Goes
DL.ART    -    Ch. 204 Graduation
CARDZ TV - Mailbox Smile Ch. 2  Anything Goes
Sunny Day Crafting - May Ch. Photo Inspiration (Graduation)

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Die Cuttin' Divas - Ch. 300 Blue and Silver

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It is time for another fun challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas. Ch. 300 is Blue and Silver with any die cut. 

I am playing with Cuttlebug folders and dies that were in a recently purchased Cricut Mystery Box. My card measures 5" x 7" and is cut from silver cardstock. The blue paper is from Colorbok Pearlescent Paper pad.

Cuttlebug:

Anna Griffin Mix and Match Folders and Dies - I used the Versailles Frame on the 5" x 7" blue pearlescent paper. The Get Well Soon die was used on the silver paper. The frame is pop-dotted on the silver card. This set has 4 beautiful frames and 12 sentiment dies. I can play for awhile with all these goodies!

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Elegant Embellishments 2 - The tulip flower is cut 2" wide x 2.2" high. This is my first time to use this pretty image. Actually it is only the second image of this recently purchased cartridge that I have cut. I do like the way it turned out! I added a blue crinkle ribbon on the flower. Thanks Karen at Little Scrap Pieces for the pretty ribbon.

For the inside of the card:

Anna's Elegant Embellishments - The tag image is cut 4.24" x 4.24" from the blue and silver paper.

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - Warm Wishes sentiment is printed on the tag using the Cricut Midnight pen. 

Martha Stewart Embossed Zig Zag edge punch is used on the lower strip of paper.

Inside the card.

Visit Die Cuttin' Divas to see all the pretty Blue and Silver projects created by the design team! We look forward to seeing your entries! Remember you have one week to play along with us!

I am sharing my card at the following challenges.

DL.ART --  January Linky 

FCCB  -   Ch. 292 Something New

Little Scrap Pieces - Saturday Linky Party

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Guest Designer at Die Cuttin Divas

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I am happy to be sharing my card at Die Cuttin Divas this week as the guest designer! Many thanks to Georgiana for asking me! Challenge #269 features a pretty sketch. Playing with the sketch, I chose pretty K&Company patterned papers for the background papers. The card measures 4 1/4" wide x 5 1/2" high and is cut from cream Recollections cardstock.

Cricut Cartridges:

Spring Fling - Flower is cut 2.89" wide x 2.5" high from Colorbok Pearlescent pink and green papers. Cricut Midnight pen was used for drawing the lines on the flower and leaves.

Using Insert Shapes feature in Cricut Design Space, a 4" wide x 5 1/4" high rectangle was cut from the plaid paper for the card base mat. Green check paper is cut 3.1" wide x 4.25" high. The circle is cut 3.75" from the blue dot patterned paper. After aligning the circle on the mat, I cut off one edge of the circle so it will resemble the sketch. Edges of the papers were frayed a little before attachment.

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - Warm Wishes Sentiment is printed on the 4" wide x 3" high patterned paper. This is used inside the card.

Sentiment Love is from CARDZ TV Encouraging Thoughts. Many thanks to Mary!

Pearls and a crinkle ribbon bow are added for the finishing touches. Thanks to Karen at Little Scrap Pieces for the pretty ribbons.

 

Inside the card.

I just noticed the word THE lacks part of the letter...glad I noticed the error and can make a correction before mailing the card!! It shows in Design Space, but pen did not make the mark. Technical difficulties, I guess!!

Check out all the pretty projects by the design team at Die Cuttin Divas. Hope to see you playing along with the sketch challenge.

Again, Thanks to Georgianna and design team for letting me be the guest designer and playing with this pretty sketch!

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Red and Purple - Get Well

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Needing a Get Well card for a Red Hat Lady, I have been playing with red and purple papers! I found this simple card while browsing through Cricut Design Space and thought it would work fine for mailing.

Cricut Cartridges:

Simple Cards - Get Well Soon Card is cut 8" wide x 5.6" high from red Recollection cardstock. The liner is cut from a purple Recollection paper.

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - Warm wishes sentiment is written on an inserted image that measures 3.50" wide. This is used inside the card.

Princess Party - Princess flower shoe is cut 1.25 wide and added on the sentiment mat.

Inside the card!

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Sympathy Card - Shades of Yellow

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Sadly, we need sympathy cards at times. I made this card for a dear friend who lost her Dad. Card measures approximately 4 3/4" wide x 6 1/2" cut from yellow cardstock using the Cricut. I chose to go with shades of yellow.

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Lace Cards and Embellishments - Daisy card is cut 19.50" wide x 11.49" high. This size also includes an envelope.

Anna's Flourish Cards and Embellishments - Yellow and white decorative mats are cut 3.75" wide. Using the Write feature in Cricut Design Space and Anna's Lovely Layered Cards, the sentiment Thinking of you is printed on the white mat using the Cricut Midnight pen. The mats are pop-dotted on the card.

Elegant Embellishments - Bird is cut 2" high and is pop-dotted on card.

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - The Thinking of You sentiment is written directly on the patterned paper layer of the card. This is used inside the card. I really like the way it looks...could also be used for the front of the card! Great way to use some of those pretty patterned papers!

Yellow seam binding ribbon is from Karen at Little Scrap Pieces. Perfect finishing touch for my card! Thank you Karen for the pretty ribbons!

Inside of card.

Challenges:

Double D Challenges - Yellow 

Little Scrap Pieces - Saturday Linky Party

PDE Linky Party - Ch. 119 Anything Goes

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Get Well Wishes

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Needing a couple of Get Well cards, I have been playing with my Cricut and some pretty Anna Griffin images. I made two cards using the same focal image on each card but with a little mix of the colors and sentiment tags. Each card measures 5" x 6 1/2".

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Lace Cards and Embellishments - Butterfly and Flower background is cut 4.75" using shades of purple.

Splendid Soirees -  Mandrin Tag is cut 3" wide. Using Anna's Lace Cards and the Cricut Midnight pen, the sentiment is written on the tag.
Elegant Embellishments - Sentiment tag for the following card. Anna's Lace Cards sentiment Thinking of You is also written with the Cricut Midnight pen.

2nd Card.

For the inside sentiments, I used Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - Warmest Wishes- on each card.

 Inside of white card.

Inside of purple card.

Sentiment tags are pop-dotted on each card. The pretty lavender crinkle ribbon is from Karen at Little Scrap Pieces! Thanks Karen for the recent win!  I added a few rhinestones on the top card.

I like the way the cards turned out, but I can not choose a favorite! Which one do you like?

Challenges: 

CARDZ TV - Card Ch 5 - Butterflies, Birds, or Bees

Die Cuttin Diva's - Ch. 259 Get Well
DL.ART       - March Linky 

Little Scrap Pieces - Saturday Linky Party
PDE Linky Party - Ch 116  Anything Goes

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Thank you Card

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Today I am sharing a Thank You card. Card is cut from white card stock and measures 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". The pretty patterned papers are KC Company left overs from previous projects. When buying 12" x 12" paper pads, I can make several cards from one sheet of the paper. Of course I love K&Company and sometimes just hate to cut the paper!

Cricut Cartrdiges:

Sugar and Spice -- Thank you card is cut 5.25" wide x 4" high.  One layer of images include small flowers in the upper left corner and lower right corner with the thank you words. I chose not to use the flowers since I was using a floral patterned paper. In Cricut Design Space, using Contour feature, I hid the small flowers. Then I increased the size of Thank you to .75" high. The original words were very tiny, not suitable for my card size.

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - Sentiment used inside. I like that sentiment!

The First Few Years - Photo frame.. I used only the scallop frame with the openings cut 4.86" wide 2.66"h. The sentiment was written on this frame using the Cricut Black pen.

 

Recollection flowers with rhinestones and a bow complete the card.

 

 Inside of card.

Challenges:

CARDZ TV -  Card Ch. 3 - Thank you card

PDE Linky Party  - Ch. 112 Anything goes

DL.ART   - March Linky

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Anna's Lace Card -Red and White

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I wanted to make an anniversary card for a special couple..not just any anniversary but one that only occurs every four years. Yes Leap Day! I chose a couple of the pretty Anna Griffin Cricut cartridges for the images. Card measures 5" x 7" and is cut from white Colorbok paper and red Recollections paper.

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Lace Cards and Embellishments - Heart card is cut 20" wide x 11.82" high. This size includes an envelope. I like the pretty cut out hearts on the front and decided to leave it as is. I cut a second red liner and used it inside the card.

Heart Border is cut 4.50" wide and used inside the card. 

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - Anniversary Sentiment is written with the Cricut Midnight pen on the rectangle shape. The rectangle was cut 4.25" wide. The sentiment is used inside the card. Love the sentiment!

Inside the card.

I am pleased with the results of this card. It was fun making the card with just the red and white colors.

Challenges:

Double D Challenges - Red and White 

DL.ART - Ch. 174 Pink, Red, Hearts one/or all
FFC - Ch 126 Anything goes

PDE Linky Party - Ch 111 Anything goes

Simply Create Too - Ch. 103 Pink or Red

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Give Thanks/Thanksgiving

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I am sharing another Thanks/Thanksgiving card today! I love the floral patterned paper and had to create a card with it. I am playing along with the pretty sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches and other favorite challenges. All the patterned papers are K&Company. Guess you can tell by now that is one of my favorite papers! Card is 5" x 6 1/2" cream cardstock.

Cricut Cartridges:

Thanksgiving Table Decor - Give Thanks is cut 5" wide.

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - Mum flower is cut 1.75" wide. I think this flower accents the patterned paper!

Wild Card - Happy Thanksgiving is cut 5" wide. This is used inside the card.

I added two shades of brown buttons and one burgundy button to accent the colors of the papers. The finishing crinkle ribbon bow is from Karen at Little Scrap Pieces. Thanks for my recent win of the pretty ribbons.

Inside of card!

Challenges:

BBTB2 - Fall Colors

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch. 241 Buttons

Double Click Connections - Ch. 35 Thank you or Thanksgiving

FCCB - Ch. 264 Anything Goes

Simply Create Too - Ch. 98 Give Thanks
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch - this is my play on the sketch.

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My Sheri Crafts Ch.164 Long Time No See

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Happy Saturday everyone! It is time for another fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts! Raquel has chosen Ch. 164 - Long Time No See! She asked that we create any project that falls into the category of Hello, Thinking of you, Miss You, etc.

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments -  I cut the card using Cricut Design Space Make It Now feature. The card measures 5" x 7". Papers are white Colorbok and the Paper Company Purple/Lt. Purple double sided paper. This is a very pretty paper with different fiber colors running through it. You may see a bit of red.

I choose to add two extra mums which are cut from the dark purple, layered on white. These flowers were placed down the center of the card.

Elegant Embellishments - Tag is cut 3.50" wide from the purple paper and 3.34" wide from the white paper. Using the Write feature in Cricut Design Space, Thinking of You was written on my selected tag.

Note: The Make It Now photo of the card shows a sentiment and tag, but those images are not given in the Make It Now instructions. 

Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch is used on the strip in center of card.

Be sure to stop by My Sheri Crafts to see all the pretty inspiration from the design team and our guest designer. For more details on the projects, please visit the individual blogs and leave some love!!

Now it is your time to play along with us. We look forward to seeing your projects!

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Anniversary Card

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 I enjoy playing with the images from a couple of my recently purchased Cricut digital cartridges.The two Anna Griffin cartridges have pretty images and sentiments. I have trouble deciding what to do. I really like the sentiments--there are ten different ones on each of the two cartridges. I love it when I can buy such a great cartridge at a sale price! For my card, I chose one of the card features and added the sentiment with the Cricut Explore writing feature.

Cricut Cartridges:
Anna's Flourish Cards and Embellishments - Card cut size is 4.98" wide, 7.02" high from white Recollections paper. The decorative top is cut from lavender Recollections paper. I used the midnight pen for writing the sentiment on the face of the card.
Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - I cut 3 flower icon at 2" wide using the white and lavender paper. One flower is used inside the card. Two pearls complete the card.
Phrases- Happy Anniversary is cut 6" wide used inside card. There is space to write a personal message!

Inside of card

 It is a lot of gluing on these cards, but I think they turn out pretty!

Sharing with

BBTB2 Challenge: Wedding time - Wedding or Anniversary Project

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Anna Griffin Butterfly Card

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Today's card is inspired by Anna Griffin Garden Butterfly Card. Anna's card can be made using the Make It Now feature on Cricut Design Space. I do not own all the images that are shown on Anna's card, so I was unable to use that feature.

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments - Card is cut from white cardstock at 10" wide- measures 5"x7". I cut two blush pink liners-one for face of card behind the butterfly cutouts and one for inside of card. The three butterflies are cut 2.75" wide, 2.50" wide, and 2.25" wide which look larger than those on the featured card. The phrase Life Is A Journey is also on this cartridge. It is written with the midnight pen on the label.

Sophisticated Soiree - Flourish Label is cut from white cardstock at 3.76" wide and from the pink at 3.92" wide.

Butterflies and Sentiment Label are pop-dotted on the card. I added Petaloo burlap blossoms to accent the card. The pink heart formed bow is Memory Thread.

I really love the sentiments that are on Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments. I have used the Life is a Journey sentiment on another card. This card will work well for a bridal or anniversary card.

Challenge:

BBTB2 - Wedding time - Wedding or Anniversary Project

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Another Floral Card

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Sadly and too quickly, I had to make another sympathy card. I used the same floral card image that I shared recently using the Cricut Anna's Cards and Embellishment cartridge. On the previous card, I used a pretty floral pattern paper as the liner behind the rose. This card is for one of my Red Hat friends who lost her husband. I chose to use this pretty purple paper behind the rose. The purple paper is double-sided with lavender made by The Paper Company. It has several colors of fibers running through the paper. Do you see the red? I just had to purchase all these pretty papers that the store had and they were on sale too! Of course, it was not too many left to be bought!

Card is cut 7" high from white cardstock and measures 5" x 7".  I added the word Love on the front of the card. That image is found on Cricut Sweethearts. Inside I used the lavender side of the paper.

The sentiment is also found on Anna's Cards and Embellishment cartridge. 

The first card can be seen here. Just a change of paper can make a completely different card!

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Anna's Garden Flourish Card

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This is a pretty card image found on Cricut Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments. The card is cut from white Colorbok cardstock and the red paper is Recollections. Card is cut 9.96" wide x 7" high. It is called Flourish Card on the cartridge. I think this is such a pretty cut! I chose not to add any images to the face of card. It is a get well card to be mailed.

Inside the card, I used one of the pretty sayings found on the same cartridge. I used the Write feature with the Cricut Explore to write the sentiment on the white mat. The flourish is found on Cricut Elegant Embellishments.

I like this card so well that I wanted one in pink!

Solid pink paper is DCWV The French Country Stack and the patterned paper is from Paper Studio Country Road.

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Anna Griffin Card

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My card is inspired by a beautiful Anna Griffin card featured in Cricut Design Space Make It Now. It is called Anna Griffin Garden Butterfly Card Layout. My card is cut from Colorbok Pearlescent Paper Pack. All the papers (excluding the blue under the flowers) are pearlescent, but my camera did not do justice to those papers. 

Cricut Cartridges:

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments-- Card is 5" x 7". I used the Make It Now feature. My Cricut had trouble cutting the butterfly that is shown with the card---kept tearing the papers. After a few attempts, I chose another butterfly from the same cartridge. Flowers and ferns are also from this cartridge.

Sophisticated Soiree - Chain Label for sentiment. Only one label is cut using the Make It Now instructions. I cut two labels using different colors-- ivory is 3.26" wide and the green is cut 3.50" w.

Words that are shown on front of the featured card are not given in the cuts. I chose to use Life is a Journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile. The sentiment was printed on the label using the midnight pen.

Flowers, butterfly and label are pop-dotted on card. An ivory crinkle ribbon bow is added to complete the card. My card does not look like the featured card, but I am pleased with the results. Each of us add our own personal touch!

I am sharing this at the following challenges:

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch. 216 Water a Flower Day -include a flower

FCCB - Ch. 251 May Flowers

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A Floral Card

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I have been playing with some images from a new Anna Griffin cartridge. Sadly at times we need to make a sympathy card. I wanted something pretty but not a lot of images. 

Cricut Cartridge

Anna's Garden Cards and Embellishments- Card is cut 7" high from white Colorbok. It measures 5" x 7" and the floral image cuts well. The pretty liner paper is from The Paper Studio Country Road. I added the Thinking Of You sentiment from the cartridge by using the Write feature on a piece of white paper. I like the way this was written. Below photo shows a portion of the sentiment mat.

Inside of card.

I will share this card in the following challenges.

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch 216 Water a Flower Day - must include a flower

FCCB - Ch. 251 May Flowers

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