Die Cuttin' Divas - Ch. 324 Sketch

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Happy 4th of July to you! Hope you are having a great day!

Today begins another fun challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas! First Tuesday of the month and that means Ch. 324 is a Sketch challenge. I chose to use the pretty sketch for a Patriotic card. Card measures 6 1/2" wide x 5" high and is cut from white cardstock. Patterned paper is leftover from a previous project.

Cricut Cartridges:

I cut the layers for my card using Insert Shapes in Cricut Design Space.

Red layer is cut 6.25" wide x 4.75" high. Two white layers are each cut 2.75" wide x 4.50" high. Two patterned paper layers are each cut 2.50" wide x 4.25" high.

Independence Day - Hat is cut 3.25" wide x 3.159" high.

Holidays Through the Years Iron On - Using contour feature, the stars on the image were deleted, leaving only the word Freedom. Freedom was cut 1.932" wide x .444" high. 

Banners - Banner is cut 3.266" wide x .754" high. 

Inside the card:

Insert Shapes - Blue layer is cut 6.25" wide x 4.75" high. White layer is cut 4.25" wide x 4" high.

Cake Basics - Happy is cut 2.964" wide x 1.19" high

Independence Day - 4th of July is cut 2.521" wide x 2.547" high.

Cuttlebug Stars embossing folder is used on the hat. Stars are the cut outs from the hat band. Hat and Banner are pop-dotted on card. A little Colorbox blue inking adds the finishing touch.

Inside the card.

Visit Die Cuttin' Divas to see all the pretty sketch projects made by our talented design team. For more information, please visit our individual blogs. Now it is your turn to play along with us. We look forward to see how you use the pretty sketch. Don't forget to include a die cut.

Thank you for your visits and comments.

Challenges:
Always Fun Challenges - Ch. 13 Patriotic

BBTB2 -  Red, white, and blue or Patriotic

CARDZ TV - Mailbox Smiles Anything Goes Ch. 5
Cards in Envy - Patriotic Red, White and Blue
Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes
Cut It Up - Patriotic- Red, White, and Blue

DL.ART   -  July Linky
FCCB - Ch. 304 Patriotism

My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 184 Land of the Free

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Happy Saturday! It is time for a new and fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts! The theme for Challenge 184 is Land of the Free! Design Team sister Peachy asked that we make a project in red, white, and blue. I chose to make a Center Step Card using a pretty sheet of the Paper Studio Patriotic Damask paper. Solid colors are from the scrap stash. You can find the Center Step Card tutorial at SplitCoastStampers.

Cricut Cartridges:

Independence Day - Phrase Stars and Stripes is cut 3" wide. Large Patriotic heart is cut 1.75" wide and the smaller hearts are cut 1" wide. All images are pop-dotted on the card to add dimension.

Stand and Salute - Phrase Let Freedom Ring is cut 4.75" wide. This is used inside the card.

For the finishing touch, I used red and white twine to make bows. Thank you Diana at DL.ART for the pretty twine pack that I recently won. 

Inside view!

Visit My Sheri Crafts to see all the pretty red, white, and blue projects by the design team! For more information about the projects please visit the individual blogs.

Now it is your turn to play along with us! We look forward to seeing your projects. Several Ooh La La awards will be given and one person will be chosen to be our next guest designer.

Thank you for your visits and comments!

Independence Day

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

I have been playing with red, white, and blue for another patriotic card! In fact, this card is only those three colors and has no patterned paper. I noticed the star shape border card image on a Cricut cartridge and thought why not try this for a patriotic card!

Cricut Cartridges:

Birthday Bash- Star border card is cut 6.25" wide from white Colorbok card stock.

Independence Day - Flag banners. Each is cut 2" high. The tiny red and blue stars that are randomly placed on the card are the cut out stars from the flag banner.

Phrases - Independence Day is cut 4.25" wide.

Stand and Salute - Let Freedom Ring is cut 5.5" wide. This is used inside the card.

I added DMC Memory Thread bows on the flag banners.

 Inside of card.

Challenges:

BBTB2 - Flag or Banner

Die Cut Divas -  July challenge - Summer and Patriotism

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch. 222 -Anything Goes

DL. Art - July Linky Challenge - Anything goes

HIMCR - Ch. 205 Any Holiday

Thanks for your visits and comments!

Red, White, and Blue

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I have been playing with red, white, and blue papers again! The card is white cardstock and measures 5" x 6 1/2". It is layered with red paper and then a pretty Paper Studio patterned paper. The patterned paper was left from my previous patriotic card.

Cricut Cartridges:

Independence Day - Bicycle is cut 3.75" wide from the red, white, and blue papers.

Stand and Salute - Banner Frame with scallop edge is cut 4.25" high. This cut did not have any layers so I hand cut the white for the background and added a strip of red paper under the star cut outs.

Life's A Party - Celebrate is cut 3.75" wide.

Cuttlebug folder is Stars...used on the white mat.

Edges of papers are frayed and inked. A red/white button from my stash added the finishing touch by running some Sew Easy fancy floss through it and making a bow.

Challenges:

FCCB - Ch.254 Anything Goes

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Ch. 306 Sketch --this is my play on the sketch!

Hope you enjoy this card! Thanks for your visits and comments!

My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 160 Happy 4th of July

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It is time again for another fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts and my turn to choose the theme. With the 4th of July fast approaching (where did the first half of the year go!) I would like to see patriotic projects. Challenge 160 is Happy 4th of July... make a patriotic card or project! I decided to try another double twisted easel card. The tutorial for the card can be found at Split Coast Stampers. The card starts with an 8" square blue cardstock. The patterned papers are from The Paper Studio. I love all the patterns together. Solid papers are from scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridges:

Independence Day - Hat is cut 3.25" wide. Flag is cut 4" wide. Both images are pop-dotted on the card. The small stars at the bottom of card are the cut out stars from the hat.

Phrases - 4th of July is cut 4" wide. Phrase is layered on a blue hand cut mat which measures 4.5" x 2.75". It is pop-dotted on the card.

Cuttlebug Folder - Stars used on the blue mat.

 Left side of card.

 Right side of center.

Lower section of card.

Visit My Sheri Crafts to see all the patriotic projects made by the design team and our guest designer. For more information on the projects, please visit the individual blogs and leave some love! Now it is your turn to play along with us! We look forward to seeing your pretty patriotic projects!

Challenges:
DL.ART -Thankful Thursday Ch. 159 Red/White/Blue
FCCB - Ch. 254 Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 379 Star and/or Stripes
Jo's Scrap Shack - Ch. 94 Red, White, and Blue

Thank you for your visits and comments!

Patriotic Triple Twisted Easel Card

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Happy 4th of July! Hope everyone has enjoyed a fun day! I had crafting time and was able to work on a card for some fun Patriotic challenges. I have not had much time to participate in challenges lately and I enjoyed working on this card!

The card is my first triple twisted easel card. Searching on You Tube, I found a video by alissandme who shares great instructions on making this card. The card is made from a 8 1/2" x 11" white cardstock. It is scored and folded down the center at the 4 1/4" mark. For all the details, view the video. Several videos are available on You Tube.

Patterned papers are Recollections and most of the solid papers are from the scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridges: Working in Cricut Craft Room

Independence Day - Looks like I was trying to showcase this cartridge because of the many cuts I used.

Flag- cut 1.75", Firework2 cut at 2.5", Liberty Bell cut 2.75", Banner1 (half-circle) cut 1.5", Banner4 cut 2". Two of these were cut to use as the stops for the side panels. Freedom cut .875".

Wild Card

Page 59 - Star was cut 3.75 from vellum for the middle panel. I did not want to hide all the patterned paper. Red and blue star was cut 1.75". Phrase Celebrate was cut 4.25".

There are no shadow cuts available for the two words that I used so I hand cut a shadow for the words...something I did for scrapbooking before I heard of a Cricut machine!

Cuttlebug:

Star folder was used on the red and blue star.

Other supplies include Pop dots for the Cricut cuts, 3 Girl Jam ribbons, and Versa Magic gingerbread ink.

Close-up views of the side panels---

Challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion - Ch 69 4th of July

Cooking With Cricut - Ch 93 Red, White and Blue

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch 72 Red, White and Blue- Bonus- Add a Patriotic symbol

Exploring Cricut - Red, White and Blue

FCCB - Ch 118 Fireworks, Sparkler or other big boom project

Little Scrap Pieces - In honor of the Fourth, Use a Star

Paper Playtime - Red, White and Blue

SOUS - Flag Die Cut

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Seeing Stars 

3 Girl Jam - Link up for beautiful bows project

Hope you enjoy my first Triple Twisted Easel Card! Thanks for your comments!

BBTB2 - Patriotic

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Thanks for stopping by today! It is Monday and you know that means another fun and inspirational challenge at BBTB2! Our talented design team sister Susan is our hostess for this week and she asked us to make a Patriotic project using any Cricut cartridge.

My card is 5" x 6 1/2" white cardstock. The Patriotic patterned paper is Recollections. Rest of the papers are from my stash stack.

Cricut cartridge:

Independence Day - Float is cut at 3 1/2". I have not used this image before and I do like the finished look.

Phrase "4 of July" is cut 1.75".  Red Gemstones accent the 4.

Cuttlebug: Measure x Measure - I embossed the stars across the top of the white mat and accented the centers with tiny Red Recollections gemstones.

Crinkled Ribbon is 3 Girl JAM - I am having fun using the pretty ribbons from the Red, White, & Blue bundle.

Be sure to visit BBTB2 to see all the lovely projects by the talented design team. You can read more about the projects by visiting the individual blogs. We appreciate your visits and comments!

Now it is your turn to play along with us! I want to remind you that this is a Cricut challenge! You must use a Cricut cut on your project and mention in your blog post which cartridge was used for your project. The Challenge rules are posted on the  BBTB2 blog.

One person will be awarded the Project of the Week badge! It could be you!

Challenges:

Simply Create Too - Ch. 16 Country Where You Live - USA (ends July 5)

Thanks for your comments!

4th of July

Hi and thanks for dropping by today! It has been awhile since I have been able to post on my blog. Today I have a 4th of July card to share with you. So many challenges this week are requiring red, white, and blue or something to do with Independence Day. I love this celebration and our patriotic colors so I wanted to participate! I was striving for the Americana feel without the bright, pure colors. I really like the stripe and star patterned papers. They are leftover from last year's Patriotic challenges and I have been hoarding these papers for a year.

Card is 5" x 6 1/2". I am using Card Patterns Sketch 121 and this is my take on the sketch!

All my cuts are from Cricut Independence Day 2010 cartridge.

Flag banner- 2", Top mats -3.25" and 3.50". This cut has no shadow so I increased the cut by .25 inch and it works fine. 4 of July - 2", and hat is 2".

Cuttlebug folder is Measure x Measure set using the stars folder for the strip. I embossed an extra piece of red and blue papers, handcut the stars out, and placed them on the card.

I used lots of inking and pop-dotted the mats and the hat.

Challenges:

Card Patterns - Sketch 121

My Sheri Crafts - #63 Independence Day

Fantabulous Cricut - #66 Happy 4th - red, white, and blue

Celebrate the Occasion -#20 4th of July - red, white, and blue

Craft Us Crazy - #11 Red, white and blue and/or Summer theme

Use it Tuesday - #10 Inspiration colors- red, white, and blue

Amber's Crafts and Stuff - #16  red, white, and blue

Scrapbookaholic by Abby #8 red, white, and blue

My Craft Spot - #14 Seeing Stars