Birthday/Kid

 

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Playing along with a few challenges, I chose to use the pretty sketch at the new sketch challenge blog Paper Play Sketches. My card is white cardstock and measures 5" x 6 1/2". Patterned papers and the red paper are from a 8" x  8" Me&My Big Ideas scrapbook kit that I have had for years. Cake and gift stickers are also from the kit -- trying to use some of my older scrapping supplies.

Cricut Cartridges:

Just A Note - Birthday Rabbit is cut 3" high.

The Few First Years - White circle/red circle mat is cut 4".

Birthday Bash - Happy Birthday flag is cut 2.25" high. The Cricut Explore cut the words at this size really well.

Cuttlebug:

Happy Birthday folder is used on the white mat. Swiss dots is used on the balloon.

Challenges:

CARDZ TV - Card #2 - Birthday Card

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch. 253 - Kid's Theme

Double Click  Connections - Happy Birthday

Paper Play Sketches - Sketch 001

Hope you enjoy this card!

Thanks for your visits and comments.

 

 

Cricut Birthday Cake

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Always needing birthday cards, I decided to combine two challenges to make this card. The card measures 5" x 6 1/2" and is cut from a blue card stock paper. The patterned cake/cupcake paper was left over from a previous project. Remaining papers are also from my scrap stash. Although I own many Cricut cartridges, I purchased a monthly subscription to try in Cricut Design Space. After a search for a birthday cake through numerous images, would you believe I chose a cake image that I actually own!! In fact, of all the cartridges that I used for this card, Decorate! Celebrate! is the only one that I do not own. I was happy to use Cricut images for those images depicted in the sketch.

Cricut Cartridges:

Just a Note - Birthday cake is cut 2.25" wide. 

Decorate! Celebrate! - Small green banner is cut .78" wide x.85" high.

Plantin Schoolbook - Oval is cut 4.75" high.

Pretty Pennants - Pink pendant banner is cut 6" high.

Cuttlebug:

Happy Birthday folder is used on the white oval.

Challenges:

BBTB2 - Birthday Cake

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch 313

Thanks for your visits and comments!

Just A Note!

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I have been playing with one of my forgotten Cricut cartridges. Cricut Just A Note cartridge was one of the free cartridges available with the purchase of the Cricut Expression 2. I am happy to see that it is  available for my use in the Cricut Design Space. I like how these cards have so many different shapes. Patterned papers are from a K&Company double-sided pad. Other papers are left over from previous projects.

Cricut Cartridge: Just A Note

Card cut 11"w x 5.48"h. Folded card measures approximately 3/3/4" x 5.5". Guess that is why it is called Just a Note!!

When the card is inserted into the Design Space, the Feel better sentiment is included on the screen. The sentiment is cut 3.39"w x 2.22"h. It does not include any layers for the sentiment. There is one Feel better image that has several layers so different paper colors can be used. However I did not see a layer for the first e in the word Feel. I chose to use only one paper. 

The Bear has several layers. It was cut 3.82"w x 4.18"h.

 Card with left side slightly opened.

Above two photos show the card laying flat. For the inside of the card, I hand cut a layered mat for a personal sentiment to be written.
Surprise! I only used one Cricut cartridge! This cartridge has some cute card images!

Challenges:
ABC Challenge - D is for Die Cuts
BBTB2: Shaped Cards
Die Cuttin Divas - Ch. 203 Odd Card

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

Paper Playtime Ch.52 - Cool Off With Water



Thanks for visiting today! It is time for another fun challenge at Paper Playtime. Challenge # 52 is Cool Off With Water. As most of the country has been having very high temperatures, it is refreshing to find a way to cool off! I do not have a sailboat but when I saw this cute cut, I wanted to use it for my card. Wanting to have a colorful card, I chose red, white, and blue papers from my stash. I used the Cricut cartridge Just a Note which is preloaded on the Cricut Expression 2. The cuts are on page 50. Using the card feature, the card is cut 5.50" from a navy blue cardstock. Let's Sail Away cut at 5.50" using red cardstock is the shift key on the card feature. I cut the sailboat first from silver cardstock at 5.50" using the card layer feature and again from the red and blue papers using the card layer shift function. I had trouble getting the correct size for the layering of the letters. If I used the same size for the layering, the individual letters would have been very large. It seems that all sizes would be the same for the complete card, but it did work that way. I do not use Design Studio nor Gypsy so I had to keep making adjustments. I think it was 3 inches that I finally used to cut the letters.

To add more dimension, I used the Cuttlebug Houndstooth on the sails and Divine Swirls on the blues for the water.

Above is a photo of the card opened. The solid blue is actually the backside of the card. The two side panels fold in toward the front of the card. Hope you enjoy my card!

Now it is your turn to play along with us! We would love to see your paper projects showing any type of way to cool off with water. We are happy to have My Pink Stamper as our sponsor for this challenge. The prize is a clear stamp set "Music Speaks". To see the design team's great projects, visit Paper Playtime. Be sure to hop over to their blogs and leave some love!

I am sharing this card at Cooking With Cricut  Challenge #45- Sailboat.

Just a Note - Daydream

I am playing with Cricut Cartridge Just a Note which was preloaded on the Expression 2. This cartridge has really cute cuts and a card feature. This is made using the card feature. I am using the example that is illustrated in the handbook with the same colors. When I first saw the handbook, I really liked this card. So I tried it to become familar with the features on the cartridge. These cuts are on page 24. Using the example, the card, dog, and daydream are cut at 5 1/2". Light green and dark green papers for the letters are cut at 2". Instructions are to use the phrase feature for the letters; however the y and e are on the Phrase Layer. Hmm, one of those things you have to check. This is what I came up with for my "practice card"--just a simple card with some inking.

More photos to show the layers and card base.

Hope you enjoy!