Exploring Cricut ~ Hugs & Kisses

With Valentine's Day just a few weeks away, it's time to make a Valentine.  And for today's Exploring Cricut post, we'll do just that!  This project features one of my lonely cartridges, Sweethearts.  I say lonely because it just doesn't get a great deal of attention from me.  But after this card that will change!

And the cuts you will need...

Bow - pg. 33 - 5.25 inches - black cardstock

Phrase Shadow - pg. 36 - 2.25 inches - black card stock

Phrase - pg. 36 - 2.25 inches - white card stock

Hearts - pg. 40 - 5.25 inches (2 cuts) - red card stock

Heart Shadow - pg. 40 - 5.25 inches (1 cut) - white card stock

1. Apply ScorTape to edge of white heart. Gather white seaming  

    binding around the edge.

2. Apply dimentional foam to white heart base and adhere 1 red

    heart.

3. Assemble phrase and arrow. Adhere to front panel.

4. Use ScorPal to score line slightly below top of second red heart. 

    Fold, add ScorTape and adhere to back of white panel to create

    your card.

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time...

Blessings...

Exploring Cricut - Daily Post

Happy Friday! Thanks so much for stopping by! Today's project is for the daily post at Exploring Cricut. And I used both a new and old favorite!

First the finished product! And you must promise to not tell my hubby! This might be his Valentine Card! ;-)



Cuts

Pet Shop - St. Bernard cut at 4.25 inches
Sweethearts - Puppy Love - pg. 44 at 3 inches & Heart - pg. 72 at 5 inches

This is an extremely simple card. I created a 6 x 6 card base out of black card stock and trimmed a slightly smaller layer of DP. The heart was secured with dimensional foam. The Saint (bronze coat embossed with Provocraft's D'Vine Swirls folder) stands guard. Notice how I placed his front feet with dimensional tape? My Saint has a blackout layer (black card stock), base (white card stock), brindle pattern (bronze card stock) and off white front feet. How fun is that? Thanks for stopping by and until next time... Blessings...

Recipe

Card Stock - Bazzill, Colorbok, American Craft
Paper - Fancy Pants - Love Story
Dies - Provocraft Sweethearts, Pet Shop
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirls

Paper Cutz Challenge #76

Remember the crop I was so excited about? I went and hung out for 6 hours. And when I mean hang out, I mean hang out... I got absolutely nothing done! lol... I was in some sort of creative fog. I hope I am not the only one who exhausts all of their creative ideas sometimes! I started to color an image... hated it and gave up... I started to do a scrapbook page and realized the color scheme I wanted to use wasn't working...

By this time lunch had rolled around. I was convinced that a slice or two of pizza would clear the cobwebs! Oh, no! Then I got sleepy... So I finally gave up and just watched other people create! Sadly, I packed up after a very unproductive 6 hours and went home... :-(

I loved seeing everyone but boy, I wish I had something to show for it!

Sunday proved to be a restful day for me. Thankfully I needed that. Late last night I whipped out the Cricut and pulled this card together. I entered it in this week's Paper Cutz challenge HERE. Maybe the funk is over? Or maybe not...

Blessings

Lori
Saintsrule!

Card Stock - Bazzill
Designer Paper - We R Memory Keepers - Be My Valentine Sweethearts
Cricut Cartridges - From My Kitchen (cupcake); Sweethearts (title)
Aleene's Paper Glaze (cherry)
Ranger - Stickles - Star Dust (icing)

Hello Ducky Card

We have been deluged with rain where I live. Not just several days of a steady rain but a couple of days with torrential downpours. So much so, the ground feels like a very large sponge. We all know that this kind of weather is perfectly ducky for our feathered friends. Keeping this in mind I created a fun card to send to cheer up one of my ill buddies! Thanks for stopping in!

Materials List

Cardstock - Aqua, Yellow, Orange
Pattern Paper - Piggy Tales it's raining, it's pouring collection (no kidding!)
Memento Dew Drop Ink - Bahama Blue - shadow Hello
Fiskars - Zingz - rain drops and splats ($1 find at BigLots)
Die cuts - Hello - Cricut Gypsy Font
Duck - Cricut Animal Kingdom
Umbrella - Cricut Sweethearts
Welding of Diecuts - Provocraft Gypsy
Uniball Pen - White - eyes and lacing of umbrella
Zig Ball Pen - Black - eyes
Pop dots for dimention
Ribbon - unknown