New Lattice/Daisy card

I have been playing today with some lattice cards that I use my cricut and DS to cut. (see here for original lattice cut files)

I have changed this one to get extra room for the greeting on the card (you can see that the lattice has been interupted for the Happy Birthday).

So once I had cut it I wanted to do something with it so I took the daisy flower that Tinga had posted for SCAL cutting(see here) and then the flourish posted by Rose (see here) (but cut off the leaves as I only wanted the flourish).

The Happy Birthday is a peal off sticker.

It is the first card I have made that is one colour - two different tones of green but still all green and I am really pleased with the result.

February Card swap

Here is my February card swap. The theme was Animals and/or Birds.

I used the cut file from http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=2496326 for the lattice, however I had to remake it as I didn't have te cartridges needed. So I remade it using Plantin Schoolbook for the diamonds and Christmas Cheer for the triangles. I also cut the card itself so that I could get the lattice in the correct position. The bird was cut using SCAL from this post http://forums.surecutsalot.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3457.

The cards haven't been sent out yet so I haven't got the scans of all the rest, will post them when I get them.

My Dad's Birthday

Today is my dad's birthday so here is the card I made him.


I took the inspiration for it from a post on the Cricut message board by KatesaCraftyBugger
http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=4016711


Kate cuts the spaces around the letters by hand but I wanted my cricut machine to do it all for me if I could so I made it in Inkscape and imported it into SCAL for cutting. Using the shadow feature in Inkscape gave me the different thicknesses of the letters. I then put a rectangle page at the end for a message. I used my 12 x 24 inch mat and paper so was able to cut it all out of one piece of card - each letter was about 6 x 4 inches in size - just fitted into a standard envelope.