My Mum's Birthday

My mum (or "Mom" if you are American) turns 70 this month so I made her this birthday card.
The lattice card was detailed in the previous post (click here) and the tulips pattern came from Papers, Scissors, Ink (click here)

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.

"My Daddy" wordbook

I had an order for a wordbook from a lady who wanted one for her niece to give to her father for his birthday. She wanted it to say "My Daddy" on it and be in masculine colours.

I didn't put any photo or journalling mats inside it as she wanted to do that herself, but I supplied her with matching paper to use for the mats when she decided on what she wanted to do.

Her feedback to me when she received it was "many thanks, the work is great and I can tell a lot of thought went into it - hes going to love it. :-) " His birthday is in March sometime so I hope she will let me know the end result of it.

I cut this all out using SCAL.

Christmas Treat Bags svg files

I was asked if I could make the Christmas treat Bags I have shown below (click here) into .svg files so they could be cut using SCAL.
I have attached the files - there are two of them, one for the house and one for the ornament. I have included all the layers in the same .svg file so they will keep their size when you import them into SCAL.
house.svg

ornament.svg

I have not cut them but I imported them into SCAL and they looked fine in preview mode so should cut alright.

Please let me know if the links do not work.

Wall plaque

A wall plaque I made for my niece for Christmas. She loves cats.

I used SCAL to design it.

October 08 Swap

The October swap was themed "Butterflies".
The flowermesh on the background I used Accent Essentials, Plantin Schoolbook and Walk in My Garden cartridges. The large butterflies were cut in SCAL and the smaller butterflies from Mickey & Friends cartridge.

Here is a link to all the cards from this swap

http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=3288620&mpage=1&key=&#3288636

September 08 Swap

I joined up with a group of NZ ladies on the Cricut messageboard that have a monthly card swap. You have to use a cricut cartridge somewhere in the card.

The September theme was 'Children's Birthday". Spongebob I did on SCAL, the background and lettering was done using cricut cartridges Accent Essentials and Plantin Schoolbook

Here is a link to all the cards made for this swap

http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=3171651&mpage=1&key=&#3171848

Grandpa wordbook

A wordbook I made for the girls after their grandpa passed away as a memory of him. I have only shown some of the pages.

Used SCAL for the layout.

Eden's Wordbook

My friends had a little girl called Eden so I made them a Word Book for them to put photos etc in of her.

I used SCAL to make the word book.

My First Word Book

My first word book made with SCAL. It was for a work friend of my husband's who was to become a grand-father for the first time.

Baby Card

Made for a friend on the announcement of her baby.
It was designed in SCAL. The teddy bear layout came from "GrammyKrausse" on the SCAL message board.