March swap

March's swap theme was the letter C.

So I went for circles - original huh!

Here is my card using just cricut cartridges and a white paper doily in the background.

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.

Donald & Daisy card

Misty has asked me how I made my January swap card.
So I thought I would post it here so others might find it useful.

Please note I am using DS to make this card.

To make the card itself I used the shadow key and the Donald & Daisy imageI then copied it so I had two of them.

I flipped one image so they faced each other, and nudged them together. Make sure you have both of them with the welding button ticked.
I also rotated both pieces slightly so that the feet were level so it would stand up ok - my rotation was 12.23 and -12.23 as you can see in the above properties box.


Once they had joined up enough I previewed it to check and then could cut it.

For the white inside I used the same image but just clicked on the Shift Lock instead of the shadow and so you get the outline only but at the regular size not the shadow size.
Then did the pieces for the front as normal.
I hope that makes sense - feel free to ask any questions if I missed a step or anything.