cricut THIS!

In one of my ATC swap groups we have a fabulous birthday coming up. I really wanted to sit this amazing number into something else, and here is what I came up with:

I took the banner heart from the Lovestruck cart and sat the "90" (storybook) in the center of the banner, welded. This layer was cut from Dragonfly Dreams Shimmer Paper which takes the intricate cuts very well without tearing.

The base card was made with the blackout key for the same heart. I adjusted the width and height a bit so that it would fit properly in a A6 envelope. At the beginning of this blog I showed you how to make shaped cards that are side-fold. The top-fold cards are a lot easier to do, here are the steps:

1. choose your shape and put on bottom half of DS screen
2. select item, then copy (ctrl C) and paste (ctrl V) (don't move it!!) it is exactly on top of your initial shape
3. rotate new shape 90 degrees twice
4. move new shape up on vertical axis only until you have desired overlap at fold
5. important: FLIP new shape. Most cricut shapes are not exactly bilaterally even, so this step is important for the front and back of the card to match

Click here to download the .cut file

I put the top cut directly onto the top-fold card which was cut from a DECVW designer card stock that has little shimmer dots all over. Colored the heart part with a violet copic marker. This bled through, so I had to get a bit creative on the inside:

I really love the way the copic looks on the inside, with the dot pattern and entire shape looking a lot like done in watercolor. All stamps used on the inside are from Mark's Finest Papers .

This week the Cricut Cardz blog gives us the challenge to make a masculine card with your cricut. Taking my husband as the recipient, I played with Storybook and Pagoda in Design Studio. He loves koi and I think he still is just as "coy" as he was so many years ago ;)

I cut the welded image and the fish from shimmer paper which cuts like butter :) The background card stock was a bit cuttlebugged and swiped with ink and shimmer paste. Some hotfix crystals and pearls for accents finish it all off. This card may be in subtle colors, but this teal sortof color is one of hubby's favorites, and truly, he knows from all the hours of staring into his pond that koi can be hard to spot when they are hiding!