Quilts and Cards: Wednesday Challenge time again

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Wednesday Challenge time again

Time for another Craft with Cutters Challenge.
This week, the theme is Flourish. There are some beautiful projects over at My Paper Crafting so please do go and check them out.

My project this week is a little different from my normal cards or 3D projects. I recently got my hands on some vinyl and tried cutting it with the Cricut. Amazing - it cuts like a hot knife through butter!

I was looking for something to "decorate" with this vinyl and spotted my iPad in its keyboard cover. Perfect!

I used 2 cartridges this week - Home Accents for the butterfly and Fancy Frames for the swirly frame.

The frame measures 5.5" by 7.5" to give you an idea of the size.

I love the butterfly with its gorgeous flourish on the wing and trailing behind. I can see this image on a larger scale decorating a wall or mirror.

4 comments:

Sandy Palmer said...: Janet, what a wonderful project! I just love all those vinyl cuts! :); May 2, 2013 at 1:59 AM
Sheena said...: I love how you did this on your laptop! It looks so pretty :)

~Sheena; May 2, 2013 at 6:13 AM
Brenda said...: This is awesome Janet! I love the flourishes that you used to make a frame on your IPad cover! I also love this butterfly too, it's one of my favorites!! Isn't it fun working with vinyl?!!! Hugs!; May 3, 2013 at 9:22 AM
Suzanne cricutcraftingrammyblogspot.com said...: So pretty Janet. I definitely need to do this to my computer. Love the flourishes.; May 4, 2013 at 7:06 AM

Favourite Tips

If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.
When you are stitching on cards, make sure you are not sewing over the top of DS tape! The needle gets gummed up and won't lock the threads underneath.
Use zip lock plastic envelopes for smaller pieces of card offcuts that accumulate when making cards. Have one envelope per colour and periodically go through and trim up so they are ready for use on another card.