Some new cards

Got busy over the last couple of days and did a few cards.

This card is a centre step card that I made as a retirement card for a friend who finishes work at the end of this week.

I cut the base card using the Black Cat and a file I did using the Funtime software. I then cut the card layers to fit and topped with a couple of layers cut with Spellbinders Labels dies. The bottom one was embossed with the swiss dots embossing folder. I cut the words using the Cricut and SCAL 2 from pink Bazzil Bling card. I stamped a floral stamp on the top layer using bundled sage distress ink.

The flowers were made using a new Spellbinders cut and fold die that I bought last weekend at the craft show in Sydney. Finished the card off with some pearl bling added to the flowers and the bottom of the card.

 This is a special birthday card made for a friend of my mother. I used kraft resist cardstock to make the top layer. I stamped it with one of the new Tim Holtz stamps that I won as a prize at the class I went to in Sydney (with his lordship Tim) then embossed it with white embossing powder. I stamped flowers across the bottom of the card with black then laid a strip of cream lace across the card.

The butterflies were stamped onto glossy card with a Stamp-it stamp (that I also got at the class)then coloured using a couple of pink distress markers and water brush. Added some black bling to the centre of the butterflies after cutting them out.

To finish it off, I added some pink card candy to the corners, three little paper roses and a sentiment cut from kraft card and coloured with distress ink.

This card used the same basic techniques and materials. However, I used a different sentiment stamp and die cut and left off the roses.

Both cards were layered with black onto a pink base card.

All things girly!

Welcome to Paper Crafting World and Cooking With Cricut's 2nd Blog-Aversary and our week long celebration! Each day for a whole week (May 19-26) we will be bringing you fabulous projects made by our Design Team members.

We have some GREAT blog candy as well as some daily file and graphic give-aways -- so you will definitely want to make PCW-CWC your daily stop every day this week!

Our theme for today is All things Girly and this is what I created!

I wanted to make a slightly different label-shaped card for this one, so I made a large label and cut it using my Black Cat, then folded it in half. I cut small holes along the edges of the front piece for the ribbon to thread through. I added some white lace to the edge of the front of the card and threaded a narrow white ribbon through the holes.

I printed Melin's lovely BC Bear Princess sitting file and coloured it with my Copic markers. I added some bling to the tiara as well as KindiGlitz, which I added to the heart shape on the stick as well. I cut the image out using a spellbinders labels die, embossed it then added spun sugar distress ink while it was still in the die. This leaves a lovely white edge on the die cut shape. I attached the image to the top of the card so that half of it is above the fold in the card.

I printed the sentiment from the digi stamp and cut it out, then attached it to a fancy tag (Spellbinders) which I placed on the card below the image. To finish off the card, I added a white bow to the bottom of the card and some pearls to the corners of the image and the sides of the tag.


Thanks for stopping by and make sure you head on over to Cooking With Cricut to check out the rest of the projects by our amazing Design Teams!

My First Pop up Card!

I saw a really good demonstration by Klo Oxford over on a Pazzles forum. She showed how to make a pop up card using the Funtime Software program that I got with my Black Cat. So I had to give it a go - don't I usually when there is something new to figure out???

This is the outside of the card - embossed with the hearts and swiss dots folders using the Cuttlebug. The heart is the freebie from Craft Stamper this month and I added the word Love to the centre of the heart and attached to the front over the ribbon.

The centre of the card shows the pop up that I did in the software program. It worked really well and I only had to do a couple of trial cuts. I have been having a problem with the machine cutting smaller than the dimensions I put into the program, but, thanks to Tracie on another forum, I have got that sorted now!

I stamped another heart and cut it out then attached it to the heart that was cut as part of the cutting file.

Entered this in the Allsorts Challenge and the Craft Room Challenge - just click on the links on the sidebar to go to these blogs!

New Year 2012

Already it is three days into the New Year of 2012 and I have started my card making with a real bang! On Boxing Day - I made 17 Christmas Cards!!

SVG Cuts came out with a lovely new set recently - Everyday Cards. I loved it and have made four of the cards from the set.

Happy Birthday with 3D letters.

3 D letters add some dimension

Mary has designed the cards to fit together really well and the frills and scallops are well structured so they do not grab and rip the paper - this is a bit of a problem sometimes with the Black Cat as the blade does not swivel quickly when it is cutting scalloped shapes.

 I also found recently, some lovely cardstock sets from First Edition Papers. They are great for cutting with the Black Cat and with the Cricut.


The base cards are also cut from the files and they are all a little bit different.

The Hello You card is a nice one. The centre part is actually cut out and has a layer underneath, instead of on top! The shape of the front is also cut as part of the base card file.

Love the layered frilly look!

The flower centres are cut through all layers.