Quilts and Cards: Walk in my Garden

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Tiptoe through the Tulips

Over at the Cooking with Cricut challenge this week, the theme is a Spring song, and I found this sentiment on my Cricut Lite Bloom cartridge.

I cut the bottom layer in black and the top layers in red, yellow and cream.

The flowers are from the Walk in my Garden cartridge and I welded two of the border layers together to fit across the front of the card.

The card is a centre step one which I cut using the Black Cat Cougar, designing the file on the Funtime Software package that came with the machine. The software makes it really easy to make these cards that require measuring, cutting and scoring in different places.

I have entered this in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Challenge me Monday 103.

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.