Hugs & Kisses - Valentine

Here is a cute card that I made for Tyler.  It has this adorable puppy and cat together under a heart filled tree.  He is special little man and I think he will like.  Let's hope he doesn't get any ideas about a dog quite yet. 

I made this card with the with the Paper Pups cartridge for the dog and cat cut at 3.5" and the Sweethearts cartridge for the tree, 3.75" and sentiment at 1.75".  I added some green ribbon to wrap in all together.

Enjoy,

Melanie

 

Winter Snowflake Card

I have been exploring more with my Cricut and I love it!  Here is a quick card that I made for another Challenge by Momo.  This is 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card that I made with the Paper Pups and Stretch Your Imagination cartridges.  The Pup is cut out at 3" and the snow flakes are cut out 1 1/2", 1" and 3/4".  Winter was cut out at 1 1/2".  More to come......

My Pink Stamper Design Team 2011 Challenge

So, I have only been using my Cricut Expression for a few days now and I am going to be entering my first submission in becoming a design team member for Robyn's, "My Pink Stamper".  I have been following her for several months and if you are interested you can find here at http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ .  Robyn has proposed the following challenge:

To make a card, scrapbook page, or other Cricut project with your favorite cartridge using Robyn's favorite colors; pink, green, brown and an optional color of our choice.

I decided to use the "Paper Pups" cartridge along with the grass from the "Plantin SchoolBook" cartridge for my niece's Happy Birthday card.  Both of these came with my Cricut machine.  For the base of my card I used a 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of  Dark Brown cardstock which I folded in half making a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card.  Next, I adhered a 5 1/8" x  3 7/8" piece of Bubble Gum cardstock and a 4 3/4" x 3 5/8" piece of Blue cardstock together.  I sewed a decorative pink zig-zag stitch around the top and two sides.  Then I attached the three layers of green grass that were cut from the "Plantin SchoolBook" cartridge along with the green ribbon at the bottom of the grass.  The card was then ready for the playful birthday pup, presents and happy birthday from the "Paper Pups" cartridge.  Finally, adhere this portion to the Dark Brown card stock and Voila you have the cutest birthday card.  Next project is to create my son, Bryan's, first birthday invitation. 

Cutting Machine:

Cricut Expression

Cartridges:

Paper Pups

Plantin SchoolBook

Cardstock:

The Paper Company - Dark Brown from the Cypress Fashion Colors pack

The Paper Studio - Medium Brown from the Earthtone pack

AC Moore - Spring Green, Grass Green, Blush, Bubble Gum, Blue

Embellishments:

Hobby Lobby - Scrap Pack Ribbon

Clark's Pink Thread