Last Cards for Today

This next card I think is my favorite. The butterfly is from the Home Decor Cricut Cartridge. I cut the bottom layer then adhered vellum to that. I then cut another butterfly the same size and covered it with stickles. The blue strip is an svg file.

This is my least favorite card. It seems to missing something. Leave a comment if you would.
Thanks.
Pam

Another Card

This card was made for my son's birthday.  I used my Cri-Kits pens and a svg file for the Happy Birthday. The fish and fishing pole was cut using the Camp Out cartridge with my cricut. I embossed the mats and sanded them to get the "poka dot" effect. Hope you like!

Another Thank You card. Not much Cricut involved but this was the most difficult. The image, purchased at Michaels, was stamped with StazOn ink then embossed with black embossing powder. I think the major difficulty was with the paper and had to redo the image several times. I'm still not completely happy with it but enough is enough and I'm calling it done.

Hello

Hi all!

Well again life gets in the way of doing things we really want to do and doing the necessary things. My mother passed away February 27th. She had a mild heart attack on January 30th and spent 10 days in the hospital. While there the doctors found she had lung cancer that had spread to some of her lymph nodes and one small location in the spine of her neck. She had not started her chemotherapy when she suffered a massive heart attack. She left this world under her terms, not the cancer's terms. We miss her terribly but know she is in a much better place.

I have been getting back into the routine of things and making thank you cards. The file for the first card is from Wanda, who is so talented and always generous with her talent.

 

The next card was created with a file from Penny who is also a very talented lady and always always always willing to help and share her knowledge with everyone. Stop over to Penny and Wanda's blog to see some amazing work.

 

Thanks so much Wanda and Penny!

Learning Inkscape

Hi everyone!

Well as some of you may know I love my Cricut! Several months ago I purchased the Cricut Design Studio and Sure Cuts a Lot (SCAL). There are so many people out there that make totally awesome designs and files for both software programs. I became somewhat jealous that I didn't know how to create the files that can be cut in SCAL so for the last couple of weeks I have been busy learning Inkscape. Inkscape is a program that allows you to creat svg files that then can be imported into SCAL. After the files are in SCAL you can cut them with your Cricut. So for those who are interested, Penny Duncan has some great video tutorials on Inkscape. You can find them HERE. Here is an example of a card that I created using Inkscape and adding a file created by Paulo. There are a couple of mistakes but I'm pleased with it overall. Visit Paulo's blog HERE. Thanks Penny and Paulo.