Soft Colored Happy Birthday

I love the soft look of this card.  The background paper was printed using my Imagine and the Blossom cartridge, then mounted it on kraft card stock.

The banner I cut using my Art Philosophy cartridge and stamped it with a CTMH stamp using Olive ink.

I cut the tic-tac-toe kind of grate using my Gypsy and some lines I welded together.

I placed them on the paper but thought it looked to plain behind them so I took one of those crazy little foam thingies that come in the box when you get a new cartridge and inked it up with some light ink and stamped it, came out perfect just what I wanted.  Then all the flowers are stickers I placed inside the squares.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog, I love to read your comments.

A Bright & Cheery Birthday

A month or so ago I bought the DCWV Lemon Flower stack.  Oh the papers are so pretty and I had been wanting to make something with so when the sketch challenge was posted on Fairytale Challenge blog I pulled out this stack of paper to make my card.

Here is the sketch that was to be followed, I like this sketch and think I will keep it for future use.

And here is the card I made using this sketch

At first I thought maybe the papers were to busy together but after inking the edges I think it made them stand out a bit more.  All papers are from the Lemon Flower stack with the exception of the scalloped circle.   This I made using my Imagine, I am a new Imagine owner so I am still playing around and learning.  I thought I would try to print on pearlescence paper to see how it turn out, and oh my is came out beautiful the pearl shows through the light yellow pattern print from the Country Carnival cartridge.   This make me even more excited about my Imagine.

Here is a close up of the circle, but you still can't see it too well.  The "happy birthday"
is a peel off sticker and the swirls are Dazzle stickers.  I love the Dazzles they add a nice embellishment to your projects.   They even have a monthly Premiere Dazzles club you can join and every month you get not yet released Dazzles, paper, and a project letter.  The flower is a Martha Stewart stick on.
I am very happy you decided to stop by today, I would love to hear what you have to say about my card and take a look around if you like what you see I would be thrilled to have you as a follower.

This card is also for the following challenges
Make it Mondays   Always anything goes  - ends 7/17
Penny's Challenges  Happy Birthday  ends 7/19
Bearly Mine   Anything Goes-  ends 7/18
Hanna Stamps  Happy Birthday  -  ends 7/20
Ruby's Rainbow   Happy Birthday  - ends 7/18
Southern Girls  Happy Birthday  -  ends 7/26

Tags Trio Card, Bright & Pretty

This card is so much brighter and pretty in person.  I made this following a sketch and also an ad color challenge on the Cricut message board.  The ad colors were, Turquoise, Lime Green and white, not much white but there is some there.

 

I am really loving my Imagine and learning new things all the time.   I was a bit disappointed to learn that you can set up your files to cut with the Imagine application on the Gypsy, but can not flood fill imagines with colors and patterns.  In fact the regular Gypsy application and the Imagine application do NOT "talk" to each other.

So to work around that I printed up the paper patterns I wanted to use  close to the size it needed to cut my images out.  Then placed the papers on my mat and cut the shapes I wanted out of the pattern paper.  It is a shame if they have the Imagine app on the Gypsy that you can not use them together.  The papers I used for the tags are from the Blossom Imagine cartridge, then I cut out the tags using Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cartridge.

The background paper is that paper they call Invisibles, it is all white and has a raised pattern on it so when you rub your ink or whatever you chose over it does not adhere to the raised areas, then you rub lightly with a paper towel and the pattern shows through.  I also prayed it with Hula Hoop Glimmer mist to give it a shimmery finish,

The butterfly I got some time ago at a fabric remnant store here is town.    The "thinking of you" is on there temporarily as I am not quite sure how I want to use it yet.  

Well I sure hope you like my card well enough to leave a comment, and if you look around my blog and like what you see I would love for you to become a follower, I am trying to get to 200.

Thanks for stopping by

Challenges for this card

One Stop Craft  Tag Your It ends 7/8

Oldie But Goodie  Anything goes ends 7/11

Flutterby Wednesdays  Butterfly ends 7 12