Irish Dancer

Can you believe it, the end of February is here, and that marks another stamp to be highlighted for the month over at Stamp n Doodle.
Being the month of March not only brings us St Davids day (on the 1st), but St Patricks Day on the 17th also, and therefore the Stamp of the Month is called Teagan's Irish Dance.

I went with the Irish colours for this card, and used the paper piecing technique to bring the image to life.

Card Recipe

Basic Grey card stock for base card (gypsy used to weld 2 x  Dots1-s 5 1/2 inch square)

white card stock (Dots1, page 34 cut at 5 /14 inch)

Patterned papers - free in magazine from stash

Promarkers

Cuttlebug & embossing folder

cricut Cartridge - Elegant Edges ( Dots1 cut on page 34 & Hearts1 oblong-s on page 26)

Gypsy

 You can see here, that I printed the image onto patterned paper, cut out the various sections of the dress (bottom stripy layer, and dotty pinafore), and also the chequered dog! LOL! (who knew a chequered dog would look so acceptable :-))

To complete the look the hat and shoes were also added from the stripy paper, and the rest of the image coloured with skin shades of promarkers.

In the colour palette above I you can see a ribbon, but as we all do, I changed my mind and wanted to complete the card with a slightly different look, and for some reason I had bubbles in mind -so I cut from the patterned paper circles in 3 sizes and layered them together. I even fashioned an appropriate clover shape to include as well !

Thanks for stopping by and sharing my 'makings' with me.

Lori's Garden & Elegant Edges Combined

I rarely make duplicate cards, but having made a set of 9 handmade cards to give as a gift to a neighbour I included childrens cards that I was so pleased with, I felt I should remake them.

They were all made using the same dimensions from different elements on the regular Cricut cartridge Elegant Edges, and printed using papers from the Cricut Imagine Lori's Garden cartridge. The stamped images coloured with watercolour pencils and embellished with either stickles clear glitter or Rangers Glossy accents.

The card bases were cut from 12x12 cardstock, having welded 2 of the 'book' layers from the Elegant edges cartridge together. The shaped theme of each card was continued in each of the corresponding layers.

Recipe

Elegant edges <Ivy> (page 22)

Card base - Book shift (welded together on gyspy) cut at 5.25"

Printed layers - Book shift cut at 4.8", Frame and frame shift cut at 4.5", Ivy base shape cut at 4.5"

Recipe

Elegant edges <Flower3> (page 65)

Card base - Book shift (welded together on gyspy) cut at 5.25"

Printed layers - Book shift cut at 4.8", Frame and frame shift cut at 4.5", Flower3 base shape cut at 4.5"

Recipe

Elegant edges <Circle3> (page 58)

Card base - Book shift (welded together on gyspy) cut at 5.25"

Printed layers - Book shift cut at 4.8", Frame and frame shift cut at 4.5", Circle3 base shape cut at 4.5"

Recipe

Elegant edges <Design2> (page 70)

Card base - Book shift (welded together on gyspy) cut at 5.25"

Printed layers - Book shift cut at 4.8", Frame and frame shift cut at 4.5", Design2 base shape cut at 4.5"

 

Commissioned wedding card

Haha, I have found a way to post on my phone. Forgive me if there are any mistakes, when the Internet decides it is going to work properly for me I will come back and make the corrections and alter to the picture to a better size. But at least I can get something done.

I have been asked to make a wedding card, where anything goes and the colour scheme is coral.

Anyway I used the imagine to print and cut all the papers and flowers. My biggest project yet with it. I used my new Elise patterned cartridge, elegant edges for the central layers and mothers day bouquet half cartridge for the flowers. I used the philosophy of my aunt Rita, to help me create this card  - 'more is definatly more'. Using this rule Rita can produce stunning creations.

The wording gave me grief, I thought I had a wedding word stamp but I don't ( well couldn't find it anyway). I had no congratulations peel-offs either. So resorting to cricut design studio I had to find the right style font, so I could cut at a reasonable size and not too small.
I think it works? Thanks for looking.