Chris Durnan's Latest Challenge

Once again I have taken part in Chris Durnan's Challenge to use her SVG files in my own creations. Here is a link to her Blog: http://visualdesignsbychris.blogspot.com/

Here is what I made for the challenge:


1. Congrats Card made with Chris' cut-out stars that I used behind colorful vellum to make a window of sorts that struck me as festive. :)


2. Love to Read Card made with the cut-out phrase "love to read" melded to a cut-out card I made in SCAL. Lots of sparkly color on the letters help them really stand out!





3. Inspire Card - this was made with Chris' ornate embellishment that I attached to a Wild Card (Cricut Cartridge) card that I created. I used dragonfly brads, a copper metal "inspire" oval, flowers, ribbon, and stickles on a wet embossed background to make this card really different from my usual creations.



4. The final card was a Thank You card made out of Chris' 4-frame file that I melded to a card front. I used new inchie stamps I just found to come up with a cute cut-out design. This will be a gift for my favorite ebay seller who found these awesome stamps for me, along with all the other great deals she makes me.




This was fun. I look forward to her next challenge! Thanks Chris!

Cricut Cards . . .

I made these cards for friends and family. They were made on my Cricut with SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot) from Susan's cut files.

For one of my best friends, Michael, who likes toads :)
It was my first pop-up card, the only thing I would do differently next time is use heavier card stock for the foundation:

This one was originally made for a contest/challenge for National Ice Cream Day (It had to include ice cream in the composition) but it ended up going to a good friend. The background of the flipped front is holographic, and I used lots of iridescent chalking for sparkle all over! Wish it photographed better:

This 'Thank You' was made for a wonderful lady named Pat. I blocked the private parts of the card, I know you understand. :) It's hard to see in the pictures but there was a lot of paper piecing on the front.



Close up of inside front cover:



Another hard one to photograph is this Acetate (clear plastic) based card I made as a thank you to the great people at the V.A. for helping me out so much! I know the V.A. gets a bad rap at times, but the people at the V.A. in Oregon are all exceptional people! I have nothing but good things to say about my doctors, administrators, and case workers!

Another big thank you shout out to them!