Flower friends

I made this card front a while back, it’s one of the few I’ve entered into challenges.  It was for a three elements challenge requiring one die cut, one stamped image and one embossing.

I used the Cuttlebug Sweet Chelsea border embossing folder and cut the black piece using the Ornamental Iron cart.  The leaves are from the Art Nouveau cart. 

I used a CTMH stamp for the daisies, which I coloured with Copics.  The sentiment is also from CTMH.

I haven’t mounted this on to a card yet.  I’ve taken to doing a lot of just card fronts as I do them for the MB Raq’s challenge but not always with someone in mind.  I like to keep my options open as to what I will do with the creations and am building a bit of stash.

Tricky things layers

This is a card I made for a friend’s birthday, the first one with a Cricut cut that I posted up on the MB for the world to see.  I just tucked it away on a thread not too many people would likely visit!

It was also the first time I ever tried using my Cricut machine to cut a layered picture.  I think I did something wrong as the layers didn’t seem to match up too well (see the really long tulip stem going nearly off the card) but I just pretend that is was meant to be that way!

I used some Magnolia papers for the tulips and the oval frame.  I cut the tulips from the Art Nouveau cart and the frame from the Creative Memories Reminisce cart.

The butterflies and sentiment are stamps, I used Stickles to add some sparkle to the butterflies.  I added a couple of pearls to the frame and finished with an embossed border.  I used Kassie’s Brocade in my Cuttlebug.  This is my favourite machine, as much as the Cricut is great in doing cuts (especially nice even sized squares, circles and ovals) I absolutely love the Cuttlebug and how great the embossing turns out. 

We just won’t talk about how many embossing folders I own or the fact I’m on to my third storage solution for them!

Thanks for stopping by!