I've been busy today. It started because my neice had surgery and I wanted to make a card for her AND because I got 4 new Cricut cartridges for Christmas and have had no time use any of them yet. Somewhere along the way, I got this wonderful idea for a card that had nothing to do with getting well! As I pawed through my papers (and stopped to take time to organize my scrap papers), I found the most beautiful argyle patterned paper and just had to use it. Then I got this great idea that that there must be an Elegant Edges image that would imitate the diamonds and sure enough, I did find one on page 54, which I cut at 4 inches, oblong. I also found paper that picked up the thin red line in the argyle paper, so I was off and running. I dug around in my ribbon box and found a piece of red ribbon that had come off of one of this year's Christmas packages. It had gone through a brayer and was all crumpled and when I cut the ribbon, it fit perfectly on my mat. The next challenge was to find an image and I spent quite a while searching. Nothing 'grabbed' me because this was supposed to be the get-well card but it was looking so masculine, I just couldn't make it work for a young woman. I was surfing thru some masculine birthday sentiments when it came together for me. The sentiment was about a fiddler and now I knew which cartridge to use. I cut the violin at 3 1/2 inches from the Quarter Note from a piece of black scrap paper. The top layer was cut from a piece of Once Upon A Time, DCWV mat stack. The paper was already a little distressed but after I cut the violin, I used dark brown chalk to further distress it. From the same paper, I made a banner that said Happy Birthday. I put one end of it into a Fiskars punch so I could get the diamond edge. Then I added tiny black pearls (the label at the top of the page got thrown away so I can't tell you the brand. Below the card is a picture of the inside quote that inspired this card.
I told you I was busy today. Once I got started the birthday card going, suddenly I knew what I wanted to do with the get well card. Again i liked Elegant Edges and I had already cut the image in lavender and the shadow in pink. These were cut a while ago and saved in a photo album I keep of prior "mistakes" for future use. I do remember that these were cut from the shadow function of the "loops" image on page 35 I usually cut 1/4 inch apart, so I'm guessing that's what I've done here. The mat paper is from K&Comany Specialy Paper "Sparkly Sweet". The butterfly was also in my photo album, cut a long time ago. The jeweled ribbon is from a spool that I got in one of the discount baskets at the check-out line at Joanne's. There's no label on the spool other than to say it's polyester. I stamped the sentiment with an Inkadinkado rubber stamp. The quote inside is the truth. I DO feel better having made both cards.
Well, that's it for today.
Blessings,
Linda :)
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