Today was the first time that I've really used the Cricut Craft Room. If you haven't used it yet, go check it out! It is AWESOME! It's really handy especially if you don't own a Gypsy, like myself :) The tutorials Cricut provides for the craft room are wonderful and are a must watch for newbies. The card is a shape card and you need to know how to weld images using your Gypsy or the Craft Room. There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube for welding with the Gypsy and the Craft Room videos show you how to do this. With that said, here are the details of this card:
All cuts come from the Create a Critter Cartridge
Front
Card Base: Pg 68 Accessory (no shift) @ 4.5 in welded together and tick marks removed using black cardstock.Top layer: Pg 68 Accessory (shift) @ 4.5in using honeycomb paper.
Main Bee: Pg 68 (all layers used) @ 2.5in dark yellow, black, and metallic white cardstock. Popped up on 2 thicknesses of foam tape I purchased at Big Lots. You could use whatever kind of dimensional adhesive that you have.
Flowers: Pg 66 Accessory @ 1.25in green, blue, and pink cardstock. I also colored the flowers using a Sakura Gelly Roll pen in Clear Star.
Little Bees: I carefully cut individual bees from the cardstock that I used for my mat on the inside of the card. I also colored parts of them using the same Sakura pen I used on the flowers.
Sentiment: Printed using Word "Happy" using Impact and "Bee-day!" using Minya Nouvelle (bold) @ 14 pts. Cut out the sentiment, notched the right side to make it look like a banner and inked around it using Tim Holtz Distressed Ink in Black Soot.
I then finished off the front with a black and white gingham ribbon I got at Michaels.
Inside
Large Mat: Pg 68 Accessory (same as cardbase) @ 4in tick marks removed and using honeycomb paper with bees (so cute!). I also cut off the top heart.Small Mat: Pg 68 Accessory (same as large mat) @ 3in tick marks removed using white cardstock.
Bee: Pg 68 (all layers used) @ 1.25in face cuts removed using the same papers that were used for the bee on the front of the card and cut off the top heart.
WOW that was a lot to type! Maybe one of these days I will make some videos myself :) Some of you might be wondering where I got the bee themed paper from. They are actually digital papers that I printed out. I love the idea of digital papers because I will never run out! I purchased them from Hello Love Too on Etsy (www.etsy.com/shop/hellolovetoo). She has digital papers packs and clip art packs ranging from $2.50 to $5.95. She currently has a sale right now, 3 digital paper sets for $10 and 5 paper sets for $15. So many cute things. Check out her shop if you get a chance.
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Well there is my little card. It will fit in an A2 sized envelope. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Again, thank you to Sarah at Live, Love, and SCRAP for coming up with such a super cute card! It has inspired me to create more shape cards.
Thank you for coming by and have a wonderful day!
Happy Crafting,
