So yes, last month at Couture Cardstock we got to partner with one of the coolest leading companies in the scrapbook universe... Cosmo Cricket! I was assigned the Couture "Harvest Moon" collection to design with and it paired perfectly with Cosmo's Earth Love line. I had a lot of fun playing with their product and coming up with these card designs. All of my cards can be seen in the Couture Cardstock inspiration gallery under the Harvest Moon heading, but you can also see them here too because, like it or not, I'm gonna show them to ya! Lol!
This one was posted on the Couture blog previously. I love the primitive look of old-fashioned braided rugs, and you can see that on this card I took inspiration from that look to handcraft the spiral rolled flowers shown here.
All you need to do is cut strips of 12″x 1″ cardstock. I used both Corn Husk and Persimmon from the Harvest Moon collection. Then take your strip of cardstock and wet it and pat dry to make it flexible for rolling the strip lengthwise. After you roll the strip, twist the length fairly tight and begin to roll in a spiral. You then secure the rolled spiral to flower cuts with glue-dot adhesive. I then finished my spiral flowers by misting with Old Lace Glimmer Mist and inking them with Coffee Bean Brilliance ink to add more rustic charm.
This next card was also featured on the Couture blog and it's one of my favorites with the Earth Love line from Cosmo...
In case you'd like to create one of those darling pinwheels for yourself, the cut is from the Mother's Day Cricut cartridge!
And here are two more of my card designs to round up this group...
For this card, I cut my pennant shapes out with the Cricut and then used the negative piece as my card front. I stamped the small leaf pattern onto a lighter colored cardstock and adhered the pennant negative piece over top with foam tape for dimension.
The folded card design with the branch was cut using the Wild Card Cricut cartridge! I cut out an extra branch and embossed it with the Cuttlebug using the Victoria emboss folder.
Okay, I suppose that's enough show-n-tell for one day, lol!
For now I am keepin' busy tryin' to wrap up some Couture Cardstock projects for CHA that is coming up real quick here in July! I can't wait to finally share those with you as well :) CHA is always such a fun and exciting time for us scrappers and crafters!
I hope everyone has a great week! I am looking forward to Thursday as I'll be going to one of the largest outdoor concert/festivals in the country for contemporary christian music... Creation Fest 2010! Can't wait! We would like to go for the entire event but we can't this year so we are just going for the entire day/night on Thursday. Thursday's line-up includes some of our very favorite groups including, Letter Black, Remedy Drive, Red, Newsboys and Casting Crowns! We're gonna see them ALL... so excited! Hope that the rest of you have something exciting to look forward to this week as well! :)
