Good evening all my crafty bloggy friends! Hope everyone is having a good week and that you all aren't melting away into puddles! It's been very HOT here today and I believe I'm soon going to head on down to the basement and hide out in my craft room because it's sooo much cooler there! But first, I needed to post about a card that I put together that I think is my new favorite. Don't you love it when you create something that you yourself totally dig? I love when that happens! So, this card also happens to be my submission for the My Pink Stamper design team call which comes to a close tonight. Yes, I am squeezing it in during the last lap, but I just had to give this one a go! Afterall, if Cricut is involved I'm weak... I love my Cricut wayy too much, lol!
To submit for this dt selection, we all had to follow the challenge to create a project using a favorite Cricut cartridge, and to incorporate the colors of brown, orange, green and turquoise, and other optional color of choice. The only other color in my card is white accenting of the sanded cardstock core and in the mini alpha sticker lettering. Have to say, I like that combination of colors... earthy, yet cool.
Guess maybe that's why I went with an Earth motif and woodgrain for my card's theme. Give a Hoot is one of my very favorite Cricut cartridges and that's where I found the image for the heart shaped world diecut used on here. I used a variety of Core'dinations cardstock, including the Glitter Core Couture in a turquoise shade for representing the Earth's water. I tied some vintage crinkled seam binding in orange around the heart shape and attached the piece to my card base with dimensional foam squares. Sticker alphas completed the card's sentiment. Ohhh, that woodgrain piece... that is actually packaging (backing) from a set of alpha stickers that I bought from Target awhile back! Yes, I even recycled on my earthy card!
Card Supplies and Recipe:
- Give a Hoot Cricut cartridge - Heart Earth -
cut @ 4" from green Core Essentials cs), Heart Earth layer - cut @ 4" from turquoise glitter Core Couture cs). - Other cardstock, all by Core'dinations (Green Core Impressions BasicGrey Whimsy dot-line cs, orange Vintage Core cs, brown Core Impressions Cosmo Cricket criss-cross cs).
- Woodgrain sticker packaging from Target.
- My Little ShoeBox Mini Alphabet stickers in Sunrise orange.
- Pink Paislee cardstock alphabets Whimsies in Pumpkin.
- Trimtex vintage seam binding in orange.
- Stampin' Up small scallop border punch.
- Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Spiced Marmalade.
- Recollections foam dimensional squares.
Okay, that's my card! Now I'll cross my fingers and hope for good news! Thanks for stopping by! :)
