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Showing posts with label Stretch your Imagination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stretch your Imagination. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A new Sympathy card for my stash.....

The card stock is K&Company Designer Paper Black & Ivory Fusion

You have to be carefull lining up the sentiment on the inside, so you don't see it from the outside of the card--and remember to only tape 1/2 of the front sentiment.



My friend, Shelly and I, decided to slow on the soldier cards, for just the moment, and build a supply of cards we may need for misc needs in our personal lives.

So here is a Z fold sympathy card I came up with.


And I hope these instructions make since.

Recipe for Sympathy Card (Z Fold):

Front: With Sympathy
Printed on Microsoft Word
Font:BixAntiqueScriptHmkBold (also with Bold turned on.)
Font Size:22
2
Inside: Death leaves a heartache
Only God can heal;
Love leaves memories
No one can steal.
Font:BixAntiqueScriptHmk (with Bold turned one.)
Font Size:16

Cut card base from 8 ½ x 11 card stock (can make 2 cards)
**Cut size 11 x 4 ¼

*Cut 2 mats (from pattern paper) (front & left inside)
2 ½ x 4
*Cut 1 mat (from pattern paper) (right inside)
5 ¼ x 4

Score card base @ 2 ¾ and 5 ½

With Stretch your Imagination Cricut Cartridge
Cut Shadow on page 78 (5.7)

**2 black (card base color) @ 3 ¼
*2 pattern paper @ 3
2 around sentiment (using center on Cricut Expression) @ 2 ¾

(I always cut a plain one and check the placement and centering
of the sentiment – luckily this cartridge has a frame the same size
make it easy to check the placement.)

I used ink to shadow all edges. I did not use any pop dots—since it
Will most likely be mailed.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,
Linda

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Three sympathy cards....




I also made three sympathy cards the same way.

I'm going to show the pictures first and then give the details afterwards.

After doing the first two S-fold cards, I decided to run the mats through the cuttlebug--I forget to use that little buggar sometimes!!! And it adds so to the plain mats. Going to put more designs on my list of things to get.

I used the black out on page 78 to make mat and then to center sentiment for phrases.

I've been busy.....

Feeling better and running behind!

So I wanted to get some Birthday Cards done in advance, so I used my new favorite thing.....centering sentiments that I run off of the computer!!!

And then used one of my favorite cards....the S-fold card. You just have to be picky on the phrases and verses you use, because there is not alot of space for them.

The only difference is one has the word sister in it. That one is for a dear friend at church who calls me her sister (through the family of Christ our Savior)! The other difference is I increased the size of Happy Birthday--had more room than I thought. Oh, and forgot--I highlighted the flowers edge--as I did the did slightly on the edge of the sentiments.

Card two

Two Birthday Cards

Inside

Outside Sentiment

Good color picture



Terry, my dear hubby, bought me a huge pack of all different colors of cardstock--from Hobby Lobby, I think. It has a HUGE hue of colors--I just love it. I cut one of each (they are 8 1/2 x 11), to have cards ready to make in a hurry.

Details:Happy Birthday Card
Font: CaslonNo540SwaD
Happy Birthday one 18 pt/second 24 pt
Front verse: one 14 pt/second 14 pt

Start with a 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 pc of cardstock
fold in middle--card size--4 1/4 x 5 /12
fold one size in half--to outside fold

Front pattern paper mat: 2 x 5 1/4
Inside pattern paper mat: 4 x 5 1/4

Cartridges used: Sweet Treats (flower-pg 50) and Stretch your Imagination (for mats & sentiments--centered--pg 78)

Flower (? paper) regular flower then shift inside flower then layers-reg inside of flower all at 1 1/2"

Mats--front--Stretch your Imagination-(pg 78-blackout-reg--center-3")
Mat--inside--SYI-(blackout-reg--center-2 1/2")
Sentiments--front--SYI-(blackout-reg--center-2 3/4")
Sentiments--inside--SYI-(blackout-reg--center-2 1/4)

Saturday, January 30, 2010

A Hoppy Birthday Card.....


Couldn't find a frog--so I used this cute little grasshopper and embelished with my light green stickles.

This is for our youth pastor at church. Just got the google eyes at WalMart! I really like what it does to this little guy!

I think he'll get a kick out of it!