Are You Ready for Some Gardening?

Happy Diva Tuesday!

Today brings another challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas and what better way to celebrate than with a new project.

Our challenge this week is... Gardens

NATIONAL GARDEN MONTH®

 When You Garden, You Grow!
Every April communities, organizations, and individuals nationwide celebrate gardening during National Garden Month. Gardeners know, and research confirms, that nurturing plants is good for us: attitudes toward health and nutrition improve, kids perform better at school, and community spirit grows. Join the celebration and help to make America a greener, healthier, more livable place!

Here is my Design Team project...

 Materials:
Walk in My Garden cartridge ~ flowers (p. 124) cut at 1" and 1 1/2"
DCWV paper ~ Flower Shower Spring Stack
pink and purple card stock
purple crinkle ribbon
green button
white craft thread


Other Challenges:
Allsorts ~ Buttons & Thread
Craft Your Passion ~ Die Cuts and Punches
Make It Monday ~ Anything Goes
Unscripted Sketches ~

This Week's Sponsor...

Thank You Jessica!

Looking forward to seeing all those great projects this week.

Stay Creative,

Georgiana

Cards for a Friend

Just a quick note tonight to share a few cards I made today. I had fun making them and I sure do like how they turned out. I am still trying to incorporate cuts that I haven't used before.

Materials:

Pagoda cartridge ~ fan (p. 64) cut at 2"

Wild Card cartridge ~ Just Because (p. 39) cut 4 3/4"

Walk in My Garden cartridge ~ wheelbarrow (p. 107) cut at 1 3/4"; flower shadows (p. 82) cut at 1/2"; Thanks (p. 124) cut at 1/2"

Serenade cartridge ~ butterfly

Spellbinders ~ Lacey Circles

My Mind's Eye paper ~ Lost & Found

Heidi Grace paper ~ Daisy Dear

DCWV paper stack ~ Cafe Mediterranean
K Andrews stamps ~ Time Heals all things

brown and pink flowers

cream and pink flower ribbons

pink, green, and beige gems

brown flower button

Challenges:
Clear It Out ~ Thank You with ribbon (middle card)
Cardz TV ~ 3 R's (first card)
Twisted Sketches ~ (first card)

I have one more I need to make, which will include a lighthouse (Life's a Beach cartridge).

I sure wish Blogger would be more cooperative. I have tried posting and leaving comments numerous time this weekend, but MANY times it has been unsuccessful (blank white screen). I hope it is resolved extremely soon. Please do not think I have forgotten about you!

Is anyone else having trouble?

I can only hope it is not just me.

Until next time,

Georgiana

Garden Mini Album

I worked on the No-Staple No-Glue foldable and I am ready for all those great pictures I plan on taking this weekend (after we work on attacking the jungle in the backyard).

I created a Garden Makeover mini album. I thought it would go along with the flower theme at The Craft Den~Anything Goes Challenge Blog. 

I used Walk in My Garden for the snail which was cut a 2 inch and the sign was cut at 4 inch from the same cartridge. "Grow" is a sticker that fit perfect. The flowers are stickers and the leaves are torn paper. The green dragonfly is a button.

All the letters were cut at 1 inch from Plantin Schoolbook.

Click Here to see how to make your own.This one can be altered by adding another sheet if you want to make it longer. If you want to learn more about foldables let me know. I have plenty more that can be changed into cards or layouts. 

I hope you have enjoyed a different way of creating a mini album. Be sure to leave a comment if you would like. I would love to visit your site to see all those projects too.

Stay Creative,

Georgiana  : ) 

Woven Paper in a Tri-fold Card

My Personal Challenge Begins

Last night I began working on my first new card design. Not only did I create a card that I haven't before, I also added a new technique...weaving. I have seen my students do this on numerous occasions before, but I have not added this feature to any of my cards. I decided to give it a try. I used scraps that I had and cut them into 5" x 1/2 " strips. I placed a piece of tape at the top of my working area and began alternating the slips of pastel papers. I kept my final piece and used it as a background for the center of my tri-fold card, but I did see that the woven paper can be cut into different shapes....I'll try that one another time.

The dainty pink ribbon is the first impression.

 The second layer is the blue buttons which is the doorway to inside.

Once you open the card, you are overwhelmed with a feeling of happiness.

Walk in My Garden Cricut cartridge was used for flower, small garden critters, and "be happy" expression.

Please leave a comment and let me know what your favorite type of card fold is. I would love to try it!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #17

"Creepy Crawlers" with Orange: Make a project using any type of bug AND use the color Orange somewhere on your project.

I found this DCWV paper and just had to use it for this design along with one of my favorite cartridges, Walk in My Garden. The butterflies and flowers are just wonderful and can be used with any theme.

First, I created the base card by using a solid brown piece of cardstock and trimmed it with my papercutter. Then I trimmed the solid blue sheet to fit centered. I used my new corner paper punch to create the designer corners. Let me tell you, I had to read the directions and practice because I did not know the paper fit under each corner. (Yes, I am new at this!) I created the flower by layering each piece using foam dots in-between to give it depth. I topped the flower with a gren button. The orange, blue, and cream butterfly is flying in 3-D. The sentiment (Hi!) is from Wild Card.

Flowers

Here are some cute flowers for someone special. I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the card with a floral pattern. The flowers are cut at 2 1/2" and the bee is cut at 1 1/2".

Garden Critter Card

Here is my newest card.

I created the ladybug card for one of my students, so I hope she enjoys it. I wanted to say "Thank you" for the end of the year gift she gave me.