Bird Cage Card

The large priority mail box for Operation Write Home is just about full.  I've been concentrating on doing cards for Father's Day since the cut off date for those is April 30th.  But, making the same theme card after card gets boring to me.  Today I went online and searched my Pinterest boards of card ideas and saw one similar to this layout.  It's a nice, spring looking card so I made eight of them.

The narrow pink strip was embossed.  The birdcage is from the Sophie cartridge.  I punched the bird and branches with a Stampin' Up punch and embossed the bird's body.  The sentiment was stamped and punched with their modern label punch then I created a shadow for it using images from their software and cut those with Make The Cut.  The border was done with a Martha Stewart punch.

Sophie Christmas Card

This card is one that will be given to charity this year.  The tree was cut at 3 7/8".  Sentiment was computer generated and punched out with a SU punch.  I added some Stickles for bling.

This type of card is one that you can do multiples of very quickly.  It would be a good design for a group activity..  Adhesive pearls could be used on the tree branches so that you wouldn't need to allow for drying time on the Stickles.

Sophie Cricut Cartridge Birthday Card

Not a very complicated card at all.  The background is chocolate brown and mint green and even though it's not evident in the photo, the floral oval is cut from mint green mica paper.

My Sophie cartridge arrived today and I just had to get it out and give it a try.  There are so many good cuts on this one for cards that I know I'll get a lot of use out of it.

The sentiment was printed using the technique for printing on Cricut cut out shapes that I mentioned a few days ago.  The cardstock is textured so I knew that a stamp wouldn't work well on it.  Running it through the printer did a great job.

Sophie Cricut Cartridge---Cricut Circle Exclusive

My friend, Carrie Elmore, who I jokingly refer to as "the biker chick", wound up with two extra copies of the Sophie cartridge.  It's currently a Cricut Circle exclusive cartridge and the only other place you can get it is if you're willing to pay big bucks for it on Ebay!

Some folks on the Cricut message board weren't very nice to her when she mentioned on there that she'd like to sell one copy so I told her I'd mention it on here.

If you're interested in buying the cartridge----and not going to just flame me and or Carrie----leave a message and I'll get you in contact with her.

The cartridge is new, of course and has not been linked to a Gypsy.