Mothers Day Card- Swing Fold

Hi Everyone,

I know mothers day is long gone and  most of us crafters are already preparing for fall and christmas but... here's a card I made sometime ago for my mother in-law for mothers day. She loves to stitch so I thought it was perfect card for her...

She actually taught me how to make these beautiful smocked dresses, which I really enjoyed making. I don't make them as much any more. It takes a lot of time to make and my daughters are all growing up and they hardly wear dresses anymore.  

Anyway I feel this card can be made for any one who loves stitching and not for just Mothers day.  

Here I used Core coloured cardstocks, permanent vinyl from Cricut and foam pop dots for dimensions. All the little stickers were cut out of the vinyl.                       

Hope you enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed making it. 

P.s. Look for the link for this card under Free Files. If you are a Cricut access member it will cut for free.

Please do not share this digital file. For personal use only.

Feedback and Comments are appreciated.. 

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Birthday Banner

Hi All,
I know its been a long time since I posted anything.
So here is a birthday banner I made sometime ago. I made this for my daughter's butterfly themed birthday party.

It is simple, easy and fast to make. I used glitter card stock from Cricut for the banner and core coloured card stock for the butterflies. 
I wish I had taken a better picture:( So anyway here it is...

P.s. I have posted link to this project under Free Files Folder if you want to make it. 

It will be free to make for Cricut Access subscribers. 

Hope you Enjoy making it...

Please do not share the digital file. For personal use only.

Comments, questions and feedback are always welcome!

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Shadow Boxes- Part 2

Hi All,
So here are few more of the shadow boxes I made for my daughter. She is writing little individual notes on a card to go with them. 

They were cut using my Cricut Maker. The shadow boxes are all 8x8 inches. Here I used 65-80 lb core coloured cardstock from recollections and cricut. In some I used cricut glitter cardstock and glitter permanent vinyl. To stick them I used foam pop dots, spray glue and Aleenens original tacky glue. 

Hope you all did enjoy these shadow boxes!!

Questions and feedbacks are always appreciated..

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Shadow Boxes- Part 1

 Hi Everyone, 

Last few days I was busy making shadow boxes for one of my daughter. She will be finishing her primary school and be going into elementary school. Gosh time flies... I remember when she was born, can't believe she will be in 3rd grade next academic year. So we wanted to give something special to her teachers as a thank you and I do not believe in giving gift cards. I feel gift cards are very impersonal but this is completely me, so please do not take it personally. 

So here are the shadow boxes I made. 

These were designed by Cindy Duke and I added my own flair to them. They were cut using my Cricut Maker. The shadow boxes are all 8x8 inches. Here I used 65-80 lb core coloured cardstock from recollections and cricut. In some I used cricut glitter cardstock and glitter permanent vinyl. To stick them I used foam pop dots, spray glue and Aleenens original tacky glue.

Hope you enjoyed seeing them as much I enjoyed creating them!!

Comments & feedback are always appreciated...

 

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Baby Dresser- Side Step Card

Hey Everyone, 

It's been a long time since I have posted or written anything. 

Last few weeks just flew by. 

My in-laws were over from Canada for a few days. Had a really nice time with them as we have not seen them for more than a year and a half in person. Then it was my older daughter's birthday. She turned 15!... gosh I feel old. But any way here I am...

 I made this card for a friend who had a baby boy. This was also my first time trying to make side step card. Making this card was a lot of fun and learned a lot of new stuff.

What I really enjoyed making were the teeny tiny clothes. It reminded me of my girls when they were babies.

  Here I used few different types of card stocks, double sided foam dots for 3d element, and my cricut maker of course....                 

Hope you enjoy my cards as much as I enjoy making them. 

P.s. Look for the link for this card under Free Files. If you are a Cricut access member it will cut for free.

Please do not share this digital file. For personal use only.

Feedback and Comments are appreciated..  
  

 

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Dragonflies

Hi Everyone,

I am here today with another shadow box. The image is from design space. I thought it was perfect for spring. I think I've told you all how much I love spring. 

Though this image was perfect...but I felt it needed more colours, so this is my take on it.

Also as you see I have made both of these a bit different. On the top image you see the black outline of the dragonflies is different from the dragonflies in the image below, It's because I was experimenting to see if permanent vinyl will stick to glitter card stock and how will it look. I think it looks pretty nice and also stuck very well.

On both the projects I used 65lb solid core card stock and glitter card stock from Recollections and Cricut, printed card stock for the background and various size foam pop dots as spacers. 

Hope you enjoy this shadow box as much as I enjoyed...

Check Free File folder for the link. 

If you are a Cricut access member it will cut for free.

Please do not share the digital file. For personal use only.

P.s: Comments and feedback is very much appreciated..   

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Parchment/ Vellum Embossed Card

Hi Everyone,

Today I wanted to share a card that I had made many years ago... way before I got my first Cricut or even knew a machine like Cricut existed. I made this card when I was living in India. While going through some of my cook books the other day I found this card tucked in. It brings back lots of memories, who knew making cards would become so much easier...

 

Anyway the flower and leaves were done on parchment paper and coloured using oil pastels. You draw on the back of the parchment paper using white ink and then emboss it using a ball point embossing tool.  As you start embossing, you will see that the parchment paper starts turns white. Once you have finished embossing you colour and blend it using blending medium. You colour on the back too. Once finished turn over and see the magic.... It can then be mounted on card stock.

Hope you enjoy my cards as much I enjoy making them!!

P.s: Comments and feedback is very much appreciated. 

                                                      

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Spring Easel Card-3

Hi everyone, I am here again today with another Spring themed easel card. This card is again made using my Cricut maker. Can you believe that I had to cut more than 50 mats to get all the details (56 to be precise), crazy right... 

I know you can use something called snap mat on your iPhone/iPad cricut app but but I do not have iPhone/iPad. Also I find I am more comfortable using a laptop or a desktop while designing.  

Here I used 65lb card stock of various colours, foam pop dots of various sizes, glue, foam board strips (for the frame) and Cricut maker for cutting. All the images are from design space.

Hope you do enjoy my cards as much as I enjoy making them !!

P.s: Comments and feedback will really be appreciated

 

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Spring Owl Box Card

Hi Everyone, hope you all are doing well.

I am here again with another Spring themed box card. I thoroughly enjoy making cards with little intricate details, so that every time you look at the card you find something new.

It folds flat for easy mailing. This is again made using my Cricut maker. The butterflies were cut using a punching machine set I have had... I don't know maybe for 8 to 10 years I guess.   

At the back of the card I for the golden border I used Foil transfer kit for maker and drew with purple glitter pen using the drawing option. You don't have to use either of them if you don't have any.

 

 Hope You enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed creating it.

P.s: Check Free File Folder for the link for this card. If you are design space member, it will cut for free. 

Please do not share this digital file. For personal use only.

Feedback and comments are appreciated.

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Easel Spring Card-2

 Hi everyone, 

How have you all been doing? It's been long since I have posted or written anything. I have been crazy busy and a bit lazy here with covid vaccinations and my daughters schools.....

So anyway here I am. I have been still experimenting with my easel cards. 

This is another one I created. I am super happy the way it came out. But the sad part is, I realised my file for this project is now corrupted after the latest update of Cricut design space. So I will not be able to share this project until I remake the whole thing over again. 

This is how it looks when you open and make it stand. It folds flat for easy mailing. All the images here were from design space, cut using my Cricut maker. The birds and the grasshopper were print and cut.

The side view to see how it is standing.  

Below you can see the cut pieces and the assembly. This is just to give you the basic idea of what and how I did.

Hope you enjoy this card as much I enjoyed making it!

P.s: Comments and feedback will really be appreciated....

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Spring Easel Card

Hi Everyone,

Hope you all are doing well. 

I sure had a very busy weekend and a very busy week so far. So I have been trying something new... I saw these easel cards sometime ago on the internet, I really wanted to try them out. 

Then while browsing the internet for ideas I came across Kittie Caracciolo's website (Kittie Kraft) and loved her cards. 

Though I loved her cards I wanted to create something different. The lights in my brain clicked on and here we are.

This is my take on easel card. I am very happy the way it came out. I think it's a perfect card for spring or for Mothers day. 

All the images are cut out of card stock. 

For the frame I used foam board cut into 1/4 inch wide long strips.

I used pop dots of different sizes to give the 3d effect.

Hope you do enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed making it !!!

P.s: Comments and feedback will really be appreciated....

 

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Crescent Moon Owl Shadow box

Hi Everyone, Here is another shadow box I made. Loved the way it looks and the illusion of depth you see. It's a 6 layered image. I used 65lb recollection plain card-stock  pop dots of different sizes and a 9x9inch frame.

This file was bought on etsy from MagicVectorLaser.

 

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Thank You Card

One summer I decided I wanted to learn something new and more useful. Our community centre was offering free knitting classes!! Yay, very excited....bought new knitting needles, wool... attended 4 class session, very proud of myself. The session finished, the needles disappeared, the wool disappeared and I am back to point "A" with my cricut and my card-stocks. 

Anyway this was a Thankyou card for my knitting teacher. 

Here I used 65lb brown cardstock, pink polkadot embossed cardstock and my cricut maker.

Hope you all enjoyed seeing my creations..

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Owl Shadow box

This is a 10 layered svg owl file. I loved the way it came out. Here I used Bazzill cardstock of two different shades of brown, pop dots of different sizes, my cricut maker with premium fine point blade. The size of the shadow box was 12x12inch.

I made this in two different colours. For the white one I used recollections plain white cardstock and cricut glitter cardstock. Also for the white owl I used 13x13inch frame. 

This svg file again was bought on Etsy from FabricutVectorFiles, as I have still not mastered making my own svg file. Maybe some day- keeping my fingers crossed!!

Most of these shadow boxes I create go to Wild Wings, which is a not-for-profit organisation. Here they take care of wild birds (including birds of prey) which were injured at some point and would not survive in the wild on their own. 

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Chickadee Shadow Box

Hi Everyone, 

This is another shadow box I made. Did I tell you all that I love working with paper? Also I love projects that have layers and gives 3d effect. So anyway, I made this also sometime ago. I bought this svg file from 3DCuts.com.

Here I used 8x8inch shadow box, 65lb recollections cardstock and different sizes of pop dots which I bought on Amazon.

 

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Millennium Falcon- Shadow Box

Hi guys, here is another of my post.  

I made this shadow box sometime ago for my nephew who is a star-wars fan. Before I made this I had no clue what star-wars was about. I am really proud of how it came out because this is the first shadow box where I used lights.

This is how it looks when the lights are on. 

I purchased the file from LaserCraftum on Etsy. The file has six layers. I used 65lb cricut and recollections cardstock, Pop dots to give a 3d effect. The box size is 12x12inch

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