Friday, September 30, 2011

Card Challenge

Emma at creative time for me is having a card challenge using a font cricut cartridge. I decided to try it. It's funny that the card that I had in mind is nowhere near the card I ended up with. Before I chose a cartridge, I had in mind that I was going to make a fun, cheerful Halloween card. I even pulled out my Halloween sentiments and Emma's banner stamps(I was going to use the banner to spell the word "Boo")! Yet, when I went to cricut.com to figure out which cartridge I was going to use, I looked on the old west cartridge and saw this lantern then completelychanged my mind. Lanterns remind me of spiritual themes (my daddy's a minister, I guess that's why), so I came up with the idea to use that image as a spiritual/inspirational card (that's what I was aiming for anyway).

The little flame is from straight from the nest cartridge and I lucked out because I didn't even have to size it, it automatically came out the perfect size!
I ended up doing two cards because I couldn't figure out if a white mat (my original card) wouldbe better than a gray mat (that card I think of as my masculine card for some reason). But since I was using Emma's 3in card base, I had plenty of scraps left over to make two cards.

I LOVE these stamps! I used 5 different stamp/die sets from Emma and they all can be interchanged! (small talk, fancy frame and die set, build a banner kit, Race for a cure and XL label die)
This is the second card I made. I think I like the original (white mat) better.

9 comments:

  1. your cards are great, love all the details and texture! thanks for playing with us at My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday!

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  2. These are great! Love the embossing and that lantern is perfect!!

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  3. Great job! Love the sentiment.

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  4. These are beautiful!! Love how you used the XL die,all the stamps and the embossing!!
    Cindy

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  5. Oh wow, I can't decide which one looks better. They both turned out so differant but very, very nice. I don't know...I really like the silver, but the white is so elegant. Truth be told, I keep scrolling up to keep looking! Great job!

    Have a great day!
    Susan
    cricutandgrasshopper.blogspot.com

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  6. What beautiful cards! I love that lantern cut! Thanks for playing along with My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday Challenge!!!

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  7. These are awesome. I love that beautiful lantern cut. I didn't even realize that there was one. It looks perfect on these sweet little cards. Hugs- Glora

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