God Bless the USA Door Hang

Hello there!  Today's my turn to post over at the Bug Bytes so this post can also be seen there.  Thanks Pam and her lovely readers for having me today.  I'm sharing a door hang I created in honor of the upcoming Fourth of July holiday. 

I used the Silhouette Studio to plan the pieces to this project, and all pieces were cut using the Cameo.  The scalloped circle with the stars, the Statue of Liberty silhouette, and the "USA" were images purchased through the Silhouette Store.  The rosette came from a rosette SVG set I purchased through Lettering Delights a while back.  I used the Cooper Black and the Creampuff fonts for the words "God Bless the."

Here are some of the pieces after they have been cut.  I preassembled part of the rosette.  I ended up using a total of 12 rosettes pieces (cut in 2  12x12 white cardstocks).

After attaching all 12 rosette cuts together, I laid it out around a 12 inch cardboard cake platter, shiny side down.  I then marked four spots where I'll need to glue the rosette down first.  I used a glue gun for this project for stability. 

This is how the rosette should look like after glueing down on the four marked spots.

Then all I had to do was "squish" in the rosette to form a circle, working one corner at a time.  I made sure to put a ribbon (I attached mine with a heavy duty stapler becuse the cake platter was very thick) before I closed down all the corners since I was going to hang this.

Mine was not a perfect circle as you can tell from the above picture, but the front did cover it up pretty well.

I used red Craftworks Card Candis and faux stiched with a white gel to embellish the scalloped circle.  I also did faux stitching on the letters USA.  Most of the pieces were also foam mounted for added depth. 

Have a wonderful 4th of July!

Happy Birthday, Ryan!

My 100th post and my son's 9th birthday!  Wow, time flies!  I made a card for my DS' birthday today which I'm also linking to the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge blog with the pocket theme.  This is an A2 sized card.  The dino cut is from the Cricut Create a Critter cart and is stamped with one of the Peachy Keen Everyday Character Face Assortment set.  The grass cuts were from one of the free images I got from the Silhouette Studio store and of course cut with the Cameo.  The sentiment font is from Lettering Delights called LD Red Hatter's Hand.

Here is a picture of the inside of the card.

All the cuts inside are cut with the Cricut.  The "pocket" tag to hold his special gift is from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More (TBBM) cart, flood filled with art from the JT Imagine cart.  The "Happy Birthday" is from the Elegant Cakes cart.  The "Dino Mite" is from the Create a Critter cart.

Thanks for visiting me today!  

Card Patterns Sketch #148

Today I'm sharing a card I created using a Card Patterns blog sketch. I have been frequenting this blog for months now and wanted to play along but have always missed their deadline for some reason.  I love their card sketches!  For this challenge, we were asked to follow sketch #148 (by Tracy Schultz) as seen below.

(Above sketch image copied from Card Patterns Blog)

My card is an A2 sized card and all supplies used were from my stash.  I'm sorry to say though that I did not use any Cricut cuts for this project.  The rosette was a cut image from Lettering Delights I cut using SCAL3 on my Cameo.  The "button" is a print and cut from Silhouette Studio.  The rosette and the button are similar cuts from my previous post a few days ago if you scroll down, except this one says "...so sweet..." instead of "....cute as a cupcake..." I used a doily MS puncher for the purple mat and added yellow irock gems.  I also used a couple of flower buttons and some twine. 

I kept the inside of the card simple - you could kind of take a peek at it from this angle (see below)

This was such a fun sketch.  I have a lot of scraps of patterned paper that are just screaming to be used up so I can see myself using this sketch again in varying forms.  

Thanks for looking! 

Happy Birthday A2 Card

Hi there!  Today's project is a simple A2 sized birthday card for one of my nieces who recently turned 8 years old.   All supplies used were from  my stash   ;).  I embossed the red mat with the D'Vine Swirls CB folder.  The rosette was from an svg image I purchased from Lettering Delights a little while ago, cut with the Cameo using SCAL 3.  The "button" on the rosette is a print and cut image from the Silhouette Studio store.  The sentiment "Happy Birthday" was cut using the Elegant Cakes cart on the Cricut.  I embellished with 3 pink half pearls.

Here's a peek on the inside of the card which I left blank so my kids can write their own sentiment. 

I hope everyone's having a great weekend so far!  Thanks for stopping by.