A Couple of Cards…Unplugged

Good morning crafty friends,

I hope your weekend was a wonderful one. Summer is beginning to wind down and for many, kids are back in school and fall schedules have commenced. It can be a difficult time to squeeze some crafty time out of these busy, busy schedules. Today I am sharing a couple of cards I created for this month’s IFTL recipients. My schedule has been going at a break-neck speed lately like many of you and finding time to craft has been tough at best. Well, last week I was in the middle of doing some designing and file creation on my beloved Pazzles when all of a sudden the electricity went out. Because I work on a laptop, what I was doing was fine, but everything else went out. I was at a point where I was going to test cut some files on my PI and so that TOTALLY changed my plan. I walked away thinking surely the power would come back on in a few minutes….well, it didn’t. So after a half hour of “waiting”, I decided I better switch gears and do something else. So, I decided to see what I could come up with not using any “electricity” to create my project. I used to do these types of projects more often, and used to call them….unplugged. I also used to have a page of these projects that I called…punches and pretties…mostly because that is what I used..punches and die cuts along with some “pretty”embellies. Well I pulled out some of my punches, stamps, etc. and this is what I came up with.

I used the gorgeous DCWV Linen Closet Stack as the basis for these cards. They are very simple Easel cards and the “inside” is left blank per the IFTL directives.

Here's a closer look at one of the cards closed.

Here is a view of one of the cards. I used a simple paper doily along with some Robin’s Nest Dew Drops for the outer layer to the scalloped punched circle. The Sentiment is from the CTMH Stamp Set:   and I used the Whisper Ink which matched the DCWV Linen Stack paper beautifully.

Here is a closer look at the dew drops and the simple paper doily.

This shot is trying to show you how pretty the paper is with a glitter-glazed finish…love it. The stems were from a Fiskars punch and the flowers were some EK Success Daisy punches.

Here is what I used to create these "unplugged" cards.

		EK 3” Scalloped Circle Punch
CTMH Whisper Ink Pad	CTMH For My Friend Stamp Set	EK Photo Corner Punch
Beaches Dew Drops	Fiskars Branching Out Punch	White Opal Liquid Pearls
EK Medium Daisy Punch	EK Mini Daisy Punch

Additional Items

White Cardstock

Misc. Ribbon

Pearl Gem

Paper Doily

I really did enjoy creating without any electricity. While I can’t imagine my life without my beloved Pazzles Inspiration, I am now on a mission to dig out all my old punches and dies and do some more “unplugged” projects too!

Thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with me!

More IFTL Birthday Cards

Good morning crafty friends,

I hope your Thursday is shaping up to be a fantastic one. Today Madison and Melin will be sharing a few more IFTL Birthday cards. So be sure to head over to IFTL and join in!

Madison’s Blog

 

Cartridge Used: Birthday Bash

PCW File Used: Bear w Cupcake n Sprinkles DS

Details Post

Cartridge Used: Cricut Artiste

Stamp: Art Philosophy Coordinating Stamp Set

Don’t forget we are creating birthday cards for this month’s IFTL recipients. There is still time to pull that paper out and get some done. To read all about the shelter, please head over to the IFTL Blog’s August Recipients and join in!

Be sure to stop back by tomorrow as designer Sandy treats us to another
Fabulous Friday Feature and pick up your free digi!

Cupcake Cards Details Post

Good morning crafty friends, 

I wanted to share the details on how I created my cards for the August, IFTL recipients.

Here’s a look at both cards

The finished card sizes are the A2 in white cardstock.

I used the DCWV Glitter Stack for the pretty patterned paper.

The zig zag on the bottom was an EK Success punch.

The “Celebrate” stamp was stamped in Cranberry and is from the Art Philosophy set

Here is a shot of card one.

Here is a look at card 2

Here’s a closer look at the cupcake. The cupcake was cut at 2.25” using the Artiste Cartridge the Green Star shape was cut at 3” from the Artiste Cartridge as well. The blue circle was cut at 2.25”. I used a circle punch but you can also cut one out of the Artiste cartridge.

Products Used To Create These Cards

DCWV The Glitter Stack

Cartridge Used: Cricut Artiste

 

Stamp: Art Philosophy Coordinating Stamp Set

Cranberry Ink Pad

EK Success ZigZag or Chevron Border Punch

Orange, Blue, Navy Blue, Red, Yellow, White and Green Cardstock

American Crafts Brads

Don’t forget we are creating birthday cards for this month’s IFTL recipients. There is still time to pull that paper out and get some done. To read all about the shelter, please head over to the IFTL Blog’s August Recipients and join in!

Be sure to stop back by tomorrow as designer Sandy treats us to another
Fabulous Friday Feature and pick up your free digi!

Cricutlicious Saturday

Good Morning crafty friends,  Welcome to our special The Paper Crafting World designers are so happy to share some fabulous CRICUT projects with you today.  Please visit each of their blogs for the details about the project(s) and to leave a little bloggie love - it's always appreciated! Let's get started with the CRICUT goodness. Cindy's Blog For this amazing canvas Cindy used Sports Mania and Robotz Sandy's Blog Sandy used Stretch Your Imagination for this adorable pedestal card. She also used the PCW digi Bear as Bug Catcher Madison's Blog

For her mini album, Madison used Plantin Schoolbook, 

Pooh Font Set, Sweethearts, and Going Places

Xochitl's Blog Cartridge Used: Create A Critter Xochitl used Create a Critter for this darling birthday card.

Larelyn's Blog

Cartridges Used: Artbooking, Art Philosophy and Artiste

Larelyn used Art Philosophy for the flower and leaf.

The card base and pop-up inside was cut from Artiste

Larelyn used the new CTMH Artbooking cartridge and

the PCW digi Bear in Sundress with Daisies

Details Post

Cartridge Used: Artiste

Thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with us. We hope you were inspired by all this crafty goodness! We will continue to share Cricut as well as "Cut File" projects so don't forget to make us a regular stop!