Little Piggy Bank Card

The Cutting Cafe just released a set of really cute "shaker" type cards for use on cutting machines.  There are seven different designs in the set - Piggy Bank (pictured), Gumball Machine, Air balloon, Baby Rattle, Candy, Flower and a Ladybug.  It also includes a small box the dimensional card will fit into for gift giving.

Assembly was fairly simple with the aide of Regina Easter's You Tube video tutorial.  The most time consuming part was uploading and resizing the images into Cricut Design Space.

There are a few minor tweaks I will do next time.  I think the tail should be elevated more and not flat on the card so will use pop dot pieces or another method to achieve that look.  I would also like to come up with a few different sentiments to make the card more versatile. 

I'm looking forward to making all seven designs in this series.  Lots of fun!

Easter Shadow Box Card

I have purchased many shadow box cards through my Silhouette subscription but haven't gotten around to making one until last night.  This one is by designer Daniela Angelova.  She has the most beautiful designs - especially her cards.  I do wish she would offer instructions as I was unable to find any on the Silhouette site or her blog.  Tried searching You Tube and found a similar tutorial by Lori Whitlock but there was a glitch in her video and the end part was cut off and that was the part I was having problems figuring out.  Arghhhh!! The card is supposed to be able to fold flat in either direction so that it will fit in an envelope.  That was the tricky part.  After much trial and error finally figured it out.  If I can get my camera to cooperate, I'll try to post a mini tutorial in a few days in case anyone else needs help. 

Something to Crow About Again!

In my post from a few days ago I had mentioned how much I enjoyed the Cricut Imagine because of its ability to cut layers from printed images.  All of the cards I posted in 2010 were made with the Imagine.  I was so sad - even mad - when PC discontinued the machine and no more cartridges were made. Well, imagine my surprise today when I did the Hot Fix for the DS update earlier this week and now I am able to use all those cartridges again the way the were originally intended! Yes!! The Explore and DS will now print, layer and cut all of my favorite images from the Imagine cartridge library.  I am beyond thrilled and have now officially forgiven PC/Cricut for all of their previous offenses.

Original card made in 2010 with the Imagine

Screenshot of images to recreate the same card in 2015 with Design Space and the Explore

Why get excited over being able to use cartridges that are 5 years old?  I never did really explore my way through all of them so there is undiscovered territory. It's also like being reunited with  an old friend. The cartridges have been lined up on my shelf, unusable for years and now they have come to life again.  Oh happy day!