Wednesday, January 5, 2011

"Believe" card

Tools Needed:

Card Stock
~Grey
~White
~Dk Green
~Lt Green
~Brown
~Purple
~Pink
Adhesive of your choice
~I used Xyron, Zig 2-way & a glue runner
Stickles or decorations of your choice
~I used glitter glue & Tulip Metallics
Cricut Expression w/Dreams Come True cartridge
Gypsy (optional, but makes life easy)
Cricut tool kit (I prefer my Cgul one)
Scor board (I love Martha Stewarts scor board)
Cuttlebug w/swirl embossing folder
Thickers chipboard glitter letters
Scrapping puppy (I love my Bostons)

Make sure your scrappin' puppy is in place for lots of love. :)
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Get all of your layers set up on the Gyspy. I made my base size at 6". Make sure Real Dial Size is not on or everything will not line up.

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Lay out your card stock in the correct places.

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Insert into Cricut (after hooking up your gypsy) and cut.
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Once your finished product comes out you will need to weed it.
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Begin piecing all the little parts & pieces together.
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Create your card from the white card stock & score half way. My finished card size was 5"x6.25" so my sheet of paper was 10"x6.25"
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Run your 4 3/4"x6 1/4" piece of pink card stock through the cuttlebug.
(I forgot to take a picture of this step)

Decorate the castle.
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Adhere to card along with letters saying "believe"
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The outside of your card is complete.
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On the inside I put a poem on a photo-mat.
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Hope you enjoy. I will try to have more tutorials up more often.