USA Paper Flowers

The weekly challenge for the Cricut Circle this week was to show your patriotic pride. The flowers are from Walk in my Garden. I bought the bucket at Michaels and the star buttons at Joanns. The leaves are ric rac ribbon pieces I got from the dollar section at Joanns.

Turner's Graduation Card

Here is a card I made for my cousin's high school graduation.

To make the card base, I welded two rectangles together and also the graduation hat. The hat is from the new Happy Graduation seasonal cartridge. I cut the tassel from the image because I wanted to make my own. I couldn't find a "2011" charm for the tassel that I made, so I decided to make one myself. I cut "2011" from Cricut Font out of Shrink Film at around .8 inches. It shrunk to the current size. "Congratulations" is also from Happy Graduation. "Turner" was cut from Kate's ABCs. The front of the card was looking a little plain, so I cut a white rectangle background and embossed it with the Dots Cuttlebug folder. I then inked the rectangle to give it a distressed look.

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My Scrap Space

A challenge for the Circle Blog was to take a picture of your scrap space with you in it.

My space is centered around a table that my Grandpa made. His nickname for me was "Anchie," hence the name of my blog. I have all of my tools in the organizer on the table. My stamps, punches, ink, extra supplies, paper trimmers and 12x12 box of my current project are all kept on the table's one shelf. Next to my table is a small computer table that I purchased from Walmart. My Imagine sits on top of it. It has two shelves that contain my Cricut mats, Cuttlebug, embossing envelopes and stickles. Next to the couch are three 12x12 paper organizers that I got on clearance at Joanns. I have all of my paper and scraps organized by rainbow color. I had two drawers left over so I put my ribbon in those. On top of the paper organziers I keep a photo box of pictures of the current project that I'm working on. The Ty Beanie Baby is a bear dressed as Elvis. This was a gift from my cousins. Lastly, on top of my Imagine is one of my helpers, Jack. (And no, he is not alowed on top of the Imagine, but he couldn't resist being in the photo. :-))

Pet-Sitting Thank You Card

My best friend was kind enough to pet-sit for my crazy dog and needy cats. This is the card that I came up with for her thank you card.


The dog and cat were cut from Create a Critter. I left out the layers for the dog and cut off the bow tie for the cat so that they are a closer resemblance to my dog and cat. I used a scallop punch from Friskers to create the boarder at the bottom. The "thanks" ribbon is an adhesive backed ribbon from Joanns.



This is the inside corner of my card. The paw print ribbon is from the dollar bin at Michaels (I used the same ribbon for her card last time she pet-sit.) I layered the ribbon over the green stripped paper from Joanns. The paw print is from Paper Pups (blacked out.) It's hard to see from the picture, but I covered the paw print with Glossy Accents. I used the heart button (from Joanns) as the pad for the print.

St. Paddy's Day Card

I finally got around to making my Grandmother a St. Paddy's Day card. I decided to combine it with a Circle Challenge. The Challenge was to make something in a monochromatic green color scheme or use rainbow colors. I also had to use two Cricut cuts and gold. I knew I wanted to use the leprechaun from Simply Charmed. Because the leprechaun isn't totally green, I decided to go with the rainbow colors. Even though the pot of gold has a rainbow as part of the cut, it doesn't include all of the rainbow colors. It was an easy fix though because I used stickles to complete the rainbow.


Everything was printed from white cardstock and cut using the Imagine. The leprechaun was cut at 3.5 inches (Simply Charmed), the pot of gold at 3 inches (Simply Charmed), shamrock at 1.5 inches (Designer's Calendar), and the block where I'll write my note was cut at 3.4 inches (Imagine stock images.) All of the patterns were from the Imagine More cartridge. I cut a square (also from the stock images) of each pattern at 5 inches and cut them to the size that I wanted. The card itself is 4.5x5 inches. I used the scalloped border punch from Fiskers. The shamrock was coated with a thick coat of Glossy Accents and I used a glue dot to secure the heart button. I also used twine that I got from Walmart. I didn't take a picture of the envelope but I did use the Cricut to create it. I cut the envelope associated with the star card on the Wild Card cartridge (3rd row, 8th column.) I cut it at 5 inches and used the hide condor feature to get rid of the star cut outs. The card fits the envelope perfectly.

Flower Card

I saw a similar card by Monique (http://monkeydoodlecricut.blogspot.com/2011/02/wall-e-valentine-card-more.html) on her blog, and I had to try my twist. I turned this card into a thank you card for my Grandmother. The sunflowers, vase and bee were all cut from Walk in My Garden. The bee's wings are cut from vellum. The card base is 6 1/4 by 4 1/4. I measured 2 1/8 down from the top right corner of the card and cut diagonally to the top left fold. Next I cut a 4x6" piece of purple flowered paper and measured 2" down from the right corner and cut from there to the top left corner. I glued this on my card base leaving an 1/8" border all around. I next cut a 4x4" paper and cut diagonally again and also a 2x2" cut. The background paper on the inside of the card was cut at 4x6". The pink square on the inside was cut at 4x4. The bee is tucked slightly under the sunflowers so that when the card is closed it looks like the bee is sitting on the sunflower. However, when you open the card it stays on the inside of the card.

Johnny's Birthday

This is the card I made for cousin's Birthday. He is a huge football fan. I came across the instructions to make a gift card holder here: http://blog.ginakdesigns.com/2008/11/10/preview-day-1.aspx. I changed the dimensions to so that it would look more like a card and less like a gift card holder. I started with a 12x5 piece of cardstock and scored it at 3.5, 4.75, 6, and 10 inches using my Martha Stewart Score Board. Only the 4.75 score line should be a mountain fold, the rest are valleys. Then, using my ATG gun, I glued together the mountain fold. Only put a thin strip of adhesive in the inside bottom of the mountain fold, do not put adhesive up towards the crease. Next I used a ruler and a craft knife and cut a small slot into the top of the mountain fold. That way I could slide the money into the fold. Because I didn't put adhesive all the way up towards the crease, the money could slide in and out easily, but it wouldn't fall through the fold. I used Wild Card to cut the envelope. It is on the 4th row, 8th column of the overlay. I used hide condor on the gypsy to hide the "#1" cut out. It was cut at 5.5 inches and fits the card perfectly. I used 3 Birds for the football (8.75 inches) and Gypsy Wanderings for the sentiment (3.5 inches) The football was run through the Cuttlebug using my Swiss Dots folder.

Thanks Snow Much

I am finally making Thank You cards for Christmas. The snowman is from Snow Friends, and the background paper was made from Mr. Frosty and the Imagine. I used a glue pen to go over the white snowflakes then I sprinkled white Fun Flock over it making the snowflakes fuzzy. I also added Fun Flock to the snow hill. The jewels are from the irock collection and placed in the center of the white snowflakes to add some sparkle. I made the tag by printing the sentiment out on the computer. I used my gypsy and cut out a plain tag, then using that tag as a guideline, I cut out the paper with the sentiment on it. This way I knew exactly where that tag would cut out and I could center my sentiment. I threaded twine through the tag and secured it with a snowflake brad.

Mrs. Beasley

Last week my Aunt's cat Mrs. Beasley past away. This is the sympathy card that I made. The cat is from Create a Critter. Instead of using the bow as a bow-tie, I put the bow in her hair. Mrs. Beasley was dubbed the "pink kittie" due to her pink nose, therefore I cut the cat out of pink cardstock. I made a faux bow by folding ribbon and sticking a brad through it to hold it together ("B" is for Beasley, of course.) The rainbow paper is from a DCWV paper stack from Joanns. I used stickles and glossy accents on the bow and the kitty's nose.