Easter Egg cards (from the past...)

Happy Monday!  Well, it is not a particularly happy Monday for me due to "technical difficulties."  I am visiting my Dad for a couple of days and my laptop power supply cord has stopped working!  This means that I can't post my items for Scrappy-Go-Lucky today since I was working on a review full of screen shots and I can't duplicate these on my Dad's Mac computer.

It is too late for me to change course and post a different project (I post at night for the next day's morning email) so I will once again give you a few links to refer to until I get the situation sorted out (or get back home to my desktop PC!).

The cards at the top of this post are some that I designed a couple of years ago.  A lot you have started reading my blog more recently so you may not have seen them - they are quick and easy to make if you still are looking for Easter card ideas.

The post about this card is HERE.

The post about this card is HERE.

The links are the old 4shared links since I can't re-upload right now to the new service I use for instant downloads.  I don't think you will have any problems with these - you just have to wait a bit for the download.

The swirly egg card uses just the Wild Card cartridge and the pink card uses the Beyond Birthdays and Storybook cartridges.  These both take advantage of "hide selected contour" and you could try something similar with some of the newer cartridges.

I will take this power failure as a sign that I should slow down and enjoy visiting my Dad - but I might be able to post a little project for you tomorrow if I can remember how to upload photos to his computer (and if I have the right cables with me)!

Don't forget to check out the Discussion Day link and add your thoughts if you would like to join in.  I hope you have a great day!

link to Discussion Day 1 - Why do you craft?

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Confirmation Card

We had a weekend filled with family activities.  Our niece's Confirmation was on Saturday and there was a big family get together.  This week is Spring Break for public schools - tomorrow is Patriot's Day and the Boston Marathon.

I designed this card using the Wedding and Beyond Birthdays cartridges.

The cross is from the Wedding Cartridge.  I also used the square place card (last key, second row from bottom) to create the A2 card shape, hiding the two score marks.

 Here is the preview of the full card.  I used "Hide Selected Contour" to eliminate the outer line of the cross and create an inset cut in the front of the card.

One of the "quirks" of the Design Studio software is that you can not hide a single line and have it stay hidden when you close and reopen the file.  In order for the outer line to stay hidden, you need to use two crosses and hide the outline and at least one more line on one and then hide the rest of the lines and the outline on the other. Then you position them directly on top of each other, using the "x" and "y" values.  There is a step by step explanation of the process at THIS POST.

For the inside of the card, I used a guideline rectangle in the correct A2 size to help plan the size and placement of the image and words.

 The dove is sized at 2 inches and is located as shown in the screen shot above.

The sentiment is also from Beyond Birthdays and can be found on the key shown on the keypad screenshot above.

Once I had everything planned, I cut the images for the inside of the card from another mat where I had placed them to conserve on the amount of paper I used.  I cut them from glitter cardstock, using multi cut 2 and the glitter cardstock cut very easily.

Here are the pieces of the card that I cut with the cricut.  The card itself is cut from a piece of cardstock from the DCWV "Luxury" stack.  I also cut a piece of plain pink cardstock at 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 to create a liner for the card.  I did this with a paper trimmer.

The liner is attached to the back side of the card with a line of adhesive tape from my ATG gun.

Here you can see the taped liner inserted into the card.

This view shows the card opened.  The extra layer is very effective in making the card interesting and hiding any writing you want to add inside.

The sentiment is very tiny and I did manage to misplace the dot for the "i" - so I improvised and added a tiny pearl.

Here is one more view of the card.  I like the way the light shines through the cross.

I think I have given you enough information to make the file on your own.  If you need help or would like to use my file, please leave a comment.  I can add a link if enough people are interested in this card.

Download Link Added 4/24

Confirmation Card


I hope to be attending a parade tomorrow morning.  The prediction is for the rain to stop and a cool and overcast day.  Please cross your fingers - it was in the 40s and hailing today!

If you'd like a little more information about Patriot's Day you can read THIS POST from last year.  Our cousin who ran in last year's marathon is not running this year  - she just had a baby so she will be sitting this one out!