Flower with Swirl Center - surprise!

Sometimes you just have to look at things in a different way.  This card features the flower I showed you a few days ago.  The flower does not exist on any cartridge as you see it here.  It is made from four capital "C" letters from the Stork's Delivery cartridge.  This letter is from the the "girly" font on the cartridge which is lovely.

Here is a screen shot of the flower preview.  When the "C"s are turned at 90 degree angles and aligned with the dot at the top overlapping and welded a swirl pattern is produced.

You can click on this image to get a closer look.  It just takes a little care to make the spacing even for a nice effect.

 In order to make a two tone flower, I added a backer made from four circles welded together. 

I made it slightly smaller than the top layer of the flower to be sure that it would not show at the edges.

This flower is rather stylized and reminds me of art nouveau or arts and crafts style flowers (similar to some flowers in designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh).  This sort of flower is also similar to those drawn by Mary Engelbreit in many of her illustrations.

I cut both the flower and the backer from some pearlized textured cardstock from American Crafts.  A pink gem brad from Creative Charms was a perfect fit for the center.

I used a sharp piercing tool to start the hole in the center for the brad.

I added foam squares to the back to raise the flower from the card surface.

I put together a quick card with a stamp from Hero Arts (stamped twice in green and then brown for a shadow effect).  The green cross hatch design paper is from the DCWV Nana's Nursery baby girl mat stack.  I added some more gems - I am not sure if I like the look of the pearl paper and gems for this design and I will probably try another card with totally different papers.

I wonder if anyone guessed how I designed the flower...I didn't see a correct reply posted in the comments...

It's still raining cats and dogs here - we might get sun on Sunday or Monday but its not a sure thing.  I keep telling myself it is good for the garden!

link to Discussion Day #4  -  How do you decide?

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Creative Charms says "Thanks" (and some Hello Thursday update information)

I am happy to let you know that Creative Charms has met their goal of 1000 fans on Facebook and they are offering EVERYONE a giveaway to celebrate!  Yes, I said EVERYONE. All you have to do is send a self addressed and stamped envelope (standard business size with 44 cent stamp) and Creative Charms will return it with a free gift to you. The only requirement is that you "Like" Creative Charms on Facebook.

Please send your stamped, self addressed envelope with a postmark no later than Saturday, February 19th to: PO Box 186, Wexford, PA 15090

Yesterday was "Hello Thursday" and three cartridges were announced.  One is the Creative Memories "Stork's Delivery" cartridge that I told you about recently.  I haven't been able to order  a copy of this yet through the sampling program for CM consultants but it is supposed to be available beginning March 1st.

You can download the cartridge handbook HERE to get a really good look at what this cartridge has to offer.  There are images suitable for baby boys on the regular keys and for baby girls on the shift layer.  There is quite a bit of word art with typical phrases for baby books, two fonts (one girly - one boyish) and a monogram function (again one with the "boy" font called "Frogs and Snails" and one with the "girl" font called "Sugar and Spice").  There is a shadow function for the main images and two layers.  This is a very full cartridge - I counted only seven "empty" key positions.

While this is definitely a "baby" cartridge, there are a lot of items that are more generally useful.  Some of the phrases will work for more than just babies and I really like the frames and buttons (you can see some of them in the preview image at the top of this post).

Two new Color and Pattern Cartridges for the Imagine were also released.  They are called "Heirloom" (download the handbook HERE) and "Vintage Papers" (download the handbook HERE).

I think these patterns are great additions to the library.  I am really excited that, with the new Craft Room program that I saw at CHA, you will be able to scale and move the patterns - this is something that has been a challenge when I use the Imagine now because I don't always want the papers scaled down to the cut size.

There are Design Studio and Gypsy updates available.  The Design Studio update is available HERE.  You will need to be signed in to the Cricut.com site.  The screen says that the last update is for November, however, if you download the font pack update you will see that the version number has changed and it is V110210.

You should SAVE the download to your computer and then run it to have the new cartridge information load correctly.  You will need to close and reopen Design Studio to see the new cartridge listed.

 The Stork's Delivery cartridge is located in the font section between Stone Script and Storybook.  As soon as I can get my hands on this one it will be moved to "My Cartridges." In the meanwhile, I can start designing projects in Design Studio and on the Gypsy!

To update your Gypsy, connect it to your computer with the USB cable, turn it on and run the Cricut Sync program.  The update takes a while but it went smoothly for me.

To see some projects made with these new cartridges, be sure to check out the Hello Thursday blogs - here are the links...

Joy's blog 
Melanie's blog 
Robyn's blog
Tammy's blog

We are having warm weather here - at least for a little while.  It may get to 60 degrees on Friday!  Maybe Winter will end soon...

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