A Gift For You - Crafty Creations Challenge

Hi Ya Everyone!!
  Well the season of giving is upon us - and I have to be honest - I love to give gift cards...I know, I know, so impersonal right??  I can't help it - I love them myself too - I really don't want grandma buying my clothes ya know what I'm saying??  I'd rather just go pick out something myself or no clothes at all and a gift certificate to my favorite craft store - you know what I'm saying! LOL - no seriously my good friend Jill has someone very sweet in her life (I won't mention names just in case - he he)  But from this certain very sweet thoughtful person she gets kitty cat shirts and fairy shirts with bows and butterflies.  I mean it was just dandy when Jill was 5 - ok, lost my train of thought - GIFT CARDS - LOVE THEM, LOVE TO GET THEM, LOVE TO GIVE THEM!  Now, to make them not so impersonal how about wrapping them with something special???  YAY!  The challenge this week at Crafty Creations is to make a gift card holder!  Now, since I love to give gift cards, I made three!! WOO HOO.  The Cricut cartridges have a number of different options for gift card holders.  I measured a gift card which is about 2.5 x 3.5 inches and resized the holder on my Gypsy to fit the gift card.  I added a few cut-outs to the front and cut on my expressions.  Very easy little project and makes the gift more personal and special - Now remember friends and family members - NO FLOOFY, FLUFFY, Bunny shirts this year!!! *smile*  If you get a chance make one and link it up to the Crafty Creations Challenge blog - Simon Says Stamps is sponsoring and you could win a $20 gift certificate!
Enjoy!

Garden Filled With Love - Feautured in The Chirp

Garden Filled with Love

What I learned - The card for this was supposed to just lay inside the outside portion that I turned into an envelope. The problem was that once I turned it into an envelope the insert didn't fit properly, so I had to trim down the insert...and cutting from just one side wouldn't work b/c it would end up lopsided. So I had to trim from both sides.

Just Because Cards
I used the envelope and card third row down, first one. On my gypsy I set the dimensions 8.75 Height the width followed, on the Cricut cut at 8 ¾. Once cut, I used an adhesive runner down the left side and bottom of envelope (make this as thin as possible) for the insert I made it at a height of 8.43, on the Cricut I would go with 8. The insert is too big when I cut on the gypsy. However, I just trimmed up the edges to fit! I also cut a few rectangles on the Circuit to place as background paper. The one on the card was 7.25 and imaged using the cut from JBC that I used for the card insert (again third down and first image – with a shift). The other background papers I just used my paper cutter and sized to liking.

Walk in My Garden
I used the hearts from the bleeding heart. The top layer was cut at 4.12 (4 on Circuit) and the bottom was set on shadow (however, I made them almost match the top layer, didn’t really want a shadow here). The garden sign was 4.12 (4 on Circuit). All stems were cut from 2.53 (2 1/2 on Circuit) to 3.68 (3 ½ on Circuit). The shadow function was used for the background of the sign – 4.11 (shadow of 3 ½ would work on the Circuit).

Create a Critter
The bird and all its parts were cut at 2.16 on the gypsy (2 or 2 ¼ would work for Circuit).