Thank EWE!! - Paper Cutz Challenge Red, White and Black

Hi ya everyone!!
  This week at Paper Cutz we are challenging you to make a card with just red, black and white!!! Oh, I love this color scheme!  I chose to do something fun - and made a little sheepy shaped card.  I needed to make some thank yous from my little one's birthday party and thought these little black and white sheep would be perfect for the challenge too! 

I used the sheep from Just Because Cards.  I just added and extra wool and flipped it, so that it would be the top portion of my card.  I welded them together in my Gypsy and added all the little layers.  I also shrank another wool piece down to fit inside as a sentiment area. 

The card was cut in black, the wool in white! Very simple - I then added the sentiment from Just Because Cards too.  Once I had the pieces cut out I used my divine swirls folder to emboss the wool!  I popped the wool piece up on the outside. 

I added a bit of woolly red ribbon to the sheep's neck and stuck on googly eyes!  Thanks for checking out my project and don't forget to enter the challenge at Paper Cutz!!!
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).