Brick Mosaic Card or Cut

I was playing around with making a brick wall effect for my card. I saw the technique over on splitcoaststampers. Of course, they cut everything by hand. Technique at Split Coast Stampers

Using the Cricut, you can cut your "bricks" and make a template to glue them onto easily.

First find a suitable image or stamp something like a vine and flowers onto some card stock.

Put it "upside down" on your cricut mat and cut. Number the squares just in case. Remove the mortar between the bricks(weed out the borders).

Then put the background piece of paper on your mat. Set the pressure to LOW so that the blade will just scrape the paper, leaving a mark but not cutting all the way through. This will give you a template to glue your bricks onto. IT will help you get the vertical and horizontal spacing and alignment correct. You could use some ink to create interest on the edges of each brick if you want.

Here is the result. I just used a piece of cardstock that had an image on it. I don't have any large stamps.This paper was on clearance at Michaels for 7/$1.00.

There are lots more examples over at splitcoaststampers.

Brick wall card gallery at Split Coast

Download 5x3.75 brick wall for cards

Brick wall cut larger

Another example before I made the bricks closer together.

Enjoy!