Under the Sea Card

My daughter works as an activity director at a local time share. I was trying to come up with crafts with a beachy theme that might appeal to all ages. I remembered seeing long ago the cards with a "gel" window.

Here is my example.

You use a small zip lock bag(sold in jewelry sections of craft store). I had a few laying around that jewelry or buttons had come in. I didn't have hair gel, but used liquid hand soap that had glitter in it, that we had bought at dollar tree. Just make sure the bag is tightly sealed. Bright colors work better for the fish to show through the gel window. Your fish go on  the tag. On the first one, I put some on the card by accident, but decided I liked having two different fish scapes. Now there is another scene when the tag is pulled out too.


Download file to make card


The first screen shown in scal will be the card itself. The second screen is the tags to go inside and the fish accents. There are enough accents and tags for two cards.  If only making one you can delete some of the items. I figured while I have the paper loaded on the mat I might as well cut out a few extra! You will have to align things to match the mat. Like I put the card or the far right of my virtual 12x12 mat and place my 8.5 x 11 paper in the upper right corner. Then move the whole design to the left, cut the accents, laying out the paper in the quadrants of the screen.

I found the picture of the boat on the internet, you could make your own image that is similar, or search for birthday boat wishes.

Owl Card

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I made this owl card yesterday for the "junior" helpers at our card making chairity even to make and take home. He is cute enough for a birthday card, so I thought I'd share. I give you eyes to cut out, but I liked using the googly eyes instead. The owl stamp that says "owl always love you" was only 50 cents from a Big Lots and it came with an owl and some flowers too! 

Don't need a card? Just don't cut out the card outline. Put the owl directly on your page or card.

Enjoy!

Off to cut more!

Princess Svg FIle and Train Card

Forgot to take a picture of her assembled!

Download Princess

Download train card

Truck Cards..Perfect for the little boy in your Life..Even if he's 32!

Download Truck cardDownload Truck 2Download Dump Truck Card

Download Dump Truck SCUT2 file..Ready to cut

Enjoy!

Complete Birthday Card Svg Pattern

Everything you need to make this cute card is included in this pattern. You don't have to get out your stamps or markers. Just lay out your paper on your mat, import the svg with the size set to 11.5. It will cut the card, the bag shapes, the handles and the stars, as well as the text for the inside of the card. Paper layout guidelines are in the file. You place the squares of various color on the mat where indicated. You'll have to grab a sheet of tissue paper and cut that yourself into about a 3 inch square(just wing it). I've tried tissue paper on the cricut and it isn't pretty!

Make the "bags" by gluing on the handles on the inside, then the tissue paper behind the handle. Assemble the card, by using one foam dot or square on the center bag(You need to rotate the bag so it is taller than it is wide). Two foam dots on the other two bags, to give them a 3 dimensional effect. Add your sparkly stars. I put one/half of a dot on the back of each star.

Glue on your welded words to the inside, and you are done!

Here is the link to grab the file:

http://www.mediafire.com/?0gmrdgz0hhh