In Love with Cricut's Wild Card

I've been studying the Wild Card cartridge, and decided to make a list of all the sayings available on this cart. I'm ecstatic - FINALLY - a cart that has "Happy New Year" on it!!! If you're a card maker, you'll for sure want this cart. Janet and I plan to place an order in the next few weeks, if you want to pre-order and pay up front, we'll sell you the cart for $45.00 plus your shipping (by the way, $45.00 is what WE pay for it!). Call it about $52 with shipping in the US (we do ship internationally, at actual cost).

But - forget about the sale right now - I just want to talk about the expressions ON the cart. Three of the features have sayings. There is the always-present "to" and "from" - (how MANY of these do we need??).....but there are lots of new, cool sayings, too.

I've made an alphabetized list of all the sayings. If you'd like it (in a Word file) e-mail me (sue@scrapbookspirit.com). I like "Cold Hard Cash" and "Snail Mail" and "Miss Talking to You" and "You Make My Heart Sing" (makes me want to do a "Wild Thing" card).

Besides the many useful sayings, the cards and matching envelopes are totally darling! Wild Card - a truly COOL cart!

Here's the LIST of Wild Card Sayings:

#1 Teacher

A Change of Address

A Lovely Easter to You

Be My Valentine

Bloom Where You’re Planted

Bon Appétit

Cold Hard Cash

Congratulations

Enjoy

For the Graduate

For You

From

From Our House to Yours

From the Heart

Get Better

Hand Made With Love

Happy Birthday

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Halloween

Happy New Year

Happy $hopping

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello

Hi

How Thoughtful

I Like You

I Love You

I Missed Your Birthday

It’s a Bridal Shower Baby

It’s a Girl

It’s Your Day

I’ve Been Missing You

Joy

Just Because

Memo

Merry Christmas

Miss Talking to You

New Arrival

Oh Happy Day (in a circle)

Our Wedding

Par Avion

Season’s Greetings

Smile

Snail Mail

Special Delivery

Stamped with Love

Thank You

Thanks

Thanks (a second style)

The

Thinking of You

WOW

With Sympathy

XOXO

You Did It

You Made My Day

You Make My Heart Sing

You’re Invited

You’re Simply the Best

Have fun with Wild Card - great for cards, useful for LO's too!

Happy Mother's Day & We Have Winners!!

The contest to re-create Janet's Mom's Day Card is over and we are pleased to announce TWO winners. Why two? We decided to award a winner in two categories - one for a card made using the Cricut, one made without. The winners are Deborah Sanderson (for her Cricut-made card) and Teresa Gentry for her non-Cricut card. Congratulations to both! Each winner will receive a package of Queen and Company self-adhesive laser-cut felt ribbon.

Deborah's card used a cereal box instead of chipboard. Her paper is by Jitterbug, she inked it with Color Box Dark Brown, there are Skittles on the centers of a few of the flowers, and she used an oval with ribbon to keep her card closed. Here's the pics of her card - darling!




Teresa used a font downloaded from the Internet to create her non-Cricut card. Teresa says, "I made the MOM stickers using the font and glued them to each side of the insert card. The front is done with textured pink cardstock and a green grosgrain ribbon glued down the middle, with five rhinestone hearts. The Happy Mother's Day tag is stamped on light green paper and then glued to a patterned paper that matches the paper used on the insert cards. The three insert cards are cut 6 3/4 by 3 inches from light weight cardboard and covered with two different patterned papers. I cut three cards measuring 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches out of green cardstock and glued these to the insert cards for pictures. For the back, I cut three more cards that same size, from the same green cardstock. I also cut three smaller light green tags for journaling." We think Teresa's card is an awesome recreation of the Cricut made card.

Thanks to both women for joining in the fun. Look for another contest announcement soon!

Janet's Mother's Day Card

Just subtitute the letters DAD and make it a Father's Day Card.
We promised the complete instructions for Janet's accordion and pull tab card honoring moms, and here they are. We can't think of a mom or grandmother who wouldn't love this card, which has spaces for pics and journaling.

Accordion Pocketbook Mother’s Day Card

Supplies you need:

• Chipboard

• 1-12x12 double sided Paper

• 2-12x12 Patterned paper (This does not need to be double sided)

• Embellishments for decorating

Instructions:

Take the 12 x 12 double sided paper, score at 4”, turn paper over and score at 4” from the other side. Turn paper sideways and score at 4” from bottom. Fold up making a pocket. Apply a thin strip of adhesive at each fold and on both ends to form pockets.

Use your Cricut and Design Studio Software to make your letters and weld them to rectangles to make the cards to insert in the pockets. (We have three .cut files available for you that takes care of this step.)

Settings for DSS:

Letters - 3” width, 3” length

Rectangles - 3” width, 4” length

Line the letters up on top of the rectangle so that the letter overlaps the rectangle. Be sure and check the weld box for each letter and each rectangle. Cut welded letters/rectangles out of chipboard.

Next cut just the letters (same size) out of patterned paper.

Cut two of each letter, using flip image feature for the second one.

This will give you a letter for the front and the back of the card.

Then cut just the rectangles out of patterned paper. This does not have to be double sided since it will be attached to the chipboard. You will need six rectangles cut from the patterned paper, one for the front and one for the back of the chipboard.

Assembly:

After cutting all elements, it is time to put the cards together. I used my Zyron 510 to apply the adhesive to the back of the letters and rectangles.

You can also use a good solid adhesive stick. Liquid glue will take too long to dry and may cause the paper to pucker.

Put pattered paper rectangles on the chipboard first and then put the letters on top. This is so the letters will overlap the rectangle. Add embellishments, pictures and journaling. You're done! Be sure to send us YOUR version and we'll post it here on the blog. You can mail your pics to scrapspirit@hughes.net.

NOTES:

• Three .cut files are available to help you make this card. Click here to access the .cut files.

• Janet says "This can also be done with the letters DAD for Father's Day."