HoneyPop Flower Card

On recent visit to Archiver's, I learned of a new way to use the HoneyPop paper pad.  In a demonstration, they cut a piece of the paper, expanded the honeycomb into a long piece and swirled that piece around a circular adhesive dot.  Cutting different shapes of the honeypop paper result in different styles of flowers.

Front:
Precut Folded Notecards - purple with white interior
Cardstock: white
Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots
HoneyPop Paper: Pink
Embellishment: white button
Colorbox ink - Eggplant
Glubers Adhesive Dot



Above is my very first honeypop flower and I learned that I do not have a steady hand at swirling delicate paper around a very sticky adhesive dot.  Even tho I had to trim the pitiful pieces that were sticking out, over all I thought my little flower still turned out well.

Below is my second honeypop flower.

I used a the Rainbow HoneyPop paper, a Gluber adhesive dot and a little gemstone to cover the mess that becomes the middle as the paper meets itself.
In an attempt to get the alignment a little more even, I decided to draw a swirl directly on the Gluber adhesive dot.  Basically, I created a guideline to follow and it worked out beautifully.

Oops Baby Card

A new friend from church had her 6th baby!  I didn't know her for the other 5, so I wanted to make a card to congratulate the family on their new addition.

Front:
Precut A2 white card

Cardstock: white, pale lavender, pale pink, pale blue
Cricut Cartridge: Wall Decor and More - pg75 Duck cut at 3.5"
Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots
Embellishments: white ribbon, deep purple ribbon
pop dots

I cut the duck at 3.5 and must have  accidentally bumped the dial and cut the duck layer at 3.75.  oops.

Finding more cardstock, I cut the pink duck layer again at 3.5.

I cut some pale lavender and white pieces to make a frame and used my Cuttlebug to swiss dot the pale lavender paper.

After I had glued down the frames and the ribbons to the card and went to place the duck, I then noticed my pale blue duck layer mistake.  The lighting in my dining room is pretty awful in the late night hours and I didn't realize the pale lavender layer was really a pale blue.  oops.

I debated cutting the whole duck again, but decided to just move forward.

Inside:
Congratulations stamp
Colorbox pigment: Eggplant

It was a simple (aka tired/lazy) Congratulations stamped in Eggplant ink directly on the inside of the white card, but I messed up and smeared it before it dried.  oops.

To cover that mistake, I stamped again on the same pale lavender cardstock (double checking this time) and glued it on top. Viola, my error is magically a color coordinated enhancement.

This card seemed to be filled with little human errors but I think it is pretty cute and those "mistakes" can be thought as contributions to the personalization and effort in the card making experience.

Baby Rattle Shaker Card

Wow.  This card turned out better than I ever dreamed.  A friend and coworker just had a darling baby boy so I decided to try my hand at a shaker style card.

Front:

Precut cream colored 5x7 card

Cricut Cartridge: Wild Card rattle (Shift Icon from the Carriage Card) cut at 5.5

Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots

Cardstock: light blue, white, blue, clear-gloss poly (purchased a pack of those presentation binding covers at Office Depot)

Small square pop dots, cut in half

White and blue seed beads

Blue marker

Ribbons: cream and dark blue

To create this card, I actually cut the rattle icon 3 times with light blue, blue and the clear cardstock.  If I had the Gypsy I would have removed the 3 front cuts on the face of the rattle, but luckily the Cricut did not cut completely through the clear sheet.  This concern was just so the beads would not have an escape route.

On the light blue rattle, take your halved pop dots and make a very tight ring around the outside edge of the top circle.  Here is a picture of the circle partially complete.  I should probably have used some version of a pop dot strip instead of hand trimming each little square, but I wanted to use what I had on hand.

Pour the seed beads into the enclosed circle.
Cut the handle off the clear rattle cut and place that on the pop dot ring.
Cut off the handle from the blue rattle then cut out an even circle from the middle of the blue, so that you are left with just a blue ring.  The ring width should just be wide enough to cover the pop dot ring showing through the clear circle.
The rattle portion is now built.  I used just a light blue marker to color the white edges of the pop dots and took some glue to the edge just to ensure the seed beads would not find a tiny hole between pop dots.

Inside:
EK Success Edger: Starry Night
Congratulations stamp
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Faded Jeans


I thought the whole project looked terrific for a first attempt even if it did take me twice as long to work out all the details.  Luckily, I am confident I can make it much quicker next time.

More Birthday Cards

Wow.  I had no idea that April birthdays were so popular.  I have 2 more friends that need cards and I thought the Hello Kitty Greetings was just the right cartridge for both.  That little kitten is just oozing cute and she makes me smile everytime I see her.

Outside:
Precut card was cream
Cardstock: Black, white, green, yellow, 2 shades of pink
Cartridge: Hello Kitty Greetings - HK2 cut at 3.5"
Cuttlebug: Swiss Dot
Pop Dots to raise the kitty off the page
Ribbons: cream and bright pink

Inside:
Since an extra flower is created with the same cut as the yellow kitty nose, I just used the flower on the inside of the card and layered other circle extras for the flower center.  No wasting the paper foliage.
HppyBDay in black
Cut the main Clothes layer in light blue.
I tried the shift Clothes layer that gives each letter for Happy Birthday in dark blue, but struggled to get each of the letters to fit right.  I will have to work on that puzzle sometime later.
In the end I just pieced the itty bitty letter middles from the light blue layer to complete the text directly on the black base.

Rinse and repeat to make the second card.

I do believe both of my friends will be pleased to get this in the mail.