Cricut Flower Card

This week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to make a project with at least three flowers. I have a card that I recently made for my mom that meets the criteria for the challenge, so I'm going to share it with you today:

The flowers on this card were made using the accessory creative feature on the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge (page 62 in the handbook). The sentiment is from the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge. This card was the first project I made with my Sew Easy Stitch Piercer from We R Memory Keepers -- I love the look of stitching, and one of these days I am going to spoil myself with a sewing machine, but for now, I use either the Sew Easy or do faux stitching with a pen.

Thanks for looking, and don't forget to hop over to Fantabulous Cricut to check out all the great flower projects!  :)

Cricut Birthday Bash Money Card

Howdy! Today's post is going to be short and sweet --  it's Sunday evening, and I still have a lot to do, including getting the kiddos to bed for school in the morning! This weekend I made a birthday "cash" card for my niece using the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge. Here's a pic of the card...

Inspiration for this card came from two different places.

First, Cardz TV had a fun "Let's Get Sketchy" card challenge. The sketch that we had to use was this:

I wanted to participate in the challenge, and I loved the sketch and all the inspiration from the design team at Cardz TV, so that was my first source of inspiration.

My second was a card from Hero Arts that I pinned ages back on Pinterest. Here is the Hero Art's card:

I thought it was clever how the twenty dollar bill was wrapped around the candle instead of being tucked inside the card. I often give money to my nieces and nephews for gifts, and I thought this would be a fun way to surprise them. So there you have it!

Supplies for this project:

• Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge (Used for the three candles. I modified the cut quite a bit, cutting off the "candle wax" and not making all the layers)
• Die Cuts with a View Celebration Stack (for patterned paper)
• Card stock from my stash
• Fiskars Threading Water Punch
• Memento Rhubarb Stalk Ink (for inked edges on candle flames)
• Two paperclips (to hold the money candle to card)
• Adhesive pop dots (to adhere other two candles to card)

Thanks for looking!