Monday, February 28, 2011

FCCB Challenge #49 - Shaped Card

The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is to make a shaped card - any shape other than a square or rectangle.  This was a tough choice to make!  I started pulling out my cartridges and looking at the carts that had shaped cards on them already, but none of them really appealed to me.  So I finally settled on making my own - enter Gypsy!  I chose a bee from the cartridge A Walk In My Garden.  I welded together the "shift-blackout" version of the bee.  You need to use the "hide" function to get rid of the stripes, and remember you have to flip one of the images before you weld:
Then cut the "blackout" version of the bee in yellow to get the wings, and glue to the card base:
Then you're going to cut another "shift-blackout" version of the bee, with the stripes hidden:
which you will glue to the yellow "wing" portion.  For mine I chose to cut the stripes in a different paper, a yellow gingham - so back to the Gypsy to cut just the stripes this time.  Add the stripes, embellish, and voila!
And for the inside, what could be more perfect than one of My Pink Stamper's "punny" stamps?  This comes from Even More Punny-licious.
Cricut CartridgeA Walk In My Garden, Gypsy
Stamps:  My Pink Stamper Even More Punny-licious
Paper:  Paper Pizazz, AC Cardstock, Roberts
Embellishments:  copper wire, misc. gems

Now it's your turn to go and create!  Have fun thinking outside of the usual "box".  And don't forget to post your creation at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog for your chance to win some fun prizes!

17 comments:

Robin's Creative Cottage said...

Fun beeeeeeeeeeee card and great details of how you made it, it's always appreciated!
Thank you for all you've shared at FCCB, you've been a pleasure to work with!
Robin :)

Helen said...

This is an awesome shape card!! Love the bee and the sentiment :)

Glora said...

Aw, this is adorable! I love it! Hugs- Glora

snappy scrappy said...

Wow,really cute!! Love those punny sentiments too!

Rhonda Emery said...

cute as always. love it

Jenni said...

What a buzzalicious card! TFS!

xantogal said...

Beeutiful card :) I love it!

Libby Beach said...

What an awesome card!!! I absolutely love it! :) Great job on the challenge!

Tanya~Studio 5380 said...

Cute, cute card! And I love the stamp in white ink!
Tanya

{Raechel} said...

IT's BEEutiful! I love all the extras and super perfect sentiment!
TFS~Raechel
http://raechelscards.blogspot.com/

Kate said...

What a great card! I love the patterned paper for the body - and that sentiment is perfect with the card!

Edna Marie said...

Very cool, love the white inking perfect touch thanks for the inspiration :)

Deb said...

That is awesome!!!! I hope I can play with my SCAL software more to get a handle on some of the nice options it has to make more things!! I so want to be able to craft more on my days off!!

readysetstamp said...

I love this card and expecially love the little wire that you used on the antennas!! XOXO, Julie. :0)

Jacqueline said...

so sweet - i used the same cartridge and did a lady bug card for my niece - she has a thing for bugs...

~ Jacqueline
Canada
Made by Jacqueline

Maria said...

Very, very cute! Nothing better than a welded card :)

CarrieAnne said...

Very cute - awesome choice for a shaped card.

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