Birthday Card and more SVG files

Here is a card I made for my mother's birthday. Her birthday is only 2 weeks after Christmas.

Chain of Hearts

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Butterfly Flower

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Round Lacy Victorian Shoe Card

I love anything Victorian and this picture of a shoe, well it just spoke to me and inspired me. I once again tried to pick out colors and shapes, aka doilies, that to me were in tradition with the victorian era.



This is a multi layered card.
Here is how I made it.
With my Cricut and using 3 different papers I cut a round card, round scalloped circle, and round plain circle made of vellum.

I ran the scalloped circle through my Cuttlebug to give it texture and depth plus I used a small store bought round paper Doily that I also ran through my Cuttlebug.

I printed the shoe picture on Vellum and then cut it out with my craft knife.

In order and using spray adhesive
1. Place the round vellum on top of the shoe.
2. The vellum and shoe on top of the doily.
3. The doily on top of the round scalloped circle.
4. Then the scalloped circle on the card.

And there you have it!!

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Hummingbirds and Feeder Card

I just got back a couple days ago from vacation. I met people from my husbands family that I had never met before (married 28 yrs) and I was inspired by them to make these cards just for them as my way of saying thank you and how much I enjoyed myself.

This card I created the hummingbird feeder with Inkscape and used Sure Cuts A Lot to cut it with my Cricket Expressions.

I already had the hummingbirds that someone else had given away as a freebie but I scaled them down to go with the feeder. I used 3D dots on the feeder and birds to give it a life like feel. I also made my very first envelope using Penny Duncans free template and was quit thrilled at how easy it was. My camera does not do any of my cards justice but hopefully you can get the idea.

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How I cut for FREE using my Cricut Expression.

This is GREAT, I never have to buy cartridges and I have found thousands of free designs to cut on my Cricut Expressions machine. Here is what I did. I downloaded these files and set everything up then I visited some great websites with tutorials on them. I also joined a couple yahoo groups to get additional information and some great free SVG files to cut on my Cricut Expressions.

1. Download Cricut DesignStudio software. This is FREE. After it is downloaded open the program. Click the "help" link on top and then click "update firmware" and follow the instructions carefully. The update will take a few minutes.

2. Download Inkscape. This is FREE.

3. Download Sure Cuts A Lot. There is a FREE trial version but I recommend purchasing this product since it is the software you will be using. Here is a code to get it at 10% off code:5498936 (This is a one time purchase and you never have to buy cartridges.)

TUTORIALS

1. Craftedge Tutorials

2. Susan BlueRobot Tutorials

3. Dan99 Tutorials

YAHOO GROUPS I BELONG TO

1. scalhints
2. surecutsalotusers