Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Squirrelly Business

Squirrelly Business



There’s nothing squirrelly about this little card.  Over at BBTB2 they are having shape card challenge. I thought I’d challenge myself not to pull out my trusty Wild Card cartridge. Wild Card is one of the first cartridges I bought when I first got my Cricut Expression and I still reach for it when I need a card. So this time I thought I’d break out of my comfort zone and use the Give a Hoot cartridge. I haven’t had a chance to play with it to much but when I saw the 2 squirrels (row 3:5) I thought, perfect!

Front

Inside

I cut the basic shape at 4.5 inches using white. Tip: I always remove those white pages they put into scrapbook pages and use them for practice or when I need some white in a project. It also helps remove some of the bulk from my scrapbooks once they are completed. Then, using various shades of brown and a little white I stamped the little guy until he looked more like a squirrel. For the inside I used the Layer feature in brown for the detail. When I applied the layer it left the ears looking sort of funny on the squirrel on the left so I cut out a bow to cover the extra bump. I then cut 2 hearts freehand and glued them together with pop dots. I used the pink for the inside heart and the brown so that the heart looked like a nut from the outside. I was going to add I’M NUTS to the front and ABOUT YOU inside, but as they say, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ so I left the squirrels to state the obvious.

14 comments:

  1. Cute squirrel card. I LOVE the inside. Fabulous. Thanks for joining us at BBTB2. Stephanie

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  2. Fabulous shaped card and love the surprise of the inside.Thanks for joining us at BBTB2.
    Jayne x

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  3. How cute is this!!! Great shaped card. Thanks for playing along at BBTB2.

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  4. What a fun card, love this little guy x

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  5. Fabby shaped card... Very cute. Thanks for sharing it with us on our BBTB2 Shaped challenge .
    Carole

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  6. Super sweet! Love your little squirrels. What a fabulous shaped card. Thanks for joining us at BBTB2. xxD

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  7. How cute! Great shaped card! Love the little squirrels! Thanks for sharing with us at BBTB2!
    Glenda

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  8. This card is to stinkin' cute! I love those squirrels and they made for a cute shaped card! Thanks for joining us at BBTB2 ;-)

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  9. i love squirrels :) your shaped card is adorable :) thank you for sharing with us at bbtb2 :)

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  10. Wow love the way it looks on the outside and then such a surprise inside. Thanks for sharing at BBTB2.

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  11. How darling! Its a cute card and I love the difference between the inside and outside. I also would like to let you know that you won the small prize over on my blog. Please email me with your mailing address so that I can get it off to you.
    craftyjar @ gmail.com
    Judy

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  12. Wow. What a pleasant surprise! Thanks CraftyJAR!

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  13. That is a precious surprise inside! Very cleaver!

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  14. That is a precious surprise inside! Cleaver idea.

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