Happy Birthday Dear Mitchie

My co-worker has had quite a year. After having some crappy things happen in her life, she took control and used the gym as her outlet. Over the past year she has had a total body transformation, and is now being featured in places like Shape and Health magazines!

Since I don't have any buff weightlifting girl Cricut cartridges ... I decided to make her a birthday card themed around wishes coming true, because she is out there reaching for the stars!

I cut out this cloud and stars from Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge so that it would fit perfectly on the front of this glittery A2 card base, then I found some stars and a moon on Paper Doll Dress Up as well--but in a totally unrelated location. The moon cut out super weird, so I ended up just using the stars to give a bit of a 3D effect thanks to my therm-o-web foam squares. I now see there are lots of moons and things on New Arrival, so that is a good option if you want a nice moon.

The cute paper is from a DCWV Stacks. I love the blue color with the maroon red; it isn't typical baby boy blue and lipstick red. They are really nice atypical colors.

I cut out the cake and the layer from Stretch Your Imagination. The cake is actually a baby pink even though it looks kind of peachy here. I had to "hide" the candles and the flame, as they cut with the cake. So you can see I cut the cake, the "frosting," the candles and the flames all separately. Hooray for Gypsy layers-by-force!

"Birthday Wish" was cut out from the Gypsy Font, while "Come True" was cut out from San Serif.

Since I had the outline of this adorable cloud and stars leftover, I realized it would go perfectly on the envelope! Clearly my best envelope ever, if I do say so.

Happy Birthday Mitchie!

-marcia

I just got in three new Cricut cartridges from the awesome gals at Custom Crops. Love them! Wish I could buy up the whole store.

My new carts are:
Paisley
Paper Dolls Dress Up
Stretch Your Imagination

Last night I was fiddling with the Paper Dolls cart to make a cover for my new sticker binders. Finally had to move to TWO binders. Woah is me and my sticker obsession.

I got the first cover done, here's a pic.

I used ONLY the Paper Dolls cart for the whole thing + DCWV paper. The doll is cut at 5.5 inches. I added the VW bug in the lower right corner for my dad, who restores VWs. Hugs dad!

Cheers!