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Border This!!! - Creating Borders with your Cricut 

 Copyright © 2009, Melanie Martin-Trainor, layout design only

Images are designed via Cricut by ProvoCraft Inc.

Supplies:
2 sheets yellow cardstock
2 sheets light green cardstock
2 sheets dark green cardstock

Base Camp Cartridge
Walk in My Garden Cartridge

Use 2 sheets of yellow cardstock as the base.

Load your mat with dark green cardstock. Using the Walk in My Garden Cartridge, select the Border creative feature and size 1½”, press button #30 and cut a total of 12. It should look like this . I would suggest cutting one and then unload your paper, remove the image from your mat. If it is a successful cut, then use “load last” and continue to cut the other 11 images. I would also suggest cutting six images and then using the “Flip” feature, cut the other six. If your machine does not have this feature, then just physically flip your created image over and use it like that.

Load your mat with light green cardstock. Using the Walk in My Garden Cartridge, select the Border creative feature and size 1½”, press button Shift #30 and cut a total of 12. This is the turtle shell layer. It should look like this . Again, I would suggest using the “Flip” feature on six of these. If you do not have the flip feature, you can just flip the image over.

Using dark green cardstock and the Base Camp Cartridge, press the Shadow creative feature, size 1½”, #39 , cut a total of 17. Again, I would suggest cutting one and then unload your paper, remove the image from your mat. If it is a successful cut, then use “load last” and continue to cut the other 16 images.

Using next full sheet of the light green cardstock and the Base Camp Cartridge, use the Dog Tag creative feature, size 1½” – Fun in the Summer Sun.

The mats on this page are as follows:
4¼” x 6¼” (cut 1) 4¼” x 4¼” (cut 4)

Step it Up:
- Use Stickles/ink on the turtle shells for added dimension or sparkle
- Use pop-dots to “pop” some of your page elements
- Create “Subtitles” using Base Camp and ¾” shadowed letters
- Place brads/eyelets in the center of each dog tag



 

Copyright © 2009, Melanie Martin-Trainor, layout design only

Images are designed via Cricut by ProvoCraft Inc.

Supplies:
2 sheets red cardstock
2 sheets white cardstock
2 sheets blue cardstock

Celebrations Cartridge
Base Camp Cartridge

Use 2 sheets of blue cardstock as the base.

Load your mat with white cardstock. Using the Celebrations Cartridge, select the Border creative feature and size 1½”, press button #29 and cut a total of 12. It should look like this . I would suggest cutting one and then unload your paper, remove the image from your mat. If it is a successful cut, then use “load last” and continue to cut the other 11 images.

Using white cardstock, cut one shifted border #29 . These two stars will be corner accents.

Using white cardstock still and the Base Camp Cartridge, press the Shadow creative feature, size 1½”, #39 , cut a total of 19. Again, I would suggest cutting one and then unload your paper, remove the image from your mat. If it is a successful cut, then use “load last” and continue to cut the other 18 images.

Load your mat with red cardstock, use the Dog Tag creative feature, size 1½” – These Colors Don’t Run – the apostrophe is Shift #6, it will also cut the quotations, just discard those.

The mats on this page are as follows:
4¼” x 6¼” (cut 2) 5 ¼” x 7 ¼”

Titles:       Made in America       Red, White & Blue Forever

Step it Up:
- Use Stickles on the stars for added dimension and sparkle
- Use pop-dots to “pop” some of your page elements
- Create “Subtitles” using Base Camp and ¾” shadowed letters
- Change up the colors, use red as the base, etc.
- Place brads/eyelets in the hole of each dogtag

Mother's Day Project Perhaps

This is Item #218, Drawbridge Book made by Piggy Tales.  I just got it in the mail the other day with a kit.  I am totally excited about it and can't wait to see how it turns out.  I am hopeful that it will be super cool.  Perhaps a great Mother's Day Gift.  Stay tuned for further developments..........