Puppy Love

Hi crafty friends!  Today's card is inspired by two challenges- to use a sketch and to use an animal cut with the Cricut.  First, I decided to use a grey card base and all scraps of blue papers from my scraps bin to create the sketch background.  Then I looked through my Cricut handbooks for just the right animal.  A few months ago I bought the digital copy of Cricut Alphabet, and I love this cute dog, so I decided he was perfect.

I cut the shadow, the main image, and two copies of the shift image.  One of the shift image was cut in the same yellow as the dog so that I could layer the ears and add some yellow stickles.  The shift image was also cut on a piece of blue polka-dot paper for the collar.

The sentiment is from the Create a Valentine stamp set by My Craft Spot.  I recently won this stamp set and was so excited to try it out!  My Craft Spot stamps always stamp really well and I love the font of this stamp, which is one that is in a lot of the stamps I have from them.  I stamped it in a dark blue color.  I added the little wood veneer at the bottom for a finishing touch.

This card is being entered into the following challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut- Animal Crackers
Simon Says Stamp- Wednesday Challenge, Heather's Sketch

Two baby cards

I mentioned last week that I am running very low on baby cards, so I decided to use the stroller cut from Cricut Alphabet, which I just bought in digital format when Cricut was having a sale last week.  I'd been wanting it for quite awhile, so I'm pretty excited. 

I decided to make two cards, one in pink and one in blue.  I used some matching patterned paper from Recollections, some pink/blue ribbon, and a matching green button for each.  For the heart cutout spot, each stroller got some Stickles- in Cotton Candy and in Baby Blue.  You can see it better here on the blue card. 

These cards are being entered into the following challenge:

Die Cuttin Divas-Twice is Nice