Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge

Shawn here from Crafty Chics Blog and MyCutSearch.com

Here is a project that I did on request. I used several cuts from the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartrdige.

My mother works for a school, and she had seen the paper dolls that I created for my niece. If you want to see that project you can go HERE. Well, I also made a boy and girl to hand in the office of the school my mother works at. They have snowflakes, leaves, flowers and hearts that she puts around them and changes out with the seasons.

Since the children at this school wear uniforms, I thought it would be cute to put the paper dolls in the school uniforms too! This was a lot easier to do with the boy, since he just needed to be wearing solid colored blue and green clothes, but I had to be more creative on the girl’s uniform.

I was able to borrow a used uniform and bring it home to scan in my printer/scanner. Once I had the image scanned, I just printed out on my printable adhesive backed fabric. Then I used my Cricut Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge to cut a dress. I had to “modify” the neckline by hand to make it match the style of the school uniform.

I also made an elf and Santa outfit for these two, so that they could dress them up for the holidays.

Happy saturday everyone! Today I have two cards for you that I made for my daughter and my niece. Both of them had some exciting things happen to them recently and I wanted to send them a little card to recognize their achievements. I used a technique using Art Bar crayons. I tried to do an ombre watercolor background with a screen layer on top.

For the card bases I cut a 6″x12″ card stock and folded it in half. On the front of the card I colored it with the Art Bar Caryons (you could use Gelatos) Use water to dilute the color to blend.

Next I cut the Layering screens with my expression2 and the CCR (Cricut Craft Room). I used smooth bazzill card stock . The 1st image I used is from the PaperDoll Dress-up cartridge it’s on page 78, The Border Blackout. I used three of those image with the middle one flipped and then I nestled them together so that I could weld them to make one piece. The measurement was about 5.7x 2.6 and then I copied and pasted another image because I used two of them.

For the 2nd card I use the CCR exclusive Teresa Collins Basic images. The measurement I used was 5.6×5.6 and I cut it into pieces I liked for the card.

After my e2 cut my images I ran them through the Xyron to add the allover adhesive. I like to go over the edges so that there isn’t any adhesive left on the edges. I have an old Xyron and I feel like I have to do this step. I don’t know if the new machines leave excess adhesive on the edges.

After I set the screen layer where I want it I stamped them. The red card I stamped with one of my favorite stamp set called Grand Greeting from Lawn Fawn and the Yellow card I use a stamp set that I got at Michael’s in the clearance bin. That set is from a company called Ditto. On the red card I made a slit on the upper left side of the card right on the fold so that I could thread the ribbon through it.

and tied my bow and placed my button.

With the Yellow card I used jute and a wood button.

The last thing I do when I make cards is sign them and I use this stamp that I got at an expo. It’s from Endless Creations I like it because I can also cut it with the 1 1/4″ scallop punch. How do you sign your cards?