Random moosages as I see fit.

So, I went and made a this.

It’s the kissing couple card from Creative Popup Cards.

It…actually gave me a lot of trouble.  Not the cutting this time.  The Silhouette was a huge help there.  Every other time I made popup cards, I cut everything out by hand with an Xacto knife.  It works…it just takes a lot of time.  And I don’t think I would have attempted that method with this particular card.  So.  Much.  Cutting.

Anyway, so this card gave me a lot of trouble.  Why?  Because I made this during the week of ALL THE PROJECTS, which you’ll recall was during my period of technically being unemployed.  And, I think this card was the last thing I made during that week.  I was deeply entrenched in my inability to do math and measure things properly at that point.  It was…bad.

So…this wasn’t the original front of the card. I had to add that tag on because of…problems.

So because of all my issues, here’s Rich’s video for the popup card so you can see it in all it’s popuppiness.

Why did I decide to make this particular card for the bride and groom?  Because this is totally what they reminded me of every time I saw them before the wedding.  I didn’t actually make it to the wedding, but from what I hear, this card is completely appropriate because this is how they were during the wedding too.

Obtw, I had the Silhouette outline the lettering (French Script MT) for me for the front of the card and then I filled it in.  Silhouette FTW!  Could never have done that with the Cricut.

Obligatory moose stamp.

Remember this?

It eventually became paired with this (also from the week of ALL THE PROJECTS).

One of trainees from the Bible school (of sorts) that helps us out with the kids in my church group graduated from the Bible school a few weeks back and I thought it would be fitting to give her a small gift and card.  And so…I made them.

I was quite pleased with how the mug rug turned out.  Definitely gift caliber.  I decided to pair that with a simple card with unusual proportions and text alignment.  As it turned out, they went perfectly together because the mug rug was 6″x9″ and the card was 6″x9″ fully opened.  I hadn’t really planned it that way.  I mean, I wanted a card that was long and skinny, but I hadn’t specifically thought about the proportions.  I just decided on a certain size and it ended up being the same size as the mug rug.

I decided on making the letters mirror image across the fold.

I suppose you wouldn’t need an “& thanks” on the inside if you only wanted to congratulate the recipient.

Erm…the card was made with blue cardstock (obviously) with a creamy, bespeckled white cardstock (not as obvious).  I kind of regret using the bespeckled cardstock for the lettering because most of the speckles didn’t end up in the letters.  The few specks that did kind of ended up looking like accidental marks.  Oh well.  Overall, I’m quite pleased with how the card turned out.

If I were to make the card again, I might decide to make it two layers with the text cut out in the card and have a white underlay just so I wouldn’t have to glue so so many individual letters down.

OH!  I also just realized that this is the first thing I made with my Silhouette.  I have given up on the Cricut, not necessarily because it’s a bad machine, but because I do not agree with Provo Craft’s business model.  With the Silhouette, I am no longer tied down to cartridges and I can design my own things AND I can cut any True Type fonts (I believe I used Georgia for the card).  I had originally thought about getting a Cricut Expression (I had a Cricut Personal) because I needed to cut some bigger stuff but I decided that it would be better to cut ties with Cricut sooner than later and opted for a Silhouette instead.  And I am pleased that I have done so.