Congrats to Mr. & Mrs.!

This is a short and sweet Congratulations design team prompt for CutCard Stock.com. I knew I wanted to use their Bronze specialty paper on a project: Stardream Metallic 8.5 x 11 BRONZE (brown) 105lb Card Stock.

The paper’s finish is Mica-coated metallic+ pearlescent & iridescent — and it is double-sided with 105# cover thickness, which is perfect for formal wedding and special occasion cards. I used Kolette Hall Studo’s Wedding Split Design Card found on the loriwhitlock.com website.

And I had to use a shimmer cardstock to match the look and feel of the bronze paper. DCS Shimmery Textured Wedding Cake 8.5x11 inch White Card Stock is now my favorite cardstock for my paper projects. It is textured and shimmers on one side.

My Cricut cut the sentiment, and I was happy that it was a clean cut, but that’s what you get when you use good paper!

I also made more cards using DCS Discount Card Stock: Textured Japanese Maple Red Card Stock, which has a subtle linen texture, and a grey cardstock that I bought from CutCardStock, which is no longer available.

Hope that you enjoyed looking at my projects -- and will try it yourself. Let me know below if you do!

“Just Because” Wildflower Box Card

For Cutcardstock's DT challenge, I used the Wildflowers Box Card SVG from svgcuts.com. For those of you who use SVGs, there are individual image files or the entire image in one file. I use the latter because it is less complicated and easier to shrink down. I could have made this even smaller, the cuts would have held up at that size. 

I used card stock that I had on hand as well as cutcardstock.com papers:

DCS Discount Card Stock: Textured Japanese Maple Red Card Stock, which is by far my favorite red.

Astrobright Solar Yellow 8.5x11 Discount Card Stock, which is a great, bright yellow.

Lessebo Colors HUNTER GREEN 83lb Cardstock, also a must-have deep green.

I also inked all of the flowers and leaves in similar colors, using Color Box Flower Petal inks. I love the shimmer, which gave the bright card stock, and how it muted some of the colors, like the green. I also used contrasting inks on the yellow rose — so the tips were a lovely pink.

The trunk is based on dark brown card stock as well as a wood grain patterned paper that I also have on hand. The file image had holes for brads, and I love that touch. I bought the brads from Amazon — just search mini brads and you will have your choice of colors. 

There is an oval shape that lends itself to personalization, so you can write what you want, just because. 

This may seem like a complicated file, and at first, I questioned if I could do it justice, but once you get going, it was easy. And svgcuts.com also gives a video how-to and a PFD of all the cut pieces, making it less overwhelming. 

Let me know what you think and if you will try this project!