Cricut Cardz 1st Challenge

I am so incredibly excited to have been chosen for the Design Team that gets to launch the Cricut Cardz Challenge Blog. Thanks so much to Mary for letting me be a part of this great adventure. I know we're all going to have so much fun. The design team was given free reign for this first card. I recently got A Child's Year and it has so many incredible cuts I just couldn't wait to use it. This is the Tea Party cut on this card, cut at 4" from dark brown cardstock. I wanted to give the tablecloth a real tablecloth look. I looked for something from a Cricut cartridge but couldn't quite find anything that I liked. So for my tablecloth I used just a corner of a square paper doily. I distressed it a little with some Colorbox Chalk Ink in Creamy Brown. My base card is a 5 1/4" square of red cardstock. I topped it with this beautiful Christmas Toile by Paper Studio. To add a little interest to the front of the card I cut a circle of red cardstock at 4" from the Mini Monograms cartridge. Then I cut another circle at 3 1/2" from the toile paper and attached them. Then I trimmed them to go into the corner of the card. I used my computer for the sentiment, printed it in red then punched it out with a 1 1/4" circle punch. I placed it on a scalloped circle cut at 1 1/2" from the Mini Monograms cartridge. Since I was going for an old fashioned look with this card I made my bow from cotton lace. To fancy it up I put a red ribbon rose on top and then added a stick pin with a few beads.