Cricut Cardz Challenge #17

It's Wednesday and that means it's time for a new Cricut Cardz Challenge. This week's challenge is to make a child's birthday card using any cartridge and colors. I chose to make a shaped card this week. I used the truck from Mickey and Friends on page 125 of the manual. You may think that I made this card using Design Studio or my Gypsy, but I didn't. I wanted everyone to know that even if you don't have these two wonderful additions to your Cricut machine you can still make a shaped card by doing it the old fashioned way. Yes it might take a few minutes more, but the results are the same. The first thing I did was cut a pattern for my card by cutting the truck at 4 3/4" from a piece of inexpensive white cardstock (Georgia Pacific from Walmart). Then I took a piece of blue cardstock (8 1/2" x 11") and folded it in half using my bone folder on the crease. Then I placed the top of the truck at the fold, traced around it and cut it out. Simple as that you have a shaped card without the expense of DS or Gypsy. Then I cut the layering pieces for the truck at 4 1/2". First I cut the truck from the blue and green check then using my shift key I cut the dump part of the truck from blue cardstock and again from black for the tires. I ran the blue cardstock through my Cuttlebug using the Spots and Dots embossing folder. Then I assembled all the pieces. My sentiment came from The Cutting Cafe.

It's from the All Occasion Circle word set. Finally for embellishment I added a some MS ribbon and a blue button.