It's time for the first Cricut Cardz Challenge of 2013. The challenge that Mary asked the Design Team to create around is A Banner Year. Banners are hot in the design world right now and you can find them in all shapes and sizes. In searching through my Cricut cartridges I found this adorable heart banner on the Jubilee cartridge. One of my goals for this year (notice I didn't say resolution because I don't believe in the word, puts too much pressure on me) is to try to use some of my neglected cartridges. I'm not even sure where or when I picked up the Jubilee cartridge. It must have been on clearance somewhere because I don't typically buy font cartridges. Anyway, I was surprised to see that it has some banners on it under the flag function key. I just think this is an adorable cut and would be the perfect element to draw the eye into a clean and simple card. I started with a base card of red Core'dinations premium smooth textured cardstock from Jo-Ann's. Then I used my Cuttlebug hearts embossing folder on a piece of white cardstock and cut it to fit on the base card. I wrapped some red and white twine around it before attaching it to the base card, tied a small bow and added a cute red heart button (Recollections from Michael's). The banner is cut at 0.8". I added the sentiment from the Cardz TV Stamps Happy Days set. Voila, this card was complete in about 15 minutes.
