Cricut Cardz Challenge #64

Today is Dr. Seuss's birthday and we're celebrating at Cricut Cardz Challenge.  It's also Read Across America week and in many school's they are celebrating Reading Month.  As a retired educator, this is a cause dear to my heart and I remember fondly many of our Reading Month activities.  This week's challenge at Cricut Cardz is to make a bookmark incorporating any Cricut cartridge and using any colors.  I used the bookmark feature from the Animal Kingdom cartridge and some clip art of Dr. Seuss that I found online.  Some of you may know that I have been working on a scrapbook for my ninth grandchild (a boy) that is due in May.  My son and dauther-in-law are doing the baby's nursery in a Dr. Seuss theme. I have posted some of the pages from the scrapbook here on my blog.  I've been working on making  shower favors for the baby shower on March 19th.  So I've had lots of exposure to Dr. Seuss lately. 

I designed a little pocket on the front of the card for the bookmark to slip into.  The colors I used here are the colors from the Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat book.  The red polka dot paper is from October Afternoon.  This card measures 6 1/2 x 5" and I used white cardstock for the base.  I topped it with a turquoise mat cut at 4 3/4 x 6 1/4" and a polka dot mat at 4 1/2 x 6".  The pocket for the bookmark is a piece of turquoise cut at 5 1/2 x 2 1/4" and polka dot cut at 2 x 5 1/4".  The bookmark is cut at 5" width. (It cuts sideways on the mat).  I placed another Dr. Seuss image on the bookmark and topped it with a big red button for easy grabbing.  The quote on the front is from Dr. Seuss' book The Places You'll Go.  I used my computer to type it up with a Dr. Seuss font I downloaded from the Internet.  It was a free font and I've used it a ton in my scrapbook for the baby with my SCAL software to make titles for the pages.  If you'd like to see some of my Dr. Seuss scrapbook pages they are here, here and here.  You can look at my baby shower favors here.  I hope you can join Cricut Cardz this week and make your own bookmark.  Thanks for looking in today.

Dr. Seuss Scrapbook Pages 4 & 5

These two pages of the album are for the baby's birth statistics and first picture.  The title banner was cut from Cricut's Twinkle Toes cartridge with the fit to length feature on and cut at 11".  The letters are Dr. Seuess font cut with SCAL. 

The name/date words were cut from Cricut's New Arrival cartridge.  The background was cut at 7.5" from red cardstock and the white cardstock was cut at 7.25".  I punched the holes in the white scallop before layering them.  The words were cut at 4".  

I found a great website for Dr. Seuss pictures from his books called Seussland.com and have used them throughout the album.  I placed the fish pictures on red cardstock and then printed the poem, again using the Dr. Seuss font.  You can read the poem in the photo below.

I'm having the best time putting this album together and I know my son and daughter-in-law are just going to love it.  By next week at this time we will know whether they are having a boy or a girl.  Since Kyle is our only son it would be nice if they had a boy to carry on the family name.  On the other hand,  I really enjoy little girls and all the cute little clothes to dress them in.  Either will be fine with me, as long as it is healthy.  If you missed the first two pages of the album you can see them HERE.  Check back over the weekend, I will be posting a couple more double page layouts.