2013-02-24 Under the Weather with Cricut’s Tie The Knot
I’ve had success with my seldom used Cricut electronic die cutting machine the last few days. Knowing that I have a swap coming up where I needed to use an umbrella somewhere on the card I went through the few cartridges that I own and found one on the Tie the Knot cartridge.
I added ribbon, 2 different border punches DSP and some computer generated text to come up with this sketch design I found on Pinterest.
I die cut the umbrella 3 times at 3.5″ and to my surprise it went really quickly. The previous designs were quite intricate and took about 20 minutes. These 3 were only about 5 minutes! The first cut was black, the second from a pale pink pattern and then the third time from an orange, pink green and white pattern. I popped the final layer up on 3-d mounting tape and then added tiny gems.
I didn’t have any colored buttons so I took a pearl white colored one and colored it with a sharpie marker. I made some homemade bakers twine using an orange sharpie marker. I was hoping to pick up some of the orange from the umbrella above. However; the sharpie, although looking orange on paper, looks entirely different when added to cotton thread. More red than orange really.
The computer text was printed onto cardstock using a downloaded free font called Ma Sexy! The first letter is in a size 48 point and the remaining text at a size 24 point. The two border punches that I used were both by Martha Stewart. The ribbon punch was originally white which I spritzed with distress stain, sprayed Gold PearlEx and then ran through my Fiskars crimping tool. The finished card is 5.25″ square and thankfully I did find a ready made envelope that it will fit into nicely.
Great card, Bonnie!! I was admiring the sentiment and was thrilled to read that it was computer generated. Which brings a question to mind… do you save the fonts to your computer and keep them? I’ve heard that keeping too many fonts can slow the computer down. We heard about the free program “Font Explorer” as a way of keeping them and organizing them so the slowdown won’t happen, so my husband downloaded it, but we could never figure out how it works when it comes to getting the free fonts off the Internet and getting them into Font Explorer. My husband is usually pretty good at figuring out programs, but this had him stumped. So, I’m curious how you store all your fonts.
I didn’t know that many fonts would slow down your computer. I save the fonts on a terabyte drive and only install the ones I like onto my laptop.
I used to belong to a group that would send out zip files weekly with dozens of assorted fonts. After a while they all looked the same to me. I guess I don’t have a decerning eye when it comes to fonts.
. I only picked out the scripty or hand written looking one and theft the rest on the terebyte drive.
Layers add interest to a card and you have done it up super! TY for sharing!
I love the card and how you die cut a design into the umbrella. Nice details!
Cool card! I received a Valentine with an umbrella on it – maybe a new trend?
Hi again, Bonnie. I learned about the fonts slowing down the computer on a craft group I used to be on. I’ve only downloaded a few fonts since I don’t want to risk having a problem. There are so many nice ones out there though… but I haven’t even looked around in a very long time… just gave up since I couldn’t figure out Font Explorer. Is that “terabyte” drive you mentioned a flash drive? My husband uses those all the time so maybe he can show me how to store fonts that way and I won’t even need Font Explorer!. Thanks!!
What a wonderfully festive card – sure to cheer up someone feeling blue.