A “Just Because” card using the “Summer Vacation” Seasonal Cricut Cartridge and “Lacy Labels” Cricut Lite Cartridge!
When my ship comes in…
(inside)I’ll be at the airport!
Ingredients:
Summer Vacation Seasonal Cricut cartridge
Lacy Labels Cricut Lite cartridge
Cricut Machine (Original, Create or Expression will work!)
Cricut Mat
Light golden yellow cardstock
Light blue cardstock
Brown cardstock
Book print patterned paper
Celery green cardstock
Red & white polka dot patterned paper by Paper Studio
Yellow, white & orange checked scraps of paper
White cardstock
Striped ribbon by
Gold shamrock coin (from seasonal décor at Joann’s)
Turquoise blue 2-hole button
Gold thread
Glue dots
Glossy Accents glue
Pop dots (dimensionals)
Scissors
Paper cutter
Copic Spica Glitter Markers
Brown ink
Preferred Scoring Tool
Crop-a-Dile
For Sentiment:
Microsoft Publisher or Microsoft Word (or use a stamp or cut from your Cricut!)
Printer
Directions:
1. Build your card base by cutting your paper to the following sizes:
a. Yellow cardstock: 5.5” x 10”
b. Celery green cardstock: 4 ¾” x 5”
c. Book print patterned paper: 4 ½” x 4 ¾”
d. Red & white polka dot paper: 1 ¾” x 5 ½”
2. Cricut cuts
Summer Vacation Seasonal Cricut Cartridge:
a. Light blue cardstock: Cut the ship at 2 ½ ”
b. Brown cardstock: Cut the airplane at 2 ½”
Lacy Labels Cricut Lite Cartridge (Currently only available at Walmart!) Cut the 18th label (second row, eight across):
a. Celery green cardstock (select shift feature for the shadow). Set your size to 3 ½ ”, cut 1x.
b. Brown cardstock. (no shift) keep the size at 3 ½ ”. Cut 1x.
c. Yellow cardstock. (no shift) adjust the size to 3 ¼”
3. Assemble the card by doing the following:
4. Using your preferred scoring tool, score the yellow cardstock at the halfway point and fold in half.
5. Attach the red & white polka dot strip to right side of the card lining up the top and bottom edges with approximately a 1/8 inch yellow border on the far right side.
6. Center the book print patterned paper to the celery green piece and attach.
7. Attach the celery green paper to the center of the yellow card base using pop dots (dimensionals).
8. Assemble Cricut Cuts:
Three Layer Label:
a. Attach the yellow label to the top of the brown label using pop dots (dimensionals).
b. Attach the brown label to the celery green label using pop dots (dimensionals).
c. Ship: Using the blue Copic Spica Glitter Marker outline the entire ship using lines, dots and dashes. Cover the entire ship with a layer of Glossy Accents and set aside to dry.
d. Airplane: Using the orange Copic Spica Glitter Marker outline the airplane using dots and dashes.
9. Wrap a piece of ribbon just long enough to glue under the edge of the top two card piece layers (see photo for placement). Tie a bow to desired size and glue to the top of the ribbon strip.
10. Attach the three layer label to the top of the card overlapping a portion of the ribbon (see photo for placement)
11. Punch a hole in a gold shamrock coin using your Crop-a-Dile and then slip a gold piece of thread/string under the knot on the bow and up through the hole in the coin. Secure the coin to the bow by threading the gold string through the button holes and knotting. Cut string to desired length.
12. Using Microsoft Publisher or Microsoft Word and the “Word Art” feature. Type in “When my ship comes in..” and then using just a regular text box type the inside sentiment leaving space between the two sentiments so you can cut them out type “I’ll be at the airport.” Print on white cardstock and then cut out following the shape of the words. Attach the sentiment to a scrap of the celery green paper and cut around following the shape of the sentiment. Attach to the top of the yellow label so that it slightly hangs off of the tag.
13. Hand cut a small circle for a sun from a scrap of coordinating yellow/orange paper. Ink the edges and crinkle then smooth out. Attach to the top of the yellow label.
14. Once the ship is dry, attach to the top yellow label using pop dots (dimensionals).
15. Decorate the inside by cutting a piece of scrap celery green paper and inking the edges for the inside card mat.
16. Attach the brown airplane to the top left corner of the green card mat.
17. Attach the inside verse “I’ll be at the airport” to a scrap of the red & white polka dot paper and attach to the center of the green card base.
Hope you like it!
Olive crafts, don’t you?
x Kim
