Art Nouveau Two

 Last time I showed you a birthday card done with one of my favorite Cricut cartridges - the Art Nouveau.  Sometimes it's almost impossible not to get SO caught up in the beauty and versatility of these cartridges that one spends hours thinking up different ways to use all the wonderful features on them.

 Here are four more examples of the beautiful women featured on this cartridge.  I've made notecards out of all of them.

So far, I just have the plain note cards.  I am still "mulling over" what I want to do to accent each of these lovely women.  Eventually I will add something to the front, I think (maybe not), probably leaving the inside blank - especially if I decide to bundle these together as a gift.  I would like to receive these as a gift, wouldn't you?

Sparkles, glitter, bitty diamonds...  Oh!  The possibilities are endless for embellishment.  Still, I like them just as they are.  As you can see, the Cricut machine (I have the old faithful Expression) does all the "fussy cuts", right down to the tiny lips and details on those FABulous hoop earrings.  On second thought, Princess #1 could use some diamonds in her tiara, yes?

Have you enjoyed these gorgeous girls as much as I enjoyed making them?  I hope so!  Next time, I may delve into the Art Deco cartridge, if I have the nerve!  Can you stand it??  Until then, 

Au Revoir, mes amies,

Psalm 138:1-3

Art Nouveau

Good morning!  This is a card I made for my daughter's birthday.  The lovely maiden is from the Art Nouveau collection. 

The Cricut die cuts offer an almost infinite assortment of shapes and fonts for the creative paper crafter.  You can download the handbook for this cartridge here.  While the die cuts offer great detail - down to the tiny lips and flower buds - they are also very time consuming.  The nice thing is, you can always use up those itty-bitty scraps, as long as you can get them to STICK to your cutting mat!

The inside of the card uses CTMH stamp "Your Kind Of Wonderful" (D1627), with inks in Goldrush (Z2123), Sunset (Z2191) and Topiary (Z2155).  The card itself is made of Colonial White cardstock (1388) 4"x9" (cut 8"x9" folded in half) and using corner rounders to create the card.  It fit perfectly in a regular letter sized envelope.

Using complex die cuts to create cards can be time consuming.  It results in beautiful one of a kind cards.  Each card, even using the same die cuts, yields different looks and can be tailored to the person for whom you are making it.  I hope you will be inspired to explore some of the Cricut designs you may have available to you.  Until next time!

Romans 8:28