The mom wanted pink and brown colors with butterflies and flowers...so this is what I came up with! I don't have any butterfly or flower stamps. I guess I like the cutesy stamp images rather than the realistic ones. So I turned once again to my Cuttlebug for help.
The ribbon is actually a lace ribbon laid over a satin ivory ribbon. I used my Storybook Cricut Cartridge for the tag. (I told you I use that cartridge a lot. LOL) And since I had to mass produce 35 of these invitations, I decided to engineer a "template" on my computer for the Cricut to cut out the pre-printed sentiments for me. So here's what I did...
First, I had the Cricut cut the tag to fill an entire 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. I just used regular copier paper to do this since this was going to just serve as a template, no need to waste precious cardstock. (Just set the Cricut to the lightest pressure.) The Cricut had cut the tag 4 across the page and 7 down. Now I knew how I needed to set up my Word document.
Next, I opened a blank Word document with the margins ALL set to zero. I chose my font, and typed the sentiment. I started spacing the sentiments evenly in rows just like the Cricut template. (It took only about 4 test prints of the Word document before I had the spacing perfect, so it was really easy to do.) I knew it was perfect when I laid the cut out tag template over the printed sentiment sheet and it all lined up. When I had it all just right, I printed the sentiments out onto cardstock, placed that cardstock sheet into the Cricut and Ta-Da!!! Perfectly printed sentiment tags cut for me!!! Isn't that so cool? It really saved a lot of time.
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5 comments:
Adorable! You really need to submit this to the "Tip" girls at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge blog! You can see their link on my bloggy side bar (right side!) I am sure lots of people would love to see how you did this!!!!
Thanks Sammy Jo, and thanks for the suggestion to submit my tip. I just sent an email. :) That's a great blog by the way, I'm off to go check it out again.
Wow! Awesome tip.... I'm so glad you shared with Fantabulous Cricut! I'll give this a try when I need to make several of the same card. Thanks.
Robin :)
What a very beautiful card. And thanks so much for sharing that great tip with us. I had to read it about 5 times before my brain kicked in LOL
AWESOME! I am glad I stopped here... I am making 175 invitations and this is going to come very handy! Thanks for this awesome tip!!
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