One Card Swap for May

I was thrilled to receive this delightful card in the mail last week from Joni, my partner for Teri's

One Card Swap for the month of May. Just love how she made this double slider card...I know these take an extra bit of time and effort to make, especially to get the slider to work just right...and Joni's card turned out great! Fairy Tink looks adorable in pink (yup Joni, PINK is my fave!) and Joni says she used a Sakura Gelly Roll - Clear Star on her wings to give them that very special pearly sheen. So pretty! Everything about this card, down to the last detail, the heat embossing, the sentiments, the perfectly coordinated papers ... everything is so special. Thank you, Joni!


This is the card I sent to Joni. I came across this flower pot card as a challenge at Splitcoast Stampers and wanted to try one too. Of course I had to use my Cricut, right?
Found the perfect flower pot cut on the Walk In My Garden cartridge, sized it and welded two of them together in Design Studio. Then on a new page, I welded together three shadows of a flower cut I liked from the same cart, together with a rectangle cut from George. By using the preview of the flowerpot from the first page as a guide on the new page, I could size the flower shadows and rectangle for a perfect fit into the pot. I then sized and cut flowers to fit the shadows, and added a few leaves.
For the final touches, I chalked the pot & flowers, embossed the pot with a Sizzix embossing folder from a Hello Kitty set, glittered the flower centers, and added a tag and bow. It actually came together pretty quickly and easily, and that's a good thing since I had waited till the last minute to start working on my card for this month's swap. The actual card turned out to be larger than I had planned, about 8 inches tall! Next time I'll have to scale it down a bit.

Luckily, Fairy Ava is a digital stamp so I was able to size her to fit the card. I used Copics to color her in and blinged her wings with some prisma glitter. Isn't she the cutest? Love her anime eyes! Jodi from Inked Inspirations turned me on to the In Style Stamps site where I found Fairy Ava and many of her anime friends available in rubber as well as digital downloads.


The non-Cricut tutorial for this Flower Pot Pocket Card can be found on Stephanie Luman's blog, Beat of My Drum. You can also view many samples of what others have done with this card on the Splitcoast Stampers gallery. So many great ideas!