Author: CourtneyLee

Graduation Card with Courtney

Hello! This is Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts here with a graduation card that I made for my brother in law. You can pin this for the future or if you missed a graduation send a late card! Better late than never! 🙂

For the front of my card I cut the “green panel” a second time out of white so that I could use my Cricut pens on the front. The difference between maroons is because he went to undergrad at Harvard and just finished his post graduate work at MIT. He’s a smarty pants. 🙂

 Here is what the card looks like from the side. I love the dimension and it’s amazing how it folds flat!

I added his name to the mailbox, a graduation scroll and a pile of books. The latter two were stickers in my stash. I also copied the front of the mailbox and made it smaller so that I could make it look like an open mailbox.

I added writing to the bottom of the card too so that basically all we had to do was sign it. “If only it was this easy…” refers to getting the diploma in the mail. Wouldn’t it be nice if it was that easy!? 🙂

Thank you for looking and I hope you have a beautiful day!

Recipe:
(Store) Lori Whitlock’s Mailbox Pop-up Card Cut File
(Silhouette Store) Lori Whitlock’s Mailbox Pop-up Card Cut File
Cricut Explore Air + Cricut Pen in Midnight
Lori Whitlock for Echo Park: Happy Summer: Flocking Feathers (HS105005)
Lori Whitlock for Echo Park: Happy Summer: Summer Blossoms (HS105010)
Lori Whitlock for Echo Park: Pinstripes 6×6 Paper Pad
Vellum
Solid Carstock


Cricut Cut + Write Tutorial with Courtney

Hello!!! This is Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts here with the new (and adorable) mason jar box card. I wanted to show you how to personalize it and make it your own using the cut and write feature of your Cricut Explore Air.

Change the marks on the jar lids to “write”.

Personalize by adding text.

I’m never one to throw away a die cut so… shrink the “love” to fit on the bottom.

Personalize further by adding your name. (This is going to be CUTE!!!)

See that “attach” button top right? Attach all layers together by holding down “shift” and clicking all the pieces. This will make it so the cut and write feature happens at the same time. Do the same thing with all of the other pieces just to make sure the scoring marks are attached to the correct pieces, etc.

Cut out and check it out!!!! The Cricut Explore is AMAZING with the write and cut feature (with the dual tool holder!! I did it at the SAME time!!! ugh. love..)

Check out how awesome the Cricut Explore Air did at the “cut and write” feature!!!

I adhered the “love” to the card and popped the jar top to the first layer.

Then I glued the stems to the leaves and curled the ends up on one layer. I adhered those with pop dots too.

Use the enamel dots to add dimension. Paste layer one directly to the inside front of the card.

Ink the edges of the pink flower and the yellow flower centers.

Layer 2

Card complete!

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial today!!! It’s so much fun to use the Cricut Sketch pens on cards in neat and creative ways!

Recipe:

Lori Whitlock’s Shop: Box Card Mason Jar Bouquet

Silhouette Shop: Box Card Mason Jar Bouquet

Lori Whitlock’s Happy Summer collection for Echo Park Paper

Lori Whitlock’s Happy Summer Enamel Dots


Father’s Day Card with Courtney

Hello!!! This is Courtney Lee with Court’s Crafts here to give you some Father’s Day inspiration!

This card was SO quick to put together. I love that about Lori’s files but this one was extra fast. So if you are in need of a last minute Father’s Day card grab this file! (Spoiler alert: I have ANOTHER Father’s Day card for your inspiration tomorrow on the blog hop! Come check it out!)

I cut the outside a second time out of neutral paper so that I had a place to write on the inside as I chose some awesome rocket ship paper for my card. It’s part of the Pinstripes collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park Paper.

Here is my completed card. I wrapped some ribbon around the handles and I used Cricut Design Space to add the words and I had my Cricut Explore Air write them with the pen.

I hope this inspires you and don’t forget to check back here tomorrow to start the hop! Hop on through to find my blog with another Father’s Day card!

Recipe:

(Lori’s Store) Lori Whitlock’s Shaped Card Trophy cut file

(Silhouette Store) Lori Whitlock’s Shaped Card Trophy cut file

Lori Whitlock for Echo Park Paper: Pinstripes: Rocket Ships (PS104005)

Lori Whitlock for Echo Park Paper: Pinstripes: 6×6 Paper Pad


Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card Tutorial with Courtney

Hey all! It’s Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts here with your Thursday tutorial!

Okay, so this is both a tutorial and a “what you can do with the product” tutorial so I am going to show you the traditional way this is put together, but I am going to then deviate slightly by making the stars into mini shakers.. so hang with me.

Before you start anything when you import to the Cricut Design Space software you want to right click and ungroup everything. Then you want to highlight a whole segment and “attach”. The reason you want to do this is so that the scoring lines actually end up in the correct places. It’s a weird funny “glitch” but if you don’t then the scoring lines think they want to cut out of black and even if you make them white they still will try to “cut” as a different object. This took me quite some “you-tubing” to figure out. 🙂

First of all I duplicated both the mirror looking layer and the background rectangle. The extra mirror looking layer is for the front of the card and the extra background rectangle is for acetate to make this a shaker-shadow box. Those are shown as a red piece and a black piece (not pictured) respectively on my screen shot. I’m so sorry I cannot get all of it into view! The Cricut software doesn’t put it on different mats it just puts it in different colors (or you choose them) and it divides it onto different mats accordingly. I LOVE it for saving me time, but it’s not super for pictures for a tutorial. 🙂

Step 1: I adhered the red polka dot panel (the extra mirror looking layer) to the front of the card.

Step 2: I adhered the red polka dot rectangle to the back middle of the card.

Step 3: Adhere the acetate to the back of the tan and white polka dotted panel.

Step 4: I added the foam dimensional tape around the stars and then added a second layer of tape to increase the thickness and then fill the stars with sequins.

Step 5: Put the cream layer upside down onto the foam dimensional tape. Line it up by using the top and the bottom line of the bottom panel.

Step 6: Put liquid glue on the skinny sides of the cream layer, the outside of the whole panel you have been working on, and the top and bottom of the “box”.

Step 7: Tuck the top and bottom of the box in between the cream layer and the rocket layer.

Step 8: Adhere the panels to the sides of the frame and decorate! 🙂

Recipe:

Lori’s Shop: Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card: Birthday

Silhouette Shop: Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card: Birthday

Lori Whitlock’s Pinstripes collection for Echo Park Paper

Pinstripes: Boy Bingo Cards (PS104010)

Pinstripes: Rocket Ships (PS104005)

Pinstripes: Alpha Stickers (PS104015)

Pinstripes: Adhesive Chipboard (PS104022)

Pinstripes: 6×6 Paper Pad

acetate

liquid glue

tape runner

Strawberry Box Card with Courtney

Well good morning!!! This is Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts here with another Mother’s Day card.

I made this one for my mother-in-law.  She teaches students and I wanted something fun that she could put on her desk and look at! 🙂 It’s also just fun and springy.

I won’t lie. I LOVE strawberry cartons. Is there anything that makes you want to go on a picnic more than wild strawberries!?! 🙂 Here you can see how much depth this has. I added different thicknesses and amounts of foam tape here and there to make things stand out, but I just love the clusters all over the place. This crate is just bursting with strawberry goodness!

I used both the Petticoats AND Pinstripes collections from Echo Park by Lori Whitlock for this card. The enamel dots are from the Petticoats collection. These collections are scrumptious for classic cards of all sorts.

Recipe:

Lori’s Shop: Box Card Strawberry Carton

Silhouette Store: Bow Card Strawberry Carton

Petticoats and Pinstripes for Echo Park by Lori Whitlock

Cricut Explore Air