Berry Sweet Card

It's challenge time again, over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog!!!  This week the challenge is "Cool Treats," you create a yummy, cool, summer treat project.  Hop on over to FCCB to link up your project.  This weeks sponsor, CRI-Kits, was nice enough to let us use their product for our DT project.  I have to say that I had never used a pen or marker in my Cricut before, but now I'm hooked.  I love that I was able to draw my watermelon and title, and cut them out exactly.  The biggest reason that I don't use many stamps is that I hate having to cut the out, this gave me the best of both worlds.  I still got to color it in, but didn't have take all that time cutting all the little bity pieces out.  It's wonderful!!!

For my Berry Sweet card, I drew and cut out the watermelon and title using the Cricut and the CRI-Kit black pen.  Then I colored them in using my BIC markers (like I said, I don't stamp much, so I don't have any Copics).  Then I used my Cuttlebug and the Spots and Dots folder to emboss the background paper, used some chevron washi tape to add a border and some pink cardstock to finish the background.  I added the watermelon to the background then added the title using foam tape.  I really like how it turned out and I learned a new technique that I am sure to use a lot more in the future.

Materials Used:
Cricut: Simply Charmed
CRI-Kits: Black gel pen and holder in my Cricut
Pens: BIC pen in Forest Green and Pink Flamingo
Washi Tape: Recollections
Paper: Recollections cardstock
Cuttlebug: Spots & Dots embossing folder

Don't forget to head over to the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and link up your "Cool Treats" project, for a chance to win you own set of CRI-Kits - you will love all the things you can do with them!!!

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