Brandy's Cricut Journey

 I wanted something pretty fast and easy for today's card.  I had the disastrous burn notice on my instant pot and had to fool around with dinner quite a bit, so I didn't have much time and I didn't want to spend too much time thinking. For this card, I cut a kind of pocket that my note would go inside.  I used the CTMH Artfully sent cartridge and cut this butterfly pocket at 5 inches.  Bonus, there are lots of little butterflies left over to use on other cards or I can just add them into an envelope like confetti.  Before gluing the pocket together, I taped in a piece of patterned paper to make the butterflies all look different colors. I picked up this paper at the dollar tree. It is thin, so not good for the base of a card, but I thought it looked great here.  I scored where it is marked and I realized that I am not sure which direction you are supposed to put the paper in for the scoring or which way you are supposed to fold after scoring. I must have d...

 This one will need some more tinkering.  I have several cartridges that have rainbows in them, but they are only four colors, did no one teach Cricut ROY G BIV? The one that had the most colors was from the groovy times cartridge on page 63 at 1.25 inch relative. So I went ahead and started there.  I used the shadow as the purple color, but I had to offset the rainbow on it to get the rainbow part correct and it kind of makes the clouds look a bit off.  Besides that, it was a little finicky trying to get all of the rainbow parts lined up. they had little cut marks, but I felt that made it a little harder for me.  I ended up starting with the blue, then the clouds, then lined up the colors in order green, yellow, orange, and red. I finished by adding the purple shadow. For the inside, I used the CTMH artfully sent cartridge on page 50 at 5 inches (which I had to cut down, next time I will make it 4.5). I am planning on filling the card/envelope with rainbow and ...