Garden of green

I had an idea to do something along the lines of the pink card I inked last week...

... It did not turn out the way I invisioned it, but it is kind of nice.

I used K&Co paper for the background and cut all the die cuts from cream colored cardstock with Cricut cartridges. I inked the die cuts with TH Distress Inks. (Barn Door, Bundled Sage, & Frayed Burlap)

Recipe for Cricut carts:

Home Accents

Frame cut at 8 inches

Accent Essentials

Flower (p56- shift) cut in 1/4 inch increments from 1 in. to 3in.

 2 Leafy S-shaped flourishes (p48) cut at 5 in.

5 Leaves (p 72) ;1 was cut at 2 1/2 in.; 4 were cut at 2 in.

Scalloped tag cut with SCAL file

Still not quite sure how to get the look I was thinking of. I guess I will have to keep playing with it :)

Getting bugged

The Cooking with Cricut challenge this week is embossing. I am also entering it in Creative Sisters Monday Challenge over at Linda's Creativity Here is a card I made using the following:
Doodle Charms Cricut cartridge
Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge
Swiss dots Cuttlebug embossing folder
Seeing spots Cuttlebug embossing folder
D'vine swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder

Here is the recipe:

Plantin' Schoolbook
1 grass strip cut at 2 1/4 in light green
1 grass strip (shadow) cut at 2 1/4 in dark green
1 parentheses (italic) cut at 2 1/4 (I only used one of them)

Doodle Charms
1 flower cut at 2 1/4 in yellow
1 flower center cut at 2 1/4 in black
1 set of flower leaves (shift) cut at 2 1/4 in light green
1 set of flower leaves (shift, shadow) cut at 2 1/4 in dark green
1 ladybug (shadow) cut at 2 1/2 in black
1 ladybug (shift) cut at 2 1/2 in red