Pig Shaped Card

I have a co-worker that loves pigs.  She has pictures of them all over her cube.  I wanted to make her a cute little card . . . just to make her smile . . . this is what I came up with

I used the pig image found in the Create A Critter 2 Cricut cartridge.  I used my Gypsy and placed two of the same shadow cuts right next to each other, and welded them at the left side of the pigs head to turn it into a pig shaped card.

I placed a couple of scraps of blue paper behind the openings for the eyes, and the with a marker I put the black dots inside of the eyes.  For an extra little touch I added a gold flower embellishment from Little B next to the pigs ear. 

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Simple Thank You

Making a Thank You card does not need to be an elaborate or time consuming project.  It just needs to let someone know that you appreciate what they did for you.

For this card I cut a standard 8 1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock in half and folded it over to make the base of the card.  Then I cut a brown polka dot patterned paper slightly smaller than the front of the card.  I have a paper stack that includes one sheet that is divided into journal or message card sizes, and there was one with an anchor on it.  I knew that the person I was giving this card to loved anchors so I cut just that portion of the paper out, rounded the corners, and added it to the card.  Then I cut the word Thanks out of the same color cardstock as the base.

Simple. Quick. But it got the point across.

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