Cheshire Cat Valentine Card

Cricut has just released the Disney Classics cartridge. The cartridge contains several images from Alice In Wonderland including the Cheshire Cat. I received my cartridge yesterday and couldn't wait rip open the box and start working on a project. I just had to incorporate the Cheshire Cat, with his cool smile, into a Valentine's Day card for my husband. I chose Je pense a toi (I'm thinking of you) for the greeting because it just seemed to fit the character and it gave me another opportunity to use my French.



Directions for Cheshire Cat Valentine Card:

Cricut Disney Classics cartridge
Light grey, pale pink, dark pink, black, yellow, dark purple, medium purple, dark green and white card stock
Wilton heart shaped lace doily
Pink dotted sheer ribbon
Recollections pearls
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder and embossing machine
Tattered Angels Pearl Glimmer Mist
K & Company Valentine Felt Roses
Got Flowers? pink and cream colored flowers
Martha Stewart Lace Heart border punch and Rose Leaf paper punch
Foam backed mouse pad
Dry embossing stylus (ball tip at each end)


1. Fold a piece of light grey card stock in half lengthwise and crease using a bone folder.

2. Cut a piece of medium purple card stock 4 1/2 inches wide by 4 1/4 inches high and emboss it using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. Lightly sand the embossed surface to highlight the dots.

3. Glue the heart shaped doily 1/2 inch from the right edge of the embossed card stock.

4. Load the Disney Classics cartridge into the Cricut. Place a piece of black card stock on the Cricut mat and cut Cat 2 at 3 inches. Press the shift key and cut the top of the cat's head out of dark purple card stock. Press Layer 1 and cut the tail, ears, paws and mouth out of pale pink card stock. Press the shift and Layer 1 keys and cut the mouth out of white card stock. Cut the eyes out of yellow card stock by pressing Layer 2. Press Layer 2 and shift to cut the stripes out of dark pink card stock. Load pale pink card stock into the Cricut and press Layer 3 to cut the alternating stripes. Assemble the cat.

5. Spray the cat lightly with Glimmer Mist and let it dry. Attach foam dots to the cat and position him to the left edge of the heart.

6. Use the Martha Stewart Lace Heart border punch and pale pink card stock to make a heart border. Glue the border to the bottom edge of the embossed card stock. Attach the Recollections pearls to each corner of the embossed card stock.

7. Apply foam dots to the back of the embossed card stock. Position the piece 2 inches from the bottom edge of the card.

8. Type the Valentine greeting of your choice in Microsoft Word using the Minya Nouvelle font at 18 and print it out. Cut a tag out of dark purple card stock and glue the greeting to it. Glue the hearts left over from the punched border to the top and the bottom of the tag. Tie a small piece of pink dotted sheer ribbon to the end of the tag. Tuck the end of the tag under the embossed card stock and glue in place. Glue three small hearts left over from the heart border next to the cat's head.

9. Punch six leaves out of green card stock using the Martha Stewart Rose Leaf paper punch. Lightly fold each leaf in half lengthwise. Turn a foam mouse pad upside down to expose the foam backing. Place a leaf on the mouse pad and use a stylus to lightly press veins into the leaf.

10. Attach a felt rose to the bottom center of the card. Arrange the off white and pink flowers around the bottom of the card, alternating pink and off white. Glue the flowers in place. Glue the leaves under the edge of the flowers. Attach a Recollections pearl in the center of the flowers.

Alice In Wonderland

Since Alice In Wonderland is one of my favorite books, I decided to do a project devoted to Alice. The inspiration for this card came from the chapter where Alice encounters a caterpillar sitting on mushroom smoking a hookah. The caterpillar tells Alice that one side of the mushroom will make her taller and the other side will make her shorter. Since I never really liked the hookah smoking caterpillar I decided not to include him in the card. Instead I chose to surround Alice with the mushrooms representing the many choices that she faces.






Here are the directions for the card:

1. Cut a piece of patterned paper approximately 7 1/2 inches by 5 inches. Cut a piece of purple card stock approximately 6 inches by 3 1/2 inches. Fold a piece of 8 1/2 by 11 inch card stock in half and glue the patterned paper on top. Next center the purple card stock on top of the patterned paper and glue into place.

2. Using the largest die in the Spellbinders Nestabilities scalloped rectangles set cut a large rectangle out of lavender card stock.

3. Emboss the rectangle with the Cuttlebug Paisley embossing folder. Highlight the paisley images with purple chalk. Cut a piece of pink sheer ribbon and attach it to the bottom edge of the rectangle. Center the rectangle on top of the purple card stock and glue in place.

4. Using the Cricut Once Upon a Princess cartridge set the size dial to 4 inches and cut Princess 2 out of cream card stock (this is the doll base). Then press the shift key and cut Princess 2 again (this is the doll top). Press the layer key and cut the hair out of yellow card stock.

5. Press the Dress 1 key and cut a dress out of blue card stock. Press the shift key and Dress 1 to cut the apron out of white card stock. Press Dress 1 again and cut the dress out of white card stock. Select the Layer key and then Dress 1 to cut the headband out of black card stock.

6. Assemble the doll by gluing the doll top over the doll base. Glue the hair to the doll and then glue the bangs over the hair. Glue the headband to the hair. Using markers color in the eyes and the mouth. Cut off the blue stockings from the lower edge of the dress and replace them with the white stockings from the white dress. Glue the white apron on top of the blue dress. Using a black marker color in the shoes. Attach the doll to the embossed rectangle just above the ribbon. Make a bow with the pink ribbon and glue to the upper left corner of the embossed rectangle.

7. Using the Cricut Paisley cartridge set the size dial to 2 inches and cut Mushroom 1 out of bright blue card stock. Press Layer 1 and Mushroom 1 to cut the mushroom top out of bright pink card stock. Press the shift key and Layer 2 to cut the mushroom stem out of green card stock. Glue the mushroom pieces together. Attach a small paper flower with a brad to the center of the mushroom top.

8. Cut Mushroom 4 at 2 1/2 inches out of bright pink card stock. Press the shift key and Layer 1 to cut the mushroom top out of orange card stock. Press Layer 1 to cut the mushroom stem out of bright green card stock. Press Layer 2 to cut the flower out of bright blue card stock. Assemble the mushroom and glue the pieces in place.

9. Set the size dial to 2 inches and cut Mushroom 4 out of purple card stock. Cut the mushroom top out of bright green card stock, the flower out of bright blue card stock and the stem out of orange card stock ( glue only the circles to the stem of the mushroom). Assemble the mushroom and glue the pieces in place. Set the size dial to 1 1/2 inches and cut the stem out of bright green card stock, the top out of bright blue card stock and the flower out of bright pink card stock. Assemble the mushroom and glue the pieces in place.

10. Attach the mushrooms to the bottom of the card using raised glue dots. Glue a paper flower to the upper right hand corner of the card. Glue a butterfly button to the center of the flower. Using bright green card stock and the Martha Stewart leaf punch, punch three leaves. Highlight the edges of the leaves with green ink. Glue the leaves just under the flower petals. Using chalk highlight Alice's face and dress.