A few cards

Unfortunately, these cards demonstrate my ineptitude with a camera.  If I wasn't so lazy I would retake take them in better lighting but.... Anyway, this is a bulk upload of cards done over a few months.  

These cards were made using the Cricut cartridge 'Once Upon a Princess'.  The cartridge gives you 3 dolls and then lots of costumes to dress them in, very sweet.  And what self respecting princess would be without a tea party, unicorn, ice-cream, cupcakes, balloons, castle, crown and wand; you will find lots of these on the cartridge too :) 

This card isn't really finished, it needs a sentiment but I will leave it as is until I know who it is for.

I used the Provocraft Swiss Dots embossing folder to emboss the card base.  I love Swiss Dots, they are so cute that I hate to cover them with excessive embellishments. I made the flower from felt.

I used Michelle Powell's 'Iris Folding' book published by Search Press to make this card.   It has lots of really nice designs with the templates and papers to recreate the designs in the back of the book - I had never really fancied trying iris folding until I saw this book at a local craft store and had a quick flick through.  I will have to take some pictures of the landscapes I have made using designs in this book; they are so different to anything I had seen before.  

Again with the Swiss Dots.  Not sure why this cupcake has wings, maybe it's Angel cake :) The base card is Core'dinations with the dots lightly sanded over. 

I have no idea what occasion calls for a card with laundry on it but I really wanted to do these cuts from the Country Life Cricut cartridge.  Maybe I will present it to my other half with my bill enclosed for all his washing I have done over the years :)   But then if he charges for DIY....?

I did this cut with my Slice.  It is the 3rd Slice machine due to the other 2 breaking within weeks of getting them.  I was tempted to sell this latest replacement on Ebay whilst it was still NIB but temptation got the better of me and I used it.  As I now have a Cricut E2 I have hardly used the Slice; maybe this way it will last for years before it breaks :) ha ha.