Throwing the basketball.

So I'm pretty proud of this card. My sister-in-law, who also has a cricut, and is very crafty, had her birthday the end of Mar, and we all know that giving something to someone who does the same thing is quite stressful. And I wanted to make this card special because it was a big birthday for her.

She plays basketball, and her # is 13. So I decided to make her a basketball card. The girl is from everyday paper dolls as is the basketball & hoop. The brick background is Scrapbook Sally paper that I drew the bricks onto and the floor is a SU! background stamp that I then scuffed on with the same stamp pad to fill in the color.

So the cool part of this card is the basketball. DH had the idea to have her throwing the basketball into the hoop. My idea had been to have her running to the court. That would've been easy-peasy. Throwing the basketball was not easy-peasy, and I was excited to try it. First I found the arc in Plantin Schoolbook. It's a parenthesis. :)

Using my gypsy, I calculated where the arc should be. I had it on a different tab from the girl and the hoop. I knew the dimensions of the card, so I put the girl and hoop on the mat where I would want them to go on the card, then on the other tab with the eye open on the girl/hoop tab, I put the arc where I wanted it (I could see the girl/hoop because the eye was open). I cut this twice, once on the Scrapbook Sally paper and once on white CS. I glued the pattern paper to the white CS to give it strength for the pennies cause this is a penny spinner card. I only cut this twice, because the calculations were correct. Yay for my gypsy!

The tricky part was the basketball stand. I did not think that the basketball would have to go through the white back of the stand to get to the net, so I glued it all together and ack! I had to pull it apart and manually cut the arc into the hoop stand, and then after some fiddling I had to add another pop-dot to the pennies otherwise the basketball would get stuck on the white stand instead of rolling into the hoop. I also took the arc part and glued it onto the blue background and the arc part that was white from the stand. This also caused issues with the penny getting caught spinning to the hoop. I needed to pop-dot that up 3 times. Yikes! I used a lot of pop-dots on this card.

But I love this card! I feel like it's a little masterpiece, and I gave it away.