Cartridge Showcase: Campin' Critters

Hey Everyone and welcome to today's Cartridge Showcase!


Chef Larelyn from Handmade From My Heart  has really cooked up some amazing projects for you today using the Campin' Critters cartridge! I think that this post will inspire you to get out you stuff and create! So let's hop right into it!


Hello My Crafty Friends.

I'm Larelyn, bringing you another cartridge showcase featuring a cartridge that will be perfect for your summer and/or vacation layouts. CAMPIN CRITTERS is an adorable cartridge full of fun characters. Each base image has layers that are really easy to assemble. The cartridge also has badges and signs. Two special features are complete backgrounds - forests, mountains, lakes, desert and winter (great for scrapbook pages), and 3-D constructions - tents, a backpack, and a journal.

Today I'm sharing a two-page layout that I created for Crops of Luv. You can see every feature found on this cartridge within the layout. 

I used the bear to decorate a calling card basket for our Circle Meet-up in Northern California. I used my Gypsy to alter the sign to say "Please Feed the Bears."

 I'm also including one of the 3-D tents which was so easy to construct!

I am also showcasing an example of a badge, which could be used so many ways: a luggage tag, a nametag, using different badges to make a board game, on cards - well, you get the idea.

Now, are you ready to get scrapping those summer fun pages?

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

~Larelyn


What fantastic projects! You really did showcase every aspect and special feature Camin Critters possesses! We am so glad you are on the Cooking With Cricut Design team with us! You are so creative and have loads of talent! Be sure to head over to Larelyn's Blog to leave her some bloggy love! 



Be sure to come back tomorrow as Chef Madison announces the winners from our last challenge. Plus we will be headed into a weekend of some more great crafty inspiration.


Don't forget about our two current challenges: Our Die Cut and or Stamp Challenge and our Cricut Challenge! Just click the links at the top to join the fun!


Thank you for making us a part of your crafty time! We appreciate you all so much!

~Court and the rest of the CWC Design Team

Guest Designer Tuesday

Good morning Crafty friends,
Welcome to our Guest Designer Tuesday post. Today we have another one of our fabulous friends showcasing her talents. If you follow our blog at all and see some of the entries, you will have undoubtedly come across the wonderful Paula Bee’s wonderful designs! Here is Paula’s post:

"I am so honored to be a guest designer at Cooking with Cricut!  They have
such great challenges and an amazing design team.  I can't say how much it
means to me to have been asked to join them for a day.

I started scrapbooking when I was in high school.  However, I really got
into it when I got my first Cricut, the baby bug, back when they first came
out.  I upgraded to the Expression when it came out and I now have an E2.  I
also have a Gypsy, which I love to use....who can resist being able to weld
and manipulate images?!

I currently live in the St. Cloud area in Minnesota.  I moved here from
Alaska, where I lived for two years.  My husband and I spent a lot of time
traveling around Alaska, so a lot of my scrapbook pages feature my Alaskan
vacations.

For my project I used Campin' Critters...one of my new favorite cartridges.
I just love the images on this cartridge.  I created this 12"x12" double
layout, which shows some pictures of a trip to Valdez.  The moon and sun are
both cut at 3," the bear at 3 1/2" and the wolf at 4," and all are from
Campin' Critters.  I used Camp Out to cut the picnic table and Pooh Font Set
to cut the title.

My second project is a birthday card, actually two, for my cousins. They
are both turning 30 on the 30th of the months they were born in, so it will
be their golden birthdays.  My mom requested a fun golden birthday card for
them.  I used the bigfoot cut, which is one of my favorites on this
cartridge.  I then used Birthday Bash for the letters and used some gold
Stickles on them."




Please head over to Paula’s Bees fabulous blog for some more great inspiration!

Thank you Paula for being a part of Cooking With Cricut! We appreciate you so much!

Make sure to come back tomorrow when we reveal our new challenge!

The CookingWithCricut.com team!

S’mores

Good morning Crafty friends!

Hope you’re all enjoying the summer. It feels like summer is winding down as we get ready to send the kids back to school. It is another wonderful Wednesday here at CWC! It’s a new challenge!

This week’s challenge is all about the delightful summer dessert…S’MORES! Who doesn’t love a great S'More! I must admit, it has been YEARS…since I have had one!

Your challenge this week is to make a project with a S’More OR a project with the elements of a S’More…i.e. Chocolate, marshmallows…well you get the idea!

Here for your inspiration is what the design team came up with!

Chef Jean

Created this adorable layout using: Create A Critter, Gypsy Wanderings, Campin’ Critters and 3 Birds on Parade Cartridges. Be sure to head over to Jean’s blog for more details!

Chef Roberta

Roberta created this adorable “Snack Pack” using her Campin’ Critters Cartridge. Be sure to head over to Roberta's Blog and get details on this sweet, sweet idea!

Chef Melin

Melin created this cute layout using the Simply Sweet and Camping Out cartridges.

Here is a close up of the S’More guy that I pieced together using all Cricut Cartridge cuts.

Here is another layout Chef Melin created using one of the “elements” of a S’More…Chocolate!

Here is a view of the entire layout.

Here is a close up shot of the little bear with his chocolate covered banana split.

Here is a close up of the title using some chocolate kisses in place of o’s.

 Here is one more layout Melin created with a "S'More" theme. This will be a page kit at PaperCraftingWorld.com

Here is the entire layout.

Here is a close up of the little bear roasting his "mallow".

Here is the little "S'More" guy. I used the Cricut for the lettering. The rest are SVG files I created.

Now it’s  your turn! Let’s see your wonderfully sweet S’Moriffic projects!

Here are our few simple guidelines:

1. Must be a new project for this challenge. Please no back dated posts/projects.

2. Must include a “Cricut” cut somewhere – somehow.

3. Must post a link to your post and not just the blog.

4. Must HAVE FUN!!!

Thank you so much for participating with us! We are looking forward to seeing your wonderful creations!  Have a super sweet rest of the week!

The CWC design team!