QQ Project–Blessings

Good morning crafty friends,


Hope you’re having a wonderful day and getting ready for a wonderful weekend! I wanted to share a project I made today with Quick Quotes products.

Here is my project.

I love that if you look closely the paper already has some “words” on it that lend itself beautifully to the layout. Notice the Believe at the top right corner as well as the miracle & wonder on the bottom left? Fabulous, subtle touches! The quote on the bottom left is from the Babies, Kids & Family Itty BItty Box from Quick Quotes.

Here is a close up of the flowers and the apple flourish.

Layout Recipe

The Apples are from the: Celebrate With Flourishes Cartridge

The Blessings Title is from the: Inspired Hearts Cartridge

The Flowers are from the: Groovy Times Cartridge. I cut them at two different sizes for a total of four different sizes.

QQ Product Used

Midnight Confessions Powder Puff Chalk Ink pad to ink the edges of the apples and the flowers.

Savvy Davvy 300 Designer Paper from Quick Quotes

Savvy Davvy 200 Designer Paper From Quick Quotes (Front & Back)

Babies, Kids & Family Itty Bitty Box Quotes

Other Products Used

Bazzill Black Cardstock

MS Border Punch

EK Corner Punch

Design Notes:

After inking the flowers, I curled the petals to give them a dimensional look. I used the QQ designer paper for the flowers. The weight of the paper makes cutting them out super easy and helps the flowers retain their altered shape.

I used some pearlescent chalks from Pebbles Inc. to brush over the apples. It gives them a very soft shimmer that the photos just didn’t capture too well.

The layout format came from our last challenge  at Quick Quotes. While the challenge is over, collecting layout sketches and reusing them and flipping them is a great way to work on projects.

You can see what others did with this sketch by going the the post: HERE. BTW…you can reuse this sketch and join in the current challenge at Quick Quotes. It is a challenge for a one photo layout! How great is that! To get the challenge details: CLICK HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Be sure to come back tomorrow for another terrific project!

Have a wonderfully crafty day!

-Melin

Winners Announced:)

Welcome to Cooking with Cricut.

Today we would like to announce the winner of Challenge #16- Hearts and Flowers!  The winner of the Top Chef prize was chosen by Random Organizer.

The winner is... Paula- Craft With Bee.  Congratulations Paula:)

Paula created this sweet card:)  You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog.  As the winner Paula will receive  her choice of digi stamp or cutting file from Papercraftingworld.com.

Paula, please contact Madison at FunkyCards @Charter .net (no spaces) within two weeks to claim your prize.

The Top Three Chefs were chosen by the Cooking With Cricut Design Team.   Thank you all for taking time out of your busy Valentine's Day celebrations to cook up these fabulous entries.  Here are the Top Three Chefs. You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog. 

Glenda- Glenda's Cards

Heidi- Live for Scrappin'

Carri- Doubleclick Connections- AKA AbusyBee

This week at Cooking With Cricut we are EMBOSSING IT! You must design and create projects with something embossed.  Please include something cut from one of your cutting machines such as the Cricut:)  Once again you have until next Tuesday at midnight to post your projects.  One winner chosen at random will receive this new File Set from PaperCraftingWorld.com. (Either the Cutting Files or Digital Stamps!)

The Set includes:

Bear with Rolling Tote, I Heart Scrapbooking Title, Bear with Tools.

Digital Stamps will be slightly different . Sample images coming soon.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

Have a wonderful day!

~Madison - Prize Coordinator