Challenge #44: Bunny

Good morning, crafty friends!

Welcome to our birthday tribute to one fantastic wabbit . . . Happy 71st Birthday, Bugs Bunny!  The Design Team was challenged this week to incorporate a bunny into their projects.  Take it away, ladies . . . .

Stacey used the Baby Steps cartridge for this super sweet card.

Check out the details on her blog.

Madison used Kate's ABCs to create this adorable alphabet LO.

Make sure you click over to her blog to check out the details.

Maria Elena used the Christmas Cheer cartridge to create this fun layout.

Rush on over to her blog to see the particulars -- don't be late!

Make sure you head over to Jean's blog to see how she created this

cute layout using the ZooBalloo and Don Juan cartridges.

Karla created this precious card using the Simply Charmed cartridge.

Hop on over to her blog to see the recipe.

Jen used Everyday Paper Dolls and Doodlecharms to create this fun

birthday card.  Check out the details on her blog.

The Disney Classics cartridge was Roberta's go-to for this cute card featuring Thumper!

Make sure you hop on over to her blog and check out the details.

Gaby used Life's A Party to make this cute little pencil holder!

Make sure you head on over to her blog to see how she created it. 

Now it’s your turn, let’s see your creative, Cricut best! Remember our guidelines . . .

1. It must be a new project with a Cricut cut.
2. Post your project on your blog and include a link back to CookingWithCricut.com
3. And the best rule of all -- you MUST HAVE FUN!

An as always, thank you for joining us.  We appreciate it so much!

Day 8–25 Days of Cricut (Crafting) Holiday Fun and NEW CHALLENGE

Welcome to Day 8 of our 25 Days of Cricut (Crafting) Holiday Fun AND our New Challenge.

This week’s challenge was NO RED AND GREEN in your holiday project…That means, you can use red OR green but not together :-) Also, if you want to lose red and green all together, you can do that to!

Here is what the wonderful Design Team Members came up with!

Christel's Blog

Jennifer’s Blog

Michelle’s Blog

Madison’s Blog

Gaby’s Blog

Kristal’s Blog

Melin’s Blog

I used Joys of the Season Cartridge for the big snowflake

I used Christmas Cheer for the Holly leaves.

Please be sure to join us in the fun!  Add your image to the link below. If you don’t have an online blog, website or gallery, just email me at: melin(at)scrapbookeden.com and I will include your entries!

Here is Day 8 – 25 Days of Cricut (Crafting) Holiday Fun projects

This first one is created using the Paper Lace, Winter Woodland and My World Cartridges.

The “lace” background is from Paper Lace Cartridge, The Bells are From My World Cartridge and the holly leaves are from Winter Woodland.

Here is a close up shot of the bells and holly. I embossed the bells using my Cuttlebug and an embossing folder.

Here is a close up shot trying to show the shimmer on the lace. The picture doesn’t really show that I glimmer misted the lace with Iridescent Gold. Looks pretty in person.

Here is “My Version” I created the paper lace, bells and holly for this layout.

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Day 6–25 Days of Cricut (Crafting ) Holiday Fun FREE Files

Happy Monday crafters!

Hope you all had an enjoyable and productive holiday weekend. My neighborhood is looking so festive. Several neighbors have their outdoor decorations up and it looks so nice in the evening.

Today’s project is for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog. This week over at FCCB our challenge was all about gifts. We needed to make a gift or gift packaging.

So here is my take on the challenge:

I made this gift box and matching gift card holder. The base of the box and the gift card holder are made from one sheet of cardstock! Gotta love that! The directions for making these is below. I have also put the directions on a pdf document so you can easily download and save them :-)

Be sure to head over to FCCB and join in the challenge this week! Some wonderful prizes are up for grabs.  You can also get some more great holiday inspiration from the super talented design team!  GO HERE

For my box decorations:

• The French Horn is from the Quarter Note Cartridge.
• The Present is From Christmas Cheer
• The Rejoice Tag and For You Tag are digi stamps I created.
• I embossed the French horn and present with Gold Embossing powder. Simple yet really pretty.
• I made a simple “belly band” that slides of the gift card holder. This is just a .75” strip of paper wrapped around. Tight enough so it won’t slip, yet loose enough for the recipient to easily remove it.

So here are some directions for making this gift set. I have the original directions on my SCRAPBOOKEDEN.COM  so I am copying them over here for you today!

Bag and Gift Card Tutorial

Box Instructions

Supplies:

• Scor Pal or scoring blade or other scoring tool.

• 12 x 12 Cardstock

• Scissors

• Adhesive

• Circle Punch, Tag Punch or Other Punch as desired.

• Corner Rounder

• Bone Folder

• Patterned paper and embellishments as desired.

Step #1: Cut your cardstock 9” x 12”

Set the 3” strip aside. You will use this for making the gift card holder.

Step #2: With the 12” side of your cardstock across the top, score at 4”, 5-1/2”, 9-1/2” and 11”.

Step #3: With the 9” side of your cardstock across the top, score at 2”, 3”, and 8”        

Step #4: Cut out all the striped areas as shown in the diagram.

Step #5: With your scissors, cut on all the red lines. (Refer to diagram) When done properly your piece should look like the photo below. Note: photo is flipped and turned from the diagram...sorry for any confusion.

Step #6: Round corners on the two main wide flaps (This is optional).

Step #7: Using your Circle Punch, or key hole or tag punch or any desired, punch the holes for your handles. Do this step BEFORE you adhere your box together. 

You can line them up and do them at the same time so your holes match up.

Step #8: Apply adhesive to one of the large bottom panels.

Step #9: Crease all score lines with your bone folder and assemble your box.

Step #10: Decorate your box as desired.

Gift Card Holder

Step #1:  Taking your 3” x 12” piece of paper, score at 4”, 6” and 8”.  Crease all your folds with a bone folder.

Create a pocket in the center and adhere the outer edges.

Cut the middle fold. This is where the gift card will slide in and hold in place.

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This is a picture of the box with "My Version of a French Horn Cutting File".

Once again, thank you so much for taking the time to come by and share in a little holiday crafting fun with us. We sincerely appreciate it.  Please be sure to let all your crafting buddies know about our fun!  We are wanting to share this with as many crafters as possible!  Thank you so much!