January Challenge Winter Card and New Freebie

Happy New Year crafty friends. It’s a new year and new month. That means we are back to our monthly challenges over on the PCW design team blog. Please click the challenge tab for details on our challenge. Our challenge is always an “anything goes” challenge with an “optional” twist. This month’s optional twist is to use a snowflake and or snow. So to go with our optional twist I created this card.

Here’s a look at my completed card. The size was 5 x 6.5. I used some papers from the DCWV Sunday Afternoon Stack. The base is white cardstock. I didn’t have the right color of blue for my sentiment, so I decided to use my markers to color it. I then added some pearl accents to the centers of the snowflakes and in the top left corner.

I used one of the new pcw files, warm winter wishes quick card cut file set. This cut file set includes the finished png and jpg files of the card front. Perfect for printing out and hand cutting print n cut or for using with your digital and or other hybrid projects.

So to go with this month’s “optional twist” here are a couple of free snowflake cut files. It also includes the .png and .jpg files.

Free for the entire month of January. To download, it will say 1.00, but when added to the cart and you check out, it will be free.

CLICK HERE

Now it’s your turn to enter our challenge. Simply add your project to the inlinkz link on the challenge blog post HERE. One lucky, randomly drawn winner will receive a 10.00 gift certificate to PaperCraftingWorld.com

Well, again, that covers it for today. Until the next time,

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Easy Pazzles Pen Tool Cards

Hello crafty friends,
Melin here with you today. Sharing some quick, easy and cute cards with you. All you need is your pen tool, some pens and a few files from the craft room.

I started by using the flower frame, flower 4, flower 5 and journaling butterfly single stroke files from the craft room. I edited the frame just a bit. Combined the flower files and added the butterfly to the top right corner. I then used a font on my computer for the sentiment. I did create two extra outlines once I had my design. One for cutting and one for making a mat. I used some fine sharpie pens with my pen tool. I just made sure that the file had the corresponding colors for each color I used. Once my Inspiration did all the "drawing", I switched back to my blade and cut my design out. I then assembled my cards. Super easy and great to have on hand.

Supplies Used For This Project

Pazzles Inspiration Vue	Pazzles Pen Tool	DCWV Sunday Afternoon Stack
Craft Room Flower Frame	Craft Room Flower 4 & 5	Craft Room Journaling Butterfly
May Arts Burlap Cord	May Arts Ric Rac	White Cardstock
Kraft Cardstock	Bitty Sparkles	EZ Dots Runner

Additional Supplies

Mark Roberts Gems

Sharpie Ultra Fine Point Marker-Pens

Super quick and easy! Be sure to head over to the Pazzles craft room and check it out. They have so many craft room files and all of the files are in SVG format so they will work with any SVG compatible cutter!

As always, thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your crafty time with me. Until the next time,

Treat Boxes and Freebie

Happy Saturday crafty friends,

Hope you’re weekend has been a good one so far. Today I am sharing a couple of really cute treat boxes I made with files from PaperCraftingWorld.com. First up:  


Candy Corn Treat Box

Here is my Candy Corn Treat Box. I used some wonderful patterned papers from the DCWV Sunday Afternoon (Chevron) and Baby Girl (Orange Squares) Stacks. Along with some American Crafts White Textured cardstock. I used my Sakura black fine tip pen to do the faux stitching around the outer edge.

Here is a side view of the handle. It is designed to look like smaller versions of the candy corn attached together. I thought that was such a cute idea as opposed to just a regular handle.

Here is a top shot showing the handle. When layering the pieces of the handle together, you want to use a good strong adhesive to allow for the curve of the papers.

Here is a close up of one of the free printable tags from the Tag set offered by PCW. You can head over to the PCW  design team blog and pick up the link to get yours. Don’t delay as they are only available for a week and then a new freebie is available. A new freebie goes up every Friday.

Pumpkin Box

Here is my second treat box. A cute little Pumpkin shaped box. I used some more of the fabulous orange patterned paper from the DCWV Baby Girl Stack and for the green leaf and handle, I used a pretty green patterned paper from the DCWV Cotton Bloom Stack. On this side I used one of the nested layers and inked the edges with my Sunset Ink pad from CTMH Adventure Mini Ink Pad Set. I also used another one of the printable tags from the freebie set. I added an orange eyelet and threaded some burlap cord from May Arts through. I inked the stem with some of my Saddle Ink Pad and then edged the leaf and vine piece with my New England Ivy Ink Pad. I used my black fine tip pen to make some faux stitching around the edges of both pumpkin layers. I finished off this side with a pretty black with white polka dot ribbon bow.

Here is a view of the other side of the pumpkin box. The cut file includes nesting layers of the pumpkin shape as well as cuts for this cute face. Once again I inked the stem and vine as well as the face. For the face, I used my Sunset Ink Pad from the Adventure Mini Ink Pad Set from CTMH

Here is a side shot of the handle. I inked the edge of it with my New England Ivy Ink Pad and then added a green matching brad with some layered circle and scallop punch cut outs.

Both boxes come out fairly good sized. the boxes measure approximately 2 1/4 (2 1/5)  x 4 x 3. Several small candies fit nicely in each one.

Tag Printables

Supplies Used for these boxes

Pazzles Inspiration	Candy Corn Box Cut File	Pumpkin Box Cut File
DCWV Baby Girl Stack	DCWV Cotton Bloom Stack	DCWV Sunday Afternoon Stack
CTMH Enchantment Mini Ink Pad Set	CTMH Adventure Mini Ink Pad Set	CTMH Basics Mini Ink Pad Set
May Arts Burlap String	Sakura Black Fine Tip Pen

Additional Supplies Used

Candy Corn Box

White Cardstock, Misc. Polka Dot Ribbon, Twin and Misc. Button

Pumpkin Box

Yellow cardstock, Doodlebug Eyelet and Doodlebug Brad

7/8, 1”  Circle Punches and 1 1/4 Scallop punch.

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simply add both to your cart and get 50% off your purchase. 
That is like buying one box and getting the other free!

Thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with me.