CCR Flag Challenge

Good morning Crafty Friends,


Ready for another super fun challenge at the Creative Cutter Room?
Today's challenge theme is: God Bless America The Challenge: Create a new project that includes a flag


Link your project over at the Creative Cutter Room to be entered to win a prize!
And the prize is..

A Stamp Set!!
You have until June 29, 2011 to enter your Flag Project.


Here is the layout I made using a flag:

I know it isn’t a “FLAG” on my project but I wanted to do an interpretation of a “flag” for my layout. I used some beautiful shimmery paper from the Paper Temptress. My layout doesn’t have a bunch of Stickles and other “stuff” on it. The paper has such a nice appearance on its own :-)


Here is a close up shot to try and show you how the blue, red and gold all have shimmer on them. The white is just a plain piece of white cardstock. You can hopefully see the reflection of the shimmer. It is really pretty in person.

Here is a close up shot of the background paper. I wanted to try and show you how much texture it has. It is the 12 x 12 Skinny Columns paper from Paper Temptress. Again, it is so pretty all on its own. It’s just hard to capture it in a photograph.

Layout Recipe:
12 x 12 Skinny Columns from the Paper Temptress
Blue, Gold and Red Shimmer Paper From the Paper Temptress
Lacey Labels Cricut Cartridge
Old West Cricut Cartridge
Bear Topper Print N’ Cutz Pattern from PaperCraftingWorld.com
Mocha Mama Chalk Ink From Quick Quotes
White Signo Pen, Black Fine Tip Pen and Dry Decorator Chalks.



Joining us this week is  Mollie from Design Team 2!
Be sure to swing by the Creative Cutter Room Design Team members blogs for some additional inspiration!
Melin (Me)
Carri
Jenny
Mollie

Have a wonderful day!

CWC Everyday in May Day#3 National Teacher Day

Today May 3rd is National Teacher Day-Teacher Appreciation Week 

Date - First Tuesday in May / First Full week in May 

This is Gaby of GabyCreates.com  and I am so happy and honored to post here today!

Cooking With Cricut is having a Month long 

Blogoversary Celebration with postings and Giveaways 

Everyday during the Month of May - and Everyday 

there will be some kind of Celebration post! 

And being that I am a Teacher Librarian, I chose Today! 

I created this box for my niece to take to her teacher, Mrs. Thomas.

Cricut Cuts: 

Wrap It Up: Apple card at 2.75" and its layers 

Preserves: Apple layer [white] (hand cut at the bite's edge) 

Be sure to head over to Gaby’s Blog for more details and to check out all the wonderful creations this super talented paper crafter makes!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment!

Now for today’s Freebie: To help Gaby celebrate National Teacher’s Day-Week. I came up with this super cute Digital Stamp of a little “bookworm in an apple. The digital stamp will be black and white for you to color in and will be with the A+ Teacher Sentiment and with no sentiment.

Card Recipe: 

Finished card size: 5.5 x 5.5” – Bazzill Red(Kisses) Cardstock 

Patterned Paper from the DCWV Grade School Stack 

EK Success border punch, corner and circle punches 

Cricut Expression 

Lacey Labels 

Misc. Yellow Ribbon 

After coloring in the digi stamp I used a 3” circle punch to cut it out and then used my Cricut to cut out the red and yellow scalloped circles. Those came from the Lacey Labels Cartridge.

Here is a close up shot of the DCWV paper. I was trying to show how pretty it is. Some of the apples are pre-glittered for you and it is a nice heavier paper. Cardstock weight!!!

Here is a close up of the digital stamp. I am sorry, I am still a novice at using my Copics :-)

If you would like to snag the digital stamp you can click this link: HERE

I will have the cutting file version of this little cutie ready in the next day or so! Once again! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Be sure to come back tomorrow as it is a new challenge day here at CWC AND  DT Member Stacey will be bringing you Day #4’s TREAT!

Mother’s Day Gift Idea Hop Card and Vase

Good afternoon all,

We are having another wonderful mini hop over at Creative Cutter Room. Up for grabs is the wonderful Mother’s Day Bouquet Cartridge.

So be sure to head over to CCR and join in the fun!

Here is the criteria for the challenge. You need to incorporate the following in your projects.

Must Use the color Pink

Must use Ribbon

Must use Stitching (faux or real)

Must use two different types of flowers.

Here is my project

http://www.mypapercrafting.com/2011/04/ccr-mothers-day-gift-idea-hop.html

I am going to give this candle holder to my mom so I thought I would “dress it up” a bit. I made the flowers by using my 50 States Cartridges and the large rose was made using my Gypsy and welding some “leaves” together.

The card was made using the Beautiful Rustic Die Cut With A View Papers and the Lacy Labels Cartridge. The tag was cut at 4.5”

Here is a close up of the flowers. They started out as white and I glitter misted them and inked them.

Here is a shot of the card.

This is an angled shot to try and show the pretty glitter on the paper. The cut really well in your Cricut.

Be sure to also head over to the other Design Team Members

blogs and check out their wonderful work!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Melin

Last Day of Glittermania

Good morning friends. I wanted to share a quick post today to remind you today is the last day to enter our “Glittermania” Challenge. Show us your marvelous projects with all that wonderful bling!
Here is a layout I made using some …..GLITTER :-)

Here is a view of the complete layout.

I used the Snow Couple Kissing File from the Cold Hands Warm Heart Mini Collection File Release This Week. Snowy Delights Release. You can purchase it HERE.

I used some Ice Blue Chalk Ink to ink around their bodies and some Icicle Stickles to glitz them up just a bit.

Here is a closeup of the heart that I embossed and then lightly inked. I also used some Icicle Stickles to glitz it up and the snowflakes as well.
I also used the Lacey Labels Cartridge for the Swirl and Heart Frame
and the Lyrical Letters for the Scalloped Hearts on the top of the left page.
The snowflakes were some EK Success punches I have had for a while.
So don’t forget to enter our challenge. You have until Midnight est. tonight.
Up for grabs is the complete set of cutting files or digital stamps from the Cold Hands…Warm Heart Collection :-)

You can purchase these files individually or as a set. HERE
Thanks for stopping by…Be sure to come back tomorrow for our NEW CHALLENGE!

Day 11–25 Days of Cricut(Crafting) Holiday Fun, FREE Files

Good morning everyone and happy SATURDAY!  Boy we are in FULL Swing with the holidays!

Our little town is having it’s Christmas parade today, so we are going to head out and watch it….yes, I realize many of you live in an area where a parade is out of the question right now :-) Having been born and raised in a northern state, seeing Santa walking down the street, ringing his bell….and sweating profusely…lol...wasn’t part of my idea for Holiday fun….but you get used to your surroundings!

Okay, enough rambling, on to today’s projects.

Today Sheryl (Beanie) from our design team sent me a plethora of holiday stuff she has been working on….Talk about a little elf, bug-juiced on Cricky-roids….okay, my made up name for steroids….the Cricut version…lol…sorry starting to ramble again!

Anyway, here are some fabby projects to feast your eyes!

Some adorable cards featuring the print n’ cut technique from Make The Cut.

A super cute pull out tag.

And this scalloped – Poinsettia tag. You can visit Beanie’s Blog to see more of her wonderful creations.

Now for my project for today

I created these tags for a tag swap that I was a part of. I have never done anything like this before, 

so I was pretty excited. I can’t wait to see what tags I get back

Here is a close up of the tag. The cartridges I used:

• The Sentimentals Cartridge for the tag
• I did use my Gypsy to “hide” the holes in the tags
• The Lacey Labels Cartridge for the smaller snowflakes
• The Joys of The Season Cartridge for the large snowflake
• I used George and Basic Shapes Cartridge to cut the 2 circles at the top.
• I used some very old Basic Grey patterned paper for the top layer of the tag.
• I found the angel image on the net.
• The little frame around the image was just some cardstock that I punched at the top and bottom with an EK Success border punch.
• I inked all the pieces with my trusty Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink and the snowflakes were also lightly inked with Azurite Chalk Ink.
• I glued the circles down and then punched a hole at once and through all the layers with my Crop-I-Dile.
• Lastly I added ribbon at the top and used the Diamond and Champagne Stickles to glitz it up just a bit.

So now for today’s FREE files. I didn’t get a chance to make a sample tag from the files I created, but here is a picture of what the files look like.

Here is the link to the FREE cutting files. This includes the tag, the “picture frame” and the two types of snowflakes.

Here is the link to the rejoice pdf digi stamp

Here is the link to the picture. I think it is okay to share as I found it on the net. I wish I could give you the link, I downloaded a whole bunch of vintage clipart last year…oh gosh actually it was two Christmas's ago…man where is the time going! For some cards I had made. If anyone happens to know of the place, please let me know. I am all about giving credit where credit is due.  But I do know these images are really, really old, so I don’t even know if a copyright exists on them anymore.

As always, Thank you SO MUCH for taking your time to be a part of our blog. We appreciate you stopping by and sharing in our work. Hopefully you are inspired and blessed! Have a Cricutliciously Crafty Weekend!

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Freshmen Layout

Good morning Everyone!

Today is Day 2 of the Fantabulous Cricut Crawl! I am so super excited to be a part of this hop. It is my first ever :-) So to continue with the theme, I made this project. It is a layout of my DD on her first day of High School! She was so excited!

To create today's project, I used the following cartridges: Lacey Labels, Forever Young, Cursive 101, Cake Basics and my Gypsy.

Here is a view of the entire layout. I used the Lacy Labels cartridge to cut out the frame. The frame-label was cut at 8.5". I spritzed the frame with some crushed shells glimmer mist and inked the edges lightly with my Chestnut Roan chalk ink.

Here is a closeup of the title I made. I used the Cursive 101, Cake Basics and the Gypsy to weld.

Here is a closeup shot of the small flowers. You can kind of see the shimmer and depth in this shot. They are really pretty in person.

Here is a closeup shot of the large flowers.

To make the flowers: I started with flowers from the Forever Young Cartridge. I cut them in sizes starting at 1.75" and worked my way down to .75". I did them in layers of three. These were cut with plain white cardstock.

1. I ran the flowers through my cuttlebug using the Victorian embossing folder.
2. I spritzed them with some Fall Breeze Glimmer mist and then
3. Inked the edges with my Chestnut Roan chalk ink.
4. I layered and staggered them. Curled the edges and then dotted the centers with some Perfect Pearls.

Well, I think that covers it: Be sure to leave a comment on this post and yesterday's post for a chance to win a $20 Gift Certificate from Page-Kits.com. Also be sure to see yesterday's post so you can "Hop" your way through the Fantabulous Cricut "Crawl-Hop"!

If you would like the FREE Gypsy Freshman title I created: Click HERE.

Reminder: You will need the Gypsy, Cake Basics and Cursive101 to cut this file.