Cartridge Showcase: Pagoda

Cartridge Showcase time and we have the amazing Janet from My Cards For You here with some of her wonderful projects from the Pagoda cartridge.  

I have had the Pagoda cartridge for ages and have not used it very much so I thought this would be a great opportunity to do some projects with it. The cartridge has some great cutting files on it as you can see in this image.

Time has been a bit precious lately and I have only done five projects for this showcase, but I have had a lot of fun exploring the cartridge.

The first three projects are cards that I made using different elements of the cartridge. The first used the curtain cuts on page 70 of the handbook. I cut the layers of the curtain to fit onto the card. To finish the card, I cut the Celebrate and Kanji Word from page 27.

The second card features the dragon from page 34. I layered it on top of some lovely japanese paper and added a black ribbon and some bling.

For this card, I used the Card feature with the flower on page 57.

I cut the card in black, then layered some vellum underneath the cutout part of the front of the card.I cut the flower and the background and added some bling to the centre of the card. To finish, I added some squiggled lines with a white pen around the edge of the card and some more bling in the corner. Very quick card!

The fourth project is a simple bookmark made using the top layer of a lantern tag (page 26) which I backed with japanese paper then some gold card and added a ribbon to the top. 

The final project is a lantern or tealight holder that I made using the birdcage from page 62. I cut four bottom layers in black and four top layers in red. Using the Cricut Classroom, I added a tab to the side of the bottom layer so I could join them together into a square. I cut a square for the base (for a battery tealight to sit on) and joined it all together. I added vellum to the sides of the tealight holder to create windows.

To decorate the lantern, I cut trees from pages 44 and 45 and added them to the sides of the lantern.

I hope you get some ideas on using this cartridge from this showcase. I was definitely challenged by this one, but pleased with the outcomes!

What a fabulous showcae this week.  Please go visit Janet at her blog My Cards For You to see even more amazing things.  Have a great week everyone and come back tomorrow for mor fun.

Charlotte

Explore Layouts Card, Free Cutting File

Happy Saturday all!
Hope you're enjoying yourself today! I wanted to share a couple of new kits we've come up with as well as a card with a FREE cutting file.

Here is a view of our Explore Kit (Girl Version).

I used the Live Simply Cartridge.

Here is a view of our Explore Kit(Boy Version).

Here is my AVANICO kit. I used the Pagoda Cartridge.

If you're interested in purchasing any of these kits,

be sure to visit our online kit store, Page-Kits.com.

You'll find these kits as well as others :-)

Here is a quick card I made using a dressform cutting file I created.

If you check out Thursdays post, you'll see another dressform cut file I created. This one here was one that I had started with. Those of you that design your own cutting files know how you start with one version and can end up with another. Well this one was one version from along the way. I have had a TON of requests about selling the other one. So I decided to pull this one back out and make it a little more user friendly :-)

I decided to make this file free for one week only!

So here's how to get this FREE dressform cutting file :-)

1. You MUST sign up for my newsletter....NO EXCEPTIONS.
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This file is available in KNK, GSD, WPC and SVG formats.
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Melin