Cartridge Showcase: Serenade

Good morning crafty friends,

I wanted to share a couple of layouts I created for a Cartridge Showcase that I wasn't able to get done in time last week. Had a pesky little thing like TAXES to take care of lol!
The Cartridge is the Serenade Lite Cartridge.

Natural Beauty

View of the entire layout. I created the cute little bears from cuts on the Serenade cartridge. 

The flowers and stems were also from the Serenade Cartridge. The Natural Beauty was from 

the Give A Hoot Cartridge as the Serenade cartridge doesn’t have any titles or fonts.

Close up view of the little bear topper.

close up of the cute little flowers with their dew drop gem centers.

Close up of the cute little bear sitting down and holding his vase of flowers.

Closer look at the flowers and foliage. I layered the flowers and used a pop dot so that 

the photos will slide under any overhang easily.

Close up of the natural beauty title. This title came from the Give A Hoot cartridge. 

Unfortunately the Serenade cartridge doesn’t have any titles or font on it.

Products Used

DCWV: Fresh Floral Stack for Patterned Paper

Bazzill: Lavender, Purple, White and Green Cardstock

Cricut Serenade and Give A Hoot Cartridge

Stickles, Dew Drops

Various Chalks, Inks and Pens

Sweet Spring

View of the entire layout. Again all the die cuts are from the Serenade cartridge 

with the exception of the title. That came from the Hello Kitty Font cartridge.

Here is a closer look at the cute little bear sitting and holding her flower.

Here is a closer look at the little bear standing up and holding her flower pot with flowers.

I always like to wrap one of the larger photo mats with a ribbon or extra embellishment. 

I think it adds a nice touch and makes one of the pictures a focal picture

Here is a closer look at some of the butterflies. I cut the base layer in plain white cardstock 

and then again in patterned paper. I glued the patterned paper to the base to give it more strength. 

Then I cut the corresponding decorative top piece in white and stickled that.

Here is a closer look at some of the pretty Prima flowers I added. 

I used an EK Punch for the little decorative flourishes.

Finally, a closer view of the little butterflies and the the lettering for the word “sweet” on the title.

Products Used For This Layout

Bazzill: Purple, Teal, Hot Pink and White Cardstock

KI Memories: KI Fancy Free Paper Pad Papers

Cartridges: Serenade and Hello Kitty Font(Title only)

Prima Flowers

Misc. Ribbon, Stardust and Yellow Stickles

Various Chalks, Inks and Pens

 Both of these are going to be for sale as either a

“Buy It Now” on Page-Kits.com or for

Bidding on EBay.

In true “Melin” fashion, I continue on my quest to “find” a cute little 

“Cartridge Critter” in each cartridge I work with.  

Now for some past design inspiration found here.

This is a layout I created a couple of years ago using this cartridge 

for the lovely birds and birdcages.

Beautiful card by Designer Charlotte

The Bird and Bird Cage and Branches are from the Serenade Cartridge.

Pretty Card by Past Designer Natt

The Butterfly and the flower are from the Serenade Cartridge.

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Scrapbook Page by Past Designer: Heather

The Clouds are from the Serenade Cartridge.

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And lastly a card I created. The sweet branch is from the Serenade cartridge.

Thank you once again for stopping by and making MyPaperCrafting.com a part of your crafty time. I sincerely appreciate it.

Be sure to come back by tomorrow for more projects and design team inspiration!

Happy Crafting,

-Melin

Digi Desserts Fridaze

Digi Desserts Fridaze

It's officially spring and time for another round of digital creations. The design team gals have some fantastic projects for you today. The winner of last week's Link-Up party will be announced at the end of this post along with a link to this week's FREE digi.

Tutorial For Making Paper Rose: HERE

PCW Digi Used: Easter Blessings (This week's freebie-see below)

Papers: DCWV Fresh Floral Stack
CTMH Butterfly Stamps

Larelyn's Blog

PCW digi used: Bear As Gardener

Sandy's Blog

PCW digi used: Bunny in Overalls

Brenda's Blog

PCW digi used: Chicky n Egg with Basket

Suzanne's Blog

PCW digis used: Chicky n Egg with Basket and Bunny He Loves Me

Lynden's Blog

PCW digi used: Roses Two-Double

Here's this week's FREE image:

Click to Download

NOTE: the image will show a price of $1.00
but when you check out, it will be free during this link up.

Winner - Winner - Winner!!!!

Thank you, thank you to our crafty friends who linked up to our Digi Desserts Fridaze Post.

We always enjoy your projects.

We hope you'll make DDF a regular stop on your Friday challenge list!

Our Digi Desserts Fridaze March 15th winner is

Lisa D. 

Congratulations, please contact Larelyn at

lsuesart@aol.com

to choose and receive the single digital image of your choice from PCW.

Be sure to grab your top dessert button and strut your stuff on your blog. You can grab the button above, or get the code HERE

~Don't Forget~

We are looking for GUEST DESIGNERS

****To be selected as a guest designer, your Link-up project

MUST USE a DIGITAL IMAGE from Paper Crafting World.****

Not only will you be invited to join us, you'll also receive a free image from PCW to use for your Guest Designer project.

Now it's your turn to play along.

Create something using a digital image and link to this post.

If you use an image from PCW, you will receive 2 chances to win.

It's easy to participate in our Link Up. There's a tab on the home page that will bring you directly to this DDF page whenever you're ready to share your project. Link Up your digital design for a chance to win a free single image from

Paper Crafting World.

Here are a few guidelines:

*Must use a digital stamp image (receive 2 entries if you use a PCW image)
*Only one non-PCW entry per person - your second entry (if you choose to enter more than once) must use an image from Paper Crafting World.

*Must be a NEW project for this Link Up; no backdated posts, please.

*Must have a link back to this post on your blog.

*Must link your project through Inlinkz and not just your blog.

Larelyn and the MPC digi gals

Spring Joy Card Details

Hello crafty friends,

Here are the details for the Spring Joy Card.

Finished card size: 4.25 x 5.5

Standard Top Fold

Here is a close up of the bird and the Spring Joy Close To My Heart Stamp. I used my Sky Ink Pad to stamp and ink the sentiment. I also used my Sky Ink Pad to ink the bird while using one of the Texture Tools to give the bird a “speckled” look before sponging the edges.

Here is a photo of the Close To My Heart products I used for this card.

Products Used:

Close To My Heart Products

Sky Ink Pad

Crème Brulee Ink Pad

Texture Tools

Water Color Pencils (Bubblegum and Citrus Leaf Colors)

White Cardstock

Spring Joy Stamp From c1055 Botanicals Super Set (Discontinued)

Dotty For You Patterned Paper (Discontinued)

Other Products Used

Cricut Cartridge: Damask Décor -(Scallop Oval, Scalloped Square and Bird)

Mini Brad (Bird’s Eye)

Memories Blue Paper Clip

Misc. Button

Honeydew Twine

American Crafts Ribbon

DCWV Fresh Floral Stack (Yellow Rose and Green Patterned Paper)

Hope this has inspired you to do some of your own fun spring time cards. This card was part of my Monday, Cartridge showcase post, HERE. I am also entering it into the H2H March Madness Challenge. It fits into their Spring and Go Green Challenges. The Go green is for the paper on the card as well as the “re-use” of some discontinued stamps and paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

-Melin

Bumble Bee-Bugs N’ Hugs Card Details Post

Good morning crafty friends,

Here is the details on the Bumble Bee-Bugs n’ Hugs card I created for today’s Garden Soup Cartridge showcase.

Products Used

DCWV Stack-Fresh Floral Stack

Garden Soup Cricut Cartridge

EK Success Mini Butterfly Punch

EK Success Border Punch

Yellow Cardstock

Dry decorator Chalk Inks

White Signo Pen

Black Fine Tip Pen

Close To My Heart Products

Bugs & Hugs Stamp Set

In The Backyard Stamp Set

Crème Brulee Stamp Pad

Pear Stamp Pad

Water Color Pencils

Sky Stamp Pad

White Daisy Stamp Pad

White Cardstock

The cute little bumble bee paper piecing was created using all cuts from the Garden Soup cartridge. I did not use my Gypsy or Craft Room. All the cuts are what I like to call “straight cricut” meaning I used just the cartridge and my Expression. 

I stamped the cute little grass and flower border from the Bugs & Hugs Stamp set in Pear Ink on plain white cardstock. I then used my watercolor pencils to color in the flowers, mushrooms and back.The colors I used were: Orange, Sunflower, Citrus Leaf, Holiday Red and Bubblegum. 

I used one of the In the Backyard background stamps to stamp the pretty little pattern on the bumble bee's wings. I am entering this card in the Heart 2 Heart Go Green-March Madness challenge. Be sure to head over to the cartridge showcase and check out all the other wonderful projects created with the Garden Soup cartridge.

-Melin