Cartridge Showcase: Straight From the Nest

Welcome to Cooking With Cricut's Cartridge Showcase. Chef Jill has taken over the blog today is sharing with you some beautiful projects she has made with Cricut's Straight From the Nest cartridge.  You can create projects that celebrate the naturally beautiful things in life with this cartridge.  It is filled with images of birds, butterflies, flowers, cupcakes, branches, swirls, and more.  Straight From the Nest includes: Layer/Shadow, Corner, Slider, Border, Phrase, and Phrase Shadow creative features.

Hi everyone! This is Chef Jill and today, I'm going to try to do my favorite cartridge justice and showcase it! Straight From the Nest is a cartridge I won in a giveaway! This cartridge is my favorite because of the versatility of it. There are sayings, corners, images, borders, and layers! What a great cartridge!

Here are the projects I came up with:

This is a birthday card I made for my friend. The chickens are the border option on Straight From the Nest. You can check it out on my blog here.

Here is a topiary I made using the little flowers from Straight From the Nest.

This is a card I made for my husband, but the cool thing about this card is that instead of using paper as my card base, I used a transparency! The shape behind the eyeball is from Straight from the Nest.

The "Fall" is a corner feature in this cartridge but I enlarged it up and used it in this sign I made for my home. You can check it out on my blog here.

Here is a Christmas Card book I made. The green border is from Straight from the Nest. You can check it out on my blog here.

This is a gift I made for my friend. The owl is actually a corner option, but I cut off the sides so the owl would fit. You can check it out at my blog here.

Thanks so much for checking out my showcase! Like I said . . . this cartridge is amazing!

Smiles, Jill


Wow, Jill!  So many incredible projects!  Please make sure you stop over at Jill's blog and let her know how much you enjoyed her Cartridge Showcase!

~ CWC Design Team

Hip Chick Layout, Free Cutting File, Hip Chick File Set

Good afternoon Friends,
Hope you are all enjoying your day today! I wanted to post a layout I had made over the weekend. I had intended to post it on Sunday but due to some serious technical difficulties, I could not post.
But here it is:




This is a view of the entire layout.
I think it turned out really “HIP”. I used the following cartridges to create this project:

• 3 Birds
• Hannah Montana
• Rock Princess
• Straight From The Nest.

All the die cuts and pieces are what I call “Straight” Cricut. In other words, I didn’t use any Design Studio or Gypsy “Magic” to cut these files.
 
Here is a close up of the groovy-licious “Chick” again ALL her pieces are from Cricut Cartridges.
 
Here is a close up of the flourish and “Chick” title.

By The Way: This project fits in with our current 3 Flowers Challenge. Be sure to take a moment and go to that post HERE. You still have time to enter your project!

So for those of you who don’t have those cartridges and or use the MTC and or SCAL programs in conjunction with your Cricut: Here is a cutting file set that I made that you could use to re-create this layout:


This set includes:

• The “groovy-licious” Chick with her big lips, pumps and bow :-)
• The 6pt flower
• The 6pt Silhouette Flower
• The Flourishes
• The “HIP” Custom Letters
• The Chick Title

If your interested in this set you can purchase it by clicking the button. This set is only $2.99



Lastly, Here is a “FREE” Flower cutting file.  You still have time to download it and enter our challenge!  This file will be available until Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 – midnight est. time.

5pt Retro Flower W Stem