Challenge #72: Grown-Up Valentine - Must Use Black & Brads

Happy Wednesday and welcome to challenge day at Cooking With Cricut!  Our hostesses for today's challenge are Michelle, Kemma and Dalis.  They chose the theme "Grown-Up Valentine" with two requirements -- you must use the color black and a brad of some sort on your project.  Our Design Team has created some truly beautiful projects for you today!   Make sure you visit the Designer's blogs and leave them some love.

  

(L-R) Michelle, Kemma, Dalis

Heather used Sweethearts, Straight From the Nest and Sophisticated

cartridges for this playful and love-filled 12" x 12" scrapbook layout.

Kemma used George & Basic Shapes cartridge for this elegant card

featuring the Tea Bag Folding technique.

Larelyn created this cute card using the Phrases cartridge.

Michelle created this sweet framed Valentine using

Accent Essentials and Gypsy Font cartridges.

Elizabeth used the Art Philosophy cartridge to create her tree of love.

Dalis made this super cute banner using the Sugar & Spice cartridge.

Madison created this sweet card using the Sweethearts

and Plantin SchoolBook cartridges.

Charlotte used the Love Struck cartridge to create this beautiful card.

Debbie used the Lyrical Letters cartridge along with the Bear 'n Cupcake

digi stamp from PaperCraftingWorld.com.

Holly used the Sweethearts cartridge to create this beautiful card.

Now, it's your turn!  Link up your grown-up valentine and don't forget to add black and a brad -- you just might be our next Top Chef!  Here are some guidelines:

• Must follow the challenge topic.
• Must be a NEW project for this challenge, please no back dated posts.
• Must have a link back to this post on your blog.
• Must link your project through Inlinkz and not just your blog.
• Must use your Cricut in some capacity.
• Must have fun.
• You may gladly combine challenges...we love to pile it on TOO!

Make sure you stop by tomorrow, Thursday, February 9th and check out Chef Jenny R.'s Cartridge Showcase! And don't forget to mark your calendars -- our "Love Song" Blog Hop is this weekend -- Saturday and Sunday, February 11th and 12th.

Sunday, February 12th is the deadline for our Design Team Call -- if you'd like to be part of our awesome team, CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.

And as always, thank you so much for crafting with us!

~ CWC Design Team

Creative Cutter Design Team Love Bug Challenge

Good morning Friends,

I wanted to share my first project as a Creative Cutter Design Team Member.
Our challenge theme is Love Bug. Here is a view of my entire layout.

I created these adorable “Love Bug” bears for this layout.


Here is a close up of the boy bear love bug.

Here is a close up of the little girl bear love bug.
I added some stickled swirls to their wings and their hearts.

 
Here is a close up shot of the border and title.

• I inked the hearts and added some more stickles to the letters. 
• I used pop dots to add dimension.
• I also “Faux” stitched a white zig zag stitch on the blue border.
• I did also add some wire swirls and tiny foam hearts. I wrote “My Sweet” in the middle of the tiny pink heart with my fuchsia fine tip sharpie.
• I used and EK Success border punch for the white heart and swirl punch.

So now you need to join us in this fun challenge. Just head over to the Creative Cutter Room and enter your project. Be sure to head over as well and take a look at what the other Design Team Members did. Some beautiful stuff!


Up for grabs is the timeless classic cartridge: JASMINE
 
All you have to do to enter to win this cartridge is

• Make a new project for the challenge 
• Link it up to the Creative Cutter Room challenge post 
• Leave a comment, on that post.

 That’s it. Plus…you have TWO WEEKS to get your project done. So NO excuses! Just head over to the direct post at CCR HERE

BONUS:
In honor of all the fun stuff happening at CCR,
Leave a comment on  THIS POST and I will pick one lucky winner to receive the Bears as Love Bugs Mini collection cutting file set or digi stamp set that will be released soon.

I am also entering this project for a couple of challenges: 

• Olive Juice Studio Love Challenge: Use Fabric(my ribbon), Wire (curlies by little foam heart) Hearts and Love either the word a form of it.
• Beary Sweet Challenge: Love or Friendship

Thanks so much for stopping by today…Be sure to stop over tomorrow as we announce our winners from last week’s challenge and continue to "Peachify" our projects in honor of our challenge sponsor...Peachy Keen Stamps

Have a wonderfully crafty day!  Melin