Happy Birthday Bunny-Cupcake Card

This Week's PIO Challenge #35 Project.

Good morning everyone! Hope you're having a wonderfully blessed Holiday Weekend Sunday! Here is my project for the one and only PIO (Pile It On) Challenge blog. I missed my last go around so I am so excited to get back in the swing of things! This week the challenge was...LAYERS! Plus we got to use the wonderful digital files from

Zlatoena Designs. Be sure to head over to PIO and check out all the amazing creations by the awesome DT!

Here is a sideview to show a bit of the dimension. In total I had 5 layers on this card :-)

So here are the challenges that this project applies to:

Melin’s Challenges:

Pile It On! #35 - layers

Moving Along…-Faux Stitching

Simon Says Stamp & Show - layers

Papertake Weekly - Just one-Cupcake-Diecut

Bee Crafty - Anything Goes

Craft your Days Away - Girly and Glittery

Stamp Challenges- Something Cute

The Shabby Tea Room #26 - Super Old Patterned Paper- Digi Image

Stamp Insanity- Birthday

Creative Cottage- Celebrations

Speedy the Cat- 5 of something -5 layers

Oh,Alice!- Sparkle and shine

Paper Play - In Stitches

Penny's Paper Craft-Birthday

Stamps R Us - Stitching

Wild Orchid - Make it Sparkle

A Crafty Little Place - Anything Goes

Flourishes- Birthday

I created the cupcake die cut file, but if you have the Doodlecharms Cartridge, there is a cupcake on there that is very similar. 

Design Team Side Bar Labels

PCW DT Labels

Size: 200 x 200

Side Bar Code
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Size: 225 x 225
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Size: 250 x 250
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Psalm 130 Cards-Free Cut File & Digi Stamp

UPDATE: I have sent the file to everyone that I could. There were many of you that I couldn't send it to as you didn't leave a way for me to contact you. For those of you that commented and didn't get the file, PLEASE email me directly and I will send it off to you. email: melin @ scrapbookeden.com (remove spaces). Thanks so much for your wonderful comments.

Good morning Everyone!

Happy Saturday! WHOO HOO a long weekend of some great crafting fun! Please be sure to stop by each day! I will be posting something new and giving away a little of this...and a little of that!

For Today: Here are two cards I made one with the Cricut and one with files I created. Both have a digi stamp sentiment that you can download for FREE at the bottom of this post :-)

First Up: Here is the card with the Cricut cuts. The "Frame" is from the Sentimentals Cartridge. I believe I cut it at either 5" or 5.25". Sorry, didn't write it down. And the flourishes at the bottom are from the Splish Splash Lite Cartridge. I cut those at 1". I embossed them with some Gold metallic embossing powder.

Here is a side view of the Cricut Version card. I used good ol' pop dots to lift the frame. This card has the digi stamp sentiment in a Serif type font.

Now here is MY Version.

I created the frame and the flourishes. I used Gold Glitter embossing powder on this one. I know they both look the same in the photograph, but you can tell the difference in embossing powders in person :-)

Here is a side view of the MY version card. Again, I used Pop dots to give the Frame a little lift. This card has the Digi Sentiment in a Script Style font.

REVISED- OKAY, NOW For the FREE STUFF!

For the FREE Digi Sentiment File in PDF: CLICK HERE Sorry link now expired

For the Free Flourish Cutting FILE: Sorry link now expired

For the FREE OVAL FLOURISH FRAME FILE: Sorry link now expired

1. You must be a follower of my blog
2. leave a comment on this post and request the frame file.

I will be checking the comments several times throughout the next THREE DAYS ONLY. Any comments with the request, and I will email you the file. Please be sure to leave me a way to send the file to you on your comment. If you are uncomfortable with leaving that information, then please feel free to email me directly. My email addy is: melin @ scrapbookeden.com. Be sure to remove the spaces.

Don't forget to check out the other file giveaway I have! That one goes through next Friday! CLICK HERE.

PLUS: Don't forget to sign up for my newsletter. It will be going out tomorrow and there will be a new subscriber's only file on it!

I will be back tomorrow with another great project and some more freebies! Afterall this is labor day weekend and we should have some fun!

Road Trip Layout

Good morning everyone!

Here is my project for this week's FCCB Challenge. Our challenge was to create a project with a "Road Trip" theme. Here is a view of my entire layout.

Here is a closeup of the title I created.

The letters ROAD and TRIP are from Hello Kitty Cartridge

The Arrow and Hwy sign are from Summer Vacation Cartridge

The Caution Cone was from the CARS Cartridge.

I created the arrow-road and the Rest Area Word Art Sign.

Here is the cutie patootie bears. I created them, the steering wheel and the coffee cup :-) These are files that can be cut with your Cricut in conjunction with SCAL or MTC software. If you need to know more about this, I have a FAQ's page HERE

Here is a closeup of the car and the gas pump. They both came from the Summer Vacation Cartridge.

NOW, HERE is MY Version of this fun layout!

Here is a closeup of the road trip border. I designed all the files to create this version of the border.

Of course here is the same set of cutie patootie bears.

OKAY NOW FOR THE FREE FILE -GIVEAWAY OPPORTUNITIES!

YOU MUST BE A BLOG FOLLOWER AND Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win the files I created for my version of this layout. This will include:

1. the Road Trip arrow border,
2. the Rest Area Word Art file,
3. the caution cone,
4. the arrow,
5. the highway sign,
6. the Road and Trip letters.
7. The bears,
8. the steering wheel and the
9. coffee cup word art!

Whew, that's a LOT of files! REMEMBER...Those who have the Cricut will have to have MTC or SCAL in order to use these files. To understand this, please visit my Page-Kits.com Cricut and Cutting File Page.

These files will be available to the winner in any of the following formats: AI, DXF, GSD, MTC, Inkscape SVG, KNK, WPC, WPC 14 or if necessary the PDF pattern :-) I think that covers everyone :-)

You can also visit my post from a few days ago to leave a comment on that post for a chance to win the file set for that project! You can click HERE to enter!

Lastly, be sure to visit FCCB as well! Enter your Road Trip project and check out what the other DT members have done :-) There are some GREAT prizes up for grabs!

Have a wonderfully crafty day! Melin

50 States Pink Rose Tutorial

50 States Pink Rose Tutorial

This is the "North Dakota" flower on page 46. I cut this flower in 4 layers in 3 different sizes. I cut "slits" so the petals would be a little more loose. To me this one looks like a rose.

Here is a close up shot of one of the flowers.

  

 I started with a plain white flower.

 I glimmer misted the petals with Pink Bubblegum Glimmer Mist on both sides.

 I cut slits on the petals to loosen them up. You can see the flower on the left in the photo above has the slits and the one on the right does not.

 When the paper is still slightly damp from the glimmer mist, begin to push up the petals and curl them into each other.

 They (the petals) should easily bend from being moist so they don't get creases in them

Roll them together and hold it for a few seconds until it takes that shape.

 this picture (above) shows you how well it can keep it's shape with no adhesive

 Finally, begin to glue them together by putting one into the center of the next. With the last one being a bit more open...like the photo above.

Open up the center petals gently, then you can curl them individually a little more to give them a more realistic shape. Because you used glimmer mist, the pigment when dry will really help the flower to retain it's shape and even be a little "stiff". I don't know the chemistry involved, but it seems to work :)

To see the rest of the flowers I created with the 50 States Cartridge, 

Psalm 75 Card

Good morning,

I wanted to share this quick card I made. The flourish is a FREE file I have on my newsletter today.
So if you are on my newsletter list, please enjoy.

If you're not a newsletter subscriber, then please sign up to be a blog follower and sign up for my newsletter. Once you have done that, just send me an email at: melin @ scrapbookeden.com (remove spaces) and I will be happy to send the FREE file to you. But please note: The file is FREE through Sunday night, August 29th, 2010 only.

Thank you for stopping by!