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Design Team Call 2011 Fall-Winter

CookingWithCricut.com – PaperCraftingWorld.com Design Team Calls

Call Open Sept. 20th – October 5th

It’s that time of year again! The time when we open our doors and roll out the welcome mat for some new Design Team members!

Would you like to join a super friendly and fun Design Team! Do you enjoy crafting and creating with your Cricut and Cricut related products? Do you enjoy working with digital stamps and or electronic die cutting files? Then the CookingWithCricut.com - PaperCraftingWorld.com Design Teams May just be what you’re looking for! If you’re interested….please read on!

CookingWithCricut.com DT Member Requirements:
-Must participate in a minimum of two of our Wednesday challenges per month. You are of course welcome to participate in as many additional challenges as you would like.
-You will have to use your Cricut and Cricut related products (cartridges, gypsy, imagine, craft room, etc.) in some capacity to create your challenge projects.

-Must participate in at least two of the four scheduled blog hops during this term.
-Must be willing to post in at least one Monday DT Member Cartridge showcase.
-Must be willing to post a project for one day of the 25 Days of Christmas Cricut & Crafting showcase that we will be doing again in December. This is an addition to the weekly challenge posts for this month.
-You must have a blog or website and be willing to post your projects on your blog or site. New bloggers are most certainly welcome
-You must utilize Facebook to communicate with the team within our (private) closed group page.
-DT commitment will be from Mid October through end of February 2012

PaperCraftingWorld.com DT Member Requirements:

PLEASE NOTE: PaperCraftingWorld.com Designers work with either Digital Stamps and or with Electronic Die Cutting Files in conjunction with their machines. (i.e. Pazzles Inspiration, E-Craft, KNK, Silhouette, etc. Other than Cricut and Cricut related products).
-Must participate in a minimum of two challenges-reveals per month. Challenges and or Reveals are scheduled for Tuesdays.
You are of course welcome to be in as many as you would like
-Must participate in at least two of the four scheduled blog hops during this term.
-Must be willing to post in at least one Thursday Designer spotlight showcase.
-Must be willing to post a project for one day of the 25 Days of Christmas Cricut & Crafting showcase that we will be doing again in December. This is an addition to the challenge-reveal posts for this month.
-You must have a blog or website and be willing to post your projects on your blog or site. New bloggers are most certainly welcome.
-You must utilize Facebook to communicate with the team within our (private) closed group page.
-DT commitment will be from Mid October through end of February 2012
Novice as well as seasoned crafters are encouraged to apply. We are looking for all levels of crafters.

ALL designers will have access to any of the cutting files and or digital stamps available at PaperCraftingWorld.com. For those on the Cricut team, you will have access to the digital stamps and any pdf files available at PaperCraftingWorld.com to use in conjunction with your projects if desired.

If this sounds like something you would like to participate in, please submit the following to Melin:

- Your name, email address and your web location: (Blog, Website or gallery link)

- List of any Design Teams that you are currently on. Not necessary to have been on one. I am looking for "New Faces" too :-)

- A little bit about yourself and your crafting background.

- 3-5 projects that best showcase your style and quality of work.

- Submit your information by no later than Wednesday, October 5th, 2011.

The new DT will be announced Sunday, October 9^th.

Your first project will be due starting in the second -third week of October (date depends on which group you are in).

Please email your DT application to:
DTCALL @ ScrapbookEden.com (remove spaces). In the subject line please put DT APPLICATION. Due to the amount of email I get on a given day, I don't want to miss your application. Please also specify which group you would like to be in (Cricut, Digital Stamp or Cutting File, you can gladly apply for more than one group).
If you have ANY questions, please don't hesitate to ask. You can email your questions to: DTCALL @ ScrapbookEden.com as well (again, remove the spaces from the email address).

Thank you so much for your consideration. We would love for you to join us!

Melin and all the wonderful CWC and PCW Designers!

Challenge #51: Heritage/Grandparents

Happy Wednesday and welcome to Cooking With Cricut's weekly challenge! In honor of Grandparent's Day (September 11), the Design Team was challenged to create a project about or for their grandparents or a heritage project. Almost everyone has a fond memory of a grandparent or older adult who played that role in their lives. Some are even lucky enough to have memories of or still have their great-grandparents in their lives. They are our connection to our roots. And if we ask the right questions, they will provide us with immeasurable wealth -- stories of their past -- of our past!

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley

Stacey created a beautiful Grandparent's Day card using Plantin SchoolBook

and Lovely Floral cartridges. Make sure you check out her blog for the details.

Jenny used the George & Basic Shapes cartridge for this super cute card.

Stop by her blog for the recipe!

Madison made these cute photo frames of her older brothers using

the Create-A-Critter cartridge. Hop on over to her blog for the details!

Jen created a heritage layout of her great-grandparents using the Accent Essentials

and Plantin SchoolBook cartridges. Check out all the details at her blog.

Melin used the Heritage Cartridge to create this layout.

Melin used her Cricut and the Vintage Bear cutting file from PCW to create this layout.
This file includes a PDF printable pattern for those who need to hand cut the pattern.
There is also a Vintage Bear Digital Stamp version for those who can not use the cutting file.

Now it’s your turn!!!

Let’s see your grandparent or heritage project. Here are our few 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 post through Inlinkz and not just your blog.

* Must use your Cricut in some capacity.

* Must HAVE FUN!

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us once again! We appreciate it so much!

Have a wonderfully crafty day.

~ CWC Design Team

Guest Designer Tuesday!

Welcome to Guest Designer Tuesday

at Cooking With Cricut!

Our special Guest Designer this week is Carri from DoubleClick Connections blog. She is showcasing the April Showers cartridge. Carri is the last of our special summer guest designers. Thank you so much to all of the wonderfully crafty ladies that shared their creativity and talent with us! Take it away, Carri . . .

Hello! I'm Carri, but most of you know me as "abusybee." I started my blog in May 2009, I enjoy being creative, spending time making cards and hopping around to see what my creative friends are doing. I am a Design Team member for the BBTB2 and I am the DT Coordinator for the Creative Cutter Room. Thanks to Cooking with Cricut for giving me this opportunity to showcase the April Showers cartridge!

Card Recipe:

All cuts are from April showers
All papers are from scraps
Tim Holtz Wood Grain embossing folder
Cuttlebug Divine swirls embossing folder
Fiskars Scales embossing plate

Beautiful card, Carri! Thanks so much for sharing with us and for your continued support of Cooking With Cricut -- we love seeing what you cook up each week.

Please take the time to go over to Carri's blog and show her some crafting "love!"

See you back here tomorrow for our weekly challenge. You won't want to miss it!

~ Jen

Quick Quotes Sept Kit Project 1

Happy Monday morning Crafty Friends!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Today I am sharing a project I made with the contents from one of the fabulous Quick Quotes Club Q September kits.

Mini Album Kit

Here is the kit that I used for my project today.

Here is my version of this kit

Here is a close up of the gorgeous die cuts that come in the kit. I lightly chalked the edges.

Here is a close up of the other Burnt Ember die cuts. I chalked those as well.

Supplies used:

September Quick Quotes Page Kit

Mocha Mama, Midnight Confessions, and Maraschino Cherry, Powder Puff Chalk Inks.

I also used the following non QQ products

Bazzill Cardstock: Beeswax, Java and Burning Ember

Pebbles Inc. Glimmer Chalks

Versamarker Watermark Pen

Black Fine Tip Pen for Faux Stitching

EK Success Border Punch.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Be sure to come back tomorrow for our next wonderful Guest Designer…Carri, can’t wait to see what she has in store for us!!!

Have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melin

9-11 Honored–FREE FILES

A note from Melin…

Good morning Crafty friends,

I hope you are all doing well. I got up early this morning and like so many of us Americans, my thoughts went to the significance of this day….9-11 ten years ago…First…It is so hard to believe it has been 10 years already. Time certainly is going by so fast. Second, the stories and shows are just so heart wrenching and yet we are compelled to watch. I think mostly because they are truly stories about people just like you and me. Seemingly ordinary people who survived or sacrificed with and in such extra ordinary circumstances.

Whether you believe the governments “explanation” of the 911 events, believe it was a “false flag” or believe some of the “conspiracy theories” surrounding this event to be true…And whether you believe it was God’s hand of judgment upon our nation for our rebellion or disobedience or if you believe that it was an act by some well funded and very evil minded terrorists…..In my humble opinion…the bottom line…The Lord…YHVH…Yeshua Ha Mashiach…Jesus Christ Our Messiah, Lord and Savior…is trying to get our attention. As a people, nation and as individuals.

In the 10 years since this event that changed the course of our nation, we have seen the fabric of our society shredded and become more hurtful for everyone. I truly, truly believe that in times like this, while we still have a society and while we are still functioning as a nation that it is imperative for those who are called Christians to take a stand and humbly admit our faults and beseech the Lord for His Chesed…(mercy and grace). I am personally so moved by the knowledge that our God…THE GOD that our country was founded on has given us the key to remedy our situation….Prayer…and action…

2 Chronicles 7:14-15
If my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears will pay attention to the prayer made in this place.

He is only asking a few things from us…
Humble Ourselves
Pray, Seek His Face
TURN from our Evil Ways

Then He has PROMISED….
He will hear from Heaven
Forgive Our Sins
Heal Our Land

WOW!!!! What a tremendous promise from our great King! So I simply ask those of you who…ARE called by HIS name… to please consider doing the three things that He has asked in exchange for the promises.

So in honor of 9-11, I made these couple of files to share with everyone. I hope that you will be able to use them and that they will remind you of our responsibility as BIBLE BELIEVING, JUDEO-CHRISTIANS. To God alone…YHVH..The ONE, TRUE GOD…be ALL the GLORY…Forever and Ever….AMEN!

2 Chronicles 7: 14-15 Printable PDF Stamps
CLICK HERE

Flag Frame Cutting File
CLICK HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your crafty time with us!
Melin

QQ Blog Back 2 School Challenge

Good morning crafty friends,

Today I am honored to host the Fabulous Friday challenges over at the Quick Quotes Blog!

Today’s challenge is all about your loved ones SCHOOL Time Memories. We want to see your wonderful school related projects.

CHALLENGE PRIZE:

$25 gift certificate to shop

on the Quick Quotes website - woohoo!!!

(Everyone who enters has an equal chance to win the prize!)

TOP 3:

The Top 3 projects chosen by the DT will get their projects displayed on the Quick Quotes blog and get an amazing "top 3" button to proudly display on their own blog.

(Winners will be posted on FRI 9/23)

To Enter And Win This Prize, You MUST enter your project at the Quick Quotes Blog
CLICK HERE to go to the direct link!

Here are my projects for a little Quick Quotes - School Time inspiration.

SOPHOMORE LAYOUT

Here is a photo of the entire layout. I see so many layouts out there for elementary aged school students. It seems a bit harder to find layouts and ideas for our “older” school-aged kids. So I purposely made this layout with my daughter who is a sophomore this year in mind.

Close up of the left page. You can see the Colored Vellum Quote “Dream On” that I used as well as the strip of “scatter joy” from the Miss Morgan 400 Designer Paper.

Here is a close up the right page.

Here is a close up of the vellum quote I used.

Close up of the quote cut from the Miss Morgan 400 designer paper.

Techniques & Tips
I used the Miss Morgan 400 paper to cut out the “Scatter Joy” strip and the “Spread Your Wings”.. quotes. I also cut out the Memories to place inside the book bag.

Here are the products I used for the Sophomore Layout:

Miss Morgan 200-Front

Miss Morgan 200—Back

QQ Dream On Colored Vellum Quote.

Very Berry, Midnight Confession, Purple Passion and Amaretto Powder Puff Chalk Inks.

School 2011-Teen Life (SVG, WPC, Etc.) Die Cutting Files From PaperCraftingWorld.com

Apple Box 3-D Project
Double sided and the perfect “apple-stuffed gift” for your teacher!

Techniques & Tips
I used the Midnight Confessions and Mocha Mama powder puff chalk inks to ink around the edges of the “green-aqua” side of the box. I also used a q-tip to “draw” the vein of the leaf in with the same chalk ink.

Here are the products that I used to create the Apple Box Project:

QQ Savvy Davvy 200