Challenge #83: Bling, Bling & More Bling!

Happy Wednesday and welcome to our Cooking With Cricut Design Team Challenge Day!  Put your sunglasses on and check out all the sparkly, glittery, shiny goodness that we all love --  after all diamonds are a girl's best friend!  (Don't forget to click on the designer's name to travel over to their blog and leave 'em some love and let them know how much you like their projects.  We all love hearing from you!)

Jamie A.

Cricut cartridge used:  Once Upon A Princess

Suzanne

Cricut cartridge used:  Elegant Edges

PaperCraftingWorld.com Digi Stamp:  Christel Bear Holding Flowers

Madison

Cricut cartridges used:  Wall Decor & More and Sweethearts

PaperCraftingWorld.com Cutting File:  Bear I Heart U

Larelyn

Cricut cartridge used:  Damask Decor

Heather

Cricut cartridges used:  Rock Princess and George & Basic Shapes

Kimmi

Cricut cartridge used:  Plantin SchoolBook

PaperCraftingWorld.com Digi Stamp:  QT Patootie TWEENZ Tori

Natt

Cricut cartridge used:  Plantin SchoolBook

Hattie

Cricut cartridge used:  Imagine-Yummy

Jennie B.

Cricut cartridge used:  Art Philosophy

Yvette

Cricut cartridge used:  Sophie

Court

Cricut cartridge used:  Kate's ABCs

Jamie L.

Cricut cartridge used:  Imagine-Cards Inside & Out

Tiffany

Cricut cartridges used:  Disney's Happily Ever After and Cricut Sampler

Linsey

Cricut cartridge used:  Sentimentals

Xochitl

Cricut cartridge used:  Plantin SchoolBook

PaperCraftingWorld.com Cutting File:  Bear as Queen of Hearts

Charlotte

Cricut cartridge used:  Give A Hoot

Michelle

Cricut cartridge used:  Walk in My Garden

Jen

Cricut cartridges used:  Cake Basics and Cindy Loo

PaperCraftingWorld.com Cutting File:  Birdcage, Swirls and Flowers Frame Set

Now it's your turn!  Bling it on and link up your favorite sparkling, glittering, shiny project for a chance at being one of this week's Top Chefs.  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!

Thank you once again for stopping by and making us a part of your crafty time! We appreciate each of you so much! 

~ CWC Design Team

April Showers Challenge Reminder

Good afternoon crafty friends,

Today’s post is a reminder of our current Stamp and or Die Cut Challenge. It is all about April Showers.

ALSO, in case you missed our amazing blog hop this weekend, there is still time to leave a comment for a chance to win one of our prizes AND you can still enter our challenge.

Here are the Links: SATURDAY’S LINK and SUNDAY’S LINK

Here are a few projects the wonderful PCW Designers came up with to inspire you to join in the fun!

Designer Bonnie created this adorable layout featuring the Bears Under Umbrella digi from PCW. Be sure to head over to Bonnie’s blog for all the details on this cutie! DIRECT LINK

Evelyn created this AMAZING explosion box using the following PCW cutting files:

Bumble Bee, Flower in Pot, Butterfly from Baby Set 1 and the Umbrella from the Bears Under Umbrella Cutting File Set. Be sure to visit Evelyn’s blog for all the details on this masterpiece of sunshine! DIRECT LINK

Designer Janet created this breath taking scalloped card beauty using the Bears Under Umbrella Digi from PCW. Visit Janet to get the details on how she did this lovely piece of artwork. DIRECT LINK

Letillia created this cute card using the QT Patootie TORI Holding Flower Digi from PCW. Head over to Letillia’s blog for all the superb details. DIRECT LINK

Designer Marji created this super adorable card with the Happy Spring Digi from PCW. Get all the happy and cheerful details on Marji’s blog: DIRECT LINK

Melin created this cute card using the Bears in Umbrella Digi from PCW. (Coming Soon).

So Now it’s Your Turn! Just add your project to the Inlinkz Link below and join the fun! You have until Monday night, April 30th to link your project.

Here are just a few of our guidelines for this challenge:

* Project must be new and for this challenge. Please no back dated posts. 

* Project must follow the theme – challenge as described above. 

* You may use one of the free files in your project. Or one you may already have from PaperCraftingWorld.com. This isn’t mandatory, but we would love to see what you do with them! 

* Your project must include either a stamp: rubber, clear OR digital and OR a digital craft cutting file or a die cut from a hand machine die cutter (Spellbinders, Big Shot, Sizzix, Lifestyle Crafts, etc.) Pretty much anything besides a Cricut. Punches would be fine too! 

* You will have almost two weeks as this is a bi-weekly challenge. 

* Add the link to your project post below. Please link your direct post and not just your blog.         

* HAVE FUN!!!!

Be sure to come back by tomorrow when we announce our new Wonderful Wednesday Cricut Challenge.... Plus our FREE digital stamp and cutting file will be available tomorrow as well!

Have a wonderfully crafty day! 

The PCW Design Team!

Cartridge Showcase: 9 Months

"Hey everybody.. Jamie L. here with today's Cartridge Showcase. I have chose to showcase Cricut Lite 9 Months. This cartridge is just adorable! I love this cartridge. Now this cartridge mainly has cuts for pregnancy and I probably wouldn't have gotten it if I didn't just recently have 2 babies (one 2 years old and the other 6 months old). 

But you can make lots of stuff with this cartridge.. scrapbook pages, cards, mini albums, all sorts of gifts for someone having a baby.. This cart does have a few cuts that are kind of general and don't even need to be used as baby related including a bird, a bee, different foods, soda, car, suit case, hello my name is tag, elephant, Caterpillar & more. 

Now this is a lite cartridge so it only has 4 different features, but its still adorable! This cartridge is sold at Walmart, Cricut.com & ebay. 

Here are some of the projects I've made with this cartridge...

My Pregnancy scrapbook layout.. I made this with just the title cut, bakers twine and some photo mats very easy to make page that turned out super cute.

Ultrasounds 2 page scrapbook layout.. I cut the ultrasound title in white on both layers and then colored it with black chalk and rubbed it with my fingers to make it look kinda like an ultrasound. some thing witht he little ultrasound image cut. Added some patterned black and white paper for the photo mats. I wanted everything on this 2 page layout to be black, white and gray to match the ultrasounds.

Onesies layout.. I cut some onesies and used them as stencils and sprayed purple card stock with some wine berry glimmer mist. then I took the onesies that I used as stencils and used them as embellishments with pop dots to make them stand out a bit. I used patterned paper to make the mats.

Umbrella layout.. this is a layout for pics of my daughter in the rain with a yellow umbrella. For this I used some of the umbrella cuts and inked over them with yellow ink on the yellow paper making a background of umbrellas on the yellow page. Then I used pop dots and put down the umbrellas and added white stitching on them with a gel pen. The title and raindrops were madeI with white puff paint.

And of course we couldn't forget the most adorable thing I've made so far.. These shirts. First I cut out some plain brown cotton fabric and some Wonder Under. I ironed the Wonder Under to the fabric by following the directions on the Wonder Under. Then I put the fabric & Wonder Under on a fresh mat and used my Gypsy to make sure I had the cuts in the right spot.. And cut out the little bird thats part of the onesie. I cut 6 total.. 4 smaller and 2 larger. Then I peeled off the paper backing and ironed the fabric to 2 different plain pink onesies & I hand cut the letters. 

I put these into my baby girls' Easter baskets :). These were really easy to make it took me maybe 20 mins total from start to finish (not counting cutting out the letters by hand). 

I cannot wait to make more pages for my girls' scrapbooks with this cart it's really cute. And perfect for someone who wants to work on anything pregnancy related. 

Thanks for checking out my showcase I hope you enjoyed my projects!

-Jamie L."

Jamie, Thank YOU for such a wonderful showcase. This cartridge is full of some great images and your inspiration makes me want to run out and add it to my collection!


Please be sure to head over to Jamie's blog and leaver here some love. DIRECT POST LINK


Come back tomorrow as our PCW designers share some great projects they have been working on!


Have a wonderfully crafty day!
-CWC and PCW Designers

Home Décor or 3D Hop Day 2

Good morning crafty friends!

So glad you could join us once again for our Totally Terrific Two Day Home Décor or 3D Blog Hop! 

There are TWO DAYS with DIFFERENT DESIGNERS and DIFFERENT projects each day! PLUS we have a challenge and some great blog candy to give away too! In case you missed yesterday’s line up....simply CLICK HERE to go to yesterday’s post and check out the amazing work yesterday’s team did!



Here is the line up for today SUNDAY
Melin - http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/ You’re HERE
Becky - http://www.scrapcircus.blogspot.com/ Next STOP
Sharon - http://www.sharonscraftycards.blogspot.com/
Madison - http://www.funkycards.blogspot.com/
Marji - http://www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com/
Jamie A. - http://www.scrapqueen141.blogspot.com/
Christel - http://www.onescrappinsista.blogspot.com/
Linsey - http://www.linseyrickett.blogspot.com/
Evelyn - http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com/
Court - http://www.courtscraftcorner.com/
Melissa - http://www.craftygator.blogspot.com/
Jamie L. - http://www.babyjaydensmommy.blogspot.com/
Jenny J. – http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com
Kimmi - http://www.impressivelyyours.blogspot.com/
Jen - http://www.gator-4-life.blogspot.com/

So here is what I made for today. As a Christian, I am trying to reconnect with the Hebrew roots of our faith. I consider myself a crossed-over Hebrew. My Savior was a Rabbi and He taught us to keep the principles and teachings of the Word. One of those principles is the counting of the Omer. This is the time when you set aside some time each day to read a passage from Psalm 119 and reflect upon that. It is the 50 days between Pesach...Passover and Pentecost. It is a truly humbling experience. Did you know that Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible? Did you know that each little subsection is entitled with a letter from the Hebrew Alphabet....Yep this is OUR BIBLE....Our TORAH :)  So to keep track of this, I decided to create a box where I could print off the scriptures and keep them on the table for everyone in the home to take and read. Sometimes it is such a revolving door around here with school and work that at least everyone can do it on their schedule.

Here's how I made it.
 

I started with the plain box that I picked up at Michael's for .99. I printed out two sheets of the Exhortation background digital printable I created on cream colored paper. See below for free download.

Next I measured the top and all the sides and cut the paper to each side. I inked the edges of the paper with some QQ Amaretto Chalk Ink. I adhered all the paper to each panel.

I then punched out a strip of the same paper with my MS punch. I punched out on both sides of the strip. I inked the edges of them and adhered them to each corner. This was to give the appearance of some "hardware" but really to keep the edges of the paper from curling over time and use.

Here is a close up of the "edges".

Next, I cut out the Flourished Box Top-Rectangle Frame file that I created. I inked it very heavily to give it that vintage look. See below for free download.

Then I printed out the scripture Psalm 90 verse 12 and then cut it out with my Pazzles. I Inked that and adhered it to the box top. See below for free download.

Lastly, I added some Prima Flowers and some butterflies cut from my MS punch.

So what would a hop be without some wonderful blog candy!!!

There are several prizes and a few different ways to win!!!

* Leave A Comment

* Like Our FB Page CLICK HERE

* Join Our Challenge

(be sure to be a follower of the blog to be eligible)

Leave a comment on this post, yesterday’s post, one or the other or both and you will be entered to win the following:

$20 Dollar Gift Voucher Download from PaperCraftingWorld.com

A Quick Quotes Prize Pack. This includes the Savvy Davvy Paper Pack featuring 12 double sided cardstock weight papers and 10 vellum quotes! Please note: This only ships within the United States.

Plus, Leave a comment on this post AND like our Facebook page: HERE

and you could win a $15 dollar gift certificate to Page-Kits.com. Please note: This only ships within the United States.

Join our Home Décor Challenge and link up your home décor project below and you could win. Just link up on yesterday's post or below this one.

In order to be eligible for any of these prizes, we only ask that you be a follower of our blog and “like” us on Facebook for the Facebook prize :)

Now how about a little something for everyone....Here are a couple of FREE files for you to enjoy. Be sure to download them today as they will only be available through today!

Psalm 90-12 Digital Printable
Click Button and add to cart. It will not cost anything to download today.

Exhortation Background Digital Printable.
Click Button and add to cart. It will not cost anything to download today.

Box Top - Rectangle Flourished Frame Cutting File.
Available in: AI, DXF, EPS, GSD, KNK, MTC, STUDIO, SCAL2, SVG and WPC formats.
Click Button and add to cart. Sorry Free File Expired. Only $1.00 to purchase.

Now on to the wonderfully talented Becky to see what she has in store for you!