CWC #86: Card Outreach

Welcome to Cooking With Cricut's weekly Wednesday challenge day!  Today we are teaming up with the "I Feel the Love" Project started by our very own Design Team member, Madison.  Every month Madison features an individual or group of people on her blog that are going through a difficult time and need a bit of cheer in their lives.  Madison loves to give and she knew that her fellow crafters did too.  So she opened it up to everyone and since she started this amazing outreach project in June 2011 over 500 cards have been created and given out.

This month's recipient is four-year old Brandon.  Here is what Madison told us about Brandon:  Brandon and his family were on their way to McDonald's one day when a horrific car accident forever changed the lives of this young family. Brandon's mother, aunt and sister were all seriously injured and rushed to area hospitals; his mother's boyfriend (the driver of the car) died of his injuries. Brandon was pulse less at the scene of the accident, was revived and taken to a trauma center. 

There, doctors discovered that despite being in a car seat, Brandon had suffered a traumatic brain injury, traumatic spinal cord injury and had been without oxygen to his brain for too long for a reasonable chance at recovery. Despite dire predictions early on, Brandon has had remarkable accomplishments in rehab. He is considered tetraplegic, which means he can move one limb from time to time; he remains trach and ventilator dependent, with little likelihood that he will ever be weaned from the ventilator, due to his neurological damage from the accident. 

Brandon's mom is just 34 years young and also cares for Brandon's 2 year old sister, Ashley. She's trying to regroup after losing her boyfriend (Ashley's father), and while still caring for herself and the injuries she suffered, as well as caring for the aunt who is still in the hospital following the September 1 accident. 

Brandon likes watching other kids playing video games, enjoys superheroes like Spiderman and Batman, sports and Legos. He and his whole family would appreciate cards, prayers and thoughtfulness for this young man as he begins his journey home, through placement in a long term care facility for a stay long enough that Mom can be trained and find a new suitable home where Brandon's complex care can be managed.

Here is what our Design Team came up with for Brandon.  (Please click on the Designer's name to visit their blog and leave 'em some love!)

Jamie L.

Cricut cartridge used:  Batman: The Brave & The Bold

Kemma

Cricut cartridges used:  Imagine - Blast Off

Suzanne

Cricut cartridge used:  Robotz

Hattie

Cricut cartridge used:  Stretch Your Imagination

Madison

Cricut cartridge used:  Create-A-Critter

Charlotte

Cricut cartridges used:  Boys Will Be Boys and Cake Basics

Linsey

Cricut cartridges used:  Wild Card and Plantin SchoolBook

Jill

Cricut cartridge used:  Jill used the installed images on her Imagine

Court

Cricut cartridge used:  George & Basic Shapes

Xochitl

Cricut cartridge used:  Create-A-Critter

Jenny J.

Cricut cartridge used:  Wrap It Up

Please consider joining us in making a cheerful/thinking of you card for Brandon. Cards like these can really help to brighten his day.

 Submit your card(s) by May 31st to:

Madison Womack

(IFTL) Funky Cards

P.O. Box 1203

Atascadero, CA  93423

At the bottom left corner of your envelope please write:   Project #11.  

Link up your cheerful/thinking of you card for a boy -- you just might be this week's 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!

Thank you once again for stopping by and making us a part of your crafty time! We appreciate each of you so much!  Don't forget to stop by tomorrow and check out what Chef Larelyn has whipped up for the Thursday Cartridge Showcase.  And don't forget to join us this Saturday and Sunday, May 19th and 20th  for a two-day Blog Hop to kick-off Cooking With Cricut's 2nd Blogaversary Week-Long Celebration, May 21-26!

~ CWC Design Team

PCW Flower-Garden Challenge

Good afternoon crafty friends,

Hope you had a wonderful weekend. We’re so glad you’re here with us on this fine Terrific Tuesday! It’s time for another Stamp and or Die-Cut Challenge here. Today’s challenge is all about the beautiful flowers we see this time of year. So our theme is Flowers and or Gardening. Let’s see what the PCW Design Team came up with for your inspiration.

Designer Christel used the flowers from the Birdcage, Flowers n’ Flourish Set from PCW. For complete details visit Christel’s Blog. Direct Blog Link

Designer Evelyn Created this cute tags to match this gardening tool set gift. She used the Daisies Cutting File from PCW. For details visit her blog. DIRECT BLOG LINK

Designer Janet created this adorable card using the Birdcage n’ Flowers Cutting File from PCW. Visit Janet for all the details. DIRECT BLOG LINK

Designer Marji created this uniquely adorable card using the Blue Bird Digital Printable from PCW. For complete details visit her blog. DIRECT BLOG LINK

Designer Candice created this pretty card using the QT Patootie Tori Holding Flower Digital Printable. Visit Candice for all the details. DIRECT BLOG LINK

Designer Melin created this layout using the soon coming Hydrangea Flowers,, Lattice Frame and Bear sitting cutting file sets from PCW.

Now it’s your turn to share your amazing flower-garden projects with us! Here are a few guidelines to help you with our 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!

* Normally this is a bi-weekly challenge, but we this challenge will be for one week only as next week will be our big blogaversary celebration!

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

* HAVE FUN!!!!

Cartridge Showcase: Yee-Haw

Good morning crafty friends,

Today is my turn to do a cartridge showcase. I had originally intended to do Damask Décor and share some projects I made for my brother’s wedding. But I am still trying to pull together pictures for all that. So I had to go with a plan “B”. I wanted to do a couple of boy layouts as those seem to be less ideas out there for them.

So here are my projects.

YEE HAW Two Page Layout

All the die cuts are from the Yee Haw Cartridge. I just used pieces from the different elements available on the cartridge to “piece” the bear together.

Picture of entire layout

Close up of the Boot Horse Shoe and Steer Skull

Close up of the horse

Close up of the Horse Shoes and Hemp

Close up of the Bear Piecing

Close up of the Yee Haw Title

RECIPE

I used the following material:

Grey, Blue, Black, Yellow, Lt. Grey, Red, Brown, Dark Brown Bazzill Cardstock

Black, Brown, White Signo and Silver Pens for faux stitching and facial accents.

Mocha Mama, Midnight Confessions, Amaretto and Bloody Mary Chalk Inks

Dry Decorator Chalks.

I used some thick hemp for to wrap the photo mats.

I cut the following:

Cowboy and Cowboy Horse @ 6”

Rope at 5”

Rifle at 1”

Horse at 4 1/2”

Horse Shoes at 1 1/2”

Yee Haw Title at 4”

Shirt at 12”

Bear all at various oval shapes from Cartridge

Hat at 3”

Steer Skull at 1 3/4”

  

100% Country One Page Layout

RECIPE

I used the following materials

Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, Brown and Cream Bazzill Cardstock

DCWV Boy Patterned Paper Stack

Mango Mai Tai, Mocha Mama and Midnight Confessions QQ Chalk Inks.

Dry Decorator Chalks for the Cowboy Cheeks.

Black Fine Tip Pen for faux stitching.

I cut the following:

Frame at 7”

Starts at 2 1/2”

Cowboy at 7”

100% Country Sign at 4”

I used pop dots to lift the cowboy and 100% Country sign so I can slide a picture underneath. I did also trim the bottom of the Country sign just a bit so it wouldn’t hang over the photo matte too much.

Howdy Card

Finished Card Size 5.5 x 5.5

I used the following materials

Red, Black, Yellow, Brown, Dark Brown, Tan, Grey, Green and Cream Bazzill Cardstock

Patterned paper is from the DCWV Boy Paper Stack

I cut the following:

Howdy sign at 1 1/2”

Boot at 3”

Horse at 1 3/4”

Cowboy Hat at 4”

Cactus and Fence at 3”

Bear at various Oval pieces

Sign at 5” using the layer and shift layer pieces only.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Be sure to come back tomorrow as our PCW team inspires you with a new challenge!

Have a wonderfully crafty day!

-Melin

Marilyn's Birthday Card

Good morning crafty friends,
I just wanted to share a quick post of a card I made for a friend of mine. She is turning 80 and going back to Michigan. SOOOO another dear friend decided we should get together and celebrate before she goes back home.

Here is a close up. I was trying to show the flowers. They started out as plain white. I inked them with some Butterscotch Chalk Ink so the “tips” had some color. Then I hit them with a little bit of Stickles. The leaves were punched from the same PRIMA paper that the background matte is. It was double sided and had a green leafy print on the back. So I inked them with some Chestnut Roan.

The finished card size is 5.5 x 5.5. I used the following to create it.

Bazzill cardstock in White, Lt. Sky and Pollen (Yellow)

The flourish in the background is from the Flourished Baroque Elements Cut File Set

The Flowers are also new soon coming files from PCW.

The Butterflies, leaves and photo corners are from punches.

The patterned paper is from PRIMA

Lastly, the Sentiment is from Psalm 91: 14-16. If you would like the free jpg version of this, you can click the add to cart button and get it for free :)

Be sure to come back tomorrow for a post honoring.....MOM’S.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderfully crafty day!

-Melin

Winners Announced

Welcome to Cooking with Cricut

Today we would like to announce the winner of Challenge #84- Teacher Appreciation Day. The winner of the Top Chef prize was chosen by Random Organizer.

The winner is...Patricia-  Creative Diva

Congratulations Patricia:)

Patricia created this adorable tea pot gift card holder using the Everyday Pop Up Card Cricut Cartridge.  You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog.  As the winner Patricia will receive her choice of digi stamp or cutting file from Papercraftingworld.com. 

Patricia, please contact Madison at FunkyCards @Charter .net (no spaces) within two weeks to claim your prize.

The Top Three Chefs were chosen by the Cooking With Cricut Design Team. You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog. 

Tonya- Itty Bitty Ladybugs

 Holly- Ribbons and Glue

Donya- OK Scrappin Mama

Mother's Day: This week are celebrating our wonderful Mothers. We are creating anything but a card.  Once again you have until next Tuesday at midnight to post your projects. One winner chosen at random will receive his or her choice of digi stamp or cutting file from Papercraftingworld.com.

Have a wonderful day!

~Madison - Prize Coordinator

Cartridge Showcase: Cricut Alphabet

Hey Everyone,

Welcome to Cooking with Cricut and yet another wonderful Cartridge Showcase! I am so glad you came here to check out what Xochitl from CricutCritter Blog has whipped up with the Cricut Alphabet! She has really outdone herself once again!

So with out further ado..... Here is Xochitl:

Hello CWC Friends!Xochitl here from CricutCritter Blog. Thank you for stopping by for another dose of inspiration. This week I am featuring the Cricut Alphabet Cartridge

This cartridge is full of cute and swirly designs along with a very nice and elegant alphabet. This font has become one of my favorites. This cartridge is exclusive to the New Cricut Expression 2.

For my first project I did a cute gift holder and a matching card. This cute little gift holder can also serve as a center piece for baby shower.

For the center piece I used the Its a boy title along with the cute little baby carriage. They have titles for both boy and girl. I decided to go for boy since that is what I needed for upcoming baby shower.

For the card I used New arrival for the onsie, but I used Cricut alphabet for the title. This cartridge has an array of very cute swirly title like the baby word.

I belong to Lambda Theta Nu Sorority and I am often looking for cute greek alphabets to use in my gifts for my sisters. Since this cartridge has such a lovely font I decided to play with it in CCR to get greek letters out of the ordinary Alphabet. For the Lambda I used an upside down V. For the Theta I used an O and welded a cute little scwily and for Nu I used used a regular N. I accented with a very cute little rose also available on this cartridge. Just because what you want is on there does not mean you can't make it.

For this card I used Melin I love you a latte svg along with the cute little cup and steam from Cricut Alphabet. I also go to use my washi tape as a little accent on the card.

For my last card I wanted to try one of the nice doilies this cartridges has. I used the doily and welded it together for the base of the card, then cut the doily in 2 different sizes for the background. The phrase is already a design in the cartridge.

Thank you for stopping by and hope you enjoyed browsing through my projects. Now get those E2's out and start creating!

Wow! You really cooked up so wonderful projects! You are a very inspirational and talented part of this team! If you thought here projects today were as awesome as I thought they were go check out what else she has cooked up at her blog and don't forget to leave her some love!


e sure to come back tomorrow as Chef Madison announces the winners from our last challenge. 


Don't forget about our two current challenges: Our Die Cut and or Stamp Challenge and our Cricut Challenge! Just click the links at the top to join the fun!


Thank you for joining us for another Cartridge Showcase! 
Court and the rest of the CWC-PCW Designers.