Winners Announced

Welcome to Cooking with Cricut

Today we would like to announce the winner of Challenge #89- Graduation/End of School Year. The winner of the Top Chef prize was chosen by Random Organizer.

The winner is... Pink Dalmations Scrapbookker

Congratulations Pink Dalmations:)

Pink Dalmations created this wonderful welded card for her sister-in-law, who started a job as a principal, using the Serenade and Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridges.  You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog.  As the winner Pink Dalmations will receive her choice of digi stamp or cutting file from Papercraftingworld.com. 

Pink Dalmations, 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. 

Claire- Scrap My Way

Donna- Popsicle Toes

Dawn- Two Early Birds

Father's Day. This week we are honoring our dads.  The only catch is- No cards.  So let's see your creative gift ideas for your dads.  Please include a Cricut cut.  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: Sesame Street and Friends

Hey Everyone!

I hope everyone has been enjoy this warm weather! Today Chef Madison from Funky Cards has cooked up some really fun and cute cards to share with you today. Madison is so insightful and is going to share some neat tricks and tips with you! So without further ado, here is Madison:

Hello, I'm Madison and Today I am showcasing the Cricut cartridge, Sesame Street and Friends. I will be sharing with you several cuts I made, several reasons why I enjoy using this cartridge, and finally sharing the cards I designed with the cuts.

These have to be three of my favorite all time characters from Sesame Street- Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch!  When you see them you cannot help but think of the Friends of Sesame Street.  Each cut was made at 3.5 inches.

What I love about this cartridge is that each page tells you exactly what paper you will need for each item that you are cutting. There is no guessing! For example, you can see that it tells you when to use the blue paper and when to use the black paper to get the correct cut out.

Another reason I love this cartridge is that is has numbers! While that may not seem like a big deal because you have tons of cartridges with numbers, I like it because I use this cartridge to make birthday cards for kids. It is so much easier to cut out the numbers using the same cartridge rather than switching to a new cartridge.  I am currently making birthday cards for a project that I will be telling you about soon.  I do not currently know the ages for the recipients of these cards, so that is why I left them off.

Sesame Street and Friends Cricut Cartridge

Quick and easy and totally cute:)  Cookie Monster can brighten any card.

Once again, using the Cricut cut out on this card made this card quick and easy. A paper flower was added for a bit of dimension.

Oscar the Grouch's card is made from recycled wallpaper.  

He is inked for interest as is his garbage can.  

Quick and easy cards can come to life with this Sesame Street and Friends Cricut cartridge.  It can also be used for scrapbook pages for theme birthday parties:)  I really enjoyed making these cards and I can't wait to send them in the mail to some very deserving children.

Thank you for stopping by.

~Madison



Really cool cards! They are all a little different! I would never had thought of using wall paper on a card! Very creative! I am so glad that you are on the Cooking with Cricut design team with me! Be sure to head over to Madison's Blog to leave her some bloggy love!


Be 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 making us a part of your crafty time! We appreciate you all so much!


~Court and the rest of the CWC Design Team

CWC #90: Father's Day Gift Ideas

Happy Wednesday and welcome to challenge day at Cooking With Cricut!  Our Design Team was challenged to come up with gift ideas for Father's Day this week -- no cards allowed!  So without further ado here is our salute to dear old Dad . . .

Don't forget, you can click on the Designer's name to travel over to their blog for more details on their project and to leave them a comment and let them know how much you enjoyed their works of heart!

Madison

Cricut cartridge used:  Everyday Paper Dolls

Court

Cricut Cartridge used:  Ribbons & Rosettes

(This is an 8" x 8" scrapbook layout Court made for her
Dad's album that will feature a picture of him and his Dad.)

Jamie A.

Cricut cartridges used:  Handyman (Lite) and A Child's Year

Suzanne

Cricut cartridge used:  Tags, Bags, Boxes & More 2

Jennie B.

Cricut cartridge used:  Father's Day

Melissa

Cricut cartridges used:  Cuttin' Up and Classic Font

Hattie

Cricut cartridge used:  Father's Day

Larelyn

Cricut cartridge used:  Billionaire (Lite)

Jamie L.

Cricut cartridge used:  Wrap It Up

(Jamie used the same tie die cut that she used

for the tag to cut out her sugar cookies.)

Now it's your turn!  Link up your Father's Day Gift Idea -- remember, no cards -- for a chance to 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 Madison has whipped up using the Sesame Street Friends cartridge in our Thursday Showcase!


~ CWC Design Team

PCW Vacation Challenge

Good afternoon crafty friends,

Thank you so much for visiting us today and welcome to our Die Cut and or Stamp Challenge. Today’s Hostess with the mostess is no other than our beautiful Designer Evelyn

If you are a follower of our blog, then you know that Evelyn is like one of the “back bones” of our PCW team. She is without a doubt a piece of crafty gold! We love her bright, cheery and super helpful presence on our team. She makes the cutest projects and continually contributes to our team each week! We are so fortunate to have her! Please be sure to head over to her blog: http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com/ and leave her some bloggy love! For this week’s challenge, Evelyn decided to give us a theme near and dear to our hearts this time of year......VACATION!!! Yep, anything vacation related! So pull out your crafty tools and supplies and sip a pina colada, listen to some island music and join the FUN! Here’s some design team inspiration to get your creative juices flowing!

Evelyn

Created this fantastic Vacation Journal to capture all her memories while on vacation! She used the Great Outdoors Cutting File Set. Check out the details! DIRECT LINK

Marji

Created this super cute layout featuring the “Beach Hippo Digi” from PCW.

Head over to Marji’s Blog for the “sunshiney” details: DIRECT LINK

Mindy

Mindy used her new Cameo and the marvelous Print N’ Cut feature with the Beach Hippo Digi.  Here is a pic of the Hippo and below is her finished card. Get all the details on her blog: DIRECT LINK

Janet

Created this wonderful layout using the new Playing In The Sand CF Set from PCW.

Get all the details on her blog. DIRECT LINK

Candice

Created this adorable card using the Beach Hippo Digi. Please visit her blog for all the details. DIRECT LINK

Melin
Created this layout for all the campers out there! This is a "soon to be released" page kit at Page-Kits.com 

Now it’s your turn to share your wonderful vacation 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!

* OUR CHALLENGES ARE NOW WEEKLY! More challenges, more fun!

* 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 tomorrow for our new Cricut Challenge and more!

PCW Vacation Die Cut and or Stamp Challenge

Cricut Showcase: Paisley

Today I am so happy to bring to  you Natt from The Awesomeness of Crafting.  Natt has been such a delightful addition to the CWC design team.  She is always so positive and joyful.  And Natt is also very talented.  She loves anything about sewing and scrapbooking.   It doesn't get much better than that!  So with that, I bring you Natt and her fabulous showcase.

Hello everyone it's Natt Smith here with

you today to share some fun project on this Paisley cartridge show case.

As you can see in this cartridge it's full with fun shape that I think really

perfect for some girlies projects.

First I have to admit to you that I was so frastreted that I couldn't find perfect

stamp that I can use on sentiment. 

Ok,'nuff talk. Let's get started.

"Happy Birthday to You

On this cart I make that Pegasus but cut < horse > and layers at 3" then added

on to card base that made with pattern paper and top with transparency.

"Miss you"

Cut < Snail> and layers at 2"

Last but not least. It will be unfair for me to use this "Paisley" cartridge but

don't make anything that include paisley so on this "Hello" card 

I cut < Paisley2> and layer in different sizes 2.5",2" and 1.5". I also use

flip tools on Gypsy,love it ! so convenience doesn't have to think about turning

paper.

That's it everyone.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

A big thank you to Natt for this wonderful showcase.  And did you notice that she did some sewing on her projects!  Please go and visit Natt at The Awesomeness of Crafting and leave her some comments with love.  Please come back and join us daily here at Cooking With Cricut/  We always have something new to share with you.  

Thanks,

Charlotte

Some Layouts And Free STUFF

Good morning crafty friends,

I just wanted to share a few layouts I have been working on recently. Normally I make “sample” pages that have just photo mattes and no pictures. But these are for a friend of a friend who is currently putting together books for her three adult children. So there was a lot to scrapbook. 

My Sweet Girls Layout

This layout is pretty simple. Nothing too fancy. The little girls on this layout are so precious looking! There were 8 photos to get on here, so we didn’t want to take away from any of them.

Cartridge used: Hello Kitty Font

Large letters: 2.5” Shadowed

Small Letters: 1.5” Shadowed

Large Butterfly: 3.5”

Small Butterfly: 2.5”

Childhood Memories Layout

This layout showcased several photos of different special occasions. Because these boys are twins, I made two Indian Bears.

I created this layout using the following cartridges:

Indian Bears: Paper Doll Dress Up

Childhood Title: Robotz and Gypsy (To Weld)

If you don’t have the Gypsy, you can still cut out the letters from the Robotz Cartridge alone.  The letters are approximately 2.25” high.

The memories title block is one that I created. You can download the FREE jpg file below. You can also download the FREE Gypsy File for the “Childhood” Title. You will need a Gypsy and the Robotz Cartridge for it to work.

Giddy Up Layout

I honestly can’t remember if I shared this one before. So I am doing it again. This layout was pretty simple. I used the following cartridges:

Horse: Boys Will Be Boys

Giddy Up Title: Disney/Pixar Toy Story

I also used some buttons and some Cappuccino Twine from the The Twinery to make a “faux rope” to decorate the photo matte.

8th Grade Graduation Layout

Here is another simple layout. I used the following cartridges:

Number and Letter for title: 3 Birds-Life’s A Party

Graduation Cap: Everyday Pop-Up Cards

Gypsy To Weld Them Together.

I created the “Graduation” title block. I used some Twine from The Twinery to create the “tassel” on the grad cap. If you would like the title, you can download the Gypsy file below.

Well, I think that is it for today. I don’t want to overload you. I will share some more tomorrow

Now for the FREE DOWNLOADS

GYPSY FILES

These are files that will work with your Gypsy. They are the welded titles I created in the layouts above. You will need your Gypsy and the corresponding cartridges in order for these files to work.

Childhood GYPSY Welded Title

Click the add to cart button and check out. It will not cost anything to download during the free offer period.

8th Grade GYPSY Welded Title

Click the add to cart button and check out. It will not cost anything to download during the free offer period.

Digital Printable Downloads

These files are in .JPG format. They can be resized, printed and hand cut or if your electronic die cut machine has the ability, you can print n’ cut.

CLICK HERE
to go and download for free during free offer period. Free offer expires 6-14-12

Electronic Cutting File

Okay, I hate to leave anyone out. So I decided to “whip up” a title so that those of you who have “other cutters” can utilize them.

CLICK HERE
to go and download for free during free offer period. Free offer expires 6-14-12

Please be sure to come back tomorrow as I will share some more projects and who knows.....maybe another freebie or two!

Thank you so much for stopping by and making us a part of your crafty time!

-Melin