Cartridge Showcase: 3 Birds on Parade

Hey Everyone!

Thank you for joining us for another cartridge showcase! Today we have the amazingly talented Chef Melissa  here showcasing the 3 Birds on Parade!!

Today I am showcasing my newest (and quickly becoming my most favorite) Cricut cartridge: 3 Birds on Parade. I have a quirky sense of humor and love to craft fun, bright projects so this cartridge is perfect for me!

Today I have made a few different projects to show you so you can see a few things this cute little cartridge has to offer.

Fist, the banner I made for my son's birthday. (He wanted a "camping birthday" which ended up being a ton of fun. Cook out, tent in the back yard and a cake that looked like a giant S'More...yum!). Anyhow, this little bird was perfect for his banner:

This project also shows you the font on this cartridge. At first I wasn't super crazy about it, but it has grown on me. The cut out in the center of each letter is a birds foot, so you would need just the right project to use it on. The font is also very chunky.

The next projects is a set of 4 Christmas Cards. I looooove these little guys!

These birds do take a lot of layers, but they are well worth it. They each have a very cute little expression that goes with them as well (I just struggled to get it cut small enough for the front of the card as they are pretty precise cuts. They seem like they would be better cut quite a bit larger than the 1 inch height I was looking for).  The caption of each photo tells you what the expression included on the cartridge is for each of the birds.

" Baby It's Cold Outside"

"Be Jolly"

"Deck the Halls"

"Happiest Holidays"

 My last projects are not something you would expect to see from this cartridge. I spend a lot of time on Pinterest and am currently obsessed with the trend of silhouettes of little birds. I used the base of one bird to create these two cards.  I cut the larger birds at 1/2 inch and the small birds on the sympathy card are 1/4 inch (teeny!). The embellishments and expressions are both stamps. I like finding cuts on cartridges that you can make things with that are unexpected. This bird would typically have two layers over this black shape to created an adorable little bluebird.

 I hope you have enjoyed today's showcase and would love to see projects you have made with this cartridge. There are a lot of other cuts I can't wait to use (such as a super cute pirate and a superhero) but I haven't had the right occasion (yet!)

~Melissa

If you think Chef Melissa did as awesome of a job as I do, then head over to her blog and leave her some 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 # 97: BFF Bingo

Happy Wednesday and welcome to our weekly Cooking With Cricut Design Team challenge!  This week the Team was challenged to use the "bingo" card below to create a card or layout for their BFF or other friends in honor of Friendship Day (August 5th.)  Like the traditional bingo game they could choose three items across, down or diagonally to use in their project.

Make sure you click on the Designer's names to visit their blogs for more details and to leave 'em some love!  

Jenny J.

Bingo! . . . Stamp/Ink/Die Cut

Cricut cartridge used:  Art Philosophy

Charlotte

Bingo! . . . Punch/Embossing/Ink

Cricut cartridge used:  Love You A Latte

Olivia

Bingo! . . . Glitter/Punch/Flowers

Cricut cartridge used:  Summer Celebrations

Suzanne

Bingo! . . . Buttons/Embossing/Bows

Cricut cartridge used:  Imagine Word Phrases

Natt

Bingo! . . . Flower/Bow/Die Cut

Cricut cartridges used:  Give A Hoot, Paisley and Plantin SchoolBook

Madison

Bingo! . . . Glitter/Embossing/Die Cut

Cricut cartridge used:  Paper Dolls Teen Scene

Hattie

Bingo! . . . Flower/Embossing/Stamp

Cricut cartridge used:  Flower Shoppe

Larelyn

Bingo! . . . Stamp, Ink, Die Cut

Cricut Cartridge used:  Art Philosophy

Now it's your turn!  Link up a BFF/friend project using the Bingo Card above before midnight next Tuesday for your chance to be our next Top Chef!  Here are the 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!

Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow and see what Chef Melissa has cooked up using the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge for our Thursday Showcase.  And as always, thanks so much for crafting with us!!


~ CWC Design Team

PCW Challenge–Parents

Good afternoon crafty friends,

Welcome to another Terrific Tuesday PCW Challenge. Today our host is DT Christel of OneScrappinSista. She has challenged us to create projects for Parents in honor of Parents Day. So here is what our wonderful designers came up with. Be sure to click the name of each designer and head over to their blogs for all the wonderful details!

LYNDEN

PCW File Used: Oval Swirl Heart Cutting File

EVELYN

PCW File Used: Butterfly From Baby 1 Cutting File

JANET

PCW File Used: Bear With Momma Digital Stamp

MARJI

PCW File Used: Bird on Branch Cutting File

JESSICA
PCW File Used: Birdcage n' Flowers Cutting File

Now it’s your turn!

Here are the guidelines for our Die Cut and Or Stamp 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 any of the free files we offer your project. Or one you may already have from PaperCraftingWorld.com. This isn’t mandatory, but we'd 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 (like SVG, WPC, GSD type) using any type of electronic cutting machine (Pazzles, Cameo, Silhouette, E-Craft, etc.) 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!

Melin and the PCW Designers

Cricut Showcase: Robotz

Hello everyone and welcome to another Cricut Cartridge Showcase.  Oh my goodness, are you in for a treat today!  Our very Becky Litz from Scrap Circus is bringing you some great entertainment and eye candy!

Hi, Becky here with you today and I am showcasing the super fun Robotz cartridge!

This cartridge has so many fun little robots on it that it can suit any occasion  such as boys, girls, sports, chores, pets, parties, and more, the ideas are limitless. This cartridge also comes with icons that go along with the robot theme such as gears and gauges and a really great font that can be used on any layout!

Today I have a few fun little projects to share with you. First off I created a layout of my son and the other little boys I look after. They love to play with this wire mesh wastebasket and their favorite thing is to put it on their heads like a hat! I thought they looked like sweet little robots, so used that theme for this page.

And here are a few close ups of the details.

Here I used a cute little robot and accented him with the gauge  icon.

I created a title box in between the photos and accented it with a little robot and some gears. I chose this little robot because I thought it was cute that he had his head tilted the same way my son does in his photo (the boy in the middle). I cut out two gears and glued one to the page and then popped the second one up on top to create some dimension. I created the word ‘robots’ using the font that comes with the cartridge. I cut all my letters in lowercase, but there are uppercase letters as well, and also a shadow feature.

For my next project I made a home décor item for my son’s room. Now he isn’t even 1 and a half yet but I already know I want to have a Robot theme in his big boy room. I also have the colors picked out so it made it easy to get started on this project.

I bought the ‘S’ at Wal-Mart and just traced the letter onto my patterned paper. I knew I wanted a bit of the white edge to show, so I cut the paper slightly smaller than my traced letter. I used Mod Podge to adhere the paper to the letter and to add durability.

I used the gear shape again to accent the theme. I cut one gear out of patterned paper, and one out of cereal box cardboard and glued them together to give the shape more durability.

I used some different robots on this project to show you some variety. The larger robot is my favorite little guy on this cartridge…he is just so cute and retro, I love him! To balance it out I though the other robot should be shorter than the green guy so I used this squat little guy. He sort or reminds me of a little pet or sidekick ;)  I cut out a solid image of each of these robots in cereal box cardboard as well to make them extra sturdy since this is a décor item.

The last thing I want to share with you is that this cartridge has 5 robots that you can cut make in 3D!  Now I gave it my best shot, but as some of you may know the 3D images are not always the easiest to work with. For whatever reason I had a lot of trouble getting these little guys to work for me so I wasn’t going to have anything to show you. Then I had the brilliant idea to Google the cartridge and I found a link to these guys…

This photo was taken from Seaexplore’s profile on Scrapbook.com and you can see her project HERE. So now you can at least see what some of these 3D guys look like and you can decide for yourself if you feel like taking on the challenge!

Well that’s it for me today, thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you’ve seen something you like.

Happy Scrapping

~Becky

Christmas in July Day 5

Welcome to Day 5 of our week-long Christmas in July celebration! We decided to share projects with you all week long to get you in the “holiday mood”!

This week will definitely get you thinking about Christmas fun and give you just a “SMALL” taste of our Annual 25 Days of Christmas Crafting Showcase held each December. Today our designers want to share a few “off the page” projects with you, so let’s get the ball rolling!

Jenny J. 

Suzanne

Used the Gingerbread Digital Stamp from PCW and the FREE Word Art file from yesterday’s post.

Suzanne

created another adorable easel card using the snow couple kissing digital stamp from PCW.

Melin

Here are a couple of projects Melin created from last year’s 25 Days.

Don’t forget to check out our Blog Hop from this past weekend as well as Day 1 (Monday’s Post) and Day 2 (Tuesday's post) of Christmas in July for more great inspiration, FREE Files AND to enter to win some great blog candy!

Here is Saturday’s Blog Hop Post DIRECT LINK

Here is Sunday’s Blog Hop Post DIRECT LINK

Here is Christmas in July: Day 1 DIRECT LINK

Here is Christmas in July: Day 2 DIRECT LINK

Here is Christmas in July Day 3 DIRECT LINK

Here is Christmas in July Day 4 DIRECT LINK

Here is today's FREE File

Decorative Plate Label 1 Cutting File

Grab It HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Be sure to come back tomorrow for more “Christmasy” projects.

~ Melin and the CWC Design Team