Picked For You Cricut Card

Good morning Crafters,

Here is my PIO (pile it on challenge blog) DT submission for challenge #27. We used images from the Character Cafe. They are also sponsoring the challenge this week so please stop over there and check them out. I used the Sweethearts cartridge to cut out the cute little flowers. I cut them at 1.25". I used a slightly used mat. So it was sticky enough to hold but not too sticky that the flowers tore when getting them off :-).

So here are the challenges for this project:

PIO Holiday Colors for a NON holiday card (Christmas colors)

All Sorts - Heart

Crazy 4 Challenges - Red, Black & White

Speedy The Cat - Punches ( Photo corners are an EK punch)

Digi Doodleshop - Texture

Shabby Tea Room - Embossing

Card Patterns - Card Sketch

So needless to say, I had to hop over to random dot org and get a winner! The winner was.... Lucky #32.....Suzi Q. YEAH SUZI!

Suziq commented:

"God has definitely given you a great gift! How adorable! I love this layout. I believe those amazing penguins came from the Preserves cart. I found your site last month and became a follower. Thank you for creating such a great site to inspire us with your designs and sharing your faith".

Alright darling Suzi....I need to hear from you. Please email me at: melin (at) scrapbookeden (dot) com with your info so I can mail this layout to you!

Thank you to everyone who entered. I am going to have to roll up my sleeves and come up with a new challenge! Please stay tuned!

Happy Crafting....Melin

So Sweet Card Cricut and Cut File

Good morning all,

I am sharing this super cute card I made today! I used the Cindy Loo Cartridge to create the "Doily" background. I created the "So Sweet" title.

Here is a side view of the card to show dimension. You can't see it too well, but I glittered the whole doily with some Martha Stewart Glitter. I decided to "Kick It" old school style wit the glitter this time. I love my Stickles, but I just loved the texture of this glitter on the whole doily. It really gave it a nice effect.

Here is the inside of the card.

Here is a closeup of the inside top of the card. I cut another "doily" out of Cindy Loo and created the digi stamp sentiment.

Here is the bottom of the inside of the card. Ready for my personal sentiment to the recipient. I cut the cherries from the same title that I created.

Here's the recipe

• Finished card size is 6 x 6


• I used the Cindy Loo Cartridge - I cut two doilies out of white cardstock one at 5.75" for the outside of the card and one at 5.5" for the inside of the card.


• Cricut With SCAL or MTC (or just about any other electronic die cutting device). This is to cut out the "So Sweet Title" I created.


• Bazzill cardstock: White(Simply Smooth), Tomato(Red) and Raven(black)


• Copic Markers: Green(Colored in the cherry Stems).


• Basic Grey: Patterned Paper. (Cut three pieces: one at 5 and 7/8th" one at 5.75" and one at 5.5"


• Printed Out the Digi Sentiment I created.


• Colorbox Chalk Inks: Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan, Maroon (Inked outer edge of outside doily and the white Outline of the title in Creamy brown for just the slightest grunge effect)Inked the patterned paper and inside white in the Chestnut Roan and the cherries in Maroon).


• Glitter: Martha Stewart coarse glitter( I covered the outside doily completely in this. It really gave it a great effect. Sorry the picture really doesn't convey this element).


• Stickles: Red and Lime Green (Used red on the red title letters and Lime Green on the Outside Cherry Stems)


• White Signo Pen

Rolled or Lollipop Flower Tutorial

Good afternoon all,

I am just posting a quick "how to" on the roses I made on the card I posted a few days ago. I have received several emails with questions. I hope this will help :-)

As always, if you have ANY questions, please feel free to email me at:

melin at scrapbookeden dot com!

Okay....Here we go!

To start, you will cut out the flowers in the desired paper. You can get the cutting file HERE. It has the following formats: SVG, GSD, WPC and KNK.

Next I Inked the edges of BOTH sides. I wasn't too careful about how I inked as I wanted the flowers to have a "shabby" appearance.

After inking the edges, I spritzed some Glimmer Mist onto my mat and used a sponge to brush it onto the rose. 100% coverage. If you don't have Glimmer Mist, you can always use plain water.

Here is a shot of brushing the Glimmer Mist On.

Now you will begin to roll the rose. With the papter moist, it will be very easy to bend the paper without tearing it. You can use anything you have that has a round, smooth barrel. I used the barrel of my chalk applicator. Just begin to wrap it around your object. The smaller the object, th tighter the roll.

Here is a shot of the paper rolled around just once.

Here is a shot of it rolled a few times. I just tried to keep the "roll or wrap" as parallel and or straight with the rest of the roll.

Here I am at the end. The middle will ultimately be your bottom.

Now I just attached a glue dot to the bottom and will "sit" the rest of the rose on that.

Here is the finished rose. This shot was actually taken BEFORE I glued it down. When you do this with "moist" paper, it will keep its "roll" or shape real well.

Here are a few variations. Some were the same, I just rolled them "tighter" the little one was the file sized down and the darker pink ones are from a patterned paper that had a white core.

The sky is the limit with what and how you can make these roses.
Head over to PCW for the rolled rose file: HERE

Melin

Little One Cricut 1 Page Layout

Good morning All,

I just wanted to share my first project as a Design Team member for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge blog (FCCB). Our project this week was to use the Cricut in some way and to have a critter and the color orange on our projects. So this is my take on that challenge. 

Please join the fun this week at FCCB as Page-Kits.com is the sponsor and you could win a $20 gift certificate!

Closeup of the Little Lamb

The Recipe

I created the Little Lamb Paper Piecing.

The Title Little One, The Flowers and The Butterflies all came from the New Arrival Cartridge.

The photo corners are an EK Success punch!

Thanks for stopping by and allowing me to share! Have a wonderfully crafty day!

Friendship Card Rolled Rose CF

Good morning Crafters!

In honor of my new Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog Design Team Appointment, I am giving away this flower cut file :-) Whoo Hoo! I was so super excited to be among the group of VERY talented ladies chosen for this Design Team! I will be making projects based on their weekly challenges. For all you Cricut and craft lovers, please hop over to their blog HERE and join the fun!

Here is the card I made for a friend. 

On one of the yahoo groups I belong to, there was a post a couple of days ago about these super cute little flowers. The last thing I remember reading was that someone wanted the cut file for one. So I headed over to my "Drawing board" and whipped it up!

UPDATE: Free Files no longer available.
Please visit PCW for these and other reasonably priced cut files.

The Friendship sentiment was a FREE digi stamp file from none other than the awesome Ms. Penny Duncan! 

Many blessings,

Melin

Rose One Page Layout

Good evening all,

I wanted to share this layout yet today :-) This project is for all of you who use your Cricut and your computer to cut with. This is also for those who have other electronic cutters.

Here is a closeup of the roses I designed. Please sign up for my newsletter AND blog. I will be sending out the weekly update Saturday evening and the link to download these FREE files will be there and only there :-)

This is a closeup shot of the scalloped frame I designed. I used the NEGATIVE or outer edge instead of the scallop itself. I used pop dots to raise the frame to give it a "true" frame like appearance. The butterflies are an MS punch with Distress Stickles.

UPDATE FREE FILES  NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

Please visit PCW for current files.

So to recap: I will be sending out my newsletter Saturday evening with a link for the following 

FREE cutting files:

The Rose

The Scalloped Frame

The Scalloped border strip

The files will be available in the following formats:

SVG for those who use the Cricut and SCAL or MTC

WPC for those who use the Pazzles Inspiration, Gazelle, CraftRobo

GSD for those that use the Silhouette, CraftRobo or Wishblade

KNK for those that use the Klic N' Kut

Thanks for stopping by! I am looking forward to a wonderfully "Crafty" 4th of July weekend with all of you!