You Say It’s Your Birthday Blog Hop

Good morning Friends,
Happy Monday!  If you are joining me from the Say It’s Your Birthday Blog Hop hosted by Erika, then you are in the right place.  You should have come from Cheryl’s blog. If you just happened to stop by, then you can go right to Erika’s blog and start the hop from there

Here is the project I created in honor of Erika’s daughter’s birthday .


Here is a view of the entire layout.



Here is a close up of the adorable bunny.



Here is the cute little cat in cake close up.
I used the Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge and my Expression to create this layout. All the cuts came from the Birthday Bash Cartridge. I did not use my Gypsy or Design Studio. This is what I call "straight Cricut" I will put the instructions up soon.


BLOG CANDY

In honor of the hop, I am giving away the following:

Football Bears Cutting File SetIf you're interested in purchasing this set, you can go to yesterday's post.

AND

The Birthday Fun Cutting File Set!This set will be available SOON for purchase.

Or The Winner Can Chose 5 Digital Stamps of your choice at Page-Kits.com!

To WIN all you have to do is:

1. be a follower of this blog and 

2. leave a comment on this post! 

One winner will be randomly drawn!

Here is the line up of participating blogs:

Erika
Abby
Janis
Sandra
Raven
Carley
Lauren
Stephanie
Jess
Corri
Jennifer
Melissa
Lisa
Elsa
Glenda
Heather
Cheryl
Melin-YOU’RE HERE

Once you’ve completed the hop be sure to head back over to Erika’s blog!  Thank you for joining in the fun!

Be sure to check out our challenge this week. It’s all about “Shadows”. CLICK  HERE for details and to enter your project!

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderfully crafty day!

Many blessings,
Melin

Happy Super Bowl Sunday Cutting File Set

Good afternoon Friends,

Here is a  file set that I created in honor of today’s festivities. It would also be perfect for your football player’s memories.



This set includes:
2 Football Bears
Football Trophy
Score Board with numbers
Touchdown Title that includes:
     helmets, a football, shoulder pads and goal post.
XLV Letters

Of course the bears are in the “colors” of this year’s teams, but can be easily changed to reflect your team’s colors.

It is at a special introductory price of only $4.99.
The purchase includes the files in the following formats: AI, DXF, EPS, GSD, KNK, MTC, SVG, WPC and WPC14.

 You can purchase it through this button.

Hope you enjoy your day! 

Be sure to stop back tomorrow.

I will be participating in a fun birthday blog hop and will have this new file set releasing.


Have a wonderful day!

Winners Announced:)

Welcome to Cooking with Cricut.

Today we would like to announce the winner of Challenge #14- Birthdays!  The winner of the Top Chef prize was chosen by Random Organizer.

The winner is... Jeanne from The Cricut Corner.  Congratulations Jeanne.

Jeanne created this adorable birthday card that fit perfectly with our challenge theme.  You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog.  As the winner Jeanne will receive a $25 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps!!!

  Thank you PKS for sponsoring our challenge last week:)  Jeanne, 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.  There were 46 amazing entries this week! Thank you all for joining in the challenge and sharing your talents with us.  Here are the Top Three Chefs. You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog. 

Marlene- A Cherry On Top

Jan- Create, Believe, Imagine At Dream Scrapbooks

 Lisa- Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons

***Bonus Challenge***

This week's bonus challenge winner chosen at random from those who followed the LO or card sketch is...

Charlotte- A Little Bit of Detail

Congratulations Charlotte!!

 Charlotte will receive the Birthday Fun Set from Page-Kits.com:)

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

This week at Cooking With Cricut we are honoring the Ground Hog by designing and creating projects with shadows.  Once again you have until next Tuesday at midnight to post your projects.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

Have a wonderful day!

~Madison - Prize Coordinator

C-15 Challenge–Shadow

Good morning friends,

Happy Ground Hogs Day! It’s another Wonderful Wednesday here at CookingWithCricut.com. It’s Challenge Day! So in honor of Ground Hogs Day, we decided to make our challenge theme:

SHADOW!

Complete a NEW project with a shadow! Either shadowed letters, embellishments, etc. Anything that has a “shadow”  Some additional reminders:

• Post the direct link to your project. It must be a new project, please no old projects and no links just to your blog.
• Please try to include a Cricut cut or another die cut using your cutter.
• Your post MUST include a link back to CookingWithCricut.com to be eligible.

Let’s see what the Design Team dreamed up for your inspiration!

 "Saddle Up" and head over to Melissa's Blog for more details on this super layout!

 

Please go to Gaby's Blog for more details on this darling layout!

Be sure to head over and visit Becky’s blog for details on this sweet card! Oh how precious!




Be sure to hop on over to Jean’s Blog for details on this precious school days layout!




“Float” on over to Jen’s blog for some sunshine from our resident sunshine girl and get details on this super cute card!
 



“Swing” by Dalis’s Blog for details on this COOL curved shadow card!











Be sure to head over to Madison’s Blog and get details on this beautiful Shadow Box project!





Be sure to visit Anita’s blog and get details on this adorable slider card!












Visit Ronnie’s Blog for more details on this “Sweet” layout! Isn’t that baby an angel!





 I made this with a new cutting file set that I will be releasing very soon. It features these adorable little Ground Hogs, flowers and title.

 

Here is a close up of one of the little ground hogs.

Now it’s your turn! Let’s see your shadowed best! Just add your project to the Inlinkz link below

Thank you so much for playing along with us! The CookingWithCricut.com Design Team!

Last Day To Enter Birthday Challenge-Free Digi Stamp

Good morning friends,

I just wanted to post a reminder that today is the last day to enter your Birthday creation for our challenge this week. Our wonderful sponsor: Peachy Keen Stamps is giving away a $25.00 gift certificate!  CLICK HERE to enter your project now!

Plus I wanted to post a project I made with my first ever Peachy Keen Face! I recently purchased my first set of stamps from Peachy Keen. I wanted to have some for our challenge this week. I purchased the PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment. Here is what I made!

I was so excited with how well the face turned out! I must tell you, I consider myself to be EXCEPTIONALLY STAMP CHALLENGED!!!!  I really do have a hard time with them. So I was really gun-shy…But let me tell you, these little stamps worked so well! This was my third stamp. The first two were practice stamps on scratch paper. I couldn't believe how well I did right out of the gate! I created this little turtle digital stamp without a face so that I could use my PK Stamps.

Here is a close up of the turtle’s peachified face! I must say, I was so impressed with these little stamps! This card also fits into the Peachy Keen Blog’s Challenge of Monochromatic color scheme with this sketch layout.

You can join in their fun HERE

He comes in jpg and png formats and with and without a face.If you are interested in the little Turtle Digital Stamp, you can purchase him here. I made him with and without a face, so those of you that want to give him a “Peachy” Face can do so as well as those who may not have them….YET…lol

You can purchase him through this button. Birthday Turtle Set: $1.50

REMINDER! There is still time to comment on my CCR Design Team’s First Project for a chance to win the Cutting Files or Digital Stamps for this project. Just GO HERE

Lastly, to celebrate my “Peachy Success”….lol I am giving you the Happy Birthday Cupcake Digital Stamp that I also created. It is in a pdf format and it is in three sizes 1.5, 2 and 2.5 inches.  Grab it while you can as it will only be available FREE until tomorrow (Wednesday) at midnight.

sorry, link now expired
PURCHASE HERE

Don’t forget to enter our challenge HERE and be sure to stop back by tomorrow when we reveal our NEW challenge!  Have a wonderful day!

Melin