S’mores

Good morning Crafty friends!

Hope you’re all enjoying the summer. It feels like summer is winding down as we get ready to send the kids back to school. It is another wonderful Wednesday here at CWC! It’s a new challenge!

This week’s challenge is all about the delightful summer dessert…S’MORES! Who doesn’t love a great S'More! I must admit, it has been YEARS…since I have had one!

Your challenge this week is to make a project with a S’More OR a project with the elements of a S’More…i.e. Chocolate, marshmallows…well you get the idea!

Here for your inspiration is what the design team came up with!

Chef Jean

Created this adorable layout using: Create A Critter, Gypsy Wanderings, Campin’ Critters and 3 Birds on Parade Cartridges. Be sure to head over to Jean’s blog for more details!

Chef Roberta

Roberta created this adorable “Snack Pack” using her Campin’ Critters Cartridge. Be sure to head over to Roberta's Blog and get details on this sweet, sweet idea!

Chef Melin

Melin created this cute layout using the Simply Sweet and Camping Out cartridges.

Here is a close up of the S’More guy that I pieced together using all Cricut Cartridge cuts.

Here is another layout Chef Melin created using one of the “elements” of a S’More…Chocolate!

Here is a view of the entire layout.

Here is a close up shot of the little bear with his chocolate covered banana split.

Here is a close up of the title using some chocolate kisses in place of o’s.

 Here is one more layout Melin created with a "S'More" theme. This will be a page kit at PaperCraftingWorld.com

Here is the entire layout.

Here is a close up of the little bear roasting his "mallow".

Here is the little "S'More" guy. I used the Cricut for the lettering. The rest are SVG files I created.

Now it’s  your turn! Let’s see your wonderfully sweet S’Moriffic projects!

Here are our few simple guidelines:

1. Must be a new project for this challenge. Please no back dated posts/projects.

2. Must include a “Cricut” cut somewhere – somehow.

3. Must post a link to your post and not just the blog.

4. Must HAVE FUN!!!

Thank you so much for participating with us! We are looking forward to seeing your wonderful creations!  Have a super sweet rest of the week!

The CWC design team!

Guest Designer Tuesday!

 

Welcome to Guest Designer Tuesday

at Cooking With Cricut!

Our special Guest Designer this week is Glenda from Glenda's Cards.  Glenda lives in northeast Louisianna in a small rural area.  She is married with two children and four grandchildren (whom she confesses to spoiling every chance she gets).  Glenda works in healthcare and in her free time enjoys crafting (cross stitch, ribbon embroidery, scrapbooking and cardmaking).  She also loves genealogy, flower gardening, and the Red Hat Society!  Glenda is showcasing the Cricut Forever Young cartridge today. 

 

 

I am very excited to be guest designer for Cooking With Cricut today!  I was very surprised to receive the invitation and of course, loving the challenge blog, I am happy to be here with you!  Cooking With Cricut is one of the first challenge blogs that I began participating in after I started my blog.  I always look forward to the weekly challenge and participate as I can. The Chefs are always cooking up beautiful and inspiring projects!  I want to thank everyone at Cooking With Cricut for the honor of being a guest designer today!

 

My fun with the Cricut began in 2009 when I purchased the Expression.  I am a member of the Red Hat Society and I started scrapbooking our fun meetings and travels.  Which soon led to cards and blogging!!  What fun!  I am always buying red and purple paper.  I enjoy finding cartridges that have great cuts for my Red Hat friends.  I was so happy to find Forever Young - hats, dresses, gloves, shoes, purses --- perfect!  Today, I am sharing a Tri-Shutter Card featuring some of the pretty cuts from Forever Young!

The card starts with a 5 1/2" x 12" piece of red card stock.   This card style is perfect for using your beautiful designer papers.  I am using purple card stock and the designer paper is K&Co. Red Hat Society, which I have been hoarding for some time.  I find it very hard to find reds and purples.  I have used several Cuttlebug embossing folders to add a bit of dimension. Swiss dots is used on the purple background papers.  Do you see the little purple flower on the hat? It is embossed with Bloom Dots and the hat (page 63 cut at 1 1/2") is embossed with Swiss Dots.  The purple gingham mat is embossed with Divine Swirls.  The mat cut is actually flower 3 on page 66, using the shift key and is cut at 4 1/4".  The flowers are on page 69, cut at 1 1/4" and the layers are pop-dotted.

With the card opened, you can see more of my selected cuts.  The Cricut has really been chirping this week!  I used ten different images on this card, plus the layer and shadow features!  The shoes tag is found on page 54 and is cut at 1".  I thought it was so cute and I just had to make room for it.  DMC Memory Thread is used for the hanger and the tag is pop-dotted on the mat.  Ooh la la is cut at 3/4" (page 57) and the glasses are cut at 1/2" (page 47).

 

I used the model14 cut on page 37.  She is cut at 3 1/2", first in ivory and then again in red.  I trimmed the red hat and red shoes off and glued them onto the ivory cut.  The dress is embossed with the Cuttlebug Textile folder.  The shoes are cut at 1 3/4" (page 54), the purse is cut at 1 3/4"(page 56), and the gloves are cut at 1 1/2" (page 45).  Of course, Red Hatters love bling -- must have rhinestones!  Lots of inking, ribbon and rhinestones from my stash!

 

This is an easy card to make, but it does take time cutting out the mats and layers. The photo above is the card laying flat.  Hope you enjoy!  I had so much fun making this!

Again, many thanks to Cooking With Cricut for the great opportunity!

WOW . . . this is an incredible card!  Lots of amazing detail and so many special little touches! Thanks again, Glenda, for your continued support of Cooking With Cricut -- we love seeing what you cook up each week.

Please take the time to go over to Glenda's blog and show her some crafting "love!" She also has a link to a great tutorial for the Tri-Shutter card.  See you back here tomorrow for our weekly challenge. You won't want to miss it!

~ Jen

Monday Showcase: Mickey & Friends

Good morning and welcome to Cooking With Cricut's Cartridge Showcase. Each Monday a member of our Design Team will feature a Cricut cartridge of their choice and projects they've made with that cartridge. We hope you'll be inspired to pull out your cartridges and find new ways to use them!

Hi! This is Chef Jen and today I'm going to share some projects created with Mickey & Friends. The Disney cartridges are notorious for their small pieces and intricate cuts -- but they are well worth the effort.  This cartridge features Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, Daisy and Donald Duck, Chip and Dale as well as some really cute secondary cuts including a border feature. 

I created this card as part of one of my fellow Cooking With Cricut Design team member's "I Feel the Love" Project.  Madison started this monthly challenge in June to give her blog followers the chance to create a card to give someone who may be going through a difficult time.  June's recipient was a teacher at her High School who is battling cancer for the second time. Madison collected 22 cards for Ms. Pentoney! July's recipient is a 3 year old girl named Marley Moore and her family. Marley was diagnosed with a brain tumor near her optic nerve, brain stem and pituitary gland in August 2009 and is currently battling a recurrence.  Thirty-four (34) cards were created for Marley and her family last month. 

August's recipient is is Kate McRae, her older sister Olivia, her younger brother Will, and her parents Holly and Aaron.  Kate is 7 years old and is battling a rare form of brain cancer  (sPNET) that was diagnosed in June 2009.  Doctors were only able to remove about 50% of the tumor due to it's location in the left temporal lobe of her brain and the fact that the tumor had wrapped itself around the left middle cerebral artery to her brain. Kate experienced right sided paralysis immediately following surgery along with the loss of her speech. She has since relearned how to speak, walk and do the many things that young children do, however her right sided weakness still continues.   Kate has endured more than any child should have to -- many rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatments, speech therapy, physical therapy. . . and many, many stays in the hospital.

I will make cards for the entire family before the end of the month, but today I'm sharing 6 year old Will's card.   All of the cuts are from the Mickey & Friends Cricut cartridge and all of the paper is from my scrap stash. 

Here is the recipe:

• Card base - 8 1/2" x 11" white card stock, folded in half
• Mat - patterned paper cut to 8" x 5"
• Car - cut at 6" wide x 3 3/4" high
• Mickey - cut at 4" high
• Mailbox - cut at 2 7/8" high
• Fence - cut at 4"wide x 2 1/2" high
• Tree - cut at 3 5/8" high
• Grass - cut at 1" high (two sections welded together in Design Studio).

I haven't decided what I'm going to put on the inside yet, other than "Hi ya, pal!"  So for now it is blank. 

If you are interested in creating a card for someone who needs a little loving and encouragement -- please click over to Madison's blog and sign up.  Not only will you bring a smile to someone else's face, you'll bring one to your own, too.

Below are a few photos of other projects I've created using the Mickey & Friends cartridge -- the link to the details on my blog is underneath the photo.

Minnie Mouse 1st Birthday:  Card

Minnie Mouse 1st Birthday:  Banner  (same link as above)

Minnie Mouse 1st Birthday:  Cupcake Picks  (same link as above)

Minnie Mouse Birthday Cake

Goofy Birthday Card

Mickey 1st Birthday:  Banner

Mickey Mouse 1st Birthday:  Freezer Paper T-Shirt (same link as above)

Mickey & Friends Wall Art (same link as above)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Don't forget to check back Tuesday morning to see what this week's Guest Designer has whipped up.

~ Jen

That’s Hot Blog Hop

Good morning Crafty friends,

Welcome to the That’s Hot Blog Hop hosted by the lovely Yolie of JustYolie.com!
If you have been following the hop, you would have come from Monica’s site. If you just happened to be here, please head over to Yolie’s Blog and start from there!

Here are my wonderfully HOT creations!

Fun In The Sun


Hello Sunshine


Playing In The Sand Girl


Playing In The Sand Boy


These are all page kits available at PaperCraftingWorld.com.







Blog Candy:
I am giving away a $10 gift voucher from PaperCraftingWorld.com for your choice of digital stamps and or electronic cutting files.

To win the candy, you must be a follower of this blog and leave a comment on this post. That's it!


The next blog is none other than one of my best cyber buddies:
Gaby of GabyCreates.com. Yolie saved the best for last, so be sure to head over and check out what this awesomely sweet and super talented designer extraordinaire has for you!


Here is the hop line up so you don’t lose your way!
Yolie
Xochitl
Tammy
Angie
Celeste
Debbie
Ann
Mari
Ashley
Christel
Jani
Sherry
Monica
Melin (You’re Here)
Gaby  

QQ Blog Challenge - 10 Reasons-Cricut Puppy Piecing

Good morning Crafty friends,

Hope you’re having a wonderful Friday and getting ready for some super fun crafting this weekend! 

I wanted to share a project I made for the Quick Quotes Blog challenge starting today! Design Team member Michelle has issued our first challenge. Your challenge is to create a project with numbers on it. Please head over to the QQ Blog and enter your project! You could win some wonderful stuff!

So here is what I made:

10 Reasons To Love Sam Layout

Here is a view of the entire layout.

I used the beautiful Savvy Davvy Designer Paper From Quick Quotes as well as their new Vintage Alphabet – Savvy Davvy Set (SAM) and the adorable quotes are from the babies, kids & Families Itty Bitty Box Set. The top ten, the list and number border die cuts are from the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge. 

Here is a close up of the Puppy (Bunny) I Paper Pieced. I used my Playtime Cricut Cartridge to make him.

The List die cut comes from the Graphically Speaking Cartridge. The Journaling Block is one that I made.

Here is a close up of one of the Quick Quotes Quotes that I used. I wanted to show here how I was able to stick the vellum quote onto the paper without showing any of the adhesive! I use a very common trick of “following the letters” in the back with my adhesive pen.

Top Ten die cut from the Graphically Speaking Cartridge.

Close up of the Vintage Alphabets from Quick Quotes that spell his name and have some great quotes & additional journaling blocks preprinted and ready to use!

Products and Supplies Used

I used the following Quick Quotes products:

Savvy Davvy Designer Paper:

Savvy Davvy 100 Designer Paper (Back Side)

Savvy Davvy 400 Designer Paper (Front & Back)

Vintage Alphabet Quote Sheet-Savvy Davvy

This was for the letters to spell S.A.M. my nephew’s name :-)

Bloody Mary, Amaretto, Green With Envy and Blue Moon QQ Powder Puff Chalk Inks.

Quick Quotes Black & White Stripe Ribbon

Quick Quotes: Itty Bitty Box: Babies & Families

Other Supplies:

Kisses (Red), Sour Apple (Green), White and

Pacific (Blue) Bazzill Cardstock.

PCW ( Coming Soon) 10 Reasons To Love You Journaling Tag Set.

Cricut Cartridges – Tools:

* Playtime Cartridge (Puppy – Bunny Paper Piecing)

* Graphically Speaking Cartridge 

      (Top Ten, The List and Number Border).

* Cricut Gypsy: To weld the Number border.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you were inspired! Be sure to head over and join the fun and enter the challenge!

Have a wonderfully crafty day!

-Melin

Winners Announced:)

Welcome to Cooking with Cricut

Today we would like to announce the winner of Challenge #44- Bunny!  The winner of the Top Chef prize was chosen by Random Organizer.

The winner is...Judy- Judy's Handmade Creations

Congratulations Judy:)

Judy used the Gypsy Wanderings and Gypsy Font Cricut cartridges to create this pretty layout for the book she is creating for her daughter.  You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog.  As the winner Judy will receive her choice of digi stamp or cutting file from Papercraftingworld.com. 

Judy, 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. 

Suzanne- Cricut craftin grammy

Marcia- Marcia's Memories

Karen- Kaleidoscopic Sparkles

Sailboat!... In honor of Columbus setting sail on August 3, 1492, we are asking you to incorporate a sailboat or sailboat inspired theme into your projects.  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