Cartridge Showcase: Straight From the Nest

Welcome to Cooking With Cricut's Cartridge Showcase. Chef Jill has taken over the blog today is sharing with you some beautiful projects she has made with Cricut's Straight From the Nest cartridge.  You can create projects that celebrate the naturally beautiful things in life with this cartridge.  It is filled with images of birds, butterflies, flowers, cupcakes, branches, swirls, and more.  Straight From the Nest includes: Layer/Shadow, Corner, Slider, Border, Phrase, and Phrase Shadow creative features.

Hi everyone! This is Chef Jill and today, I'm going to try to do my favorite cartridge justice and showcase it! Straight From the Nest is a cartridge I won in a giveaway! This cartridge is my favorite because of the versatility of it. There are sayings, corners, images, borders, and layers! What a great cartridge!

Here are the projects I came up with:

This is a birthday card I made for my friend. The chickens are the border option on Straight From the Nest. You can check it out on my blog here.

Here is a topiary I made using the little flowers from Straight From the Nest.

This is a card I made for my husband, but the cool thing about this card is that instead of using paper as my card base, I used a transparency! The shape behind the eyeball is from Straight from the Nest.

The "Fall" is a corner feature in this cartridge but I enlarged it up and used it in this sign I made for my home. You can check it out on my blog here.

Here is a Christmas Card book I made. The green border is from Straight from the Nest. You can check it out on my blog here.

This is a gift I made for my friend. The owl is actually a corner option, but I cut off the sides so the owl would fit. You can check it out at my blog here.

Thanks so much for checking out my showcase! Like I said . . . this cartridge is amazing!

Smiles, Jill


Wow, Jill!  So many incredible projects!  Please make sure you stop over at Jill's blog and let her know how much you enjoyed her Cartridge Showcase!

~ CWC Design Team

Challenge #70: Anything BUT a Card with Yellow & Polka Dots

Happy Wednesday and welcome to challenge day at Cooking With Cricut!  Our hostesses with the mostess this week are Court, Holly and Nita. 

Holly and Nita

Court

They decided to change it up a bit and challenged the Design Team to come up with a project using the color yellow and polka dots -- and it could be anything EXCEPT a card.  And the DT outdid themselves!!  Check out all these amazing projects and make sure you visit their blogs and leave 'em some love!

Kemma created this flutterby bookmark using the

Walk In My Garden cartridge.  Check out the details on her blog.

Nita created these altered Tazo Tea tins to hold her Copic markers using the

Mickey & Friends cartridge.  For more details, visit her blog.

Michelle used the Accent Essentials cartridge to create the accents and clasp

on her fantastic paper purse.  Visit her blog for more details!

Holly made this sweet treats gift box using the Spring Holiday Cards

cartridge.  Check out her blog for more detail.

Heather created this super cute 12" x 12" scrapbook layout of her nephew using

the George & Basic Shapes and Doodletype cartridges.  Visit her blog for more details.

Madison created this cute sign for when she's in the "zone!"  She used Formal Occasions

and Wall Decor & More cartridges.  For more details, visit her blog.

Court's little recipe book is all about cupcakes!  She used the

Something to Celebrate cartridge -- check out the details on her blog.

Larelyn used the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More and A Child's Year cartridges

to make this shaped treat container.  Visit her blog for more details.

Jill created these "fishy" little treats for her son's preschool class using the

Life's A Beach cartridge.  Check out all the details on her blog.

Celeste used the Animal Kingdom cartridge to create this adorable journal for

a child battling cancer.  Visit her blog for more details.

Charlotte used the Sophie cartridge to create this neat little "basket."

 Visit her blog for all the details.

Debbie created this mini-bottle gift holder using the Art Philosophy cartridge.

Check out the details on her blog.

Dalis used the Graphically Speaking cartridge to create this great bookmark.

 Check out the details on her blog.

Yolie decorated her paint can using Cake Basics and Tags, Bags, Boxes & More

cartridges.  For more details, visit her blog.

Jenny jazzed up her note pad using the Give A Hoot cartridge. 

Check out all the cute details at her blog.

Fantastic projects, ladies!!  Now its your turn . . . link up your "anything BUT a card - must use yellow & polka dots" project and you just might be this week's 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!

Make sure you stop by tomorrow, Thursday, January 26th and check out Chef Jill's Cartridge Showcase!  And as always, thank you so much for crafting with us!

~ CWC Design Team

Cartridge Showcase: Spring Holiday Cards

Welcome to Cooking With Cricut's Cartridge Showcase.   Chef Debbie has taken over the blog today is sharing with you some beautiful projects she has made with Cricut's Spring Holiday Cards cartridge.

Create cards, envelopes, and boxes with the Spring Holiday Cards cartridge. This festive cartridge contains images for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Easter. Mix and match card fronts with backgrounds to create fun variations on your projects. Use this cartridge to create unique and engaging designs for every occasion. The versatility of this cartridge will surprise even the most imaginative crafters.  Includes cuts for 30 spring themed cards as well as envelopes and boxes.

So without further ado, here's Debbie . . .

I purchased this cartridge last Spring on a whim when I just happened to see it at Michaels on sale. I have used it several times since then and it has only been Spring once, LOL.

My most recent project is using one of the treat boxes and a card that I altered in Cricut CraftRoom. I bought my friend an iRock and some gems as a thank you gift (she is loaning my son her son's lacrosse gear which is saving me at least $300). The iRock itself will not fit in the box but the pack of gems and a few pieces of dark chocolate candy (her favorite) will fit perfectly!

  

I cut the box (the very last box on the cartridge) at "fit to page."  I then took the card and took out the words using hide contour and then cut the card at 4.1 x 3.1.  I stamped "Thanks" using my Big Thoughts stamp set from Pink By Design with Versamark and embossed it.  Then I cut a white piece of paper to fit behind the rainbow.  I glued it on and then used my snow writer pen to make the clouds.  I could not decide what to do with the rainbow so I just decided to color and go for a faded look, I did try to emboss the rainbow but it did not turn out that well using marker, I will have to experiment with that a little before trying that again.  I added some white stitching with my gelly roll pen and some bling for the eyes.  Lastly, I added a few blingy hearts along the top of the box (oh and I put the gems and candy inside).

Since my husband loves beer, and I got him a beer of the month club membership, I used the card on this cartridge that has a beer on it.  I have used it on several occasions, usually altering it for the occasion.  I did this one using a Pink By Design stamp for his birthday card.  Here is a picture and here is where you can find the original post.

I also used this cartridge last Spring for an Easter egg hunt/party invitation. I made invitations for the neighborhood kids, the picture looks like they were green and red but they were a nice spring green and pink. I printed the invitation details on the green paper then attached the pink paper on the other side and stickled it up. The entire post can be found here.

I also used this cartridge for St. Patrick’s Day last year (although we are not Irish we love to celebrate it). I made a two-sided card for my hubby because I could not decide on which card to use :).  Here is one side:

And here is the other side:

The post on these cards and other St. Patty’s Day goodies can be found here.

I actually ended up doing two St. Patty’s days posts last year, LOL.  I used the cartridge to cut the cute Shamrock’s using my Imagine (so I could flood fill it green) and ironed them onto t-shirts for my girls. Here is one of the shirts and here is where you can find the post.

Lastly, I used this cartridge for Valentine’s Day last year (and plan to use it again this year!). I used it to cut the little cards that my boys gave out (simple and just attached a pencil), I also used it for the little containers I made for my kids.  I also used it for the card I altered and gave to my husband. Here are some pics and here is where you can find the original post.



Great projects, Debbie!  Please make sure you stop over at Debbie's blog and let her know how much you enjoyed her Cartridge Showcase! 

Make sure you stop back in at CookingWithCricut.com on Wednesday for our weekly challenge and on Thursday for Chef Jill's cartridge showcase.  Have a great week!

~ CWC Design Team