This Week Recap Sale Free File Reminder

Good morning crafty friends,
So much has happened here at CWC this week that I wanted to “Recap all the Haps”



Monday
Jen & Melin were Monkeying Around
Normally we have a cartridge showcase but the schedule was changed just a bit on Monday. Melin and Jen created some Monkey themed party and project goodies. Head over to the post for all the vine swingin’ fun: HERE


Tuesday
Die Cut and Stamp Challenge Reminder
Designer Evelyn created this adorable gift tag to remind us of our new bi-weekly die cut and or stamp challenge. Be sure to go to our challenge post to pick up the FREE Cutting File AND the FREE Digital Stamp to help you play along. Also, head over to Evelyn’s blog for details on this super cute project: HERE
Go to our challenge post and grab the freebies and play along: HERE



Wednesday
CWC Challenge #74
The CWC designers have challenged us to another super fun and very useful challenge! Designer Felicia created this colorfully festive card for this challenge. To check out all the rest of the amazing projects click: HERE




Thursday
Cartridge Showcase
Designer Mindy treated us to a wonderful cartridge showcase featuring her Imagine and the Greeting Cards Inside & Out cartridge. Check out her entire post: HERE




Friday
Challenge Winners 
Our Prize Coordinator Madison posted our weekly challenge winner and top 3 picks! Thank you ladies for playing along with us! We appreciate you all so much! Be sure to see the winner’s wonderful creations: HERE

REMINDER

Jen our DT Coordinator is having a great, crafty “stuff” moving sale! Head over and check out all the wonderful finds! If you see several things you like, don’t be afraid to email her and make her an offer....she can’t refuse...lol! See all the updated and super fun stuff HERE

PLUS....

PAPERCRAFTINGWORLD.COM SPECIAL

Take 40% off all orders over $15.00! 

Just use code: PCWF40 

At check out! PaperCraftingWorld.com

DT CALL UPDATE
Last but by no means least: We are working on going through all the design team applications and have begun to extend invitations to the CWC team. We will be extending offers to the PCW team very soon. Thank you so much for your continued patience as we go through this lengthy process. There were just so many great applications to go through. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: pcwdtcall @ gmail.com (remove spaces)



Have a super crafty weekend!
Melin and the CWC and PCW Designers

Winners Announced

Welcome to Cooking with Cricut

Today we would like to announce the winner of Challenge

#73- Sketch + Pick 3.  The winner of the Top Chef prize was chosen by Random Organizer.

The winner is...Paula Bee- Craft with Bee

Congratulations Paula Bee:)

Paula Bee created this adorable birthday card using the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge.  You can "pick up" your top chef button on the left column and proudly display it on your blog.  As the winner Paula Bee will receive her choice of digi stamp or cutting file from Papercraftingworld.com. 

Paula Bee, 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. 

Sarah- Sarah's Stamping and Stuff

Glitter Panda- Glitter Panda

Linsey- Outside the Lines

Birthday + cake, cupcakes, or balloons:)  It's time to show off your birthday cards using cakes, cupcakes and/or balloons.  Be sure to include a Cricut cut on your project.  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

Cartridge Showcase: Imagine - Greeting Cards Inside & Out

Welcome to Cooking with Cricut's Thursday cartridge showcase. Chef Mindy is taking over the blog today and sharing one of Cricut's newest Imagine cartridges -- Greeting Cards Inside and Out.

You will always have the perfect card on hand with this cartridge! It is filled with cards for birthdays, births, engagements, weddings, and a variety of other occasions. You will also adore the ready-to-make projects and cheerful patterns on this cartridge. Design, print, and cut together to take all of your creative projects to the next level.  It features 50 layered images; includes 20 patterns and a color palette; and contains ready-to-make projects and 10 icons.

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

Welcome to another Cooking With Cricut cartridge showcase. This cartridge is full of adorable shaped cards for all occasions as well as envelopes, gift bags, and paper patterns. For my first card, I made this adorable little chicken soup Get Well card.

I cut the card first and then went back and cut another one of the chicken medallions and pop dotted that up off the card. The cool thing about this cartridge is that there is a sentiment to put on the inside of every design. Here is the inside of my get well card: 

My next card is a retro inspired birthday card in the shape of a cassette tape.

The sentiment on the inside looks like one of the extra labels that came with the cassettes so you could label them. I may be showing my age with this one!

My next card is an Elvis thank you card.  I was in Vegas last month, so I loved this card as soon as I saw it. 

I added some gold stickles to Elvis' suit to give him some bling.  I love the inside of this card!  The sentiment is in the shape of the famous "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign. 

For my last card, I wanted to do something a little different.  Instead of making another one of the shaped cards, I used one of the extra elements to make a traditional card.  I printed a square of the yellow chevron striped paper to use as my background and then cut the little fries and ketchup to add to the front.  I love their little faces. 

I hope you have enjoyed my Greeting Cards Inside and Out cartridge showcase.  

~  Mindy

Super cute cards, Mindy!  Thank you . . . thank you very much for bringing us today's showcase!  Make sure to head over to Mindy's blog and let her know how much you enjoyed her projects.

Thanks for joining us today and make sure you join us Friday to see who will be this week's Top Chef!  On Monday, Chef Jenny J. (aka Crazy About Cricut) will be sharing one of her favorite Disney cartridges and Wednesday will be the last challenge of this Design Team's term.  You won't want to miss it!  Our returning team and new members will be announced on March 7th!

Challenge #74: Birthday Cake, Cupcakes and/or Balloons

It's another Wonderful Wednesday here at Cooking With Cricut!  Thanks for stopping by to see what our crafty Design Team is up to today.  The hostesses for today's challenge are Debbie and Jenny J..  They chose a birthday theme to challenge the DT with -- but wait!  The projects must include a cake, cupcake and/or balloons.  Check out what our talented DT came up with -- and don't forget to click on their names to visit their blogs for more details and to leave 'em some love and encouragement!

Debbie used Create-A-Critter for this super cute birthday card.

  

Jenny used the Art Philosophy cartridge and this adorable Birthday Turtle

digi stamp from PaperCraftingWorld.com.

Kemma used the Imagine - Yummy cartridge to make her very yummy card!

Jenny R. created this precious 12" x 12" scrapbook layout

using the Birthday Bash cartridge.

Nita used Everyday Paper Dolls and Boys Will Be Boys

cartridges for an "out of this world" easel card.

Madison used the Pooh Font and Cricut Lite Cupcake cartridges

to make this sweet card for her Grandmother.

Court created this clean and simple card using the Create-A-Critter cartridge.

Michelle used the Sweet Treats and Plantin SchoolBook

cartridges to create bright and cheery birthday card.

Felicia's adorable center step card was created using the Celebrations cartridge.

Charlotte used the Wild Card cartridge for fun card!

Elizabeth used the Art Philosophy cartridge to create her delicious card.

Now it's your turn!  Link up your birthday project including cake, cupcakes and/or balloons - you just might be this week's Top Chef!  Here are some 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!

As always, thank you so much for stopping by and crafting with us! Make sure you stop back by tomorrow to see what Chef Mindy has whipped up for our Thursday Cartridge Showcase.

~ CWC Design Team



Melin & Jen Are Monkeying Around!

It's just another Monkey Monday . . . no Cartridge Showcase today . . . just Melin and Jen monkeying around!  We decided to collaborate and bring you some fun projects with a "monkey" twist.  One of Jen's nephews just turned one and his mommy always calls him her" little monkey."  So a monkey party was an obvious choice!

Did you know that there are monkeys on 17 different Cricut cartridges?  So many to choose from . . .

• Animal Kingdom, pg. 45 and 49
• Birthday Bash, pg. 36
• Birthday Cakes, pg. 45
• Create-A-Critter, pg. 46
• Creative Memories - Storks Delivery, pg. 64
• Disney's Dreams Come True, pg. 66
• Everyday Paper Dolls, pg. 75
• Imagine - Buccaneer, pg. 10
• Life's A Party, pg. 36, 46 and 56
• Lite - B is for Boy
• Lite - Carousel
• Lite - Sugar & Spice
• Nate's ABCs, pg. 57
• New Arrival, pg. 56
• Paisley, pg. 30, 31 and 32
• Sweethearts, pg. 43
• ZooBalloo, pg. 37

Jen used monkeys from Create-A-Critter, New Arrival and ZooBalloo for her banner, party decorations and cake.

The pennant and pennant mat were cut using the Girl's Make-Up Party cartridge
the text is from Cake Basics, the monkey on the left is from ZooBalloo
and the monkey on the right is from New Arrival.

These little monkeys and vines are from the Create-A-Critter cartridge.

Jen used her Cricut Cake to cut the fondant decorations for the cake.
The monkey on the left and the  palm tree are from Create-A-Critter.
The monkey on the right, grass, vines and party hats are from ZooBalloo.
The text was cut using the Mickey Font cartridge.

Isn't this little monkey "smash" cake the cutest thing ever!!!
The text was cut using the Mickey Font cartridge
and the stars are from Plantin SchoolBook.

For more details on sizes and the papers Jen used visit her blog.

Melin created this layout using the sweet little monkeys from the Sweethearts cartridge. She used the "flip" feature on her Expression to create the mirror images.  

Here is a close up of the cute little title.

Melin created this adorable birthday card using the Birthday Bash Cartridge. She also used her Gypsy to "weld" the face pieces together.  The smaller the "Cricut" faces, the less appealing they are to Melin, so she will use her Gypsy to "hide contours" and add her own eyes and nose. Just find an oval or circle on the same cartridge you are using and re-size it make your eyes and nose fit your face....easy peasy!

Last but not least, Melin created this card using the Paisley Cartridge. She also used her Gypsy to "Hide Contours" for all the monkey's body pieces and face. She used a couple of EK Scallop punches and a circle punch to add the sentiment.

Thank you so much for taking some of you crafty time to join us today! Be sure to do a little "Monkeying Around" yourself and create, create, create!  Join us tomorrow as we have another great post with more inspiration from our PCW girls!!!

Jen and Melin