Challenge #81: Card Outreach

Happy Wednesday and welcome to our weekly Cooking With Cricut challenge! Today our Design Team is showcasing "Thinking of You" cards for two sweet young ladies who are battling different kinds of cancer.

Patty Rogers is 13 years old and has a rare form of childhood cancer called neurobastoma. She has had three surgeries to remove tumors, nine rounds of chemotherapy, and a stem cell transplant. 

Patty is currently on low-dose chemotherapy, and just received approval to join an experimental therapy study called I-131 MIBG. Her mother is a friend of Design Team member Kemma.

Emily Ziemathis is six. She is the oldest daughter of four children to Sean and Jennifer and although she is small, petite and quiet, she holds her own with her brothers and sister and has a heart the size her mommy and daddy admire. Arts and crafts, pink and purple, horses and kittens are items that will keep her content and comfortable for hours. Unfortunately, that comfort has been disrupted with the recent diagnosis of Leukemia.

Emily is this month's "I Feel the Love" Project recipient -- IFTL was started by Design Team member Madison. Each month Madison selects a different person (or persons) who is going through a difficult time and could use a lift, to receive handcrafted cards.

Here is what the Design Team created to help cheer up these beautiful and brave girls!  Make sure you click on the designer's name to visit their blogs for more details and to leave 'em some love and appreciation for all their hard work.

Kemma

Cartridges used: Imagine-Yummy and Paper Trimmings

Suzanne

Cartridge used for Emily's Card:  Flower Shoppe and

 the Bear Kisses 2 U cutting file from PaperCraftingWorld.com

Cartridge used for Patty's card:  Rock Princess

Heather

Cartridge used:  Rock Princess

Melissa

Cartridge used for Emily's card:  Kate's ABCs

Cartridge used for Patty's card:  Forever Young

Evelyn

Emily's card was created using the QT Patootie TWEENZ Tori
cutting file from PaperCraftingWorld.com

Cartridge used for Patty's card:  Wild Card

Nita

Cartridge used for Emily's card:  Twinkle Toes

Cartridge used for Patty's card:  Forever Young

Madison

Cartridge used for Emily's card:  Jubilee and

QT Patootie Rudie digi stamp from PaperCraftingWorld.com

Cartridge used for Patty's card:  Sweethearts and 

the Raggedy Bunny cut file from PaperCraftingWorld.com

Charlotte

Cartridge used for Emily's card:  Paisley

Cartridges used for Patty's card:  Paper Pups and Martha Stewart Seasonal Cakes

Kimmi

Cartridges used for Patty's card:  Nifty Fifties and Accent Essentials

Cartridges used for Patty's card:  Sweet Treats and Accent Essentials

Jamie L.

Cartridges used for Emily's card:  Hello Kitty Greetings

and Imagine-Greeting Cards Inside & Out

Cartridges used for Patty's card:  Tinkerbell and Imagine-Greeting Cards Inside & Out

Linsey

Cartridge used for Emily's Card:  Paisley

Cartridges used for Patty's card:  Plantin SchoolBook and Once Upon A Princess

Xochitl

Cartridge used for Emily's card:  Art Philosophy and the Bear 'n Cupcake

cutting file from PaperCraftingWorld.com

Cartridge used for Patty's card:  Cricut Basics and

QT Patootie TWEENZ Tori from PaperCraftingWorld.com

Court

Cartridge used for Emily & Patty's cards:  George & Basic Shapes

Jen & Demi

(Jen's eight-year old daughter decided she wanted to help make the cards for the girls, too! )

Cartridge used for both cards:  Hello Kitty Greetings

The Cheerleader is for Patty and the Hello Kitty with Bunny is for Emily

Tiffany

Cartridge used for both cards:  Storybook

Now it's your turn!  Link up your "Thinking of You" card -- you could be our next Top Chef!  If you would like to mail your cards and be a part of our card outreach here are the addresses:

Cards for 6-year old Emily Ziemathis can be mailed to:

Madison Womack

"I Feel the Love" Project

PO Box 1203
Atascadero, CA 93423

Cards for 13-year old Patty Rogers can be mailed to:

Kim Allen
PO Box 6431
Fishers, IN 46038

Here are the guidelines for linking up your cards . . .

• 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!

Thank you once again for stopping by and making us a part of your crafty time! We appreciate each of you so much! Make sure to stop back by tomorrow for our Thursday Cartridge Showcase featuring Chef Jamie A. and the New Testament cartridge.

~ CWC Design Team

Easter, Spring Challenge Reminder

Good afternoon crafty friends,

Today’s post is a reminder of our Current stamp and or die cut challenge here at CWC-MYPCW. The PCW designers came up with some more super adorable projects. So while Easter is past, the ideas are great for next year’s cards and projects and or to do some layouts of your holiday memories!

Designer Evelyn created this adorable card using the Bear in Sundress Digital from PCW. Head over to her blog for all the details on how she did her version of Print N’ Cut. DIRECT LINK

Designer Marji created this super adorable card using the Chick in Egg Digital from PCW. She used some Glossy Accents to give the eggs a clear coat and shine. Be sure to head over to her blog and get all the details. DIRECT LINK

Here is a close up shot showing the glossy accents.

Designer Sharon created this adorable card using the QT Patootie Tori Holding Basket Digital from PCW. Be sure to get all the details on her blog. DIRECT LINK

Designer Evelyn created this beautiful card using the Tulip Medallion Cutting File from PCW. Be sure to head over to Evelyn’s blog for all the details. DIRECT LINK

Designer Melin created these super cute page kits with an Easter theme. Perfect for the memories you just made! You can get either of the kits at Page-Kits.com

My Little Chicks Page Kit: DIRECT LINK

Egg Artist Page Kit: DIRECT LINK

Be sure to head over to our challenge post HERE to enter your project! You could win a free digital printable or Cutting File from PCW.

Also, come back tomorrow as we have a SUPER SPECIAL CWC Challenge for you tomorrow!

Have a wonderfully crafty day!

Cricut Cartridge Showcase: BEEP BEEP

Hello everyone, Becky here with my cartridge show case for Beep, Beep!

OHMYGOSH! (yes, all one word) this has got to be hands down the worse cartridge showcase ever! I have to start out with an apology. I admit it. I messed up. I am sorry. I don’t know how I did it, but I wrote down that my showcase date was April 19^th NOT April 9^th, so when I got a friendly reminder email that my projects were due, I sort of (totally) panicked!

You know how when you are on a serious deadline nothing goes right? Welllllll, that happened to me! My Cricut was acting up, my blade went dull and I couldn’t find another one, I was doing all my designing on Cricut Craftroom and my lap top decided to wig out on me, my camera batteries died, and to top it all off it is Easter Sunday today and my family is giving me grief for doing crafting stuff instead of family stuff!  ARG!!!…Anyways, rant over…I’ve done the best I can with what I had to work with this time around and I WILL do a better job next time. I apologize to all my other CWC teammates for dropping the ball this time around and not keeping things to their previously established high standard of quality.

Beep, Beep is a Cricut Lite cartridge so there is not a whole lot too it. It is very simple to use but SUPER cute, and awesome for anyone who has a little boy in their life!

My first project is a Name Banner. All of the little machines are cut from Beep, Beep; however the flags came from Birthday Bash, and the Font is from George and Basic Shapes. I added Diamond Glaze to the windows of all the vehicles to make them look like glass windows and I added tiny buttons to look like they were carrying a load.

For my next project I really liked the little train so I made this sweet card for a little boy.  The front of the card has the Choo Choo sentiment from the Beep, Beep cartridge and then when you open it up the inside of the card (sorry I forgot to take a picture) says, “that means Happy Birthday in Train”

Finally, I didn’t have time to make projects out of these little guys but I did have enough time to cut out a few other images so you could get a chance to see some of them.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I hope I was able to give you some ideas for this really great cartridge.

~Becky

Bunny Whiskers - Twine Tip

Good afternoon crafty friends,

Melin here with a quick tip. I was making a paper piecing of a bunny rabbit and wanted to do something for her whiskers. I didn’t want to just draw some on, so I decided to try using some twine. Here is what I came up with.

So here is how I did it. I have a spool of Maraschino Twine from The Twinery and nothing that was just a solid color. I notice that like most twine, it is two colors of “twine”  twisted together. So I just separated the twine by the colors first.

I then noticed that each color had two “threads” so I further separated those.

I then simply cut them at varying lengths and adhered them to my bunny face. I didn’t want the “bulk” of the twine to impede the finished look of her face, so I used a pop dot to raise up the nose so it wouldn't look “bumpy” underneath.

Here is a close up of the bunny’s whiskers.

Again, here is one last look at the Bunny. I haven’t put her on a project yet, but when I do, I will share it with everyone :)

Well I hope that gave you just one more use for your twine. Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Don’t forget about our two challenges.

Our Cricut Challenge: HERE

Our Die Cut and or Stamp Challenge: HERE

Have a wonderfully blessed Good Friday!!!