You Are My Sunshine Cricut Paper Piecing Layout

Good morning crafty friends,

I hope you are all doing well. It has been hot and rainy in our neck of the woods this week. As most of you know, I have changed the format of my blog and now have a handful of designers who will be sharing projects with you through out the week. One of the opportunities this change will bring, is the chance for us to share projects that include techniques and or out of the box ideas.

A few weeks ago we showcased the Country Life cartridge. One of the projects that I started working on but never completed is today’s project. So here it is.

Here is a view of the entire layout.

Here is a view of the left page.

Here is a view of the right page.

Close up of the cute little bear holding a flower pot.

Close up of the little bear holding his watering can.
I used my Chestnut Roan for inking the bear and them my Chalks for his face and watering can.

Close up of the sun and title. I used my chalks for the sun and my warm green cat's eye for the grass mounds.

Close up of the banner title.

Close up of the super cute little flowers. I used my Versa Marker Pen, Warm Green,
Tangerine Inks and my Dry Chalks to add some color and dimension to these

One last look at the layout.

All of these cuts are from the Country Life cartridge. I love to challenge myself and create paper piecings from the cricut. You can visit my Cricut paper piecings page HERE.

I do plan to make a little pattern book detailing the “HOW-TO” and patterns for making these.  Again, for this layout all you need is the Country Life Cartridge and the Cricut Expression to recreate this. Of course you will need your consumables too…(Paper, Ribbon, Embellishments, etc.).

I used the following products to create this project
Cricut Country Life Cartridge
Cricut Expression

DCWV Cotton Bloom Stack

Red and Blue Patterned Papers

DCWV The Count Down Stack

Yellow Background Paper

Pebbles Inc. Basic Brights

Cat's Eyes Inks In The Following Colors

Blue Iris, Amber Clay, Yellow Ochre
Warm Green, Tangerine and Chestnut Roan
American Crafts Black Fine Tip Pen
VersaMarker Pen
White Gel Pen
Green, Tan, Cream, Yellow and White Cardstock
Misc. Ribbons

Thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with me!

Bears in Bikinis by Larelyn: FREE Digi

Hello Again,

It's Larelyn from Handmade from My Heart, here again to share more wonderful files from Paper Crafting World.com.  Since it is Friday, we're going to continue providing a FREE digital image so be sure to follow the link below for your free download.

Many of you know me as one of the Digi Gals from Digi Desserts Fridaze, but I do have a Pazzles and I have been exploring the world of cut files (SVGs) too. Today you'll see the same image as a digital stamp and a cut file.

I created this card about a year ago for my Copic class gals.  I used the Bear in Bikini digital printable and colored her with my Copic Markers.  This has always been one of my favorite cards - I think this image is just so cute and fun.

Now that I have a Pazzles (you can use the same files with your Cameo, EClips, eCraft, and most other cutting machines) I wanted to create a card using the cut file of the same image.  I think it's so exciting to find a wonderful image and be able to color the digital image or use the cut file.  Many of the PCW files are available in both formats.

Here's my card using the Bear in Bikini cut file.

So, whether you love to color or create with cut files (or both!) you'll find amazing images at

Paper Crafting World.com

Next Up

Cindy created this adorable card for this month's IFTL project recipient. 

She used this week's free digi download.
Head over to her blog and get all the details.

Free Digi

A short word about our free digi. This digi was created with this month's IFTL recipient in mind. For those unfamiliar, IFTL (I Feel The Love) is a project created by our very own Madison. Each month a recipient is selected and handmade cards are created and sent to this individual and or family.  Please visit IFTL and consider taking just a small amount of your crafty time to create and send an encouraging work of he(art)!

CLICK HERE to Download

Please visit again tomorrow as we continue our Sizzlin Summer excitement.  You'll see great ideas from each of the PCW designers and Melin will be releasing brand new cut files and digital stamps every Saturday beginning July 13th.  You won't want to miss a day!

Big Crafty Hugs,

Happy 4th of July Card By Cindy

Good morning crafty friends,

Designer Cindy of I Am More Than A Mother  is sharing a festive card she created in honor of our country’s Independence day!

Cindy used the Bear as Uncle Sam Digi from PCW.

Here is Cindy with her wonderful son who serves our Country. Thank you Dalton and all the other men and women who protect and serve!

Be sure to visit Cindy and thank her for the wonderful inspiration and for raising such wonderful young men and a wonderful young lady!

Thank you Cindy!

4th of July T-Shirt

Welcome crafty friends.  I'm Jen from Musings of A Crafty Mom and I'm sharing a project I've made with one of PaperCraftingWorld.com's fantastic cutting files.

The 4th of July is tomorrow and this project can be whipped up in time for all of the festivities!  All you need is a clean t-shirt, some freezer paper (or contact paper), a brush, fabric paint and the I Heart USA cutting file (on sale for 75 cents right now).

Plus...purchase 2.50 worth of files and you could get it for half that....35 cents!!!  CLICK HERE to check it out and be sure to use code: PCW50!

And here is what I created . . .

(Sorry about the photo quality -- it has rained here for the last three or four days!)  If you've not made a freezer paper stencil before or need a refresher, check out my blog for step-by-step instructions.  

Here is a close-up of the design:

The sleeves were folded up and tacked; then I added a piece of striped ribbon and a blue star button.  My nine-year old loves her new shirt!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Make sure you check in each and every day for a new project by our Design Team . . . it is going to be a sizzlin' summer here and at Paper Crafting World!

"Sailboat" by Larelyn and a Look at Distressing

Good Morning!!

I'm so glad you're here for the start of our new Paper Crafting World

design team term and the beginning of our

Sizzlin' Summer posts. 

I'm Larelyn and I have the privilege of posting first for our new term.

My Blog: Handmade from My Heart

Although I love cut files, I'm a true digi gal at heart so I'm sharing a card I created using the

Sailboat digital stamp 

from Paper Crafting World.

The papers I selected (Nautical set from Moxxie) have a definite vintage feel so my goal was to color and present the digi in a vintage manner.  I accomplished that by using several different distressing techniques.

Here's a close up so that you can see some of the techniques I used:

          1.  roughing the edges with a scissors blade

          2.  inking the corners and edges with chalk ink

          3.  using a crimper

          4. sponging distress ink on the image while still in the Spellbinders die cut

          5. selecting Copic Markers that carried out the distress color scheme

I have gone into greater depth and with tutorial pictures on my blog. 

Just click HERE.

It's going to be a great summer and we're all excited to share our projects.

Be sure to visit each day to see fantastic creations by my fellow design team members.

PaperCraftingWorld.com Designers

Good morning crafty friends,

Last week we said good-bye to our challenges and link ups. We also said good-bye to several of our design teammates.

Leaving Us Are:

Suzanne P. 

Brenda L.

Kaylee S.

Christel B.

Jennie B.

Sue C.

Sheena M.

Lynn B.

Janet B.

Jennifer R.

Sheena

These lovelies will still be blogging and sharing their crafty lives, so be sure to head over to each one and follow them to keep up on all their wonderful work.  You will see some of them pop back in as guest designers, from time to time, so we will look forward to their return!  To each of you, thank you for being a part of the group. You each brought something special to our team!

While we are sad to see some of these wonderful ladies leave, we are so happy that some have decided to “stick around”  The following are the wonderful crafters who will continue to share projects with all of us. Here is the Summer-Fall 2013 PaperCraftingWorld.com Design Team.

Jen	Madison
Larelyn	Cindy
Charlotte	Xochitl
Sandy	Lynden

Melin

These crafty ladies will be treating us to projects during the week through the summer and fall. This will lead us up to our third annual 25 Days of Christmas Crafting Extravaganza! So be sure to make us a regular stop as each designer will be taking turns sharing their projects. I will be doing more projects with tutorials as well as sharing a weekly free file here on the blog as well as newsletter only subscriber freebies. So be sure to sign up for our newsletter HERE.