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More IFTL Birthday Cards

Good morning crafty friends,

I hope your Thursday is shaping up to be a fantastic one. Today Madison and Melin will be sharing a few more IFTL Birthday cards. So be sure to head over to IFTL and join in!

Madison’s Blog

Cartridge Used: Birthday Bash

PCW File Used: Bear w Cupcake n Sprinkles DS

Details Post

Cartridge Used: Cricut Artiste

Stamp: Art Philosophy Coordinating Stamp Set

Don’t forget we are creating birthday cards for this month’s IFTL recipients. There is still time to pull that paper out and get some done. To read all about the shelter, please head over to the IFTL Blog’s August Recipients and join in!

Be sure to stop back by tomorrow as designer Sandy treats us to another
Fabulous Friday Feature and pick up your free digi!

Cupcake Cards Details Post

Good morning crafty friends,

I wanted to share the details on how I created my cards for the August, IFTL recipients.

Here’s a look at both cards

The finished card sizes are the A2 in white cardstock.

I used the DCWV Glitter Stack for the pretty patterned paper.

The zig zag on the bottom was an EK Success punch.

The “Celebrate” stamp was stamped in Cranberry and is from the Art Philosophy set

Here is a shot of card one.

Here is a look at card 2

Here’s a closer look at the cupcake. The cupcake was cut at 2.25” using the Artiste Cartridge the Green Star shape was cut at 3” from the Artiste Cartridge as well. The blue circle was cut at 2.25”. I used a circle punch but you can also cut one out of the Artiste cartridge.

Products Used To Create These Cards

DCWV The Glitter Stack

Cartridge Used: Cricut Artiste

Stamp: Art Philosophy Coordinating Stamp Set

Cranberry Ink Pad

EK Success ZigZag or Chevron Border Punch

Orange, Blue, Navy Blue, Red, Yellow, White and Green Cardstock

American Crafts Brads

Be sure to stop back by tomorrow as designer Sandy treats us to another
Fabulous Friday Feature and pick up your free digi!

Cricutlicious Saturday

Good Morning crafty friends, Welcome to our special

The Paper Crafting World designers are so happy to share some fabulous CRICUT projects with you today. Please visit each of their blogs for the details about the project(s) and to leave a little bloggie love - it's always appreciated! Let's get started with the CRICUT goodness.

Cindy's Blog

For this amazing canvas Cindy used Sports Mania and Robotz

Sandy's Blog

Sandy used Stretch Your Imagination for this adorable pedestal card. She also used the PCW digi Bear as Bug Catcher

Madison's Blog

For her mini album, Madison used Plantin Schoolbook,

Pooh Font Set, Sweethearts, and Going Places

Xochitl's Blog Cartridge Used: Create A Critter

Xochitl used Create a Critter for this darling birthday card.

Larelyn's Blog

Cartridges Used: Artbooking, Art Philosophy and Artiste

Larelyn used Art Philosophy for the flower and leaf.

The card base and pop-up inside was cut from Artiste

Larelyn used the new CTMH Artbooking cartridge and

the PCW digi Bear in Sundress with Daisies

Details Post

Cartridge Used: Artiste

Thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with us. We hope you were inspired by all this crafty goodness! We will continue to share Cricut as well as "Cut File" projects so don't forget to make us a regular stop!

DCWV Linen Closet - Dream Layout

Good morning crafty friends,

Here is my details post on the layout I created for our Cricutlicious Saturday post.

Here is my layout. I used the DCWV Linen Closet2 Stack.

The paper is so pretty and some of them are gold foil.

Here is a closer look at my flowers. I used my Cricut Artiste Cartridge for the flowers and the leaves. I added copper and gold brads to the centers.

Here is a view of the “title”. The stack includes some pages that have some journaling and title pieces.

This is a shot of the journaling tag. It is also included in the stack as well as the strip underneath.

This just shows a shot of the pretty gold foil outlines along the paper…..Gorgeous.

I followed the DCWV August Stackaholic Template challenge. I just made it into a two page layout.

Here is the August Stackaholic Template.

I used the following products to create this project

DCWV Linen Closet Stack
I got this at Joann's but can't find an online link for it yet. I will update it when I do.

Cricut Artiste Cartridge

Blue, Brown and White Cardstock

Gold and Copper Brads

Thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with me. Be sure to visit the rest of the designer's posts as well as our main post showing you all the crafty goodness: HERE

DCWV Butterfly Garden Card

Good morning crafty friends,

I wanted to share a card I created using the beautiful DCWV Butterfly Garden Stack paper.

I also used several cut files from the Pazzles Craft Room to create this pretty card.

Here is a view of the card closed. It is the Gate Fold Card from the Pazzles Craft Room Fun Folds Card Set. The center floral medallion is a doily cut file and a flower cut file from the craft room. As you can see I just layered and sized the “flower” so that it had 12 layers. I lightly inked the edges of each layer with my Chocolate Ink and then staggered them. I added a pearl gem to the center. On the doily I simply added some White Opal Liquid Pearls for some more visual interest.

Here is a view of the card with the belly band off and opened. The center is a scalloped flap and the sides are decorated with the deco flourish from the Pazzles Craft Room.

This is a view of the center fold with the flap opened. I added in a beautiful Quick Quotes Vellum sentiment. I didn’t want to cover up the pretty design on the paper. I also cut it so that the design of the paper would more or less remain in tact. You can follow the floral stem up from the bottom center to the top center as well as the floral sprig. The picture doesn’t show that the paper is a really light pink with a deep chocolate print. It isn’t black and pink. So I inked the edges of the paper with my Chocolate Ink Pad. The center sentiment area is left blank. This card is for this month’s IFTL recipients so they need to be blank.

Here is a closer look at one of the side panels with the deco element cut file. I added a pearl in the center. I used some Maltball Bazzill Smoothie cardstock and it cut like butter.