Cooking with Cricut #100

Welcome to Cooking With Cricut’s very special SURPRISE “Thank You” Blog Hop. Why is it so special? There are a couple of reasons! The first reason -- it is our 100th Cooking With Cricut challenge and the second (and most important) is to thank our wonderful leader and “Executive Chef” Melinda Beltran.

Melin started the Cooking With Cricut challenges in October 2010 to encourage crafters to find new and different ways to use their Cricut cartridges. And she has accomplished that and so much more! She has given scores of crafters a place on her Design Teams which quickly turned into a sisterhood of women, who care for each other; who encourage each other; who lift each other and their families up in prayer; and who have shared their hearts and their art through many outreach projects.

So this is our SURPRISE “Thank You” tribute to our beloved Melin! If you came from Jenny J’s blog, you’re in the right place! If you’ve joined us in mid-hop and would like to start at the beginning, please 

head back to Cooking With Cricut – you won’t want to miss any of these awesome cards!!

Today's my last post as a Designer for Cooking with Cricut.  My paper crafting is shifting focus away from Cricut and I felt it was time to pass on the reins.   It has been a lot of fun this past year and I have really enjoyed everyone on the team.  Please continue to follow me, and see where my crafting goes next.

Today's challenge is:
Black & White – use black and white and a small amount of kraft/neutral paper.

For today's card, I used a kraft base, and a black background.  I cut out the little cloud type shapes with CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge.  The bird is a die from Papertrey Ink with matching stamps called Tweet Talk which I cut out of craft and stamped with True Black and raised with a pop dot.  Inside the card it says "it's your birthday" in black.  Simple but fun!   I donated this card to Madison's I feel the love campaign.  

Thanks so much for hopping with us. We hope you’ll join us and leave your own “thank you” in the comment section for Melin at CWC! Now it’s time to head on over to Court – she’s the next stop on this party train!

Thanks for baking with me!  
Kemma

Cooking with Cricut #80

Jump on over to http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/ to play along with me on another great Challenge!

Today's Challenge is Easter

For this card I used Close To My Heart Art Philosophy for the kraft stamp and square shapes.

Supplies
CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge for the Kraft cardstock stamp shape edged in Papertrey Hawaiian shores ink
CTMH Sentiments stamp for the background stamp with Papertrey Raspberry Fizz ink
Peachy Keen Easter Egg Words and Bunnies for the center design stamped in Archival Sepia
LetraSet Pro Markers to color in the bunny and egg
Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores Ribbon and cardstock base
scrap beige cardstock
pop dots
adhesive


When designing this card, I thought about making the kraft stamp shape bigger, but I wanted it just to barely be behind the egg, so that you could see the random stamped background and to not take away from the egg shape.

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #48: Creative Resolutions for 2012 Challenge!

The Challenge: Whenever the New Year rolls around, we tend to do a little self-evaluation and decide what we want to do differently in the year to come. For the challenge this week, we want you to think about your CREATIVE resolutions and record them in some way. Do you want to stretch your creativity in new ways? Maybe you want to try a new hobby or learn something new. Maybe you want to simplify. Whatever it is, get those goals down on paper!

So to start my project, I thought about what creative things do I want to accomplish this year.  Here is my list

• complete unit 1 of the Frances Forestner Weaving course
• declutter the craft areas
• enter every 2012 Cricut Circle weekly challenge
• plan and save for a possible 2012 Cricut Cruise
• update both weaving and papercraft blogs regularly
• sew at least 1 garb item for myself
• sew at least 1 garb item for Michael
• sew at least 1 garb item for Brian
• organize my paper scraps
• organize my completed projects
• do one project for charity
• start a scrapbook
• take more photos

Then I decided to make something I could track these as well.  And I wanted to be able to hang it up in my craft area.  So I designed something simple, used my Circut with the Art Philosophy cart to create the words (welded in CCR)  then I used some grommets to make holes I could put strings through for the little tags (cut with same cart) and I can move them to each section: To do, Started, and DONE!  I already have one as started even though its not 2012 as this challenge is due Jan 5th, so I think that counts!

 Overall sign, about half a sheet of 12x12 paper

 Close up of the little tags

Close up so you can read the words. There are some empty spaces in this sign, and no real major decorations.  My feeling is to randomly add embellishments to it as I learn new things in 2012.

Supplies

The Paper Company Natural Cardstock (words and tags)

Teresa Collins World Traveler Geometric cardstock (the red paper)

DCWV Green Stack for the blue background

2012 is from the October Afternoon sidewalks schoolroom sheet

CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge

I used a dozen different Tim Holtz Ranger Distress inks that I have

grommets from my stash, chose different ones for each hold, favorites 

twine from Really Reasonable Ribbon

and I just got a Xyron Sticker maker, so I ran the words through that and it was fabulous!