This week @ CCC, it's all about the kids. Your challenge is to make a Valentine's Day card for a child. That's it!!! You can use any cartridge and any colors you like.
I chose to use the Smiley Cards cartridge for the ice cream cone and the Paisley cartridge for the heart.
Don't forget to stop by and show us your take on this challenge.
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I promise the next card will use some different colors other than red, black and white. I've been hooked on those colors and it seemed to work well for this card.
I used the Flower Pot Shaped Card Template from the Cutting Café for this card. The template comes with the shaped card and lots of flowers. It really made putting this project together easy as 1, 2, 3.
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I’m back with another Valentine’s Day theme card!!! This card uses the Words of Love Colored Printable Stamp Set from The Cutting Café. The set is HUGE and versatile. You can print them, resize them, change colors, import and cut them with SCAL or MTC and a lot more.
For my card base, I imported the Scalloped frame PDF into Make the Cut Software. I then cut it with my die cutting machine. Using scallops on my cards is one of my favorite things so I'll return to this set often!!!
The jumbled words were printed from the Words of Love set as well. I think it made a great background paper!!!
The cute little rose is from the Sizzix 3D Flower die cut.
Until next time, Enjoy… 
Time flies, huh? I can’t believe we’re already approaching Valentine ’s Day!!! To get started with my cards, I chose to use some of the Valentine’s Day designs from The Cutting Café. The love birds with hearts and the "Together" sentiment are part of a printable stamp set called “All About Valentine’s Day”. You can color them in with pens or you can choose to do as I’ve done and color them using any desktop publishing software program. Or you can cut them out with your favorite scrap paper. The stamps are easily resized too!!! The love birds were sized larger for the card, but scaled down to fit the circle punch for the envelope. Nice! And what’s Valentine’s Day without something sweet. I used the Cutting Café “Candy Box” cutting file to make the adorable candy box. You can fill them with whatever you like. I chose to fill mine with some yummy Granola Thins. They were perfectly sized for this box. More cards to make. See ya soon.
Until then, enjoy…
The Cricut Cardz Challenge this week made me realize that there’s one creative feature on many of the cartridges that I’ve downright neglected. That feature is the “card feature”. So the challenge was to make a card using this feature. We could use any colors and any theme. I chose the Valentine’s theme. I used my favorite colors black & white with a touch of color. I loved this challenge. I used the “Card/Tab” function on the Cricut Paisely Cartridge. This particular card function is with the "Elephant1" cut. You can’t really tell in the picture but the heart is actually a cut-out in the card. I placed the white cardstock with the sentiment behind the cut-out. The matching envelope is also from the Paisley cartridge. I love how both the card and the envelope are cut such they are kept closed by a tab/slot.
After I completed this card, I started to look @ my other cartridges to see if they had this feature. I will definitely be using it again and SOON!
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The Cricut Cardz Challenge this week was to make a Valentine's card without using hearts. Initially, I said, “no problem”, but this proved to be more difficult than I thought. I came up with a pretty basic card. The card base and rounded polka dot square were cut from the Mini Monograms Cartridge. The scalloped circle frame was cut from the Easter Seasonal cartridge and the two little red love birds were cut from the Tie the Knot Cartridge. Challenge met...
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When I said that I'd do more window cards, I didn't know myself that it would be so soon. But I'd promised to make a Valentine's card for someone and I needed to get it done quickly. This one came together extremely fast. Maybe I can default to window cards when it absolutely positively has to be done NOW! Got a couple more Valentine's cards to make so duty calls...
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I was asked to make a card for a couple who is getting married on Valentine’s Day. I wanted something simple but elegant. Thx to Cricut Design Studio and the ability to weld from several cartridges, I was able to do exactly what I’d initially envisioned, but I needed a few cartridges to get me to the final product. This was fun to do and the asymmetrical look (which isn’t obvious in the photo) is very different from anything that I’ve done. I think I like it… There will definitely be more of these. I’m always looking for an obsession. I think I have a new one… So out w/ symmetry! Well OK, not totally… But I will try and mix it up a little in the future.
Until next time, Enjoy...
Well, the challenges keep rolling in. I must admit, I'm really grateful for the challenges because they make me stretch creatively. And this one was definitely a stretch. We were to make a 5 X7 romantic or nostalgic card. That was it. Seems simple, but it was hard for me. Initially, I couldn't come up w/ anything, but thanks to my desire to play with my new Cricut Design Studio software, I was able to make a card that wasn't the regular square or rectangular shape. How awesome to be able to make a card in ANY shape!!! Not only that... I was able to use two different carts and weld shapes and fonts then cut as one piece. This could be so much fun... Anyway, to build on the romantic theme, I made a heart shaped card. The closed and open views of the card are pictured below...
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And it should definitely be celebrated... with Basic Grey!!! The paper used on this card is from the Basic Grey "Scarlet's Letter" collection. I had mixed emotions about buying that collection, but I am pretty pleased with this card...
Lordy, Lordy, between the paper packs, individual sheets, and the monthly kits, I'm experiencing paper overload... Yet, I keep on buying... It's an illness I'm sure...
Anyway, I made this simple wedding card for one of the ladies at my church...
