PCW Salutes Dr. Suess

Today on Papercrafting World, we are celebrating Dr. Suess. Melin has come up with some fabulous Dr. Suess inspired files. I have used this adorable little Thing 1 and Thing 2 digital stamp for my project.

I colored the little things with my copic markers and matted them on some bright blue cardstock. I printed the black and white polka dot paper on my Imagine with the Black and White cartridge. I embossed some red paper with my Cuttlebug and added that as a strip across the middle. The setiment which says Hope Your Birthday is Something Special was printed on my computer.

I hope you have a chance to check out the fabulous designs from the rest of the design team at www.cookingwithcricut.com and then maybe pick up some of the files for yourself.

PCW- Purple and Flowers

Today it is time for another Papercrafting World challenge. Today's challenge was to use purple and flowers. This was a tough one for me, I don't use a lot of purple. As I was looking through all the adorable digital stamps on the site I kept getting drawn to this adorable little cat stamp. However, as cute as he is, he didn't have any flowers so I looked some more. Finally, I decided that since I loved the little kitty so much I would find a way to make it work.

I printed the little guy out and colored him with my copic markers. I used my warm greys this time instead of the cool greys. I think it makes him look a little like a Siamese. Since he isn't purple and he doesn't have any flowers on him, I found this Basic Grey paper with purple flowers that was perfect. The sentiment is also from the digital stamp set. You get the cat, and four different sentiments.

Happy Cake Day

Ok, I know it's Valentine's Day, but today we are having a brithday challenge over on Cooking With Cricut. February is birthday month in my family, so that totally overshadows Valentine's Day for me. I decided to use this adorable little digital stamp called Bear 'n' Cake Slice to make this birthday card.

I colored this cute little guy with my copic markers and mounted him on some bright cololred squares of patterned paper. It's hard to see in the picture, but I used my silver spica glitter marker on her fork and plate to give it some shine and went over the icing with my pink one to make it shimmer as well. I think this cake looks good enough to eat and I wish I had a big slice of cake right now myself.

Papercrafting World Challenge!!

The current challenge on Papercrafting World is to create a Valentine's project for a child using the colors red, white, and pink. I decided to use this adorable digi stamp Elephant Love.

I colored the adorable little elephants with my copic markers and then matted them on some red cardstock. I printed the music paper from my Imagine Black and White cartridge. I then added some polka dot ribbon and a sentiment printed from the Imagine Cartridge Better Together. I printed the image a little larger than I usually do by mistake, but I like the way it turned out simple and to the point. If you would like to see what the other deisgners have come up with, hop on over to Cooking With Cricut and check it out!

Welcome Baby

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and you're ready for a great new year! Today, it's time for another Papercrafting World challenge. The theme this time is Welcome Baby. Melin has created some adorable files for this challenge. She is having some problems with the shopping cart part of the site, so if you don't see the one I used listed (baby set 1) keep checking back.

I made a scrapbook page using the Baby Set 1 file. This file comes with the baby bear holding a bottle, the baby banner, and a really cute butterfly I didn't use on this page. I wanted to try something a little different with this page and use my cricut Imagine with it. You can't use the 3rd party softwares with the Imagine, but you can get them to play nicely together. I combined a couple of elements from the Imagine cartridge Hey Diddle Diddle that I think go perfectly with this theme like the rug, the stacking toy, and the ball.

I printed a square of the brown color that comes on the cartridge to use for my bear. I also printed a square of a couple of different patterns to use for her shirt and her bib. I wanted to make sure my background matched perfectly, so I printed a entire sheet of this pink color and another sheet of the little flower pattern I used for the border. I love how cute this little bear is and it was really easy to put together.

The other element from the Baby Set 1 file I used is the banner. Banners are everywhere now it seems and this one is really cute. It has two layers a background scalloped layer and the top straight layer. I added some faux stitching around the top layer and some white dots to my letters to make them stand out a little more.

I hope you can find some time to stop by and play along with our challenge. You can see the rest of the design team's work and enter your own creation at www.cookingwithcricut.com

Deck the Halls

It's time for another Paper Crafting World Challenge! This time our theme is Deck the Halls and we were challenged to create an ornament. I saw a great post on one of the cricut blogs about using a mini pillow box as a little shadow box ornament and thought I would give it a try. I cut the pillow box from wrap it up at 7.5 inches and flood filled it with a fun pattern from Christmas Wish on my Imagine. I then cut an opening out of the front with a nestability. I colored these adorable little kitties in winter attire digital stamp with my copic markers. These little guys are just too cute!! I put the kitties on the back of the pillow box with some pop dots. I then added a poinsettia and a handle so I could hang it on the tree. If I had more time I would have made the inside of the box a different pattern so you could see the dimension more, but my Imagine mat was sticky and kept cutting my blue rectangle in half so this was the best solution I could come up with.

We would love for you to play along with us at www.cookingwithcricut.com and don't forget to check out our 25 days of Christmas celebration with new posts every day in December!

Happy Birthday Matey

It's time for another digital stamp challenge on Papercrafting World. This time our theme is to create a masculine card. This is not my forte. I make a lot of girl cards. I love frilly, but that doesn't work for masculine cards. I chose this cute little pirate bear stamp and colored him with my copic markers.

I would love to say I spent hours coloring the background image with my copics too, but I didn't. I printed the image on my cricut Imagine. It is from the Buccaneer cartridge. The sentiment Happy Birthday Matey is also from Buccaneer. I pop dotted the sentiment and the bear up off the background. Since the background paper had so much detail I decided to leave the card alone and not add any embellishments. I think it's pretty masculine looking. What do you think?

One More Birthday Card

Ok, I have one more birthday card to share with you. This one is for papercrafting world's Birthdays and Glitter challenge. I used the Birthday Turtle digital stamp.

I colored my birthday turtle with copic markers to match the colors in my Echo Park paper. Since the challenge was birthdays and glitter, I added a little bit of crystal stickles to the pom pom and trim of her hat and the hearts on her shell. To finish the card off, I added a flower and put a brad in the center that I made with my Itop out of some of the background paper. If you get a chance, stop by the Papercrafting World blog and join in our birthday glitter challenge!

Happy Birthday!!!!!

It seems like I am keeping with my theme of making Birthday Cards. For the New Papercrafting World Challenge, we are sponsoring a birthday challenge for you.

I used the adorable dog from the Jules and Jack cutting file as my main star. These dogs are so cute and I thought Jules would look great holding some birthday balloons. I cut Jules on Make the Cut. I used textured brown and cream cardstock. I sanded all the cardstock and I embossed the cream parts with my cuttlebug and sanded that a little also. I wanted to choose some paper that had a bright fun birthday party vibe to them.

I think this Echo Park Walk in the Park 6 x 6 paper pad has some great patterns in it. Each piece is double sided giving you even more choices! I cut some balloons out of some of the other patterns and and tied them together with a floss string and put it in Jules' paw. Every well trained dog knows it's proper to bring balloons to a birthday party. This time I have stamped Jules' eyes with a stamp set from Peachy keen. I'm still trying to get the hang of the eyes when I'm paper piecing. My final embellishment was to add a little rhinestone to her collar so she would look fancy at the party.

When it came time to choose files to use for this challenge, it was hard, Melin has so many great ones. I really encourage you to and find a feebie or 2 and join us in the challenge.

Me and Mom

It's time for another Papercrafting World challenge! This time our them is Mother's Day.

I have used the file Hogs and Kisses for this challenge . The files are available in many different formats. I have cut mine in Make the Cut.

I cut the stading pig twice once larger(for the mom) and a second time a little smaller to be my little piggy.

We love pink and black at my house. If you throw in some houndstooth and some zebra stripes, even better! The paper I used on this project is from Glitz. I cut the title from the cricut cartirdge Don Juan and added some litte white polka dots for decoration. I can't wait to fill this layout with pictures of Piggy and I.