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Thursday, November 21, 2019

2020 Calendar - The Cutting Cafe

Creative Creases has Memorial Weekend Extravaganza for "Anything Goes with a Fun Fold" and has waived the backlinking for this challenge. Sure saves a lot of time in creating over this Weekend and still be able to show one of your favorite past creations.

05/28/21 Resubmitted to:

Creative Creases "Fun Fold Friday-Extravaganza"

This is my project for The Cutting Café "2020 Calendar". I didn't want to hide the beautiful floral background so I used some butterfly dies that were quite open. However, because I'm addicted to layers, I got a little crazy and decided there should be a couple flowers in the corner and added a gem in the center. And then...why not another butterfly on the window of the calendar since it didn't hide the vision. The box was made with another coordinate design paper to hold a pen/pencil.

Added a window to the front of the calendar holder, flipped to the side, adhered holder closer to left-side to allow room for a floral tab for each of the months using the smallest of the same floral. The calendars were printed on Vellum and adhered to the frame of each month. Using the same sizing as the calendar I created a backside to record events for the month and adhered to the back of the month calendar. Added a little bling to the window frame.

On the back side of the Holder...another design paper was used to adhere the 2020 Holiday Schedule and another butterfly to match the one in the front left-hand corner.

Calendar Fully Assembled

Front of Holder / Calendar and Box

Back of Holder / Calendar

Thing 1: Trouble Maker

says, "I love frosting on a cake... and the sprinkles and decorations are my favorites. Soooo... whatever you decide, make sure you pour on some bling, glitz and/or glitter on your project.

You can stop here...

OR, you can choose to include Twisted Sister's Optional Twist below.

Double Trouble Challenge #43 "Bring on the Glitz" - DT Project

for Thing 1 Only

Also sent to the following challenges:

Crafty Catz #484 "Spots and/or Stripes"

Just Add Ink #483 "Stars, Spots,Sparkles"
Choose 2: Spots on Design Paper, Sparkle gems on Flowers
Krafty Chicks Challenge #482 "Anything But a Card"
Stinkin' Inkers Nov Challenge "Die-lirious and Punchy"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Design Paper

Every Little Thing

Vellum

Cardstock

Wisteria, Julep, Lagoon and White Daisy

SVG Files

The Cutting Café - Calendar Holder and Front Box
The Cutting Cafe - 2020 Monthly Printable Calendars

Dies

Flowers - Reasonable Dies

Butterflies - Piazza Plenty

Embellishments

Sugar Rush Dots

Other

3D Thin Foam Tape

Friday, November 8, 2019

The Cutting Cafe "Gobble 'til you Wobble"

This is the last Day of the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop … There are many super sponsors and there are no limits to the number of projects you enter. The more entries the better your chances for winning Coffee Lovers' random draw prizes. Click HERE to see the variety of sponsors and the gifts they are donating, and don't forget to look for Blog Candy along the way.

Day 8 - P.M. - 2019 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

(CLBH #1161)

This is my last project for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop using my DT project for The Cutting Café. I chose the Gobble Pillow Box from the Fall and Thanksgiving Greeting Pillow Boxes and created a gift tag modifying the Coffee Cup Shaped Card 2 Template. What a nice sizeable sweet treat box for candies or baked items.

Don't forget to head back to Double Trouble's Challenge #42 "You Have Us in Stitches" to earn extra chances for our Blog Candy (give-aways). Although Double Trouble is not a sponsor in the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, we are giving away Blog Candy in addition to our usual random draw prize. To be eligible all you have to do is to make a comment on our challenge post (Click HERE) and tell us what your favorite Double Trouble Challenge has been or challenge you would like us to create. And...if you add a comment to our Design Team and Guest Designer blogs on Challenge #42 you will get additional chances to our Draw. We have lots of give-a-ways, the more participants, the more give-a-ways.

The Challenge "You Have Us in Stitches" will continue through November 17th, so please make sure you come back and share more of your stitched projects.

Also sent to the following Challenges:
2Crafty Critter Crazies - November "Critters"
CCEE Stampers #1945 "Coffee"
If You Give Your Crafter a Cookie #129

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Design Papers
   Hawthorn
   Swan Lake
Cardstock
   Poppy and Colonial White
SVG Files from The Cutting Café
   Fall & Thanksgiving Greeting Pillow Boxes
   Coffee Cup Shaped Card 2 Template - Modified for Tag
Stamps
   Gobble 'til You Wobble
Pens / Inks
   Memento Black Ink
   Copic Sketch Brush Pens (alcohol base)
Y15, YG63, YR04, YR07, YR09, YR23, YR27
E41, E42, E43 E71
Other
   3D Thin Foam Tape

Monday, October 21, 2019

Double Trouble Challenge #41 using The Cutting Cafe Bat Card

The Cutting Café had a perfect Bat Treat Cup Card which I am using to create my Design Team project for the Double Trouble Challenge #41 "Bat Color Challenge", plus using the optional twist "something that flies" and meeting the requirements for Crafting Happiness' next two challenges.

Although there wasn't a round treat cup tutorial for this Bat Treat Cup, Reginia Easter's You Tube "Watch Me Work Wednesday - Episode 42 Sucker Treat Cups" was very helpful with the assembly of a round treat cup.

What a fun project this was, and of course I needed those Halloween m&m's to meet my color challenge. My husband bought the biggest bag he could find so that he could eat the left-overs after filling the cup...I was surprise how many m&m's the treat cup held. Wait, I need some m&m sugar enery...I'll be right back to finish my post.

Don't forget to visit us at Double Trouble - Your choice to play along with Thing 1, 2 and 3 is your choice.

Thing 1: Trouble Maker

"Bat Color Challenge

Thing 3: Twisted Sister

"Something that Flys"

Thing 2: Double Dare

Crafting Happiness

Also submitted to the following Groups and/or Challenges:

Facebook Group: The Cutting Cafe - Be Inspired
Facebook Group: Stamp Junkies My Post

Crafting Happiness #19 "Halloween Colors"

Artsystamper Digitals Challenge "Patterned Paper"
Daring Cardmakers "Back to Black"
Cute Card Thursday "Spots and Dots" (Do m&m's count)
Creative KnockOuts Challenge 320 "Halloween" 10
The Paper Funday Challenge #10 "Twist: Halloween"

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

SVG Files
The Cutting Cafe "Bat Treat Cup"
Box and Tag for Bat Treat Cup

Design Paper

Hello Pumpkin

Scaredy Cat Complements

Spooktacular

Clear Plastic

Cardstock

Black and White Daisy

Embellishments

Black and White Dots

Magical Sequins

Kat Scrappiness - Halloween Sequins

Other

3D Thin Foam Tape

Monday, October 7, 2019

Thankful, Grateful, Blessed - The Cutting Cafe

My daughter approached me to see if I would be interested in becoming a DT member of The Cutting Café and then referred me to Regina. Well, after my daughter "twisted my arm" and Regina said "I could do it" and because my Cricut was gathering dust in my paper crafting room...I decided to dust it off and start using it. Plus CTMH is offering a Cricut Affiliate Program that can be shared with my customers, so look out Cricut here I come.

So, here I am with my first DT project. A bit of a learning curve working with SVG files; but with the help of my daughter I adapted pretty fast and now looking forward to creating the next project.

Chose to use the "Single Door" SVG File because this was another new challenge to me ... working with a long card ... and a challenge to fill in the space with the different Cutting Café files without hiding the style of the door.

The door was cut with woodgrain design paper and another layer to add thickness and dimension to the door. Uploaded the wreaths to Cricut, imported and changed to a print and cut around the inside and outside of the wreath...they cut beautifully. Colored the wreath with many Copic colors of fall, stamped and colored a small squirrel to add to the center of the wreath. Stamped the sentiment on the wood cut at the top of the door and added a bronze circle door handle.

Okay, the wreath was very pretty, but my thought was to find something to use on the bottom corner to balance out the card. My ideas were all over the place and then decided to put a Trick or Treater on the left-hand corner of the door. My daughter told me to look for Elisha and Friends...and perfect there was a Witch printable stamp available and I chose to use Elisha's friend, Mikala Ann. Printed the images and then used another machine that collects dust "Brother Scan and Cut" and they cut beautifully; however, I needed to do a little fussy-cut between the witch and broom. I know the Brother can do this but the time to experiment would be far more than doing fussy-cut, maybe next time. Mikala Ann was colored with Copic alcohol-base brush pens in a variety of colors, and the plaid you see is not design paper but used three shades of purple and white gel lines to create the plaid dress.

Felt I needed to bring a little of the Fall colors down in the corner, so added a few of the leaves that fell from the wreath and luckily Witch Mikala Ann had her broom for clean up. Couldn't finish there because the house cat was out and appeared to be quite inquisitive on why the squirrel was on the wreath. Done and very happy with my first DT card for The Cutting Café.