Frosty Fun....EP Cards Day 3

Wow, day 3 already!! And here are 2 more simple card
ideas!! And both use the EP Season's Greetings 12x12
paper, the EP chipboard, twine, and Want2Scrap bling.

The card above, used a kraft cardstock base, the
stripe and burgundy swirl papers, and a strip of
kraft cardstock punched with a pretty lacy punch.
The "Merry" and the "Christmas" came from the
journal box sheet in the EP set, the 2 ornaments
are from the chipboard set. The bling and twine
bows, add the finishing touch. All papers were
inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

The next card, as cute as it is, is just so simple!!


A soft aqua blue base, layered with the soft swirl
background paper, the stripe is layered on that.
The piece with the holly and the aqua border...
it's a journal box!! It's layered onto a piece of
kraft cardstock, and then the aqua again. Frosty
is a sticker, and the "Seasons Greetings" is a
sticker....I layered it on kraft cardstock cut into
a banner. A punched border from the red swirl
paper, and some Want2Scrap red pearls finish
this one off.

Wow, just gotta say....hope you are seeing how
easy is it to grab one of these Echo Park kits,
and really run with it.....you add a few minimal
embellishments, and get major impact!!

Remember, Kim has all these goodies at
Cutter's Creek:
Echo Park paper collections (Season's Greetings)
Echo Park chipboard (Season's Greetings)
Want2Scrap bling and pearls (red pearls, silver swirls)
Doodlebug Twine
Distress Ink (Vintage Photo)

Holiday Cards....Day 2

Today's cards.....more simple easy designs, and
again, all from that same awesome paper set...
the Echo Park (EP) Season's Greetings collection.

These 2 cards are a similar design....but have a very
different look.

The card above, starts with a kraft base. The strip
on the left, with the poinsettias, is from the border
strip paper in the set....I just love the variety on
that sheet for making cards!! The punched edge
adds a bit of elegance to the card, along with the
pretty bling swirl from Want2Scrap. I used the
"Merry Christmas" sentiment, from the EP
Season's Greetings chipboard.

I did "fussy cut" the large poinsettia that is
under the word "Christmas" from the same
poinsettia paper the base piece is cut from.
The papers were inked with Vintage Photo
Distress Ink.

The next card:

starts with a red cardstock base, I added the green/dot
paper, a rectangle of red in the middle, and then layered
on another piece of the border strip....that pretty holly,
then simply added the Season's Greetings sticker from
the set, a bit of Doodlebug Twine wrapped on the left
side, and Want2Scrap red pearls finish the card off, as
yummy berries, and an accent on the upper left corner.

Hope you enjoy today's cards....and maybe get a little
inspiration to make your own cards this year! It can
be a fun, quick project, and friends and family
will appreciate the special touch!!

Come back tomorrow to see what's in store....and
make sure to leave a comment here AND on my
blog HERE for a chance to win some blog candy
this week!!

Shop Cutter's Creek for all your cardmaking needs!!
Echo Park Season's Greetings 12x12 paper
Echo Park Season's Greetings chipboard
Distress Inks (Vintage Photo)
Want2Scrap Bling (Pearls and Swirls)
Doodlebug Twine

Tutorial Tuesday....and a week of "leftovers".....by Laura C

It never fails, every year I say I'm making my own
holiday cards....and every year....it's Thanksgiving
before I know it.....and then December is a blur.....
and yep.....I end up sending store bought cards!

But not this time! And the difference is a "new" idea
that I've started using. These beautiful collection
packs from Echo Park are AMAZING. Not only do
you get beautiful papers, but also a sheet of journal
boxes, a sheet of border strips, and TWO sticker
sheets....with alphas, and so many great shapes
and designs to play with!

So I am going to show, this entire week, how to
take ONE paper pack, a few embellishments,
(twine, bling, buttons, ribbon, and chipboard)
and make quick and easy, beautiful cards!!
This works great for your holiday cards, but
this can work for ANY of the paper packs, for
ANY type of cards!!

The first card is this beauty:

Talk about quick and easy!! All cards are the 5&1/2"
by 4&1/4" size. I just made a kraft cardstock base,
and cut 2 of the border strips to fit (5&1/2"), cut a
strip of black cardstock, the "banner" is cut from one
of the papers in the pack, and the "Merry Christmas"
is on the border paper as well. I used the Echo Park
chipboard embellishments (the ornament and the
star "button"), pearls, a button from my stash, and
a bit of twine to finish this card off.

Next card:

Even more simple....this uses a red cardstock base,
layered with black cardstock (trimmed to see a thin
frame of red), and the poinsettia paper on that (inked
with Black Soot Distress Ink), then one of the journal
boxes, framed on the red cardstock. The "tis" is from
the alpha sheet, "The Season" is from the sticker sheet
(foam dotted) and the corners and poinsettia in the
upper left corner, are from that same chipboard sheet.

And just that easy....2 complete cards....but cards
definitely worthy of giving!!

Stay tuned all week long for more card ideas....all
made with the same Echo Park Season's Greetings
paper pack, the one Echo Park Season's Greetings
chipboard set, Doodlebug Twine, and a little bling!
We can get that task checked off of your holiday
to do list!!

Available at Cutter's Creek:
Echo Park Season's Greetings Collection
Echo Park Season's Greetings Chipboard
Doodlebug Twine
Want 2 Scrap (bling and pearls)
Black Soot Distress Ink

Honeypop Cards

Honeypop paper is one of my favorite new products.  I love pop up cards and this stuff makes some great ones.  Honeypop paper is honeycomb tissue paper.  There are stamps that are made to coordinate with the honeypop paper and they are adorable.  For my first card I chose the stamp set Cupcake Birdy. 

The paper for this card is from the Echo Park. I stamped the little bird with the cherry in its mouth and colored it with my copic markers.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is also from the Cupcake Birdy set. Here is a picture of the inside of the card.

When you open the card, the cupcake spreads out.   The stamp set also comes with a stamp of half a cupcake to stamp on the honeypop paper.   The paper has a black arrow on it to show you which direction to stamp your image.  You need to make sure the arrows on your stamp are going the same direction as the arrow on the paper.

I love this technique so much, I wanted to try a Christmas card with it.  For the background paper on this card I printed one of the paper patterns from the Santa’s Village imagine cartridge on some kraft cardstock.  This gives it a vintage feel which is perfect for the images on this cartridge.  I added a poinsettia and an image of Santa checking his list.

 

I had a pack of green honeypop paper and thought I would try to make my own Christmas tree.  I drew half a Christmas tree on the paper and cut it out.  It worked!

I had so much fun with these projects.  The best tip I have for using the honeypop paper is to have some good scissors.  The paper is pretty thick. 

Cutters Creek Shopping List

Honeypop clear stamps

Honeypop paper

Echo Park Paper

cricut Imagine

Teacher Gift with a Sense of Humor from Lori

I will be the first to admit that this is not an appropriate gift for every teacher - heck, probably not even most teachers! But you know the one: the teacher with a great sense of humor, who's probably been around the block a few times... she's the one who will appreciate this.

(I'm thinking I may keep this one for myself and use it for PTO meeting notes!)  I think these papers from Graphic 45 with the oversized images are perfect for covering composition notebooks.  After trimming down the main image to fit, I added a "ruler" strip along the binding edge.

I find this portion of the image pretty hilarious, so I wanted to highlight it.  I used an old paper tole technique, and cut around a portion of the image then adhered it using the Kool Tak clear 3-D foam squares.

Finally, I wanted to add a fun touch and cover some extra images on the main paper.  I cut out some of the flash card images from a paper, and adhered three of them directly to the paper below.  I wrapped the remaining two with Doodlebug Doodle Twine and popped them up using the 3D clear foam squares.

I can't wait to make another of these with the Christmas papers to keep me organized through all the shopping, baking, and entertaining coming up!

Supply List:

• ABC Primer 12x12 paper pad, Graphic 45
• 3D Clear Foam Pads, Kool Tak
• Cutter Bee Scissors, EK Succcess
• Advanced Tape Glider, 3M
• Doodle Twine Assortment in Primary, Doodlebug Design
• Composition Notebook

Thanksgiving Place Cards by Chris

I just love my Cricut Cartridge Paper Doll Dress Up and I know you have seen me use it before. I’m sure Kim could help you get this cartridge if you don’t already have it. This time I made place cards for my Thanksgiving Table. I purchased these small, galvanized pails over a year ago and decided it was time to use them. I covered them with Bazzil paper and then wrapped the rims with yarn and the Doodle Twine baker’s twine. I started by using my hot glue gun to attach them, but was all thumbs with it and switched to using Glossy Accents. That worked like a charm and left no unsightly lumps or bumps (LOL).


Using Bazzill Simply Smooth Ivory Cardstock, I cut the paper dolls at 3 inches. The first few I cut, I forgot to select Blackout, so the faces cut; once I realized what I had done, I switched to blackout because I wanted to use my Peachy Keen Face Stamps. I then tinted the faces, hands, and legs with Tattered Rose Distress Ink, stamped the faces and after which I cut out the pilgrim boy and girl outfits from scraps in my stash. I used my Zig Glue Pen to glue the outfits together and adhere to the paper dolls and then adhered them to the pail using Glue Dots Pop Up Dots. I added a few accessories like a bow and arrow, blunderbuss, pies, turkeys, and more, using the function keys and keeping the size at 3 inches (Make sure the "Real Dial Size" key is off). To brighten them up a bit I grabbed my Black Diamond and Golden Rod Stickles — just can’t seem to do a project without Stickles — and added a belt to the boys and buckles to all.



Then I turned to SCAL - Sure Cuts A Lot to create the Pennants in the shape library and I just adjusted the nodes on one end to be straight and lengthened the pennant (be sure to take off the “keep proportions” key). I set my Cricut to outline the pennants with my Cricut Color Inks and then wrote the names in each one, and finally cut them out. I rolled them around a pencil to “wave” them a bit and glued them around the handles. Now all I need to do is fill each pail with candy corn and everyone will know where to sit. How are you decorating your table?

Fall Thanks by Laura C

I'm thankful for so many things....family, friends, home, and
so much more!! And then in the crafty realm.....I am sooooo
thankful for Tim Holtz.....ok, silly, I know.....but do you love
his inks as much as I do? And how amazing are these limited
edition fall colors?? I paired these with the awesome Mariposa
papers, and came up with this:

The soft look of these inks and the colors, are the perfect
match for the Mariposa paper!

The details: Using the 12x12 Mariposa Solid Cardstock,
I made a 4&1/4"x5&1/2" card base. Next was 2 of
the mats from the Mariposa Mat Stack. The peachy
patterned paper was the first layer (cut at 4"x5&1/4"),
Next was plain black cardstock cut to a 3&7/8" square.
The botanical "print" is from the mat stack as well (see
first pic above), I used the Ripe Persimmon and the
Gathered Twigs Distress Ink on this piece, then
trimmed it, rounded the corners and layered it onto
the black cardstock.

Finishing touches, of some seam binding ribbon, a
button, some Doodle Twine, Want2Scrap pearls,
and a stamped sentiment, and it's a sweet little
thank you....or it would make a great card for
any occasion....just depending on the sentiment.

Hope you get some fall scrappy time and can find
some inspiration here on the Cutter's Creek blog!

Available at Cutter's Creek:
Mariposa 12x12 cardstock
Mariposa Mat Stack
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
(Ripe Persimmon and Gathered Twigs)
Doodlebug Twine
Want2Scrap Pearls
(Many in store, Kim can order black)