Sunday, May 16, 2010

CyberCrop Weekend

This has been a busy weekend of crafting. Over at the MTC forum, I participated in their first ever CyberCrop weekend. There were 10 Challenges and 9 Bonus Challenges. You had to do a separate project for each challenge. I was only able to get 7 out of the 10 Challenges completed. Hey but that is more crafting in a weekend than I think I have ever done. LOL!!!

See below for my projects.

Challenge #1 - Color Challenge. Use only the colors Purple and Turquoise (white/black could be used for any journaling).


Challenge #2 - Create a title in MTC with a graphic attached to the words.


Challenge #3 - Create a project using vinyl.


I did not get to Challenges #4 & #5.

Challenge #6 - Paper Piecing. Create a paper piecing piece using MTC.
(note: This is the little lamb from the Strawberry Shortcake series I shared.)


Challenge #7 - Create a project using an animal theme.


Challenge #8 - Use three flowers on your project.
(Made this Get Well Card)


I did not get to Challenge #9.

Challenge #10 - Use metal or embossing.
(I used my cuttlebug and nestability embossing dies
for this birthday card.)


Well, that was my first ever online crop and it was a lot of fun. I am looking forward to participating in many more. Want to join in on some of the fun, join us over at the Make the Cut forum.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Strawberry Shortcake (the New Series)

Here are a few files from the new series of Strawberry Shortcake. Hope you like them. You can download the layered .mtc file that is ready to cut, or the .svg file.


New Strawberry Shortcake.mtc - Click HERE
New Strawberry Shortcake.svg - Click HERE

New Huckleberry Pie.mtc - Click HERE
New Huckleberry Pie.svg - Click HERE

New Orange Blossom.mtc - Click HERE
New Orange Blossom.svg - Click HERE

Strawberry Shortcake Pets.mtc - Click HERE
Strawberry Shortcake Pets.svg - Click HERE

Friday, May 14, 2010

New Series of Strawberry Shortcake

In the next day or two I will be adding several characters from the new series of Strawberry Shortcake.
Check back soon.

I hope you enjoyed the vintage characters, please let me know what you think of them.

Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake.mtc - Click HERE
Strawberry Shortcake.svg - Click HERE


Strawberry Cake.mtc - Click HERE
Strawberry Cake.svg - Click HERE

Stawberries.mtc - Click HERE
Strawberries.svg - Click HERE

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Orange Blossom

Orange Blossom.mtc - Click HERE
Orange Blossom.svg - Click HERE

Orange with Blossom.mtc - Click HERE
Orange with Blossom.svg - Click HERE

Basket of Oranges.mtc - Click HERE
Basket of Oranges.svg - Click HERE

Keep checking back this week,
more to come!!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Lemon Meringue

Some of these files have a lot of small pieces, so remember to use my tip in todays post to work with all of the small pieces.

Lemon Meringue.mtc - Click HERE
Lemon Meringue.svg - Click HERE
  
Lemon.mtc - Click HERE
Lemon.svg - Click HERE

Lemon Halved.mtc - Click HERE
Lemon Halved.svg - Click HERE

Lemonade Stand.mtc - Click HERE
Lemonade Stand.svg - Click HERE

Tip on working with Layers and small pieces

TIP: When working with files with lots of small pieces for layers.....after you have cut the section of the file that has lots of little pieces that look alike, leave the pieces on the mat.


Take the pieces off one at a time and glue them at that moment onto the background piece or where they are to be placed.


This way it makes it easier to place them exactly where they go and you don't have a lot of loose, little pieces all over your work area to try to remember later which piece goes where.


Hope this tip helped.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Huckleberry Pie

Here is another Strawberry Shortcake Friend. You can download the .mtc file which is layered and ready to cut or resize. Or the .svg file which is just the image.

Huckleberry Pie.mtc - click HERE
Huckleberry Pie.svg - click HERE

Basket of Huckleberries.mtc - click HERE
Basket of Huckleberries.svg - click HERE

Huckleberry Pie Plate.mtc - click HERE
Huckleberry Pie Plate.svg - click HERE

Check back tomorrow for another Friend.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Apple Dumplin

Welcome to Strawberry Shortcake week!!

This week I will be posting several of the Strawberry Shortcake characters for use with MTC. You may download these .mtc or .svg files for personal use only. Check back each day for more characters.






Apple Dumplin .mtc file-click HERE
Apple Dumplin .svg file-click HERE








Full Apple .mtc file-click HERE
Full Apple .svg file-click HERE






Apple Halved .mtc file-click HERE
Apple Halved .svg file-click HERE

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Happy Mother's Day Everyone

Hi Everyone, I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day. I sure did. My family is so thoughtful.

My daughter Brittney and her boyfriend Miles brought me these balloons, an Edible Fruits basket arrangement and a teddy bear from Edible Fruits.

My husband brought me this bouquet of flowers and cooked dinner for me. Yum, Yum!!! He did a really good job.


My son Tommy and his girlfriend Meya got me these balloons, picture, card and flowers for Mother's Day.

















I hope you had just as nice a Mother's Day as I did. This was an awesome day!!
Have a great week!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Challenge #5 - Pet Adoption


Okay here is my entry for the Challenge #5 over at the MTC Forum MB. If you would like this file click HERE.



Sunday, May 2, 2010

Things to make for a Tea Party

Saturday, May 1st I helped with putting together a Mother-Daughter Tea Party for our Girl Scout District. We had 92 participants. One of the my duties was to create the teabag holders and a Bingo game. I spent all of last week cutting and putting these together for each participant. You can see the pictures below to see what I came up with.

Teabag Holder. I used pastel cardstock, ribbon, Glue Dots (the strips), and teabags. I cut the file from my .mtc file and then scored on the score marks. Actually I used the first scored one for a guideline, then removed the scorelines on my mtc file to cut the rest and just measured with my Scor-Pal and scored the lines - much neater. Then adhered the teabag to the back section at the top of the teabag with a Glue Dot strip . Then used a 3/16 inch punch to punch two holes at the top above the scalloped edge and added ribbon. Then added another Glue Dot strip along the top section of the panel with the cutouts, to close/seal the holder.
If you would like this Teabag Holder mtc file, click HERE.



Teapot Bingo Cards

Teacup Bingo Cards

For these Bingo Cards, I used the same matching pastel cardstock. And cut the teapot and teacup from my .mtc file. I then created the Bingo Cards in Excel and changed the heading from B-I-N-G-O to I-(heart)-T-E-A.
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If you would like the Teapot Bingo Card, click Here.
If you would like the Teacup Bingo Card, click Here.
If you would like the Excel Bingo Cards, click Here.
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This Excel Bingo Card file can actually be used for
any type of party where a Bingo game is needed.
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The Excel Bingo Card file has three tabs to click on. The first tab is the callers sheet. There are two call sheets on it. I printed this out on white cardstock to make it sturdy. One of the call sheets, I cut all of the squares so that those would be my Bingo numbers to call out. The second tab has 80 different Bingo Cards. The third tab has a few extras.
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***If you download this file for use, you can change the "Bingo" title to whatever the theme of your party is and change the "graphic" in the Free Space to the theme of your party.
Hope you find these files useful.
If you would like to see some pictures from the event, click on the play button below.