Guess what?! It is Christmas in July at The Cutting Cafe! Both design team posts this month will feature Christmas. This week we are taking any of the animal shaped cards and turning them into a Christmas theme. I chose to work with the Owl Shaped Card Set.
Inside of Card
Make sure you visit the Cutting Cafe Blog to see all the design team projects. We post on the 7 and 21st of the month. Be sure to leave a comment to be entered into the drawing to win three free files on the 21st!
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Hello Everyone! Thanks for all the wonderful comments on the camera box I created for The Cutting Cafe design team blog hop last week! As I mentioned, I am giving the Camera Treat Cup Card and Keepsake Box Cutting File and Template file to one person who left a comment letting me know why they liked the file and how they would use it, and they had to follow/subscribe to my blog.
There were three people who actually answered the two questions and followed/subscribed to my blog. They are:
janja65
Carla Hundley
Katrina
In the old fashion, put the names on pieces of folded paper, mix them up, and pick one method, I chose a winner.
Congratulations to Janja65 who said: I like the design paper you’ve used for the camera, its beautiful! I would love to make this camera box with a mini album for a friend who is pregnant with a baby girl ❤.
Leave a comment below letting me know you saw this and I will email you the file.
Hello All! It is time for a blog hop from The Cutting Cafe’s Design Team! Sit back and enjoy all the inspiration for using files from The Cutting Cafe and be sure to follow each person’s rules for a chance to win the file they chose to work with. If you are following the hop, you should have come here from Mitra’s blog. If you found me on your own and want to start at the beginning of the hop, go to Regina’s blog to start it off. Here is a list of the design team members playing along…
Now let’s get things going for my project! I chose to work with the Camera Treat Cup Card and Keepsake Box Cutting File and Template which has options to make a card or a box that can hold up to sixty photos, a small mini album or folio, or other gift items, and both feature a lens that can also be filled with treats if you so choose. Without further ado, here is my beautiful cameral box…
KODAK Digital Still Camera
Back of box
Here is the box with the top off.
Make sure to visit The Cutting Cafe Blog on the 7th and the 21st of every month as those are design team post days. On each post date, a random name is chosen from the comments to receive three free files from The Cutting Cafe. So be sure to comment whenever you check out one of the design team posts!
Now for the really good part…I am giving this file away to one lucky winner. All you need to do is subscribe to this blog by clicking the follow/subscribe button to the right side of this page, and leave a comment below on why you like the Camera Treat Cup Card and Keepsake Box Cutting File and Template and a way you would use it. I will monitor and approve comments daily so they show below. Comment by 5:00 p.m. CDT on Sunday, June 24, 2018. On Monday, June 25 I will choose a winner and announce here on my web page. Good luck and thanks for stopping by! Now you should head over to see my girl Sheryl’s project! But before you go, here is my YouTube video on my project…
Hello All! This week for our design team project for The Cutting Cafe, we used the new Lip Balm Chapstick Holder Set. The file comes with a few variations – a box, and a single holder that you make a cover out of clear acetate or paper which you can give as is or add to a card or tag.
I think this one is so cute. I made the box which holds three lip balms. You can decorate for men, women, boys, and girls and they make great favors for showers, parties, friendship exchanges, teachers gifts, co-workers, grab bags, etc.
I added a shaker element to the window of my box but you can use acetate or velum instead. I just added some bling stickers and a sentiment from the file on both the front and back of the box.
Lip Balm Favor/Gift Box Back
Make sure you visit The Cutting Cafe Blog to see all the design team projects. We post on the 7th and 21st of each month. Leave a comment and you just might win three free files of your choice on the next design team posting! Thanks for stopping by! Before you go, here is my video…
These are all easy to make even if you don’t have an electronic cutting file as they do come in PDF form so you can print and then hand cut. Be sure to stop by the Cutting Cafe Blog to see all of the design team projects. Leave a comment and you will be eligible to win three free files of your choice!
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This time for my design team project for The Cutting Cafe, we had to pick a shaped card and make it into a notepad. I chose the T-Shirt Shaped Card. I used my favorites, black and gold to make this fabulous note pad.
I added flat back pearls randomly on the front and added a fringe trim as well as some black and gold rhinestone trim.
Close up!
Trims close up.
I chose to use black paper on the inside which will require the use of a metallic marker.
Inside view
Please stop by The Cutting Cafe Blog on the 7th and 21st of each month to see all of the design team projects. Leave a comment and you just might win three files in the drawing on the next post.
The Cutting Cafe now offers custom word shaped card files! So if you have always wanted a name or phrase you could never find, now you can have a file made for you in a PDF or cutting file! Find the details here.
For out design team projects, we got to have a custom file made for us to use. I chose the phrase, You’ve Got This. I also requested a couple sentiments, Don’t Give Up, GIrlfriend, and With God…. You can have a few sentiments too. This time I am using the card as a goodbye and good luck type of card so I did not use any of my sentiments. I just added a few velum/bling flowers and added clear glitter marker to every one of those polkadots!
Inside
Be sure to stop by The Cutting Cafe Blog to see all of the custom word cards from the team. We post today, the 21st and on the 7th of the month. Leave a comment and you will be eligible to win three files of your choice. Thanks for stopping by! Before you go, here is my video…
For this week at The Cutting Cafe, we used the new Animal Friends printable stamp set. It has a lot of cute images and sentiments. I chose to use the chick image. You can pick up this cute set later today when the design team posting goes live for only 99 cents, only through the design team post!!! Click here to see the post when it goes live this afternoon. Leave a comment and you will also be eligible to win three files on the next design team post on March 7th.
I printed it out on my laser printer which allowed me to then use my mini Minc machine to foil it with some holographic foil I have in my stash. I have a holographic paper pad, some holographic bling shapes, like the teardrops used here, and two sizes of holographic flowers. Holographic, holographic, holographic lol!
I printed and holographic foiled the image which is from the printable stamp set and added holographic flowers around it.
Cute holographic flowers!
For the inside, I just used a cut apart from the paper pad.
I used a cut apart from the paper pad I used for the inside sentiment.
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For our design team posting this time for The Cutting Cafe, we could choose any file we wanted to use. I needed some little trinket holders for gifts so I used the Nugget Candy Box file. The original purpose is to hold four Hershey nuggets. But, I chose to use it for something else, thus showing the versatility of the files.
The file comes with three top options. The first is a with a heart cut out. You can leave it open or use acetate to make a window. I chose to line the inside with black cardstock and add a foam heart sticker.
Heart Cut Out Top Nugget Box
The second is a rectangle cut out. Again, I lined the inside of the top with black cardstock.
Rectangle Cut Out Top Nugget Box
The third is a plain top, which I decorated with the heart cutouts from the heart top.
Solid Top Nugget Candy Box
Here is what it looks like open…
Nugget Box Opened
Be sure to stop by The Cutting Cafe Blog on the 7th and 21st of each month as the design team posts go up on those days. Today’s will have lots of variety since everyone could choose whatever files they wanted to use. Be sure to leave a comment. When you do, you are entered into a random drawing to win three files of your choice on the next design team posting! We also love to read your comments!
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It is the new year and everyone is trying to get organized. The Cutting Cafe can definitely help you with that! There are many planners and add ons that can help you plan and organize. See all the planner offerings here.
In the crafting world, many like to send surprise gifts/trinkets/crafty items to other crafters. This is known as a RAK (Random Act of Kindness). In 2018 I want to make and send more RAKs and I used the RAK Journal printable file to help me do it. This file includes a list of RAKS, RAK notes, and RAK ideas. I made my own folder to hold the printable sheets.
RAK Journal One Flip Opened
RAK Journal Fully Opened
RAK Journal Front and Back Covers and First Pocket
Stop by The Cutting Cafe Blog on the 7th and 21st of each month to see the design team projects. This month you are sure to find inspiration! Leave a comment on the blog about the post and your name will be entered into a drawing to win three files of your choice on the next design team posting.
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