I tried my hand at shabby chic. I think the person I made it for will really like it. Before I take you into photo overload, remember that we post design team projects on The Cutting Cafe Blog every 7th and 21st of each month. Make sure you visit to see the new projects as well as to leave a comment to be eligible to win three free files!
Ok, back to the photos. I will show you all angles…
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For our projects this week, we could choose from any files at The Cutting Cafe. There is sure to be a large variety for our Design Team post this time. Make sure you stop by the blog and take a look. Leave a comment because we love reading them and it will automatically put you in a drawing to win three files on our next post date (we post on the 7th and 21st of each month).
For my project, I actually used four different files:
I really like how it turned out. I used a gradient paper in yellow and orange that reminds me of a sunrise and Easter Sunrise services at church. I added three sizes of individual pearls randomly all over the card which gives it an elegant touch.
For the inside, I cut a second card out and put them back to back with velum for the cross in between. I cut the sentiments and placed them so they would not show through the vellum cross.
Here is a close up of the flower cluster…
To find out how I made this and the products used please watch my video below. Thanks for stopping by!
It is time for another design team project for The Cutting Cafe! This time we could choose from the Dress Shaped Card, Dress Shaped Card 2, or Fun with Dress Forms which I used. I love this file as I am a sewer and I love all things dress forms! I decided to make a screen card. These type screen are used as room dividers and you often find them in dressing rooms in fancy stores. I thought a replica of a screen with dress forms was a cute idea.
I decided to use velum for the screen and in the two middle panels, I encased the dress from between two pieces of velum. On the end panels I put the dress forms on the sides. Here is a view looking down at it…
I used pearl bling on the front of the card along with some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Alicia’s Glitz and More. The pearl spray is a piece I have had in my stash my over 20 years. I am trying to use what I have!
The other panels have a gold dazzle sticker at the top and a white one at the bottom for just a touch of decoration.
Be sure to stop by The Cutting Cafe Blog as we do design team posts on the 7th and 21st of each month. There is always lots of inspiration! Also, if you leave a comment, you will be in a drawing to win three free files as Regina, the owner, randomly pulls a name from the previous post’s comments. Plus we love reading your comments!
Thanks for stopping by and of course I have a video for you before you go…
Upon request I also did a video tutorial on how to make this card…
Sweet Kisses Boxes, Hershey Kiss Window Cards, and Hershey Kiss Bottoms
It’s time for another design team project for The Cutting Cafe! We post our projects on The Cutting Cafe Blog on the 7th and 21st of each month. Make sure you stop over to see all the projects. If you leave a comment, you will be entered into a drawing held on the next post. The winner gets three free files of their choice! Plus we love reading the comments!
Now on to my projects. This time we were able to choose any file we wanted to use from the large collection of Valentine themed files. I actually chose four different files to work with. I made little treats and cards for staff. First I used the Hershey Kiss Window Card file along with the Lots of Kisses Printable Set for the sentiment. I made two different cards, one more pink based…
and one more red based…
Hershey Kisses Cutout Card
The sentiments are designed to look like the paper strip that hangs out of the kisses. But I also used the Happy Valentines Day version of it on the inside under my stamped sentiment…
Those hearts on the inside of my card were the cutouts from the box and the card and I used another sentiment on the front of the boxes, and I randomly added little dots of Stickles on the front of the boxes for a bit of added bling…
I added bling swirls on the front and used a stretchy ribbon belly band to keep it closed. I printed my own title and used Spellbinders dies to cut and layer it. The animal print paper was a gift from my girl Tmika. I covered chipboard for the covers.
Then when it opens, it is accordion folded…
The calendar is on the top and the mini cards are below and allow you to put the name of the person by the number that corresponds to the date.
Here is the back side…
Make sure to visit The Cutting Cafe Blog on the 7th and 21st of each month for our Design Team posts. Leave a comment and you might just win three free files on the next posting!
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Happy New Year to you! I hope your holiday season was fabulous! I was a busy beaver and thus did not have a lot of time for crafting. But, it is a new year and I am back at it. Thanks for stopping by! Today I am sharing my first design team project of the year for The Cutting Cafe. This time we could choose any file we wanted to work with. Regina recently created a Tea Box Holder Set and the minute I saw it I knew I had to make it! I hate coffee and I like tea. So, I made this to sit on my desk at work…
Tea box holder with tea bags
I absolutely love the way it turned out. I wanted something with an elegant feel and I think the gold foiling accents and the shimmer paper does just the trick! The file comes with a lid that comes off so you can put your tea bags in the box. I added a diamond shape knob to the top of the lid. The knob does not come with this file however. It is from another file I own. I also added the gold die cut border to the edge of the lid for more drama. Here are views without the tea bag and a front on view…
This is the box with no tea bags in it
The file comes in a skinny version, which I used, or a wider version. Both also have a four inch or six inch version to choose from. The teapot on the front comes in the file along with a couple other images. I just fussy cut it and pop it with foam squares onto two circle die cuts. The sentiment also comes with the file with along with a lot of other ones…
This was easy to put together and can be done easily without an electronic cutting machine as all of the files at The Cutting Cafe come in a PDF version for hand cutting which is nice. You can print out the pieces and take them with you to a crop or to work on during your lunch hour and not have to be tied to a machine!
Make sure you visit The Cutting Cafe Blog this week. The design team posts go up on the afternoons of the 7th and 21st of each month. Leave a comment and you will be entered into the drawing on the next post to win three free files of your choice! Plus we love to read your comments!
Thanks for stopping by! Before you go, I have a few more pics and a video for you to enjoy!
It is time for another design team post for The Cutting Cafe. This time we are all about Christmas and shaker cards. We could choose from either the Christmas Word Shakers or the Christmas Shape Shaker Cards which I used. This file comes with eight different shapes including a bell, a snowman, a mitten, and the present that I used.
I used glitter paper and added foam tape to create the shaker area. There is a tutorial on the website on how to make the shakers as well as written directions in the file. They are really easy to make. I used hexagon shaped glitter from Martha Stewart for my shaker element.
Even though this is a Christmas file, it can still be used for other things. For example, I used the same file to create a birthday card…
Birthday Present Shaker Card
I changed the size of the card and made the bow smaller so the background paper would show.
Be sure to visit The Cutting Cafe Blog on the 7th and 21st of each month as we posts our projects on those dates. We love to read your comments! So when you leave a comment, you are included in a random drawing that will take place on the next post date. If your name is selected, you will win three free files!
Thank you so much for stopping by. As always before you go, here is my video…
It is time for another design team post for The Cutting Cafe! This week we were given a choice of two files to work with, the House Shaped Card, and the 3D House Set which I used. I made this for my boss who has a milestone birthday coming up. I wanted to give him something he could keep in his office so this fit the bill.
This file is full of options! There are three different sized houses (I used the medium-sized one), two different roof sizes, the option to have the roof open so you can put something inside, scallops for the roof edge, a wreath, different window and door options, a base, trees, and a lot of sentiments! Whew! That’s a lot of options!
I went pretty basic with this one but with all the options, you can create so many different looking houses and you can combine other files from The Cutting Cafe to add things like grass, flowers, or a fence. Be sure to stop by The Cutting Cafe Blog to see all of the other design team projects. The project posts go up in the afternoon of both the 7th and 21st of the month. Make sure to leave a comment as each time a new post goes up, a name is randomly drawn from the previous post’s comments. That person gets three files of their choice from The Cutting Cafe!
Here are a few more views of my house and a video too! Thanks so much for stopping by and feel free to follow my blog to the right!
It is the 21st of the month and time for another Design Team post for The Cutting Cafe! This time we focused on fall and Halloween. I really do not celebrate Halloween so I went with the fall theme. There were a few files we could choose from…
I cut the card from brown cardstock and used Recollections and My Minds Eye papers. I added a happy birthday rub on and candy dots for accents. I also added acrylic leaf embellishments.
Acorn Shaped Birthday Card Close Up Leaf Detail
On the inside I printed a humorous sentiment…
Acorn Shaped Birthday Card Inside
And I covered the back in the same acorn/leaf paper…
Acorn Shaped Birthday Card Back
I think it turned out nice and I plan to give it to my uncle who sometimes tells corny jokes. Thanks for stopping by. Make sure you stop over and see all the design team projects on The Cutting Cafe Blog. Leave a comment to be eligible to win three files on our next post, November 7th.
For our project for The Cutting Cafe, the theme was pumpkins. We are entering into the fall season and what better way to showcase it than with pumpkins. They are standards for decorating and pumpkin flavored cake, coffee, cookies, syrup, and everything else is available everywhere you go!
I used the Pumpkin Trio Card and decided to go non-traditional and make gold and white pumpkins for a sympathy card. One of my staff lost her brother very suddenly and she is entering a new season in her life without him. So, I thought the pumpkins would be great to symbolize the season change. I think it came out beautifully. She loved it.
Pumpkin Trio Sympathy Card Front View
Pumpkin Trio Sympathy Card Inside
There were many other files we could choose to work from this week so there will be lots of variety on The Cutting Cafe’s Blog on tomorrow. We post our projects on the 7th and the 21st of each month. Make sure you leave a comment and you may win three free sets of your choice. Now take a look at all the other sets that we could work with:
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