Quick Birthday card using Digi Stamps!

It's time to share another wonderful digital stamp designed by my super-talented friend, Melinda Beltran!  All of Melin's digi stamps and cutting files are available for purchase at PaperCraftingWorld.com (December 1st - 25th she will be giving away files each day as part of the 3rd Annual 25 Days of Crafting Showcase at MyPaperCrafting.com).

I used the Birthday Turtle set to create this card for my son's upcoming birthday.  (I can't  believe he is going to be 27!!!)  

This set comes with the line art turtle and a pdf file with three different sizes of the "Happy Birthday" Cupcake circle.  This is one of Melin's older designs and there isn't a pre-colored digi included -- so I used my Photo Shop program to color it and then printed it out.

My card measures 5 1/2" square.  All of the paper is from my paper stash!  The gingham mat was cut using Cricut's Cake Basics cartridge at 5" square.   The blue mat is cut at 3 1/2" wide by 4 1/4" tall and the red mat is cut at 2" -- both cuts are from the Cricut Cindy Loo cartridge.  A piece of jute finishes off this super cute and quick card.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Head on over and check out the other Designer's digi projects at MyPaperCrafting.com.  And don't forget to join us tomorrow, Saturday, December 1st, for Day One of our 25 Days of Crafting Showcase -- there will be tons of inspiration, freebies and weekly giveaways!  See you there!

~ Jen

2nd Birthday Party featuring Minnie Mouse!

One of our nieces just turned two.  Makayla lives in North Carolina and we don't get to see her very often; so when her Mommy and Daddy called and asked if we could help out with her Minnie Mouse birthday party, we said "Absolutely!"  When we asked what they wanted the answer was "Minnie Mouse, lots of pink and zebra stripes."

Here is what we created:

Yummy two-tiered cake made by Dee.  

Cupcake pics -- made using the Cricut Mickey Font cartridge.

Cupcake wrappers -- made using the Cricut Cupcake Wrappers cartridge.

All of the wall decorations were made using the Cricut Mickey & Friends cartridge.

Hand-tied tutu with a long-sleeved onesie.  The stencils were cut using the Cricut Mickey Font cartridge .

 Dee's brother and sister-in-law were headed up for Thanksgiving and took everything with them -- I am very pleased to say that the cake traveled well!  And Makayla loved all of her "Minnie Mouse stuff"!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you will drop back by tomorrow -- I have a digi stamp card ready to share with you.  Oh!  And you'll definitely want to come back by Saturday for the first day of MyPaperCrafting.com's 3rd Annual 25 Days of Crafting Showcase!

~ Jen

CWC Challenge: Anything Holiday with Red and/or Green

Welcome to our last CWC Cricut challenge of 2012 at My Paper Crafting.com!  Saturday, December 1st kicks off our 3rd Annual 25 Days of Crafting Showcase -- with tons of daily inspiration, free cutting and digi files; as well as weekly giveaways!  Our weekly challenges will resume on Wednesday, January 2nd.

This week Melin challenged the Design Team to come up with a holiday project using red and/or green as the predominant colors.  Here is what I created:

I haven't quite decided what the final resting place is going to be for my "NOEL", so I stuck them on this unfinished wreath for display purposes.  

And here is the recipe:

• Cricut's Joys of the Season cartridge was used for all of the ornaments and embellishments.
• Cricut's Cake Basics cartridge was used for the letters.
• All of the letters are raised with pop dots.
• All papers were from my scrap stash.
• All of the ornaments measure 4 7/8" tall.
• I used green, red and white Stickles on three of the ornaments.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you'll head over to MyPaperCrafting.com and see what the other Design Team members have created.  And don't forget to join us beginning this Saturday, December 1st for 25 Days of Crafting inspiration, freebies and giveaways!

~ Jen