Exploring Cricut ~ What's Cooking Challenge ~

Welcome to the bi-weekly challenge at Exploring Cricut. 

 

This week our theme is to...

create a card, layout or paper craft with something from the kitchen...  etc. Recipe book, cards, or anything kitchen related...

 

Here's my project featuring the old standby cartridge Preserves, From My Kitchen and the Cricut Craft Room...

I decided to put together a few family recipes to hand down later on.  This jam cake recipe is one my mother is famous for.  We always had it at Christmas time with homemade caramel icing.  Yum!

I chose the blackberry image and words to weld together.  The recipe card can be found on the Preserves cart.  I scanned the original recipe (my handwriting) and trimmed it down to add. 

Measurements

12 x 12

recipe card 8.5 x 6
word jam 3 x 1.833
word cake 3.5 x 1.5
blackberry image 1.75 x 2.319

additional supplies

Papers - Bazzill, Pebble Fresh Goods - Mom & Pop

Thanks for stopping by!

Exploring Cricut Daily Post

If you are here for Our Daily Bread Designs Love of Backgrounds Hop click HERE.

Welcome to another daily project for Exploring Cricut. We will be having a little spaghetti get together in a few weeks so I took the opportunity to put some invites together.



I added some fun baker's twine to mimic spaghetti. Super cute! And here's the cut details...

Plate & Utensils - From My Kitchen - pg. 55 - 5.25 inches
Placemat - Elegant Edges - pg. 29 - 3 inches
Napkin - George - pg. 109 - 3 inches - scored and folded in half
You're Invited - Wild Card - pg. 37 - 7.5 inches

Supplies

Carts - Elegant Edges; From My Kitchen; George; Wild Card
Paper - Colorbok; Bazzill, Doodlebug
Accessories - Baker's Twine, Dimensional Foam

If you are a stamping fan don't forget to stop back by tomorrow. Our Daily Bread Designs will be releasing some fabulous new sets to celebrate their 4th anniversary! There will prizes, great projects and wonderful fellowship! Hope to see you then! Blessings...

Paper Cutz Challenge #76

Remember the crop I was so excited about? I went and hung out for 6 hours. And when I mean hang out, I mean hang out... I got absolutely nothing done! lol... I was in some sort of creative fog. I hope I am not the only one who exhausts all of their creative ideas sometimes! I started to color an image... hated it and gave up... I started to do a scrapbook page and realized the color scheme I wanted to use wasn't working...

By this time lunch had rolled around. I was convinced that a slice or two of pizza would clear the cobwebs! Oh, no! Then I got sleepy... So I finally gave up and just watched other people create! Sadly, I packed up after a very unproductive 6 hours and went home... :-(

I loved seeing everyone but boy, I wish I had something to show for it!

Sunday proved to be a restful day for me. Thankfully I needed that. Late last night I whipped out the Cricut and pulled this card together. I entered it in this week's Paper Cutz challenge HERE. Maybe the funk is over? Or maybe not...

Blessings

Lori
Saintsrule!

Card Stock - Bazzill
Designer Paper - We R Memory Keepers - Be My Valentine Sweethearts
Cricut Cartridges - From My Kitchen (cupcake); Sweethearts (title)
Aleene's Paper Glaze (cherry)
Ranger - Stickles - Star Dust (icing)

A snowy afternoon...

Today is my first Friday off at my new job. And it is very snowy and cold... so the perfect day to scrap, right? True scrappers really never need an excuse... wink, wink...

Below are a couple of cards I worked on today. Have a wonderful day!




Pattern Paper - Provocraft - Rob & Bob Studios - Sweetheart
Stamps Sentiment and Image - Hero Arts
Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black
Markers - Copic
Cuttlebug - Floral Fantasy Folder
Liquid Pearls - White Opal - Dots on Chocolates
Ribbon - Offray 7/8 inch Brown Grosgrain
Popdots




Diecuts - Cricut
Snowman - George
Hat - George - images welded with Gypsy
Cardinal - Winter Wonderland
Carrot - From My Kitchen
Scarf - Snowfriends
Cuttlebug Folder - Snowflakes
Stickles - Ranger - Diamond
Popdots

From My Kitchen

I love anything old... good thing... because I am old! LOL... I remember as a child my mother had a white painted hoosier cabinet. It had belonged to my grandmother. It had a graniteware pull out board for making bread. We made many homemade biscuits there. My mother on the other hand says she hates anything old. She jokingly says she grew up with old stuff and doesn't want it in her house now! Sometime in the 80's that precious cabinet went to the landfill. I was only a teen and did not understand the "heritage" I was losing. There is a danger in placing value in wordly possessions. However, the connection to our heritage is truly priceless. I can no longer run my hands over the cool granite where my grandmother made countless loaves of bread. When I saw this cartridge I knew I wanted to honor a simpler time, when we knew who our neighbors were. Folks sat on their front porch and watched the world go by or shot the breeze with a friend... Makes me want to slow down and say hello to those I love and value! Enjoy!

Materials List

Cardstock - Bazzill - Black, Red, Cobalt Blue, Green, Tan, Brown
Paper - K & Co. Life's Journey Black Gingham
Ionic Ticket Punch
Sentiment - Unknown
Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black - (sentiment)
Paint - Making Memories Scrapbook Colors - Spotlight (speckled with toothbrush on
coffee pot)
Pop Dots - raise coffee pot, apple and rolling pin
Cricut cuts - A Child's Year and From My Kitchen