Special Announcement - Sweet Treats Thursday

Greetings everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR, I hope 2010 is starting off on a happy note for all … This is ♥Carol♥ … and today I’d like to share a special announcement. Over at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog, a new team of creative designers have come together to form a design team called SWEET TREATS THURSDAY.

This team of designers will tantalize your taste buds with a delicious selection of yummie creations using their favorite crafting tools (Cricut and Cricut Cartridges, Cuttlebug, YourStory, YuDu and the Gypsy). I’m very pleased and excited to be included with this wonderful team of talented crafters as a Design Team Member. I hope you’ll pop over and take a look … and be sure to check back every Thursday as the SWEET TREATS THURSDAY Design Team will be presenting fun new crafts, tutorials and/or other helpful hints and tricks to help keep you inspired.

Our first assignment was to use our Cricuts and the Doodle Charms cartridge to create a set of projects. We were instructed to use not less than 2 cuts from the DC cart, but were allowed to use as many as we liked. I selected to use the teddy bear and the heart … but as you will see here … I used several other cuts as well.

The Teddy Gift Set Trio …

Supplies used for this project were:

Cricut Expressions

Doodle Charms Cricut Cartridge

White and Pink Card Stock

Kiwi Embroidery Paper – Pink Gingham Check

Pink Gingham Ribbon – width sizes 1.25 and .50 inches

Darning Threads – Pink and White

Small Pearls

White Doodle Pen

Adhesives
(Glue Glider Pro, Zig 2-way Glue Pen, Dimensionals, Glue Dots)

Wrapping Paper

The Card and Envelope

The card measures 5”x 6.5”

(REMINDER … Click on any image to see full view)

The Photo Frame

The Photo frame measures 17”X10”, but the little frames on each side of the main picture

measure only 1.5”x2”, so each of the Doodle Charms cuts were made at a 1” size or less.

The cuts are embellished with hand doodling, pearls for eyes on the critters

and small bows on the hearts that are ½” or less across.

I also added small gingham bows to accent the main picture opening and then

tied a nice big bow around the frame.

The Gift Package

When I went to wrap the gift, I discovered that I didn’t have any paper that would

match the set, so I used a solid color wrapping paper that I had and

turned it inside out so that I was using the inside (white) as the wrapping.

To accent the package, I cut little 1” teddy bears and hearts,

embossed them and adhered them down with glue dots.

I actually like the way this turned out and plan to use this trick again in the future

whenever I don’t have the exact wrapping that I need.

Whoops … I see that the teddy bear tag did not make on the package

before the picture was taken.

All three items were super easy to make, and the great thing is, they were actually very inexpensive to make too!

I hope you enjoy these projects as much as I did making them and sharing them with you … feel free to leave comments, I would love to hear what you think. As always, thank you for visiting me here at my Little Creation Corner and don’t forget to stop by and check out the other creations at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Hugz,
♥Carol♥