Winner!

The Cutting Cafe Blog Hop winner is Amy Jones! Amy wins the Summer Fun Printable Stamp Set. Congratulations Amy! I sent you an email telling you how to claim your prize. Thanks everyone for all of your nice comments. I hope you'll stop by again sometime.

Fun with Jars

The Cutting Cafe is featuring a set of jar templates and jar printable stamps this week. The Jar Shaped Card Set has three shaped jars - mason, candy and cookie jars. There are also fillers for the jars and lots of cute sentiments. The Fun with Jars stamps have over 90 images, including three jars, cookie, candy and mason jars, with fillers and sentiments for each type of jar.

I used the mason jar in the Fun with Jars set along with a bug from the Cute Critters Set featured last week to make a get well card. The sentiment is Caught a Bug from Hambo Stamps.

Be sure to check out the Cutting Cafe's Blog to see what the other DT members made with these sets. You'll love what you see.

Cute Critters

This week The Cutting Cafe is featuring a really cute printable stamp set called Cute Critters. This set features over 58 images....plus the set features an additional sheet of most of the critters really small and can be punch out using a 1 inch circle punch. Here's what I created...

It's a tent card! I've been wanting to make one and decided to use these cute bees and behive and give it a try. Here's a side view...

I popped up the grass, beehive, and the bees for dimension. It's 41/4" square and folds flat to fit into an envelop. It's a fun card and easy to make. If you want to try one, there's a helpful tutorial on SCS in the Resources section. I plan to make some more.

I entered my card into Party Time Tuesdays' Anything Goes Challenge for this week. Check out their blog for some great inspiration.

Easter Goodies

Easter is just around the corner and The Cutting Cafe has some very cute files, printable stamps and templates. I used the Easter Basket Template to make this cute Easter basket shaped card.

I love how this turned out. I used a textured card stock for the basket and weaved the bottom part of the basket. The sentiment is from another Cutting Cafe printable stamp set called Easter Elisha Jean & Friends. Be sure to check over at the Cutting Cafe's Blog for more samples from the very talented design team. Leave a comment and you might win your choice of any three Cutting Cafe sets.

Lucky Me

This week the Cutting Cafe's DT is featuring two St. Patty's Day sets, Lucky Me Printable Stamp Set and the 4 Leaf Clover Shaped Card. I used Lucky Me. This set has fifteen sentiments and over 30 different clover designs, perfect for making a card for everyone. I used the friend sentiment to make a card for my BFF.

 The clover background was made using Cutting Cafe's 4 Leaf Clover Background Set. So easy,  just print the background and cut a piece the size that you need. I had enough left to make a few more cards. If you're looking for some green inspiration, hop over to the Cutting Cafe.

Challenges I've entered my card into:

 Simply Create Too - I'm So Lucky

The Friday Mashup - Who's Feeling Green?
Pink By Design - Kiss Me I'm Irish
Paper Issues - Go Green or Go Home
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Scrappy Moms Stamps - St. Patty's Day

WD March Release

It's time for some new Whimsie Doodle images. This month's release welcomes some new additions to the Whimsie Doodles family, The Social Teens, along with some cute Easter images and sentiments. I used  Easter Sentiments to make my project along with the jelly bean goody bag holder and jelly bean background set from the Cutting Cafe.

Be sure to check out Whimsie Doodles new release and the Cutting Cafe's Easter sets. You'll love them both.

All About Birthdays

It's all about birthdays at the Cutting Cafe this week. The featured sets are the Party Hat Shaped Card Set, Fun with Party Hats and Birthday Tags. I used an image from the Fun with Party Hats set to make a birthday card.

I love how this card turned out...so cheery! I used some DSP from a pad of papers I bought at Michael's on sale. It's all double sided textured birthday themed paper. I love all the bright colors and designs. I used layout FTL178 from Clean and Simple Stamping.

If you're looking for birthday themed images, sentiments or shaped cards, check out the Cutting Cafe. You'll find lots of inspiration. Leave a comment and you might win some free goodies.

Valentine Purses

The featured sets at the Cutting Cafe this week are Animal & Bug Love and Animal & Bug Mini Colored Circle Set. Both of these  sets contain oodles of super cute images and frames and backgrounds to go with them. I used the mini colored circle set to make some Valentine treat purses.

Each purse holds 3 candy kisses or a snack size candy bar. This was the first time that I've used precolored images and it won't be the last. They made it super easy, just print & assemble. What a time saver if you're making a large quantity of items. Well, I think I have another project for my granddaughters' Valentine craft party.

Be sure to hop over to the Cutting Cafe's blog and see what fabulous projects the other DT members made. You won't be disappointed.