What's New at Cre8ive Cutz — Cards

Have you been to the Make the Cut! forum lately? The Nutcrackers in November challenge is going on right now!  There's lots of great challenges to participate in, and prizes from great sponsors. (I should know, I'm one of them!! LOL) The challenge runs until the end of November, so there's still lots of time to check it out and create some projects. I don't think I'll be able to get to all the challenges, but I'm definitely going to try a few.For Challenge One, there are a couple of free digital holiday paper packs to download, and the challenge...

My sister came over on Sunday and we had a great afternoon crafting together. I got a good start on my Christmas cards, so I'll post pics over the next few days. Here's the first one I'd like to share. I made this using my free Christmas Lights cutting file.To stitch the "cord" for the lights, I penciled the line in, then sewed over it on my sewing machine using gold thread. I used dimensional foam adhesive to pop up the lights. The greeting is a Craft Smart stamp I picked up at Michaels, embossed with gold powder.Hope you like...

I just had to share this birthday card my husband made for me! It was my birthday a few days ago, so he decided that since I'm always making cards for other people, he should make one for me. But he didn't use my craft supplies to make it, he went into the garage and this was the result. This is how a man makes a card!This is the outside of the card:And the inside. The little buckle on the right side panel held a wooden charm for my Pandora bracelet, to remind me of the card. :-)Here's a close-up...

I had so much fun playing with this week's Mojo Monday sketch! Here's the sketch for this week:I bought a little pad of patterned Halloween papers by Recollections called Midnight Magic on the weekend, and was itching to create with it. So I went crazy with patterned paper, distressing, sewing and inking, did a little cutting using Make the Cut!, added a bit of bling to finish it off and here's what I came up with (the bats are actually popped up, although it's difficult to tell in the photo):Happy early Halloween everyone! LOL

In addition to designing my more elaborate files (purses, etc.) I often turn to Make the Cut! to quickly create simpler shapes for my card making projects, rather than spending a ton of money on large punches. For this card, I've created a simple nested shape that I used on the front and inside of the card to stamp my image and greeting on. This video tutorial demonstrates how to create nested shapes in Make the Cut! Enjoy!