What's New at Cre8ive Cutz

Here's the next in the birthday series, a set of three birthday candles that you can mix and match to fit any birthday themed card or scrapbook page. {This file, along with other birthday cutting files, has been moved to the 99 cent store. Click the preview below to see the full set.}

I've recently become an affiliate for Lettering Delights, and I can't wait to start playing with all the graphics they have on their site! Many of the graphic sets they have translate beautifully into cutting files using Make the Cut! They also have some freebies that you can try, just click here or on the Lettering Delights ad on the right to go to their site and check out all the great stuff they have.This video tutorial shows you how to take one of their black and white graphics and convert it to a cutting file using Make the Cut!

Here's the next in the birthday series I promised, a birthday cupcake. Use it on your scrapbook pages, birthday cards or birthday party invitations.  It could also easily be turned into a card using the method I described in yesterday's post.  {This file, along with other birthday cutting files, has been moved to the 99 cent store. Click the preview below to see the full set.}

I used the Happy Birthday wordart in my last post to make a birthday card for my nephew, and I was pretty happy with how it turned out.Here's a pic of just the wordart, cut straight from the file. I stamped some polka dots on the candle with VersaMark and embossed them with white embossing powder, and covered the flame with gold embossing powder.Here's a photo of the finished card.  To make the card, I selected the shadow layer in MTC, and created an even larger shadow layer, that basically filled in all the empty space around the letters.  Then...

I have a few nephews with birthdays coming up this summer, so that got me into birthday mode for cutting files. Here's the first of what I'm sure will end up being a series, this happy birthday wordart. :-) Use it on birthday cards, birthday party invitations and favors, or birthday scrapbook pages. {This file, along with other birthday cutting files, has been moved to the 99 cent store. Click the preview below to see the full set.}