CC Blog Hop

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Holiday Blog Hop! We want you to hop along with us and play for some awesome Blog Candy. The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to provide some inspiration to help you get your holiday crafting underway! Our Design Team has come up with some fabulous projects and we have a little bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas, and home décor items. So we invite you to hop along with us and get your creative juices flowing!

Here is the complete blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way:

Cutters Creek Blog (Chris)

Kim

Pebbles

Tee

Melissa -  you are here

Lori

Laura

Fran

Deanna

For my card,  I decided on making a simple birthday card coloring my favorite image from Sarah Kay. I then took some papers from my stash, ran the green through with a cuttle bug folder and assembled.  I couldn't find anything to really go with the card, so I cuts some shapes from the patterned paper I used to add a little dimension.  Assembled the card and its ready to go!

Don’t forget to leave a comment before hopping along to Lori's blog. If you do leave a comment here, you can enter for a chance to win some wonderful AC Glitter Tape which I showed on my project last week. Thanks for hopping by and we hope you enjoy the hop and get many wonderful ideas!

Image:Spring is back

Paper: from stash, Bazzill
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics,
Embellishments:Cuttlebug Oriental Embossing Folder
Other: ATG

Jeans: BG72, BG75, BG78
Pockets: G29, B18, BG10
Ribbon/Shirt: BV00, BV02, BV04
Skin: E50, E00, E02, YR000
Hair: E97, E99, E37
Hat: E21, E11, E33

Flowers:  RV0000, RV00, RV02 

Leaves: YG11, YG13, YG17

Ground: YG91, YG93, YG95

Echo Park Blog Hop!

Hello and Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Blog Hop! Today's hop features one of our favorite paper companies, Echo Park Paper! Each member of the Cutters Creek Design Team has created special projects using some of our favorite collections from Echo Park! When you are done checking here you will hop on over to Kim's Blog and there you will find the link to the next blog in the chain!



The first card is 3 1/2" square in size.  I used the the more basics designs from the Echo Park -Country Drive pack.  

Image:  none
Paper:  Echo Park -Country Drive

Ink: none
Embellishments: Pearls, Martha Stewart Punch
Other: ATG,  Copic R35, Big Shot, 3D Foam

This second card is 4"x4 3/4"

Image:  Stampin' Up -retired
Paper:  Echo Park -Country Drive, stash

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Embellishments: Ribbon from stash
Other: ATG, Big Shot, 3D Foam, Labels 18

thanks so much for looking!!  And if you got lost along the way, here is the hop order:

Cutters Creek Blog (Chris)

Mandie's Blog
Lori's Blog
Deanna's Blog
Mindy's Blog
Laura's Blog
Melissa's Blog
Kim's Blog

CC DT Spring Blog Hop

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Spring Blog Hop! All of our designers have created some wonderful Spring projects featuring products that you can purchase at the Cutters Creek Store! If you would like to start from the beginning head on over the the Cutters Creek Design Team Blog. Each blog along the way will have a link to the next blog in the chain. Don't forget to make sure you are following each of our personal blogs and leaving comments along the way to enter to win a box full of CHA Swag!!!! 

So I decided to use a favorite stamp of mine, Wishing Well. After stamping I decided to color using my copics, with the sun coming from the top right corner.  For the background, I wanted it to look similar to sunrise; that soft glow in the sky where the light gradually becomes brighter.  So I used my copics again to try and get an airbrushed background with the airbrush!  Used a few more green colors to add random grass as a horizon and some butterflies to add a more spring feel to it.  I also added some clear accents to the well to give it a 3D look for  "water".

Lastly I added my Flower Soft and assembled.  It only took about 5 minutes to dry which was great!  So here it is!

thanks for looking!!  


Next, hop on over to Lori's Blog and check out the awesome project that she has for you! 

Here's the line up of blogs if you get lost :o)  :

Cutters Creek Design Team Blog 
Mandie's Blog
Kim's Blog
Mindy's Blog
Laura's Blog
Melissa's Blog - you're here
Lori's Blog
Vicki's Blog

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Stamps: FlowerSoft Wishing Well, PTI Butterfly Dreams

Paper: Bazzill Simply Smooth, Graphic 45

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics, PTI Hawaiian Shores

Embellishments: FlowerSoft -Heather

Other: FlowerSoft Glue, ATG

Stash: corner rounder, purple background paper, clear accents
Wood: E40, E42, E31, E34, E33, E37, E29
Well: E40, E70, E74, N1, N3, N4 , N6
Grass: G12, YG91, YG93, YG63
Sky:  G0000, B000, BV0000, V0000, YR000

CuttersCreek Blog Hop

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Red and Green Blog Hop!

Our wonderful design team members have all created some fun Christmas projects to inspire you! The only requirement for the projects were that they must contain Red and Green. You just saw a fabulous project on Laura's blog. Your next stop along the hop will be Sandi's blog. If you are just finding our hop please head over to the Cutter's Creek Design Team Blog to start from the beginning; I also have it listed below. There are 8 inspiring projects for you to check out as well as 8 chances to win a great prize from Cutters Creek!

Blog Order:
Chris
Mandie
Laura
Melissa- you are here
Sandi
Kim
Vicki
Lori

Please leave me a comment about your favorite Christmas Tradition. Comments left up until 11:59pm on Sunday December 12th will be eligible to win. Unfortunately, only 1 entry per person. All winners will be selected Monday and posted on each blog so make sure you check back to see if you have won! I will have mine posted no later than 5 pm AZ time. You will have 48 hours to respond before we choose another winner. Random.org will be used.

Blog Candy up for grabs is the CuttleBug Emboss Plus Monogram Seals - -aren't they adorable!!

Here is the project that I have created for today's hop.

So I made a trio of cards for my red and green "card".  Don't you just LOVE how the thin red square gives an illusion of a third and fourth layer?!?!  I LOVE how these cards turned out! 

I started with a 5 x 5 card base using Dotted Swiss Multi-Pack, a layer of Simply Smooth White Cardstock with alphabet stamps from my stash to stamp "Merry" multiple times; a thin 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 square of Dotted Swiss Multi-Pack.  The "Christmas Blessings" is also from my stash stamped on Simply Smooth White Cardstock.  The trees are cut with my Cricut via Make-The-Cut from the library.  The papers used for this were from Fairy Flora Paper Pad, and Dotted Swiss Multi-Pack.  Also, I used the WONDERFUL 1/8" Scor Tape to assemble it all.    

Here are the insides of the card . . . I just love how the trees turned out perfectly for this!

My Inspiration for my card came from the Clear and Simple Ipod App. 

If interested, here is a cut file with all the shapes I used.  The oval and square are mine but the tree (Pine Trees) I snagged from the MTC library.

So what do you think?  Next, head on over to Sandi's blog for more great ideas!!

thanks for looking!!!