CWC-PCW Crops of Love Hop Day 1

Welcome to the CookingWithCricut.com,  Crops of Luv Blog Hop. This month our designers chose to create layouts for the Crops of Luv Organization. If you came here from Melin at CWC then you are in the right place, if you need to start from the beginning, then just head over to CWC. ( He he cause I am second today!)

Crops of Luv works hand-in-hand with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and creates scrapbooks for families who have children facing life-threatening illnesses.  Our hop will focus on creating 12 x 12 Scrapbook double page LOs using these themes: Princesses, Pirates, Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Summer Fun (e.g. swimming), Christmas (yes, they have Christmas every Thursday at "Give Kids the World"), or general Disney themes.

Crops of Luv has some specific guidelines for the layouts. They need to include a journaling block or tag and mats for 3  4 x 6 pictures on each page. They also do not want the photo mats permanently adhered to the page.  That way they can flip them whichever way they need to.

We hope you will enjoy our creations! We would love for you to participate. You can make a two-page layout following the parameters outlined above and mail it directly to Crops of Luv c/o Roberta Baker, 11424 S. Pawnee Circle, Phoenix, AZ 85044. Since this blog hop is also a challenge, be sure to link your project to CWC/PCW.

For my layouts today I made two double page layouts for boys with the Pirate theme. I used the Imagine cart Buccaneer.

Layout one -

Layout 2-

If you would like more information about this organization, or would like to make a monetary or supply donation, please visit their web site, www.cropsofluv.com.

If you get lost along the way, please be sure to head back to CWC and start from there. Be sure to head over to CWC and leave a comment for a chance to win some blog candy and to link your own Crops of Luv creation. Now you can head over to the lovely Larelyn of Handmade from the Heart Thanks so much for being a part of our hop.

Also please mark your calendars and come back to CWC to share with us next week

Cooking with Cricut- I Feel the Love for July

Today at Cooking with Cricut it is time for the July  I Feel the Love Project.  Madison from Funky Cards and one of our designers has asked us to make birthday cards and decorations for a homeless shelter to keep on hand to use as needed.  The cards will be for boys and girls who are staying at the shelter ( most likely young to teen children.) You can read more about the shelter HERE.

When I started this challenge it was my first day of not babysitting my granddaughter.  I decided to crank out some cards using my Imagine as I haven't been using it that much and had some carts I haven't really explored.  So here my cards.  `f

I used Imagine carts Best Friends, Better Together, Imagine More, Word of Mouth Bucanneer and Yummy, Yummy.  Some have Stickles, embellishments, and googly eyes.  I hope you will join the challenge this week and link up at Cooking with Cricut.  We would love to see your projects and I am sure all the kids would love to get birthday cards.

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Sweet Sassy Diva- Thanks for the Gift week of 12/25

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.  This week at Sweet Sassy Diva we were asked to come up with a thank you card. I actually made two cards both with my Imagine.  

The first is from the Bucaneer cart.  

Choosing cuts on Imagine 

Printed and now cutting 

Used Distressed stripe Cuttlebug folder to distress Kraft paper 

Inked and tore edges used twine 

Bucaneer Cartridge 

Pirate p. 3 cut at 4.5  inches-pop dotted 

Parrot  page 11 cut at 2.5 inches -pop dotted 

Shiver me Timbers 2.5

Yo Ho Ho page 27 2.5

No Trespassing Sign page 26 3.0

separated cuts and stamped thanks ever so much 

Paper page 43

Card  is 8 1/2 x 11 folded in 1/2 Kraft stock 

then front cut 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 burgandy 

5 x 8 anchor paper from Imagine cart. 

The second thank you card I made using the Imagine Yummy Cartridge 

The cup is from  page 7 cut at 3 1/2 inches on the front and 2 1/2 inches inside -flipped 

Corner stamp EK success 

Added Stickles, gems, and died seam binding ribbon 

Stamps A Cup of Good Cheer from Robins Creative Cottage 

Robin has her first two sets of stamps out a snowmen one and Gingerbread one so check them out. 

Inside Comfort and Joy stamp from Michaels 

Karen Foster paper Merry Mugs

I cut a slit with exacto and placed sentiment inside.  

I hope you will come back all week to see what the other DT members design for Thank yous.  Thanks for stopping by and I would love to read your comments.