What is Halloween without Monsters???

Charlotte created THE cutest monsters! Aren’t these guys adorable? They are colorful, full of texture and down right festive!  Char used her Cricut and the Mini Monster cartridge to create these little guys.  Next, she ran them through her Cuttlebug with various embossing folders to create the cool textures.   Just add a little sanding and some googley eyes and you have the perfect project for Halloween. (P.S. Make sure you scroll down for our Facebook contest we announced today)

Here they are individually. SO CUTE!

Core’dinations used: Vintage Cardstock, Core Essentials and Black Magic

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Fabulous Friday Finds

Happy Easter Weekend everyone!

Today we wanted to share with you an adorable Easter card from Rebecca Keppel. she used a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder to create this great pattern and then just added a touch of sanding. Just a perfect way to end the week and begin a wonderful Holiday weekend.

We Hope that everyone has a safe and happy Holiday weekend!

Core’dinations and the Cuttlebug

Core’dinations is sponsoring the Cuttlebug Challenge blog this week for their Festival of Lights celebration so please hop over there and take part in the festivities.

As part of their celebration, we have joined forces and are featuring some of the Cuttlebug Challenge blog Design Team creations here today AND you can check out their blog for some of the fabulous creations the Core’dination’s Team has made utilizing their Cuttlebugs.

Today June Houck is showing us this how to make this wonderful recycled tin. What a great way to start off the holiday season by creating this great project. Here is a little but about her project in her own words:

This is a busy time of year for everyone, and paper crafters are no exception! Hand-made gifts are the best types of gifts, but quite often a lot of time and effort is spent preparing them. I have a few quick ideas that I hope will inspire you.

Supplies:
paint can (local craft store), tin canister, and 16oz. jar
Cuttlebug embossing folder (Candy Cane), Scor-it, glue gun
Designer paper and coordinating Core’dinations papers
Punches: 1/2″ circle, 2″ circle, small & large ovals, word window
Dies: QuicKutz Revolution flourish, QuicKutz Vixen, CTMH circles and Nestibilities circles

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I created toppers for each container using various dies. The “You’re Sweet” is computer-generated and “You’re My Cup of Tea” is an Impression Obsession stamp. The “lights” on the paint can are CTMH stickers. I wrapped both of these with paper from Carol Wilson Fine Arts, Inc. What is inside? I have tea biscuits in the paint can and mint tea in the tin…perfect for a chilly winter day.

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I found recipes for both food and non-food items by doing a Google search for “gifts in a jar”. There are recipes for lots of things from sweets to bath salts! Many of these items are for 1 quart containers (4 cups). My jar is a recycled pickle or mayonnaise jar, which is only 2 cups. I adjusted my recipe accordingly.

So before you toss a jar into the recycle bin, think of the possibilities for gifts for good neighbors, teachers, and friends!

Turkey Kitty Card

Linda Beeson created this adorable card for Thanksgiving next week for those of us in the United States that are celebrating…it is just too cute.

Linda utilized her Fiskars crimper. It is one of the most versatile tools you can get to work with Core’dinations Color Cardstock. It is easy and you can do so many things with it. She used Paprika cardstock, a gorgeous color for this time of year!

Stay tuned later this week for our Cuttlebug highlights and blog swap! There will be some AmAzIng inspiration and

Fabulous Friday Finds

Here are some more wonderful projects that the Design Team from the Cuttlebug Challenge blog has made with Core’dinations Color Cardstock over the past few weeks.

Don’t forget to check out their blog every Wednesday for the Be Inspired challenges and weekly give-a-ways and the previous post for next month’s blog hop.

Rosemary used the Whitewash collection for this amazing invitation.

Cindy made this festive Halloween card just in time for next week!

And Betty made this beautiful tri-folded card utilizing the Whitewash Cardstock.

What’s Happening…

Just wanted to give you a little heads up for something we have brewing next month…

Core’dinations Color Cardstock is teaming up with the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog for an exciting Festival November 18th to the 21st. Core’dinations is offering a prize valued at over $100! All you need is some Core and a Cuttlebug so make sure you mark your calendars for this wonderful event!

The design teams are brewing some wonderful projects for your inspiration.

Core’dinations and Cuttlebug Challenges

Core’dinations has been featured quite a bit over at the Cuttlebug Challenge blog so make sure you go over there and check it out. The team over there works very hard and they have tutorials and challenges all week long. And, remember, Core’dinations Cardstock goes perfectly with the Cuttlebug Embossing machine!

Cassandra Larson made this adorable truck shaped card with her Black Magic Core’dinations Cardstock as the wheels. It is ADORABLE!

And Karen Maldonado made this amazingly detailed card…make sure you check out the sky background behind the houses! She sanded the whitewash to reveal where she embossed. Gorgeous!

2-4-6-8 Core’dinate!

Core’dinations recently teamed up with My Little Shoebox … don’t you think they look great together!? There are so many cool things on this layout by Lydia, I just couldn’t wait to get it on the blog to share!

Make sure you check out all the great techniques. See the cool frame she sanded in the background and how it frames the entire layout? And how she ran the letters through her Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder and sanded them? Don’t forget to find the Fiskars punch action, too!

Remember to add us to your Feedblitz or RSS reader so you can get updates when we post. Every week we will be featuring TONS of techniques!

And we have our FIRST contest! Click here for more.

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