Home sweet Quirky home - a house at last!

 Finally a little house from the 3d Houses set from The Cutting Cafe. I am getting on better with the Zing than I ever did with the eCraft - hooray, time to celebrate perhaps! I know
 there is a lot to learn yet. The day it wouldn't cut the whole image out - the blade needed setting and tightening, must have worked loose but it took me ages to realise what the problem was.

I used the small house with fixed roof and not opening, I think the opening ones will be lovely little gift boxes and will make some of them I think.

I added some patterned paper cutting with the files in the set, and added mosaics for the front path with glitter grouting, and tiny Prima blooms and dots of Liquid Pearls to the garden. I thought lace round the box base would look nice this time.
Regina - the box base would be great as a drawer so it could hold a gift or additional gift or be for storage.

 Side view.

Back of my house, see the "gravel" path made with microbeads?

I know the ric rac is a bit wrong here, looks much worse now I see the photo.

I would have cut out some trees but while I was squeezing the Cosmic Shimmer glue bottle my thumb suddenly started to bleed profusely from a cut I hadn't really noticed, it is all over the bottle and the blooms bottle, luckily I noticed before I bled all over the house!

This would be a great little gift to give someone moving into their new home.

To join our challenge and win some great cutting files, or files full of printable digi images, or a mixture hop on over to Quirky Crafts with your home related projects now.

I have entered the following challenges:

Anything but a card - Celebrate (Sun)

Crafting from the heart #75 anything goes (Mon)

Creative Fingers - #90 anything goes

Simply Papercrafts - anything goes (Fri 11th Sept)

That Craft Place - anything mixed media (Sat 12th Sept)

Baby boys

Well here it is, better late than never! This is my other example for the Quirky Crafts All About Boys challenge. I used a cutting file and image files from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe. I cut the pages in blue and red, then the letters in polkadot denim paper, added some shrink plastic images from All About Boys, and the sentiment. I added buttons, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, and baby white ric rac. Finally I added some dummies from stash.

Inside is decorated too, I can add more to this page, but it cannot be wider than the Baby blocks or it will show though the A.

The Y page has a little more width to decorate, again I can add to this and decorate the A page a tiny bit.

You have until Saturday midday to enter the challenge.

I have entered this in:

 the Crafty Ribbons Inspirations Challenge - anything goes with ribbon.

All about boys at Quirky Crafts

Doris set us the challenge All About Boys, with ric rac, buttons and a sentiment or phrase. The Cutting Cafe are sponsoring this challenge and providing all three prizes. For my first card I used images from the All About Boys set provided by our sponsor. The sets have an amazing array of images and sentiments, they are great value for money and every Monday there is a Cyber Sale when several sets are bundled together at a really low price!

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog - One for the boys closes 27th March

This really sweet pram and sentiment are from the All About Babies set from The Cutting Cafe. Again there are lot of images and sentiments in this set, I am sure I will be using the pram a few more times though.

I have entered this card in the ABC challenge - J for just as you like it (or anything goes)

If you hop on over to Quirky Crafts you can see some really wonderful examples from the rest of the team, including examples using cutting files from The Cutting Cafe. We will be showing you even more examples in the reminder post in one week's time - I have already started on mine.