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May 18th, 2010 at 1:57 PM — Edit These little dresses are darling! I have two DGDs and would love to have these files!

Thanks Rose!  and everyone else for commenting.

For those of you who are interested in purchasing the Designer Cuts All Dressed Up Cut Files, it is now for sale at Design House Digital. It’s even ON SALE for 30% off Thursday May 20th only.

A couple of month’s ago I was seriously inspired by Trish Turay’s dress garland featured on Get it Scrapped. I instantly knew that I wanted to create a shadowbox for my new niece’s nursery. So I bookmarked the website and ordered a 9×20 Shadowbox online.

On Saturday I had a whole day to do whatever I wanted with it. So I hopped out of bed and got to work! The first thing I did was create my own cutting files. I have a Cricut Expression and use SCAL to cut all my own custom files.

I created 2 dresses, 1 apron, 2 over-skirts, and a collar. This made really short work of my project because I didn’t have to hand cut anything.  I love my Cricut.

All the paper that I used is from my Quite Contrary line – Hello Beautiful color set by My Mind’s Eye.

With all my dresses and items cut out, I grabbed some Lush embellishments also by My Mind’s Eye, and my awesome new Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro and started embellishing!

For the first dress, I used ribbons, paper and brads to create some cute hand-made flowers. I also added some tiny rhinestones for buttons and made a glittered sash.

The second dress also got some glitter on the collar and layered skirt. I ran the top skirt through the sewing machine and topped it off with a ribbon sash and a button. I also added a playful pink pom pom trim using my Glue Arts Glider.

For the third dress, I wanted to gather some wide organza that I had lying around. So I pulled out my sewing machine… I barely know how to sew, so pardon how messy this is… but at least you know beginners can do it too!

I traced where the apron hit the dress so that I would know where I needed to start my skirt and how long of a gathered piece I needed.

Then I grabbed some yarn and sewed it loosely to my organza – about twice as long as the skirt.

Then I gently pulled on the yarn to gather it, and then sewed it to the bottom dress, so that none of my bad sewing would show!

The gathered skirt was a little unruly, so I used my glue glider to help it stick down. You couldn’t see any of the glue in the final product.

I also wanted some ric-rac on the bottom of the apron to finish the transition. The best way I know to create adhesive ribbon is to run it through my Xyron. This really makes it easy to get ribbon down securely especially on curves. I also used it on the green ribbon on the first dress.

Once I was happy with how all the dresses turned out, I decided to make a banner with the new baby’s name.

I just hand-cut a bunch of triangles and then ran them through the sewing machine with some crocheting string. I did it really SLOWLY so I had control over the string and the placement on the triangles.

I chose a contrasting color – brown, to give the banner a more detailed effect. Then I simply added some glitter sticker letters.

Once I decided how everything would be placed. I grabbed some teeny clothes pins and some cream seam binding to hang the dresses on. I also found some eye-screws to hang the ribbon by.

For the banner, I used some small pins and tied the string around them.

You can also see that I added a few pins in the middle of the banner to create a scalloped look. This was the final product and I absolutely love how it turned out. The hardest part was having to give it away! But I can’t wait to see it in my new nieces adorable nursery.

For the wrapping, I wrapped some tissue paper around the frame and had my cricut cut out another dress and apron. I only added one embellishment to this dress — a little rhinestone necklace. Then I clothes-pinned it to the ribbon with a little congratulations tag.

If you’re interested in doing this or a similar project, I actually took the time to build all the files (SVG, GSD, JPG, AI)  for the various cutting programs and am selling them at Design House Digital starting Thursday May 2oth (2010). These files should work for any die-cut machine including the Cricut (with SCAL), & Silhouette. I’m giving away this digital kit to one of my readers, all you need to do is comment — tell me what kind of cutting machine you have — and I’ll choose one random winner on Thursday Morning!

I’m not sure if everyone knows about neighbor gifts, but if you haven’t been raised with this tradition, the name describes it all… small, usually hand-crafted gifts, for all your neighbors and friends. This year for some of my neighbors, I made some super yummy thumbprint shortbread cookies with jam centers (raspberry makes it extra festive) and decided to make some adorable boxes with some of my paper stash (and yes, it’s a giant stash).

Ever since I saw this adorable Christmas paper from My Mind’s Eye, I’ve been wanting to do something cute with it. I love the bright colors, especially the pink! So I grabbed 2 sheets and the matching accessory sheet. To make the box I decided to go the easy route and cut it on my shiny new Cricut.

I created a simple box form for the Cricut to cut. I use SCAL with my cricut so I can have it cut anything I want. If you’re a SCAL user I have a free download of this simple SVG file. Also I made a DXF file which should work with Craftrobo (Silhouette, wishblade, etc). If you don’t have a cutter, there is a PDF that you can print and use as a template.

I cut one at about 11″ tall for the bottom boxand then I enlarged the file slightly to make it about 11.25″ to make the top of the box. My box came out quite large, I think It would be better even smaller, so if you can only cut 8-9″ wide, this is still a great project.

After cutting the papers I just folded the edges and glued the tabs on the outside of the box.

After folding and gluing, I found some white parchment paper and lined the box and then placed in the cookies that I had made (make sure they are cool!)

Then I placed the lid on top, tied it with some ribbon, a tag from the accessory sheet and a chipboard christmas tree, and it was ready to deliver!

Super cute, super easy, affordable,  and quick enough to mass reproduce! Have a merry Christmas & happy holiday season!

click on the download button to download the cutting file/template for this box. The zip you download will have a PDF, SVG, & DXF file. Happy Crafting!

For the first time ever, I’m having a 25% off sale! ALL my digital kits (except the newest releases) are 25% off! So its a great time to grab my Christmas, fall, and Halloween kits, and anything else (spot color) that you’ve been dying to have! If you need reminders here are a few:

This post was also supposed to feature a halloween project, but my Silhouette has decided that it no longer wants to play nice. Soooo in my haste I may just have to go to the store and purchase a Cricut Expression, which I’ve been wanting anyway, but definitely not needing! What I was going to do is to cut this FREE halloween word-art that I created in vinyl and put it on my front door! So if I give into my impulse, I may have something to show you within the next few days

Anyway back to the task at hand! if you have a digital Die cutting machine – a cricut, sihlouette, wishblade etc. you can now try one of my die-cut files for free! All you have to do is click on the image and you’ll be directed to my digital shop at Two Peas in a Bucket, where you can download this file for free!  (to use with the cricut you need to have SCAL I believe, and with silhouette/wishblade your regular PC software will work.)

If you can get that to work and love it, check out all my other die-cutter files! Here are a few that came out this week:

Things have been a little crazy in my life, I just recently moved. I’m also designing a scrapbooking line for My Mind’s Eye and that has swooped in and taken all my free time!! I’m excited to see all the fun projects that can be done with these die-cut files though! Have fun crafting!

Kristina Werner creates  a few beautiful cards every week. This week she made one using my Project Cuts Cut-out Card kit. I love this card so much, it is just way too much fun! Visit Kristina’s Blog for a video with details on how to create this card!

Dressing up your cupcakes is all the rage these days. Ever since I saw cupcakes with cute covers I wanted to make some of my very own. 

I designed these cute cupcake wrapper digital die-lines for digital die cutters (cricut, silhouette, etc). Then I cut them out of some great 65 lb cardstock. My favorite thing is that the paper is double-sided which always makes every project more fun!

Here are some more photos, aren’t they just adorable?!

And here is what the kit looks like. It contains all 4 different cupcake cover digital die-lines each in .AI, .SVG, .GSD, & .JPG Files. Available for download at Two Peas In A Bucket for $4.00

I had my silhouette cut out the “Elegant Card” out of some MME Papers (Pretty Please) and then I inked the edges, and embellished with a little ribbon and two Pretty Please die-cuts. The whole card just took a few minutes thanks to the very cool digital die-cutter files.

I love how the inside of the card shows – perfect use of double-sided papers.

up-close of the awesome envelope – again double sided papers rock:

I love these files because they are so “custom” looking. People will wonder HOW you made it.

Here are my digital die-cutter kits available for sale at Two Peas In A Bucket.com

More Kits:

Super Cute Baby Tags for gifts!

All kits include the shown files in GSD, AI, JPG, & SVG Files and retail for $2 – $8.00