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Friday, October 22, 2010

Fantabulous Friday #32

Good morning my Fantabulous Friday Friends!!!,

Welcome to another Fantabulous Friday! Today I am changing gears just a bit. For the last two weeks we have been focusing on a particular cartridge.  But today, I am going to post on a particular “image” or cut. I was working on a project with a Fall-Halloween theme. I was looking for a Crow. So of course I went to my Gypsy to do a search of what cuts were available.

So here is what I came up with.

Here is a cut from October 31st Cartridge

crow from october 31 jpg

Here is a cut from the Cupcake Wrappers Cartridge

crow from cupcake wrappersjpg

While both of these are fine, neither was what I was looking for…so the hunt was on! I began doing a search on the net. I was looking for an SVG file that I could use to cut with my Cricut. For those of you that are unfamiliar with what an SVG is: it is a file format that allows you to use your Cricut along with a third party software to cut the file-die cut. I found a couple of freebies.

This project which features a FREE set from Deena Rutter has a couple of crows in it.

deenarutter project
You can go HERE to download this set.  While this was also really nice, it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for.

Here is another one I found from Little Scraps of Heaven.
You can go HERE to download this.

crow_with_sign


And then one of my fellow CWC DT members designed this cute little set.

kandrew crows

Here is a project she made using them.
kandrewfallchallenge
You can check it out HERE.

I then decided to work on making some up: I made this cute little Crow:

cwc mb crow1-500j
You can download the FREE file HERE

And then I made this set, I called Crows Silly Crows.

crows silly crows-500

Having the flexibility of cutting files you create or purchase along with the option of using your cartridges, makes having the Cricut a FANTABULOUS option.

Last but not least, I made this little crow using my Cricut and some of the Cricut cuts (don’t have a pattern for him…yet).

crow cricut cartridge cuts by melin-400 
Sorry my project isn’t done yet…but hopefully I will get to share it with you soon Smile. Well, I guess that’s it for today. I hope you have a wonderfully crafty weekend and now you can make some Crowliciously, Fantabulous Projects.

Melin

5 comments:

  1. melin...this crow is gorgeous. thanks for sharing.
    have a crow-licious weekend too :)

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  2. These are just so cute, but I am still not sure what you mean by third party software to cut the file. Would this be the design studio or the gypsy.Or can you email with a few different ones so I can go out and get it. LOL
    jennyplace26@gmail.com

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  3. okay...these may be the cutest little crows ever!! Thanks for the tips and files!!
    Barb :)

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  4. LOVE,LOVE, LOVE THESE IMAGES!!!

    Oh my....they are perfect for a few pages I want to make this fall!!!

    www.pattilynncreations.blogspot.com

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  5. omg adorable that crow you made w/ cricut cuts... I smell preserves... LOL!!!

    -- dalis

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