Cut File Freebie - Week #16

Well, this is actually a pic of the box I designed that Denise Hill from Paper Pastime made. I didn't have time to make another one, and this one is actually cuter than the one I made anyhow so it worked out great! Thanks Denise for letting me steal your pic to put on here!!! :)

I could show you a picture of a mangled box that I made. Why is it mangled, you ask? Well, it probably has nothing to do with the fact that the place I have to do my "crafts" is on the floor of our "not really extra" bedroom that's mostly weight bench and free weights, cardboard boxes, all of our papers, and the rest is my stuff scattered everywhere. And, it definitely isn't the fact that Chase's favorite place in our house is that room when someone accidentally leaves the door open. Or that nobody cares if they step on my stuff. That's not it. Definitely not. So I have no clue why my box that I made specifically for a cut file freebie got ripped in two places and is barely hanging together.

It's a one piece box. It looks like a pie or pastry box that you get from the bakery. It has a window on top that is a top note die shape. So far nobody seems to have problems with how to fold it, so I'll assume it's pretty easy to figure out!

Here's the file:
Pastry box - .svg

Pastry box with window - .svg

Want more ideas? Check these out too!

Easter Boxes by Tina

Mini Card Sets by Jamie

Freebie Cut File - Week #15

You're probably wondering why I'm showing you a picture of these horrendously ugly cookies, because I'm sure most of you wouldn't give those as a gift to your dog. Yes, I know they're bad. But I can't always spends gobs of time decorating cookies to give away. And besides, I had an idea for making them cuter that would be more ideal as a little treat to say hi to someone.


So the cut file for this week is a cd envelope in svg form. I was really hoping that it would make a cute little cookie holder for a large cookie for those occasions where I just need to give away one. I have to admit though, I was so BUGGED when I put this together. It totally didn't turn out the way that I wanted it to! I need to revamp this envelope file so that it holds the cookie better. Grrrr. That's for another week unfortunately. At any rate, you still have a little envelope for cd's, extremely flat cookies, or even just cards. I left the middle out so that you could cut whatever shape you wanted...or leave as is. If you make something better with it (which shouldn't be too hard, I think), please leave me a link so I can feel better about my creation...

Here's the file:

cd envelope - .svg

On another sad note, I start school again a week from Monday. Somebody call the waaaambulance! It really makes me want to cry. I've had too much fun this summer and I'm dreading the monotony and craziness of school. So, my posts won't be as frequent. But...I've been working on some stuff for the holidays...and I'm a guest designer for the month of September for Creative Cuts and More ! They have so many cute die cuts!! So, I'll have a few more things up my sleeve for you at least!

Cut File Freebie - Week #14

Here's a little tutorial on putting Frankenstein together (and the small mat cookie tower that is in two pieces really) for those of you who need it:


These are the pieces that should cut out when you cut the top and bottom for the franky tower. Note that the top (in dark grey) has three pieces, the bottom (in green) has four pieces, and I cut out an additional two circles in black at about .65 inches and two circles in white at about .9 inches (not shown - whoops).
First, put the two large pieces for the actual box together by lining up the flap and the circle cut out, making sure that the tab for connecting the two on the side matches up (look at the very left hand side of the picture). Put adhesive all the way across the top of the bottom piece as shown.
Attach the two so that the box is now in one piece.
Score lines (starting from the right) at 2.75 inches. Do this four times (2.75 inches from the last score line). Score from the bottom about 1.75 inches up.
Score from the top about 1.75 inches down from the top of the flap and then again from the bottom of the flap.
Follow the rest of the directions under this post for finishing folding the tops and putting on the acetate, etc.

I hope ya'll aren't sick of the cookie towers yet, because I've been telling people that I was going to make a version for the baby bug. So, I did. It posed a bit of a problem for me. I couldn't make it the 6" size or you would have made a box that was about an inch or so tall with mostly the top triangle and the closure for the bottom. You'd be giving away like two cookies! I also couldn't make the width total 6", or you would be making 1" cookies to give away! So, I had to opt for piecing. I have a top and a bottom for you baby buggers out there. I didn't make a smaller version for this tower because I figured it would be easy to cut it down to whatever size you wanted it. You'll notice that I just moved the cookie tower up for the bottom. Just put the mat size to 6 x 12 for each of the files and you're golden!

For everybody else (and the baby buggers too), I also created a file for a frankenstein tower. It's a little bigger than the small version of the tower. This is also a two piecer and I thought it would be fun to show you what you could do with this new take...two different pieces of paper, designed in a fun way...this cut is so versatile!!! I had no idea when I first designed the tower that it would work for so many different things. (Patting myself on the back) So I really hope you have a need this Halloween for a fun treat bag. I thought it was a decent way to help those with only 6" mats and provide something for all the rest of us as well! Enjoy!

Here are the files for:

Small Mat Cookie Tower Bottom - scut

Small Mat Cookie Tower Top - scut

Frankenstein Cookie Tower Bottom - scut

Frankenstein Cookie Tower Top - scut

Frankenstein Face - svg

Cookie Tower - svg (This is for someone on the scal forum who specifically asked for it as .svg...I haven't cut it yet and the middle shape is not in there, but someone else cut it and said it worked great!)

P.S. I got the idea for this Franky from my dear SIL, Jill, who sent me such a cute card (below) a year or two ago and I loved so much that I kept it! He's so cute! Thanks Jill! Of course, the Frankenstein face svg can also be used to make this little card! Hooray!

Cookie Tower Carrier

Denise Hill made these darling small cookie towers...and designed an awesome carrier to hold four! I SO love it! She graciously allowed me to put it on here. She also gave me the file for the carriers and she is willing to share with everyone. (Hooray!)

Here's a link to her website where you can get her file and view her other super cute projects:

Paper Pastime

Cut File Freebie - Week #13

Once again, not the best pictures, but I wanted to show it next to a regular size cookie tower so you could see the difference. I quickly cut it out and took a picture just before going out of town so it's not all put together with cookies and done up nice. Oh well. Hope it shows a decent representation. :)

For a while, I've been meaning to make a smaller version of the cookie tower because I don't always have enough cookies to give away a dozen to numerous people after my husband and children get to the cookies! So, I've just made the cookie tower smaller for about a half dozen cookies for those times...and for people without a bunch of kids to help them eat a dozen cookies.

So here is the .scut file:
Small Cookie Tower - .scut

Small Cookie Tower - .svg

I know this one did not take a whole lot of effort on my part since I'm just making a file I already have smaller, but I thought it would be useful (and I'm on vacation). So, easy it is today! Have a great weekend!!

Cut File Freebie - Week #12

I made some vinyl letters that I needed to use up as part of my goal to cut down my vast supply of crafting items. So I decided to make this cute little chicken for the vinyl words. Hope somebody else can use this too!!

The link is here:

Little Chicken - svg

chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate cake

This was a very good cake! It has chocolate chips inside that melt for a little bit of liquid chocolate goodness in every bite! Mmmmmmm. Very moist cake and the glaze on top is just right...not too much, not too little. I think it also looks pretty too which is great if you want to bring it to a social function. But the most beautiful part about it is how easy it is!!!
I got this recipe from recipezaar...Here is the link.