SSD Design Team: "I Like Your Style" with Nifty Fifties

This week over at SweetSassyDiva our challenge was to create something using one of our new cartridges. I snagged Nifty Fifties during PaperCrafting Pros $13 cartridge sale, but I was a little apprehensive about using it. I was born in 1985, what in the heck was I going to do with all of these fifties images? Well, fear not my friends! Nifty Fifties is a truly versatile cartridge and you can make SO MANY wonderful things with it! Wanna see what I did?

Recipe:

• Nifty Fifties Cartridge
• DCWV Black Currant stack
• i-Rock and gems
• Martha Stewart black pearls
• My Pink Stamper "Pinkalicious Puns" stamp set

One of the first images I was drawn to on the cartridge was the dress form and the cute little sock hop dress.  I cut the dress form from glitter paper and the actual dress from the Black Currant stack.  The dress comes with a buckle but it was too small to really work with, so I blinged up the dress with gems instead.

The sentiment is from the My Pink Stamper Pinkalicious Puns set.  I KNOW, I KNOW.  I didn't use a Pink By Design Stamp!  Are you shocked?  Trust me, I wanted to, but I don't own the Shopaholic stamp set...yet. Sarah, if you're listening, my birthday is next month ;)

All kidding aside, this is a great girly stamp set with lots of fashion sayings, and "I Like Your Style" went perfectly with the dress.

SO, there you have it!  If you ever have the opportunity to get Nifty Fifties (and it's going for really cheap these days) you should!  You'll be surprised what you can create with it :)

This Weeks Hello Thursday Cartridge Releases

Hi everyone! I'm sure every Cricut lover already knows, but yesterday was Hello Thursday, and Provocraft released three new full cartridges. I wanted to post some images here and tell you my thoughts.

1.) Birthday Bash

 I think this cartridge is SO cute!  I also love the tag and card feature on this cart.  I love the animals holding numbers!

2.) Nifty Fifties 

I'm LOVING this cartridge as well!  The retro images are simply adorable, and I can see some GREAT cards being made with this cart.  Both this and Birthday Bash are now in my "must have" list :)

Finally...

3.) Shall we Dance?

 This cartridge is a Cricut Circle Exclusive, and I have to say, this is my least favorite cartridge to be released in quite a while.  The font is nice, but the dancers are just not my style.  There are a few of them who are supposed to be children dancing, and they look a little weird, to be honest. A fellow Cricut Message Board user pointed this out to me:

 It's spelled wrong!!!!  It should be Un-Deux-Trois.  Again, I'm not a French major, so if I'm wrong let me know, but I did take enough French in college to remember how to count :)  I truly hope PC fixes this before releasing it to their Circle Members.

So, in short, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE two out of three of these carts.  Which ones do you love?  Which could you live without?  Leave me a comment and let me know!