PTI October Blog Hop

Posted on | October 25, 2009 | 47 Comments

Hiya! Decided, last minute, to join PTI’s blog hop. I’ve been into Christmas lately and so I still have my Christmas juices going. This is a simple card and all the pieces of paper were adhered using foam tape (1/8″ & 1/16″). For the embossing I used American Craft Zing.

Have a great one and I hope you like my simple card.

Tut: Bunny Ears Ribbon Tying

Posted on | October 24, 2009 | 13 Comments

Ok gals, some of you requested a video on how to tie the bunny ear bows. Well I’m not sure if it’s the proper way but it’s how I do my ribbon tyings. It’s not the best video because I did it really quick but I hope the visual in the video can help you tie your ribbons better.

I never cut my ribbon before I am done tying. I think I waste less ribbon doing it this way. If I have too long of an edge I’d take my bow apart and shorten it and redo the process again.

Hope your Saturday is wonderful! If you need some inspiration you still have time to play along with M’s sketch challenge. It doesn’t end until the 26th.

More Christmas Joy

Posted on | October 23, 2009 | 22 Comments

Message from Emma: hi ms dawn hugs emma.

And… here’s M holding my card for me. I used Dawn McVey’s colors and stamps from PaperTrey for this card (there’s a line mark on M’s cheek. It’s a pen mark. She said she wanted to look like a cougar).

Here’s a better picture of it. The center of the ornaments were embossed using American Craft Zing.

The brown cardstock was adhered with glue to the cream paper. The rest were adhered using the new dimensionals that I ordered last weekend from StampInkTons. I got the 1/8″ and 1/16″ (this is the same as SU’s dimensionals) and compare to a CD case, these are how big 36 yards are. They adhere well. I like and it’s nice that I can cut however big of a piece I want. The hard part… storage.

Speaking of storage, do any of you have a JetMax storage system? I’ve been looking at them and seeing what others do. Here are some links if you want to see some configurations. Michael’s carry these and sometimes they’re on sale and sometimes you have to use your coupons.

I think it might fit my needs. I was looking at IKEA stuff but shipping is to expensive and I want to get them here and soon while I still have a job. There’s also the Store in Style but I can’t find them locally. I don’t know which is better either. Let me know if you use this (or other) system and what you think of them. You think they’ll be able to stand an overseas move and hopefully back to later in a few years?

Joy

Posted on | October 22, 2009 | 12 Comments

Hey again, just a quickie little post for the day. It’s wet and dreary here in my little town. I had this post set to auto-publish (don’t you just LOVE this feature of a blog? I mean really, did you think I was up at 3 a.m. to post to my blog so that I’ll be read during your morning blurfing? {::SMILES} I wish YouTube has this option so that I can set both to auto-publish with me being involved!) but thought I’d interject a bit to give you a weather update.

So here’s a card that I did last night. I started out by grabbing this white cardstock, leftover from my last SU workshop, and stamped the sentiment. Hmmm I thought, plain. I mean I did challenge myself to a one layer card but that alone did not look right. So I looked around and there it was, a My Mind’s Eyes paper that’s still brand new. So I cut and I glued it on. Hmmmm again. Still blah and I started rummaging through my loose ribbon bin (that’s my other goal, to use up what’s in that bin) and I found some ric racs (what a silly name, btw). Then I realized that my sentiment was crooked. Oh well. It’ll go well with my Christmas tree… I have this fake tree, $20 from Sears – after Christmas sale 10 years ago (Savitri is always into bargains and waiting for the “after” sales), and it’s ALWAYS crooked when I put it together (if hubby puts it up it’s never crooked so it’s not the tree, it’s me). Hmmm again. Aaaah, got these Christmas buttons from PaperTrey (just got them in the mail with some Dawn McVey’s stamps!). Three buttons later, some PTI twine and corner roundings I was done.

Cardstock… I am a Stampin’ Up! demo (at least for now, I still keep wanting to quit cause I’m my only loyal customer but somehow I’m always meeting my quota and so I’m still on) but my favorite white card stock is PaperTrey’s. I heard that Gina K’s is nice too but since I’ve never tried I can’t say. But SU vs PTI, PTI wins by a land slide. Just really nice and thick! The above was done on SU paper. I am trying to finish them up so that I can 100% convert to PTI white. Also they’re a tad bit slicker. might be nice for coloring, I dunno since I can’t color worth anything, but for me, I can do without the slickness. Actually I prefer it. For hybrid, if I want to run it through my printer and it’s not a base, the Walmart/Office Deport whites are fine (it says 110lbs but still not as good as SU’s even). Cheap too. But for a base, the thicker the better. If you haven’t switched over do try it out. You’ll notice a HUGE difference and it’ll make your cards look so much better because it’s standing up tall {::SMILE}.

So that’s my cardstock talk. I’m sure you’ve heard it before {::SMILES}. Have a great one!!

Tut+Freebie: Recoloring in Word 2007

Posted on | October 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

Ok peeps, I’ve been on Splitcoast this week and it seems like people are getting more and more into digital stamps (I don’t get on SCS much cause when I do I tend to shop more… the Tools and Products section ALWAYS gets me). This is great, more options for you AND quicker access! If you’ve been visiting my blog you probably know I have a video on how to print a digital stamp/image in Word. A few posts ago I posted my handwriting with a Word (.doc) file in case you want to just quickly print the file out for your card.

Today I am adding this to my video file. How to recolor a digital image/stamp (or clip-art) in Word. Quite easy and even though the options are a bit limiting if you’re creative (and I know you all are) you can get something close to what you want.

In case you want a copy of “yeah” the file is below. Just right click and save as the .png file. You should be able to open it in Word or any other graphic imaging software. Have fun and if you do use my handwriting, please let me know so that I can see your creation (via linking to your post orphoto gallery or emailing me a sample). I’m new to sharing my stuff and would just be tickled pink if somebody actually uses it {::SMILES}.