Freebie: Butterfly Die-Cut Template

Posted on | October 14, 2009 | 12 Comments

Hi! I made a card AND used my Klik-n-Kut. I’ve been wanting to cut out a butterfly for awhile and last weekend at the expo I saw this acrylic butterfly that was part of a scrappy kit. Well, I didn’t want the kit, just not my style, but the lady wouldn’t sell me just the acrylic butterfly. She said there’s probably one somewhere in the expo I can buy individually <– NOT helpful, lady!

So last night after all the kids have gone to bed Savitri went to work and I got this:

Feel free to download the files (if you want the jpg format, just right click the butterfly image above and save as) and use them for your projects. I have them in a few different format so that other Klic-N-Kut users can use it and also those who has a Silhouette, Craft Robo, Wishblade ((by the way, the three are the same machines, just sold by different companies with different software/download and warranty packages)), and Cricut Expression. I could have converted it to other formats but hey, it was midnight, it’s free, and so if you don’t see your file type, download Inkscape ((it’s free version of Adobe Illustrator, kind of like what Gimp is to Photoshop)), open the SVG or DXF in it and export/save as (I can’t remember which) to your format. I think the only thing missing is the WPC format for Gazelle or Pazelle users.

SVG - Cricut users who can SCAL can use this format
DXF – Probably the most versatile, most die-cut machines that hooks up to a computer can open this format
KNK – Any users with the KnK software, like studio GE used by some Silhouette, Wishblade, and Craft Robo users)

For the acrylic butterfly I used the acrylic protector that came with my PaperTrey Ink stamps. It’s the part that the stamps stick on. It’s nice and thick but not too thick. I could still bend the butterfly to give it form. Then for the pattern paper (PTI stars) I shrunk the image using my KnK inline embedding/layering tool and took it down to .4. Look in your manual on how to do this, you can’t just grab a corner and shrink the image because the size will not be right. That’s it. ((The rest of the material are PTI ribbon and stamp, Making Memories paper, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, and border punch by Fiskars))!

Have fun and I can’t wait to see what you make with this!!

Massage

Posted on | February 11, 2009 | 4 Comments

Wish it was mine!

This page was M in Indonesia getting her first 30 min. massage. Oh she loved it and it was so inexpensive – $1.50 I think. I wish I had gotten a better picture but this is it. It’s the memories and stories that counts right when you’re scrapbooking?

It’s stamp night again. I haven’t gone to an SU stamp night at my upline in ages!! We’re doing a card swap too but I’ll show you mine tomorrow. The interesting part… I didn’t use any SU stamps… just card stock. Oh well, it’s never strict.

Tomorrow I will also get a big box from SU with lots of goodies. Me love Sale-A-Bration!!!! I can’t wait to play with them and do a couple at the SU workshop that I’m leading next week. Will be fun!

Material:
Scarlet Lime Oct’08 kit and alpha from my KnK. Oh, the bird on the top right was cut from somebody’s business card.

Freebie: Paw Die-Cut + Keeping Up with My Goals

Posted on | January 26, 2009 | 31 Comments

Before I start… if you have an electronic die-cut machine, scroll down. I have a freebie.

If you stopped by a few weeks ago, I mentioned my 2009 goals and one is to do at least two challenges a week. Since then I’ve been pretty dang good! I have also met my “get two things published this year.” I have a Jan. Scrapbook Trends page published (it’s under the Showcase section) and I have another one this Feb. for an online publication called Bella Scraps. Both have been by accident so yes I’ve met my goal but it’s not like I was trying. Do they still count?

So here’s my second challenge for this week, a card created using a 2Sketches4You sketch and also inspired by Caardvarks: polka dots. For the paper I used SU card stock, KI and Damask (the b/w flourishes that I trimmed out of a whole paper) pattern paper, and Sassafrass stamp. The sentiment I think is CTMH. It was a freebie from a scrapbook expo. The ribbons were garage store finds and I used my Nestabilities for the circle and scallop circle behind the owl.

I am home sick today. Just not feeling too hot. Between soreness from being preggo (I had nerve issues with M too) and trying to fight a cold I decided to stay home. The good thing out of it… after a nice nap and some tea, I could whip up a card {::SMILES}.

The freebie… a while back I made this paw print for this layout. To download, just right click and “save as.”

Just FYI, I only have a KnK but from what I read, those with other machines (Wishblade, CraftRobo, Cricut Expression with proper software) will be able to import either the SVG, DXF, or PDF file. For the JPEG images, just click on the paw images to download them.

Alrighty, have a great one. I think I’ll nap some more!

25

Posted on | January 16, 2009 | 23 Comments

I wish it’d be me turning 25, ha! I can’t tell you who this card’s for. I’m not sure if she reads my blog.

Well, I had my 20-weeks appt. and everything is great. I have gained a whoopin’ 11 lbs, finally starting to show, but not quite fitting into my old maternity pants yet. They’re the pants with buttons on the sides to expand but even the smallest ones are too big still. I think I need to get me some of them band ones. My regular pants are getting too tight… my butt’s definitely getting bigger if nothing else.

This weekend, Saturday, hubby and I have a ball to go to. Oh so exciting. I feel like Cinderella, ha ha. It’s his work’s gala but it’s a special one, it’ll be at a hotel in Kansas City instead of at his work or at my work’s ballroom (aka the university’s student union). M’s going to stay with a good friend of ours and so it’ll be date night with hubs and I. Yeah! It’s been a while since we had date night. It’ll be a big treat before baby comes along!! I wonder if we’ll see this bike as the centerpiece at the gala. Quite the bike.

Ok… a card created using colors from Kristina Werner: Ruby red, pretty in pink, pumpkin pie, and whisper white. Paper’s from Stampin’ Up and the stamp is PTI. The ribbon is recycled from the Pottery Barn Kids – they always wrap their toys in pink polka dot paper and pink solid gross grain ribbon. If you look really close, there are some rub-ons too on the left next to the scallop paper. It came from SU, Love and Happiness. For the 25, I used my Klic-n-Kut die-cut machine.

Celebrate 35

Posted on | December 3, 2008 | 17 Comments

Not my 35th, a friend’s {::SMILES}. I used Kristina’s colors for this week: chocolate chip, pumpkin pie, taken with teal, certainly celery, and white. The card is for a guy and I thought the colors are appropriate. I added the ribbon because I love it and also because I know he wouldn’t mind it either. He’s a very sentimental kind of guy; he even went to a crop with me once. No, he’s not gay, he he…

For the shape behind the number and the numbers themselves, I used my Klic-n-Kut. I finally dug it out again after putting it away so that my parents could have a bed (that’s where my Knk and laptop lays). I used my SU polka dots stamps for the background and clear embossing powder and for the sentiment, I used an itty bitty PaperTrey stamp.

It’s a simple card and very dimensional. There no glue on this card, just dimensionals. Oh, not sure if you can see it but the 35 is glittery. I used my SU glitters and adhere the glitter using the heat and stick powder. The step was more less: versamark, heat and stick, heat gun, glitters, heat gun. IF for some reason you don’t get enough glitters on, do the steps again. I don’t like getting glitters on my actual versamark and so for the second step, if needed, I use an old embossing pad. It works well.

Ok, that’s it. Have a great one and more later!