Just Random

Posted on | October 12, 2010 | 8 Comments

Last weekend hubby said that if people clean like I do they’ll never get anything done. After I thought about it I guess he’s right. It’s day three and the house isn’t any better than it was Sunday when I started. I kept stopping – stopping just cause – and taking craft breaks. The other night hubby was here in my craft room watching Netflix and he looked at my box of cards and said: “You are obsessed with making cards. After you’re done you just toss them in that box.” You know all the cards that I’ve made the last few years? Yeah, I don’t have that many friends to give them to. I do donate but not as often as I make them. I’m going to be purging again soon. There’s a Christmas bazaar at M’s school. I can donate to that.

Then today after I was done making the above card I looked down at my Stampin’ Up! paper pad. It’s that 10×16″ pad that demos use at workshops so that you have something to either measure with or practice stamping. Well, since I don’t demo anymore and I hardly ever did workshops I still have a big thick pad of it and that’s where I stamp on. It’s nice, flat, cushiony and I can make a mess on it. Like my mess below? I’ve had this pad for a few months now and it’s about ready to be replaced by a nice new clean sheet. I should do the masking + spraying on a scrapbook page/card sometimes.

Card details:

This card was inspired by 2Sketches4You’s sketch, no. 63. I haven’t played in a while and thought I’d join. This card is also my last official card for the DigiChick. You like the butterfly? I do! I got that from the Patisserie kit by Sugarplum Paperie at TDC. The butterfly was a .png file but I took it into Photoshop and converted it into a .jpg. After this I was able to bring it into my electric die-cut maachine, I have the Klik-N-Kut, and cut it. The back scalloped paper was a die-cut template from the Cutting Files also at TDC. The Cutting Files has all sorts of other templates. The fun thing about electric die-cut machines is that you can alter it. I didn’t do the holes for my doily, just the shape.

Ok, that’s it. I hope you all have a great day!

Other materials:

Cardstock: Stampin’ Up!
Stamps: WPlus9, Season of Thanks, and Waltzingmouse, Musical Backgrounds

Home with the Jove

Posted on | October 27, 2009 | 6 Comments

Hi! You’re prob. sick of seeing Christmas cards from me, huh? I was going to do something else but I saw this piece of ornament that I cut a week ago when I was testing out my die-cut creation and didn’t want to waste it. The colors of my card’s a bit fall-ish but hey, Christmas doesn’t have to be red and green with some white and a ho ho ho {::SMILES}.

The pattern paper’s My Mind’s Eye, card stock from SU, the ribbon’s Martha Stewart’s and the sentiment is my good ol handwriting — not a print out, just fresh black ink on white card stock.

So I’m home with Jovie. We’re not sick. Just home cause it’s her daycare lady’s birthday today and every year she takes the day off. Good for her! I have a lot of vacation time anyhow and so why not. I thought I was going to be able to lounge around all day but I actually did work this morning. I broke a WordPress blog — a work one — when I updated the software last week. ALWAYS the same one too! URGH! But a day and a half later it’s up and running again. Wuih!

Well, I should go. Jovie should be waking up soon and I got to eat. Laters!

Freebie: Ornament + Embellish Circle Card

Posted on | October 18, 2009 | 12 Comments

Hey, hey, I’ve been BUSY and in a great way…crafting AND using my toys! Today I have a card using Ashley Newell’s challenge, #2, and it’s a circle card with the following colors: white, blue, green and brown. This is what I came up with ((All but the ribbon from PapertreyInk. Ribbon was found at an antique store, 20 yrds for $3 and still made in the USA)):

Pretty simple card and I used my Klik-N-Kut machine again. The ornament I made myself and again I am sharing the file (right click image and save as to save the jpeg file to your computer:

As I mentioned in the previous post, because it’s complimentary I am not going to save it to every die-cut extension. If you don’t see your format or your machine cannot import any of the files, download and install Inkscape and save as/export to the correct format yourself. I did try opening the DXF and KNK in my machine and they work.

Glad Ashley renewed the deadline so that I can play too. Had lots of fun doing this and it was also great to be able to use my machine AND create sharable files. Have a great one!

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.