OH DEAR

I believe I have a cutter addiction.... thats electronic die cutter for those not in the crafting world!

A small beautiful silver and white cutter has crawled ever so swiftly into my craft room and its making itself heard as I type.   

I have had a pazzles (may it forever be cared for in its forever home....NOT MINE) and a Gazelle and a Blackcat.   It appears that each of them do something slightly different, more impressive and sometimes each has its own quirks that frustrate the ....$%$^W%$&% out of me!  So why this new cutter.

Well... read up to the top line and youll get it.  No really.   I have spent HOURS and hours trying for the perfect print and cut.  And lusted after the Blackcat PRO, when I dont need one as I have a blackcat.   And my perfect print and cut can now be obtained in a few little clicks and cut on my Cameo.  Yep... I didnt even know I was expecting!

Things I love... the PERFECT easy peasy print and cut and the fact that you can actually cut typing paper, not a huge deal I know but think masking of images and youll get why I like that feature.  The mat is low tack and releases the cardstock and paper really easily.  That said, I doubt the mat will last a long time like pazzle, gazzle and blackcat mats do.  So far what do I hate.  Hmm. The mat intake is a bit finiky, the loud and much much slower than the blackcat and gazelle.  I hadnt realised just how fast the cougar was until right about now as I cut a full page of detailed doilies!

Ill post some photos soon.. (after my little precious finishes cutting this page of designs maybe) but I wanted to take step one and say outloud or in type... I HAVE A CUTTER purchasing addiction!

Pen xx

Playing with copics

Excuse the poor photo editing, but I wanted to share.  Finally had done craft time today and coloured up a saturated canary beauty.

Card Makin mama "thankful" inspiration

This fortnight at CMM we are all about being Thankful. We are kindly sponsored by Digi My World. I played with another step card (cut on my Blackcat, similar to the tutorial on the post below this one). And I used the Thankful Givings digi set. It's also available per coloured, which may of assisted me when I coloured this girl...she is a tad too bright!
Please head on over to the Card Makin Mama Challenge blog and link up your creations. you have a week left to play along.




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Side step card Tutorial for Funtime (wpc)

This video comes with a clause.  You have to click the HD option in media quality when you open the video.  For some reason, it keeps converting to a lower quality making it blurry to watch. A setting of 480 looks OK on my screen.
 

 

Side Step Card (WPC)

The WPC file above is the file created in the video, it has been test cut and i'm happy with the results. I've uploaded to skydrive, to download the file you have to click the link, highlight which file you want and then click download which is on the toolbar. I hope you find that process fairly painless.

 

Thanks for visiting today

My shopping spree

Hi everyone,

Ive been busy over the past few days playing with the layout of the Card Makin Mama's blog.  I quite like the finished product, but wow HTML can be painful.  Pop on over and have a look, if you see anything thats really WRONG or broken links then please don't hesitate in alerting me.   

 

I also finally made the decision to try my hand at video's for crafting.   As it turned out, I received a delivery from the Inpiration Emporium this morning, so that provided the perfect opportunity for me to make a video.  Now I have to work out how to edit them and to learn the art of speaking without using the word UM, I now understand why many crafter's have such beautiful finger nails on their video's.  Its because short nails on camera don't look that flash.  I recently took the acryllic nails off so mine look especially yuck.

 

 

As you can see in the video, I got loads of goodies.  I have marked up all of my reinkers now and I felt that I really did own a lot.  Well my Colour chart says otherwise.  I think its going to take many years to get the whole collection of Various Ink refils.

 

Im off to clean up the craft room (ie. hide the evidence) and then hopefully I'm going to craft tonight with some of these new goodies.

 

 

Thanks for visiting today