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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Calorie Free Donuts

My son loves strawberry frosted donuts, so I just had to make a bunch of assorted ones. The .cut file is in the right hand column. (I cut the lower circle from tan and then used my brown inkpad to shade the edges. I cut the frosting, then used clear embossing powder to make them glossy looking. Finally I used a scalloped circle punch to punch out the bite mark on the chocolate one). Carts used: George and Celebrations

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer

As requested I'm posting my pink ribbon .cut file to share. I made it super easily with George and Home Accents - only 3 pieces total. The .cut file is in the right hand column. Enjoy

Friday, August 22, 2008

Just a great Cricut tip

I love using white sticker paper in my Cricut machine. I set the pressure to 2 and it cuts through the sticker part, but not through the backing, making a sticker that is easy for you to peel off. I use it most when doing small paper piecing (like some of the Mickey cuts). If it is another color that I need, I color the piece I cut with a Sharpie, let it dry a few seconds and then peel it off. It makes the paper piecing so easy. I buys boxes of the sticker sheets at a time on ebay - jsut search for 8 1/2 x 11 stickers - they are super cheap.

Sock Monkey

When I got New Arrival Cart, I knew I had to make a sock monkey. Here he is. The cut file is in the right hand column

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Dunkin Donuts Junkie

I LOVE DD coffee. I made a coffee cup card with the familiar "Thanks a Latte" theme. I hand cut the corrugated piece in the middle from some old packing materials I had (way to recycle!!). The cut file is in the right hand column. Enjoy

Pink Ladies

I made these with PDDU - they would be great for a card, layout or event. Think pink. (No cut file for these). Just for your inspiration!

Have SCAL2? Trace any image with these easy steps...really it's easy!

Images with little detail work the best - images in silhouette form, just black on white.

1. download a picture on your computer - usually if you see an image you can right click right on top of the image with your mouse, and then choose "save" or "save as" rename it if necessary - you can find images on blogs (my blog here too), websites, all over. Put it in a folder on your computer where you can remember. The image should be in the form of a .jpg or .bmp. I have a separate folder for scal files (and then I categorize my images by category)...

2. open scal 2 (this only works in scal2, don't have scal2? click on the link below to get it...)

3. click on the tree symbol (looks like an apple tree) a the top of the screen

4. it will bring up a search box, now find the file you saved, by clicking BROWSE.

5. once you click it and click OK , it will appear right on the scal screen, you can size and change it as needed.

My favorite quotes

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.- Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and DO GOOD.
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or har dwork. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
"What would you do if you knew you would not fail?"
I'm not very religious, but I just like this...Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.