Craft Room Update!

I'm in my craft room!!! The floor is in, the baseboards are up! The door has a lock on it! And I'm thrilled!! My own space to work on my projects and not have to put them away for dinner time. :) Sigh... does life get much better than this?

My new space is awesome and bright - and here are some of the projects I was able to work on in my new room yesterday...

For my DH's birthday! A football fan... I couldn't find any footballs, so gave him a trophy instead. He deserves it after all the work he's done on these rooms the last couple of months! I used my SCAL to cut the welded letters from a font called "All Star". I cut the trophy from Locker Talk and wrapped some embossed tin foil around it. I used the Cuttlebug and a Fiskars plate to get this look.

A Hello Kitty card for my niece. I had promised her a day to get together to do some crafting, and then it never happened. I tried to make it up to her with an "official" invitation to Aunty's house to play with the paper. My mother took it to her last night - along with some other cards for her brothers. Mom said they loved them - and that's all that matters to me! I used the card feature on the Hello Kitty Cartridge and pieced it together with the outline feature as well. I also added some glitter glue to the bow and shirt after I'd snapped this photo. Gave it a little extra "pop".

More good news this week too. (Just keeps getting better and better for me!) My newest cartridge, Graphically Speaking got here. I haven't had an extra moment to sit down and print some of these things off yet - but I'm looking forward to some time later tonight or tomorrow. The boys are at camp and the house is almost up to standard, so I'm going to take advantage of that.
This one looks like a super cartridge and I'm hoping that our trip to Atlanta next weekend will get us some great photos that need layouts!

Cuttlebug and Sponge Bob!

I did it... I broke down when that 50% off coupon landed in my email. I even tried to avoid it for a couple of days but thinking about it got the better of me and I went to Michael's and bought a Cuttlebug... and to be honest... I LOVE IT!

I have no desire to cut things with it. I bought it only for embossing and so far I'm having a blast with it! I already had a couple of embossing folders that I'd used with a rolling pin - but I'd seen a video that shows how to made your own embossing cards and I can hardly wait to have time enough to try that. The possibilities are endless!

And just when I was having fun rolling everything I could find through the Cuttlebug - my Spongebob cartridge arrived. I had to make something with it right away. Opened up the Design Studio and made this little guy into a card...


I think I chose this one because I was so frustrated at the first official day of summer vacation home with the boys. Sigh... Water fights, wrestling fights, name calling fights and LOST glasses!! We're in for a long vacation...

Through all that I did manage to get another card done too. This one is one of Jennie Bean's inspirations. It doesn't look like hers - but it was only my first attempt!

You can see where I ran it through my Cuttlebug too. I know it looks amateurish - I'm not fooling myself - but it was fun to make and I did learn some stuff along the way.

We're painting the basement rooms this week so I hope to be able to post some pics of that later.

Got the Inspiration Back!

Woo Hoo! I've been blog hopping for a couple of days and found some unbelievably talented and generous people who have shared their .cut files. It took me a bit of time to get some of them open as I kept getting a date time validity error. Turns out that I simply had to switch my region settings to US, instead of Canada, and viola!! Design Studio files open and cutting! I'm so thrilled at the possibilities I can see with these.

Here's a picture of one that I actually tried today. This is a combination from two different cut files. The card came from Linda over at Just For Sharing. This woman is incredibly talented and I am both inspired and jealous! Beautiful work!!


The inside of the card came from Carla at Scrapped Lives. Also incredibly GORGEOUS files!!

But I didn't stop there! :) Monday's are my day with Riley - and what better way to spend the day than with a 4 year old that loves to "cut paper"? She uses up all the scraps! :) We made this one...





Now, I will tell you that the pop up here is not my design! I thought I had downloaded this one so as to give the designer credit - so I will update this entry with that information, as soon as I can find it.

(FOUND IT! Got this wonderful creation from Kay over at Clever Someday. Thank you Kay! You opened up a world of possibility for me with these designs.)

The last one we did was another download from Just For Sharing. I absolutely LOVE this one! I embossed the front of these cards and added some ribbon to kind of make them my own. Thank you again, Linda, for your incredible designs!