Labels x3

It's time to think about holiday baking... and what we want to eat... and holiday parties... and what we're going to serve for snacks and sweets... and so I pre-made some labels.

Really, I just posted these pics for my Mom's benefit ('cuz if she does then I'm going to send them to her for HER party and HER desserts).

So, what do ya say, Mom? Like them? Should I make more? Or would you prefer different colors? In total, how many # would you like?


This first one is meant to look a little like a Christmas package (made of a burgundy colored card stock).... there is bronze cord wrapped around the "package" with a nice label on top of the box and some cute flower embellishments.


This cute label uses razzleberry and mossy colors to match your house - you like?!


And the third one - I know you love this turquoise color and it is complimented well with a sage green in the background (although I think the flash made it look more gray). It's really pretty in person.

And when you click on the pictures above it will enlarge the picture for you. See the glitter I added to each one? Really, pretty detail... don't you think?!

Say the word - I'll drop them in the mail to you... just let me know the names of the desserts you are making and I'll get the labels done too!

Thinking about Christmas...

We are currently on vacation... and we're doing exactly what we want to be doing. My dear husband is surfing the net (reading music blogs, posting on musicians forums and reading the news), my Grandparents are playing "chicken foot" and me? I'm stamping...

We're fortunate enough to go on vacation and do what we want to be doing...





I worked hard to get my supplies ordered and delivered just in time to pack it up for our road trip to the Pacific Northwest. But I didn't order enough ribbon... so I haven't been able to complete all of my cards... just working on pieces of it while I wait for more ribbon to arrive. (Sidenote - Why does it seem like I'm always ordering more ribbon?! Maybe I should change to name of my blog to "Addicted to Ribbon"... )

In the meantime I'll work on more of these beauties!



Happy stamping folks... I'll be back to playing with my Pazzles soon enough...

Seeing 3D...

So, here it is...





My first 3D project with the new Pazzles machine! This box is only big enough to hold about a half bag of M&Ms... but that's about all it needs to hold, right?! I made this out of 12" x 12" sheet of scrapbook paper and looped through some of SU's satin ribbon, in tones of Chocolate Chip.



My box sits on the corner of my stamp table ... and doesn't have very many M&Ms left in it...

More lessons with the Pazzles...

Today's lesson on the Pazzles involved using fonts that don't work too well together when you weld them. So, the last video lesson I watched showed how to make a foundation under the letters and then create a box around the word... I like this look!



So, you'll notice, when using this font, if I had put the letters together "r" and "d" (somewhere in this word)... that the letters would have joined to the point that they wouldn't be readable. So, leaving them separated, and just creating a foundation for them to sit still gives you the option to weld them all together so that you are glueing each letter to your scrapbook page separately.

What joy this machine has brought into my life! WEEEEeeee!!!!!

Our deepest sympathy...

Some very meaningful people in our lives have recently passed away. And I found myself in need of a couple new sympathy cards. I have to admit, I really don't like making sympathy cards. I found some muted colors that were also comforting.

And I got busy with my colors and card stock and came up with this.

Les - your days were cut short in a tragic way. We hope having people around in your final days were comforting in some way. In the way you needed...

Joanne - you made a huge difference in every life you touched. We loved you tremendously! And we miss you already

More lessons with the Pazzles...

I'm doing some more work with welding letters together... and playing with different fonts and sizes and cutting intricacies...

And at the same time I'm getting ready to work on my high school scrapbook! So, my alma mater (San Marcos High School) got to touch my Pazzles! But, be careful... that's my new toy.





So, this font I used (don't remember it's name at this point) made block style letters. And I joined the letters together and tilted them a little to the left ... and a little to the right... and then welded them together. What a great toy... I love this thing!

Off I go to keep playing... ta ta for now!

More lessons learned - via the Pazzles

So, today we'll look at what I call "intricacy problems"... ha!

What are we looking at? We are looking at various die cuts, in relation to a Tombow Adhesive. I included the adhesive roller in these pictures so you can understand the proportionate scale of the die cut.

Here we are looking at a leaf, a swirly-swirl and a cute lil' flower blossom. These three die cuts turned out great (except for the smallest li' holes in the middle of the flower). And the second image down is a paper clip of sorts... cute, eh?! Nice cute, too.





And here - what are we looking at? A die cut that had a problem... here is where I started seeing "intricacy problems"... see the bottom half of that flower? The final cut of the petal did not complete. I'm thinking this happened because the cutting mat had started to lose it's tackyness... or stickyness. Since the paper quit sticking to the mat, it lifted and just moved around along w/ the blade for that last little swoop of the cut. Hmph! OK... keep testing...



And here... even deeper "intricacy problems". All those individual cuts ... and some broken swirls. See the swirls across the top? The right side of those swirls are mostly un finished/broken.





So, what did I learn today? Do these intricate cuts on a larger scale and/or a tackier mat.

Off I go to shop for more mats... I have heard that it is normal for these mats to lose their tackyness rather quickly. But, this next part is key...

Most Valuable Lesson learned this week... I made a big mistake on my first run through the machine. I pushed the cardstock onto the cutting mat rather hard... and after my cut, when I pulled the cardstock back off the cutting mat... well, a lot of cardstock stayed behind. And when I worked to get it off, the adhesive started to come off the cutting mat as well.

Note to self #1: press the cardstock against the cutting mat. But DO NOT, and I mean DO NOT, press it too hard.
Note to self #2: maybe i should buy some more cutting mats.

Off to the lab to keep testing and playing and learning...