Latest Work

This evening I worked on two signs that are going to be gifts to two ladies who have their own salons. My friend asked if I would make them each a sign that read "Gift Certificates Available". So here is one of them as they are both pretty much alike although I did hand stamp the background so they are not identical. I used a Martha Stewart Shadow Box, a stamp from Autumn leaves Swirls V.2 by Rhonna Farrer, Glitter from Doodle bug and my cricut to cut out the shaped ivory card. I used a font from Word to print out the words, my cuttlebug to cut and emboss the butterfly and voila, here is what I ended up with. *The lighting in my studio is not so great so the ivory background and card look mauve here but they are not and it is are 8.5 x 11 in size.

Goodnight or Happy Friday whichever it might be.

Cuttlebug oh Cuttlebug.....How Sweet thou art!

So, today I came directly home, cooked dinner and quickly retired to my studio. I pulled out the cuttlebug and nestabilities and put them to work. It was so easy and quick to make the scallops and circles. I used Bazill papers, the photos don't do the card justice as the colors are much brighter. I decided to use a black cardstock for the card so that the fuschia and green would really pop and they do. Although I love my new cricut this cuttlebug (which is made by the same company Provo Craft) will be really handy when I need to do a quick card. I only have two sets of the nestabilities so I limited to what I can do with the cuttlebug for now. What is really neat is that I can also use my dies from my quickutz squeeze! I know, you are starting to think I am either spoiled or addicted to shopping for my studio, lol. I will say it is a little of both, lol. With the purchase of the cuttlebug and zutter binder I decided that I needed to move things around. So, I moved my Cricut to the bookshelf and the cuttlebug and zutter binder followed. I will have to get after my DH to get back to his honey-do-list and build that new built in bookcase! I need more storage space!! AND, I failed to mention that I bought my cuttlebug at 50% off! I had been eyeing it for sometime but knew I wouldn't buy it without a 50% off coupon from Michael's!! Hope your weekend started out well, ciao.