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Hi y'all!  I did something today that I didn't ever think I would.  I made a card without my Cricut.  Heavenly days folks, I went old school scrapping!  It was more fun that I thought it would be.  The down side of this is that I am now amassing such an amazing amount of paper crafting tools and paper that there won't be any room for US soon!

I used a Tim Holtz Sizzix die for the flower on paper I printed from a document in Word.  The edges of the flower are inked with red dye ink and a rhinestone is glued to the brad.  I used punches for the corners and a cuttlebug and embossing folder for the mat.  After embossing the plain black card stock, I sanded some of the raised bits and colored some of them with a silver metallic sharpie.  The words are cut from plain red card stock using a cuttlebug die and then glammed up with a glitter gel pen from Amy Chomas.

My auntie and cousin came to visit last week and gave my daughter a Smithsonian Rock and Gem Dig kit.  That kid had so much fun hammering and chiseling at the rock to get the gems out!  I'm glad my hubby insisted she do it outside since she made a HUGE mess.  The thank you card is for this gift.

I need to unpack my Gazelle and learn the Funtime software that comes with it.  I know I can cut to the Gazelle from Make The Cut, but I still wanna learn all of cool things I can do in Funtime.  I don't know when I'm going to get to it though, as we have a lot going on around here right now.  Hopefully I can get to it soon and let y'all know how I make out. 

Happy crafting y'all!

I finally got around to playing with embossing powder last night.  What fun!  I can see how much of a mess could be made, though.  I don't know where hubby's heat gun is so I made due with a toaster.  What a hoot!!
Anyway, the files for this simple card are here:
MTC Shell Card

I made the files for the mats and the shells in Make The Cut.

A new cutter is on the way to me!

I'm so excited today!  I just saw the email that my BossKut Gazelle electronic die cutter has shipped!  That was super fast!  It's on sale at Scrap Savvy for a ridiculously low price, which I saw mentioned on the Make the Cut forum several days ago.  I mulled the purchase over for a couple of days before committing to buy, but I just couldn't pass it up at this price!  (I'm in no way affiliated with Scrap Savvy, except as a customer.)

Now I will be complete free from ProvoCraft and the Cricut Expression I currently use.  I'm very much looking forward to working with an upgraded machine, but a tiny little bit apprehensive too!

I'll keep you updated when she arrives!

Happy paper crafting y'all!

3D Flower Card with Free SVG and MTC Files!

Last night I designed a new 3D flower and made this sweet little card.  For the background layer I used a recently purchased Martha Stewart scoreboard to emboss lines onto plain white cardstock for a fun little twist instead of using an embossing folder as I usually would.  Purple metallic and gold sparkly papers (from Walmart) make the flower embellishment POP!  


*Note:  All pictures and files I present here are sole property of Lisa Kizer, aka SassyLady, and are provided for your personal use only.

MTC file    3D layered Flower 1   SassyLady 2010
SVG file    3D layered Flower 1   SassyLady 2010

Girl's Night was AMAZING!

My darling daughter was my date last night for a Girl's Night Out.  Michael Buble was in town!  We had great seats and really enjoyed the show.  That man can sing!!!!  We're both just waiting till he makes it back to Jacksonville again.  Sigh.

Cute and so sweet!

This evening I was messing around in my Make the Cut software and designed a sticker for my sweet daughter.  Her name is surrounded by sea shells and ocean creatures.  MTC's designer, Andy, just rocks!  He put the ability to print your designs rather than cut them, if you so desire.  That's just what I did!  I printed on sticker paper and used the hinge method to cut the shadow of the design on my Cricut and voila!  A custom sticker for my sweetie's room!  She was generous with her thanks(in the form of hugs and kisses)!

A beginning!

This is my very first blog, so please be patient with me. I'm in the process of getting this thing going and soon will be blogging away like KRAZY!

I love to do crafts of all kinds from sewing (which I haven't done lately) to beading and paper crafting. I've been into card making for a bit, using Make The Cut software and my Cricut Expression to design even the embellishments! What fun! And useful too. :) This is a card I did for a swap using Make The Cut to design the 3D flower myself. How cool is that???

I'll be back soon to give more details about my crafting an life in general. See ya soon!