craft blocks

Alright, here are some more of those dang wood blocks! I cut out a ton of them for some girls, and here is my hand at them. I actually thought they were quite fun to do, and really pretty easy.

The words are cut on the Pazzle in Scriptina and Trubble fonts. They have been coated with red glitter, and then laid over the hot pink shadowing to stand out better.

The ornament was front a Xmas dingbat font, totally sweet find on that one, I am getting tired of designing my own things!

All in all, the papering part of this went pretty quickly, the hardest part was doing all the glitter -what a mess!

3-D patterns

Once again you see the damask pattern on the dishes, that was done in vinyl then just applied using normal directions. I don't believe these are safe for much washing, but it sure is a fun way to dress up and change up a simple white serving dish!


I wasn't totally impressed with the 3-D patterns in the stock library. Some of them were great, others of them, the flaps didn't match up right, so the box was all wonky when put together.


Oh well, in the end they still came together alright, and looked great.

I ended up designing my own pattern for an exploding box card, you can make it smaller and give it as a card... these were bigger to create a box. This is the design when opened.

Vinyl Holiday Blocks

Here's a try at some Holiday blocks... The tree and the star are my own designs. The snowflake is a dingbat font. And I'm not sure what fonts the words are all done in.I really love the Wise Men one, I am currently working on some wisemen on camels to do another board with.

Heart Card

These are the invitations/announcements I made for my daughter's first birthday. I just used stock library heart patterns and then welded them together along the one side. The inards of the hearts didn't really like to cut out very well. I replaced the blade during it, and that was better, but I think the real culprit is that my Pazzle mat had seen better days, and I couldn't wait for a mail-order mat, so I bought a cricut one, which I believe to be a near waste of my $10. My cardstock wouldn't stick to it. So every time the blade went to cut out the intricate designs, it would shift the cardstock over, in turn ruining another invite.Lesson learned: Pazzle mats are better, and make sure to always have a few on hand!Oh, the embellishment hearts are either the inside of the cutouts, or the long-skinny ones were cut using a Sizzix Die cutter.

Damask pattern

I did these invites, and although they weren't cut from my Pazzle machine, I did however design the demask pattern in the Inspiration software. I started with a demask ding bat font, and then copy/pasted/rotated the design around until it came out like this. I was then able to eport it all into Photoshop and then add in my text and everything and print it out.The take-out box was cut on the PI using a stock library pattern.

Vinyl Lettering

Here's a gift I recently put together. The sign, card and take-out box are the only items that I used my Pazzle on.

I finally got some transfer tape, jsut the cricut brand from Wal-mart, and I am SO pleased with how easy it was to apply it and everything. I cut the board from pine, then routered the edges, painted pepto-bismal pink.
I don't remember the fonts I used, two different ones though.

I also cut out the onesie card on the Pazzle. It was a file I got from Elenia at the Pazzle Inspiration Yahoo Group. I just cut it out and layered it together. I cut the "Emma" out of the pink, so it's really the negative that's there. I added a rhinestone for the middle of the "A"


I also cut the chinese take-out box from the Pazzles gallery. I LOVE the way the box turned out, I wish I had a 12"x24" matte so I coudl cut even bigger boxes!!

Ding Bats

Okay, so I have discovered something very cool... I'm sure I'm the first to think of it too. In my search for freebie cutter files, I realized that if I could just obtain an image in the form of a font, I wouldn't have to convert it. And so began my search for Ding Bats. Genius! I found this Font "YeeHaw" offered on a free font site, and decided to finallly put my theory to test. The great part... cuts like a dream, just like it's cutting a letter -only these are cowboys. So check out the link there on the side to the Dingbat Depot and git yurself sum! Oh yes, I'm not doing anything with these here cowboys, so they shall be donated to a friend that is awaiting her new cowboy stamp set from Stampin' Up!

playing with my pazzle

I found some great tutorials on making cardstock flowers. I'll post the links later. For now, I wanted to share a picture of the cool flower I made last nite. I converted the template into the Pazzle software, then cut out all the petals.

I spritzed the petals with water, then crumpled them for texture. Then after partially drying I sponged on two colors of ink, and then layered together to form the flower. I shaped it, and then let it finish drying.
It is quite large, but I should be able to now make them in any size I'd like!

Pazzles

I recently just made a huge scrapbooking investment by buying an electronic die cutting machine. I purchased the Pazzles Inspiration model that cuts 12"x12". I am totally in love with it, and have so far created a few of my own designs, and TONS of new titles and what not.

Although I am loving it, I've been in search for an online support group for other Pazzle users. I want so badly to be able to share the files I have created with others.

So hopefully this will be a place where Pazzle users can join together and share their creations!