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.