The long awaited day as arrived!!! Today we launched patch 1.3. While that number might not mean much to you, this probably will... This is the patch that allows Inspiration Studio Pro users to import .SVG files!! Yippeeeee! As if that wasn't reason enough to install this patch there are a lot of other really exciting things going on as well.
I'm working late tonight trying to get everything ready for the Pastry Tools! We are so close to being ready I can almost taste it (haha get it? TASTE!). While I am waiting for some videos to render I thought I might give you a little teaser. So, here is another one of our cakes we made for the video tutorials that are included in the Pastry Starter Kit. There is SO MUCH information in these tutorials. I wish someone could have handed me these videos when I was first learning!
Classes are cancelled for the week due to Klo being at a show this weekend in Sandy, UT (if you live in the area this is a great chance to meet her in person!). Klo will be out of town on Tuesday and the following Sunday as well as she visits Pazzles headquarters. Classes will commence again on Tuesday, September 20th. This is a great time to catch up on any classes you have missed! All Klo's classes are archived on the classroom page!
Create these six dimensional flowers simply be twirling the paper around a pencil and then curling the petals down. So simple and yet so beautiful you will want to make a whole bouquet!
Oh boy am I excited about this one! Sometimes it's so hard for me to keep my mouth shut about new product until we are getting close to launch. I just get so excited about all the new possibilities and I want to share it all with you! I am so glad that I am finally able to break my silence about the brand new Pastry Tools! Check out the official news release and promotional video below to see what it's all about! Then head over to our Facebook page (ya we have one of those!!) and enter for a chance to win a Pastry Starter Kit!! That is a $40.00 value for EACH winner! All you have to do is become a fan of our page if you haven't already and then follow the instructions on our post. We'll pick THREE winners at random on September 6th!
Up-cycle small empty plastic cases into sweet treats
Don't forget that your August challenge project is due MONDAY AT MIDNIGHT! That gives you all weekend to get it done right? *grin* Remember that this is a participation challenge, the winner will be selected by random drawing so everyone has a chance to win! Check out our fabulous prizes and all the details on how the challenges work by clicking here. You can see what the August challenge is by clicking here. Hurry, you still have time!
This Sunday in class we will be going back to the basics. With so many new Pazzle owners joining recently, we are going to go back to some fundamentals that everyone should know. Even if you have been using your Pazzles for a long time, it is always great to have a refresher class. Or maybe you have been away from your machine for awhile and just need to brush up on the basics. If you haven't ever joined us for a class before, this is a GREAT one to start with. On Tuesday we are going to be focusing and using the Justification tool with the line guide. This is a very easy tool to use, but it is very powerful and can really help you line up and get your creations just the way you want. Remember, classes are LIVE and INTERACTIVE, so this is a great opportunity to learn and ask questions. Even if you can't make the classes, they are always recorded and archived on the classroom page. To join us, just go to COMMUNITY and then down to KLO's CLASSROOM and click the join button and sign in as a guest. Sunday Class starts at 8:00pm and Tuesday is at 1:00pm, these are Central US & Canada times.
A great 4th of July vintage banner that you can make as you are getting ready for your 4th of July celebrations. Just change out the text and colors to use this rosette banner any time of the year!
I so loved seeing the beautiful projects everyone posted for the June challenge "something old, something new, something blue". I have to say I love the idea of using something old in my projects. I find that even the silliest small things that are part of our every day life can become a treasured memory later on. If you didn't get a chance to participate in this month's challenge I encourage you to go ahead and give it a try now and share your projects in the Challenge albums. There won't be another drawing for this month (we'll have a new challenge up in a little over a week) but we would love to see what you do! Now on to our random drawing winner (drum roll please!).....
June is notoriously known as a wedding month and I am sure many of you have at least one or two weddings ahead of you this summer. So when Klo asked me to do the challenge this month I thought, why not use the oldest wedding saying I know as inspiration?
Are you using your Pazzles Craft Room membership to it's full potential? I know plenty of people who absolutely love the library, but don't even know that we have live classes. Or others who are totally addicted to the videos, but have never tried out the Designer Chat. Are you among them? Why not watch our brand new promo video for the Pazzles Craft Room which will walk you through all of the features of the Craft Room. You may discover things about your member ship that you didn't even know!
Every month I write an article for a web based magazine called Scrapbooking.com. I feature the Pazzles Inspiration and show a project that highlights one of the many amazing tools in the software. I always have the instructions to make the project included but only Craft Room members get the video tutorial and cutting files. The project was inspired by a wedding invitation I helped a friend create. The colors were from our very own Amanda's wedding; that's her and Josh in the photo! I loved it so much that I made a total of 5 cards for the video. This is one of those truly versatile cards that can work for almost any occasion.
Every month I write an article for a web based magazine called Scrapbooking.com. I feature the Pazzles Inspiration and show a project that highlights one of the many amazing tools in the software. I always have the instructions to make the project included but only Craft Room members get the video tutorial and cutting files. The project was inspired by a wedding invitation I helped a friend create. The colors were from our very own Amanda's wedding; that's her and Josh in the photo! I loved it so much that I made a total of 5 cards for the video. This is one of those truly versatile cards that can work for almost any occasion.
Every month I write an article for a web based magazine called Scrapbooking.com. I feature the Pazzles Inspiration and show a project that highlights one of the many amazing tools in the software. I always have the instructions to make the project included but only Craft Room members get the video tutorial and cutting files. The project was inspired by a wedding invitation I helped a friend create. The colors were from our very own Amanda's wedding; that's her and Josh in the photo! I loved it so much that I made a total of 5 cards for the video. This is one of those truly versatile cards that can work for almost any occasion.
Traditionally these beautiful May Day baskets are hung on friends door knobs on the first of May. Often they are filled with flowers and treats as a way to celebrate the arrival of spring. What a fun way to get in to the spirit of spring! Even if you aren't in to the idea of May Day baskets, these hanging baskets are perfect for Easter! I even think that some of these baskets would be wonderful for wedding decorations.
Don't forget that today is the LAST DAY to get your project up for the April Challenge. Remember that this is a participation challenge, the winner will be selected by random drawing so everyone has a chance to win! Check out our fabulous prizes and all the details on how the challenges work by clicking here. You can see what the April challenge is by clicking here. Projects will be accepted until midnight, you still have time!
First of all I have to say that I had an exceptionally hard time picking a winner this week because there were so many awesome projects that went up. There was an amazing cake, delicious hat, and so many gorgeous other creations. So many would be worthy of the Fabulous Find for the week but alas, there can only be one! So after much debate I have chosen this spectacular baby book by Craft Room member "harrypfan".
I know we have talked many times about how important it is to save your work as you go. Even though I know that, and at many times have been the one preaching that, I still sometimes forget! You know how it is, inspiration comes over you like a wave and before you know it you have spent an hour or more making what could possibly be the best piece of work you have ever done and then in an instant, it's gone. We hate that feeling just as much as you do, which is why in the Inspiration Studio Pro software we have added an Auto Save feature.
The few times I have gotten ambitious enough to do a theme party I always discover, to my dismay, that finding decorations that are right is not nearly as easy as I thought it would be. The more specific the theme, the harder it gets. Even if I can find stuff it often doesn't all match or it is very expensive. Of course, that was all before the Pazzles Inspiration came along.
This beautiful gift set was made by craft room member Tarabrown and submitted for the March challenge (if you haven't heard about our new awesome challenges make sure to check them out by clicking here!). She started with a gift card (bottom picture) using the pattern provided from one of our projects. You can check that project out by clicking here.
Sometimes we read a little more in to something than what is actually said. This card takes advantage of that by cleverly promising a prince. Hey, the card never said what KIND of prince, there can be frog princes too! This adorable card is great for any occasion and is sure to give the recipient a smile.
We thought it would be a great idea to make April Fool's Cards as one of our projects. When we went looking around for inspiration though we were surprised at how little there is out there! What we could find was usually tasteless and/or unkind. Perhaps April Fool's day isn't exactly the kind of day most NICE people think to make a card, but we were determined that it could be done!
I would show you the inside of this card but...there isn't one! That's the trick, the "money" is stuck inside a card that will not open. At least it is fake money!