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Pazzles Black Friday Starts Now

Get a jump start on your Christmas shopping and buy yourself a few gifts. Once they arrive, you can wrap them up and make yourself a pretty tag. To you, from you, are the best kind of gifts to receive because you always know exactly what to get yourself! Pazzles Black Friday Craft Room Membership: Buy One Month Get One Month Free. Subscribe here and use coupon code PazBlack2013. Good through 12/2/2013 25% off the entire Pazzles Online Store. That's right-25% off everything! Use code PazBlack2013 at checkout. Good through 11/29/2013

Cut And Paste Sketches: Finally ...

Today's sketch is perfectly timed to help you out with that stack of freshly printed fall photos. I've included an option for a 5 x 7 photo or two smaller 3 x5 photos. Attach a few of the leaves to the tree, then sprinkle the rest along the bottom of the layout. When I'm using sequins or small embellishments and want them to look random, I actually do sprinkle them on the page and then glue them down where they land. It helps achieve that truly random look.

All Aboard For The Twelve ...

All aboard for the Pazzles Twelve Days of Christmas celebration. The fun will start this Friday as we announce the theme of this year's projects and give you the first file. If you'd like to play along with us this year, we have just a small supply list you may want to gather. Pazzles Pen Tool Gold Pen (for use with the Pen Tool) Three Sheets 12" x 12" Gold Metallic Cardstock Assorted Christmas Colored 12" x 12" Sheets of Cardstock (about 20 red, green, black, yellow)

Wall Art and a Kaisercraft ...

I love to play with paper. That should come as no surprise to those of you who have been visiting this blog for a while. I know you like to play with paper too, or you wouldn't be stopping by today. If it was socially appropriate I would probably cover my walls with squares of patterned paper so I could look at it all day. This cool Kaisercraft 3D Wall Art Kit is the next best thing. The base of these kits is made of wood rather than chipboard so once you have created a masterpiece, it will stand the test of time. The sturdy base makes it perfect to stand on an easel or hang on your wall.

Winter Paper Lanterns

An unfortunate side effect of having an amazing Craft Room stuffed with project tutorials and cutting files is that sometimes it is hard to think of something new to make for a project. I was playing around with making a dimensional bird cage that wasn't looking quite right when I suddenly realized it looked more like a lantern. I added some snow and holly and they finally looked just right. These winter paper lanterns are a happy accident that I would love to share with you.

November Challenge

You still have time to get your submissions in for our November Challenge. As a reminder, the challenge is to create something you can use for the holidays. Today we have some fantastic Design Team projects to share with you.

Cut And Paste Sketches: Pocket ...

Today's sketch is a pocket gift card holder that doubles as a tag. Hang it on a gift bag, or directly on the Christmas tree as a Christmas morning surprise. Remove the snowflake from the cutting file, tie the tag around a bottle of wine, and it is a perfect hostess gift for a Thanksgiving invite. Have fun creating with this week's sketch and be sure and share your creations with us on Facebook or in the gallery albums!

Document December Cutting Collection

Every year about this time I start thinking about creating a holiday mini album. Several years ago Ali Edwards started a great tradition of the December Daily album which has become wildly popular in the scrapbooking world. If you have never heard of a December Daily album, the idea is that you create a mini album during the month of December documenting all of your holiday celebrations and the little details of every day in December. I love the idea, but inevitably I find myself still thinking about the project well into December, and then I feel like I am too far behind to start. With my procrastinating self in mind I decided to get started early, and came up with our latest collection.

Baby Onesies with Fabric Appliques

As if you didn't need one more reason to love babies, these baby onesies will have you looking for the nearest baby to gift these to. They are so fun to make and will be much appreciated by the momma.

Cut And Paste Sketches: You ...

Highlighting everyday moments is just as important as scrapbooking holidays and birthdays. This single page layout sketch is meant to do just that. This layout can be adapted to almost any theme where the photo subject is close up and strutting his or her stuff. My daughter is a natural born actress and I have so many photos that will fit this page, it will be hard to choose.

Pazzles Craft Room Maintenance

Pazzles Craft Room will be down for maintenance beginning at approximately 9am Mountain Standard Time, on Thursday, November 7, 2013. Maintenance should last approximately one hour. Thank you for your understanding. Need something to do during the downtime? Join us on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube!

Cut And Paste Sketches:Speech Bubble ...

Today's card sketch is perfect for cute critters and clever sentiments. Use the round spot to add a stamped or paper pieced character. The speech bubble is the perfect place to add a fun sentiment to finish off the card. Use your Pazzles Pen Tool, rubber stamp sentiments, stickers, or hand write your message. Share with me in the comments clever character and sentiment pairings you've seen such as a deer and the saying 'Oh deer-I missed your birthday', or a penguin and 'Have an ice day.'

World Card Making Day Winners

Congratulations to our World Card Making Day Winners Kerstin Juchli and Beverly Herdt! Thank you to all who played along. The World Card Making Day Gallery Albums are brimming with beautiful cards and our Operation Write Home pile is growing! Please remember to send in your cards for Operation Write Home by October 31. We will package them up and send them off!

Cut And Paste Sketches: Blessed ...

November brings out the thankful heart in many of us. We pause to reflect on our blessings and what we are thankful for in our lives. This double page layout will help you get the ball rolling for your month of gratitude. The second page of the layout is intended to be a list of everyday things you are thankful for. Use the strips for journaling or leave them as decorative elements and add more photos.

Join Pazzles At The Pinners ...

Join Pazzles at the Pinner's Conference in Sandy, UT this Friday and Saturday October 25th and 26th. This will be a fabulous, inspiring event full of DIY crafts, cooking, photography and lifestyle classes. There is also a large shopping area and the Pazzles crew will be there with a booth where you can purchase supplies, see the machine in action, and see some new, never before seen projects! We hope to see you there!

October Challenge Reminder

You have until October 31st this month to get your October challenge entries submitted. Here is a reminder of this month's topic: This month it seems that everyone is having fun creating decorations, goody bags, etc for Halloween. No matter how you celebrate the month, be sure and use your Pazzles to help make it easier. That being said, the October challenge is to do something ‘halloweenie’ or something you generally celebrate in the month of October. You can find full challenge details on the October Challenge Post. In the meantime here are few projects from some Pazzles Design Team Members to get you in a spooky mood!

Cut And Paste Sketches: Snowflake ...

Although this may send some of you into a stress induced panic, Christmas is on it's way! If you plan to send out handmade Christmas cards, now is the time to get started. I did the math and if I make five cards a week for the next eight weeks I will have enough cards to send out. I make this plan every year and end up ordering photo cards two days before Christmas and sending them out late. It is perfectly fine to send out photo cards, unless you are me, and everyone knows that making cards is your thing! Oh the pressure! Does anyone else feel this way?

Halloween Parade Cutting Collection

The Halloween Parade Cutting Collection takes you back to the days of homegrown pumpkins, real scarecrows and DIY witch and ghost costumes. It's a perfect mix of vintage and cute and it will add character and charm to your Halloween projects.

Melissa Frances and Pazzles Team ...

You've most likely seen these amazing Melissa Frances chipboard houses around the crafting world, and we are thrilled to announce that Melissa Frances and Pazzles have teamed up to make die lines for all of the Melissa Frances chipboard products. Use your Pazzles Creative Cutter for the tedious job of cutting out your patterned papers and save your time for the fun parts such as embellishing. These houses make a show stopping display for holidays or any day.

Cut And Paste Sketches: Autumn ...

Scrapbook layout and card sketches are a great starting point for well designed, quick projects. Many sites offer sketch ideas, but they still involve measuring and hand cutting. I like to let my Inspiration do as much of the work as possible, so I often design my layouts and cards in the Inspiration Studio Software first and then cut them out.

Halloween Costume Ribbons

Halloween Costume Party Ribbons

I've mentioned before that I host a Halloween party for all of my extended family every year and costumes are requested but not required. I love to see what people come up with when choosing their attire for the night, and there have been many clever ideas over the years. At the end of the night I select a few people for the costume awards and I like to have a big ribbon to pin on their chest. This year I made my awards bigger and better with layers and layers of Doodlebug Designs papers and the Patriotic Ribbon file.

Halloween Toxic Treat Boxes

I'm a big fan of Halloween and while the cute versions of Halloween characters are fun to craft with, it's the eerie, spooky side of things that I love! Luckily my kids are finally old enough for the fake spiders and skeletons I've been dreaming of decorating with. I like my decorations spooky and creepy without going overboard or giving anyone a month of nightmares. These Halloween Toxic Treat Boxes will make the recipient think twice before gobbling up the goodies and are a quick enough project to make in multiples. Use the Halloween silhouette borders on scrapbook pages as well.

Hanging Halloween Mobile

We wrapped up our Haunt Your House series last week and after four weeks of Halloween home décor it is hard to stop the creative wheels from turning. Pazzles Owner and Designer Holly put together one more project to share with you today, a hanging Halloween mobile. This mobile looks more time consuming than it is and it is easy to assemble. It makes a stunning statement hanging among your other Halloween decorations and is a great project for using up scraps of paper.

Mad Hatter Tea Party Collection

There's no tea party like a Mad Hatter's Tea Party! Impress your guests with this crazy fun collection and throw a party no one will ever forget.

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