I love this time of the year when the leaves on the trees change colors, and the pumpkins are filling the shelves in the supermarket. I found the Three Pumpkins cutting file in the Craft Room Library. Shaped cards are really easy to create out of many cutting files, and there is a great video tutorial in the Craft Room called Making Shaped Cards to help you learn the simple steps.
Super cute little Pilgrim turkey place cards with a rosette tail that you can make for your Thanksgiving table this year.
These place cards I created go together in a snap and will greet your guests and hopefully make them smile.
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.'
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?
Fall is such a beautiful season, with leaves changing color and the crisp, cool air. I created my card with thoughts of my years growing up in the northern part of the country. When deciding how to make my card, I knew I wanted to work with the new Pazzles Pen Tool. I visited Klo’s recent classroom video on how to work with the new pen tool and watched one of the archived sessions. It got me off the ground and running in no time flat.
Our videos section is a valuable resource for Craft Room Members. From software and project tutorials, to paper crafting techniques, you will find something new to make and do with your Inspiration every time you visit.
Pazzles designer Tatum created the beautiful card you see above with the free camouflage heart file. You may use the free file for your card, but it is not a requirement. We've also added a beautiful military themed Proud To Serve Cutting Collection to the Pazzles store which you may purchase at 50% off today only.
We hope you enjoyed Christine's class and learned something new! It's time for another free file and coordinating challenge. Once you have your card making supplies spread out in front of you, do you ever feel like you don't know where to start? Sometimes you need a little direction to get you started. Sketches provide that perfect starting point and are one of the easiest ways for a beginner to get started. If sketches are great, then cuttable sketches are fabulous! All the work is done. As you've probably guessed, this hour's free file is a sketch and a variety of card sentiments. We asked the Pazzles Design Team to inspire you with their creations and as usual they've blown us away!
We hope you are feeling inspired to create. Here's another great idea for you to try! Sometimes two great things come together and it can change the world! Think peanut butter and jelly, Big Macs and special sauce, or Han Solo and Chewbacca. Today a new dynamic duo is born with the pairing of a Miss Kate Cuttables image and a brand new Fun Fold Card Base.
Hour two starts now! If you are a Craft Room member be sure and join us in the Member Chat area where we are getting to know one another and playing games! We get many requests for shaped cards in various forms and they are always a hit when new ones are released. We can't possibly create a shaped card from every shape in the Craft Room Library, but you can! Imagine the possibilities when you can turn any shape into a card. We have an excellent video in the Craft Room that shows the technique for doing so. We've unlocked this video so it is available for anyone to view : Making Shaped Cards. To get you started Pazzles Designer Michelle has made an acorn shaped card perfect for fall gift giving. It can also be made smaller and used as a place card for holiday meals.
Welcome to World Card Making Day (WCMD) 2013! We are excited to have you join us for the next 5 hours. We promise to entertain and inspire you! To start off we have a special treat for you! Pazzles Designer Klo Oxford got her hands on this brand-new Chamberry Collection from Adornit and she created this beautiful card to share with you. She designed the card specifically to highlight the shape and design of the sentiment sticker found on the Choose Happy Sticker sheet. You will love this unique card she designed for this hour's free file!
I'll admit I tend to jump on the bandwagon pretty easily when it comes to trends. I've had a shaped photos phase, and an eyelet phase, and a chevron phase and now I've moved on to the chalkboard art trend. It began making an appearance in advertisements and on websites and has now made it's way into the scrapbooking world and home décor. Many of the latest released scrapbook collections have elements of this trend. My Mind's Eye Chalk Studio and Simple Stories December Documented come to mind. Die Cuts With A View has a Chalkboard Paper Stack and Canvas Corp sells sheets of Chalkstock.
I love fall weather and all the beautiful colors. The colors of fall have inspired me to make some thank you cards.
Today's tutorial features Center Line Vectorization which is one of many vectorizing, or auto-tracing tools, in the Inspiration Studio Software. You may not even know it exists and yet, you really should become familiar with it. It will help you convert clipart to single-stroke line art. Then you can use it in Pen Tool designs, piercing and rhinestone projects.
I'm a little nuts about cute critters and when I spotted this Woodland Squirrel in the Craft Room Library I knew he needed a little time in the spotlight. He is the focus of this quick card, and he looks rather pleased with himself.
I modified the Purse Box to make it into a mini photo display that I could sit on my work desk to remind me of my recent wonderful trip to London.
The cards fold flat for mailing and then pop-up and stand on their own once they are opened. The set includes numbers one through ten, a plain birthday pop-up, a set of decorative edges and a special envelope to mail or deliver your card in.
This card is one of the Fun Folds Card Bases Collection Files. I love all of these unique card styles so decided to make this Center Step one.
It's a blast from the past! Nostalgia buffs and children at heart will love our latest Cutting Collection called Retro Toys. We've brought back all the favorites from our 80's childhood and put them in one collection.
I had created this file to show off layering and in the process I played with turning one of the layers into a piercing line. I really do love using piercing as a subtle accent. It becomes an unexpected textural surprise on the card.
There are just a few more days to get your August Challenge entries in. The Pazzles Design Team took the challenge and came up with some outstanding projects to inspire you!
School lunch is a big deal in the life of an elementary student. My kids love cold lunch as the hot lunch choices are not always to their liking, and my daughter likes to eat the same exact thing every single day. We spent some time this weekend picking out the perfect lunchboxes for the new school year and making sure their names were written on everything. I have one more little trick up my sleeve to make lunchtime fun and that is where today's project comes in.
School lunch is a big deal in the life of an elementary student. My kids love cold lunch as the hot lunch choices are not always to their liking, and my daughter likes to eat the same exact thing every single day. We spent some time this weekend picking out the perfect lunchboxes for the new school year and making sure their names were written on everything. I have one more little trick up my sleeve to make lunchtime fun and that is where today's project comes in.
15 Min Project