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If you haven't had a chance to check out my classes yet I invite you to join us for FREE classes that are open to EVERYONE whether you are a Craft Room member or not. Even if you are not a Pazzles owner you are welcome to come and learn with us. To get to the classes click on "Community" from the top navigation bar and then select "Klo's Classroom". Make sure to sign in as a GUEST. The classroom goes live 15-30 minutes before the class begins and I hold classes on Sundays at 8pm CST and Tuesdays at 1pm CST, occasionally I do have to cancel a class because I am out of town but I will always post on the Craft Room to let you know. In fact I will be posting here every week from now on to let you know what classes are coming up. Here is what to expect for this week...

4th of July Banner

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!

One Blade for Everything You ...

There are a lot of different die cutting machines available on the market today. There’s no doubt that you’ll agree that none can compare to what you can do with the Inspiration’s powerful cutting and all the added capabilities you get from our added tools. Top that off with unbeatable software and it’s easy to see that that no other machine can rightfully compare to the Inspiration and its capabilities. When it crafting we think that you should have plenty of options so that your creativity is never limited but we also know that it is important to keep things simple and easy.

June Challenge Winner!

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!).....

Make Your Own Stick Pins

Stick Pins and Hat Pins are items that remind me of my grandmother’s jewelry box. They were something I rarely saw her wear but were fascinating to me as a child. I do remember seeing them on occasion when she wore one of those little hats with the veil over her forehead. My mom had one with a top shaped like a teapot that she wore stuck in her coat lapel. Now I see them added to cards and scrapbook pages as an accent to the design. Most often I see them with beads but I also see other tops to the pins that add interest to the page or card theme.

Transporting Your Inspiration

Whether you’ve been a scrapbooker for a while or you’re new to paper crafting. The one thing that we all have in common is the desire to mingle with other crafters to share ideas, projects and learn the latest and greatest techniques. I can’t think of a better place to do all that than the Craft Room. I think before too long you’ll find yourself calling each other friends, not just fellow crafters with a thing or two in common. I know that a lot of you have coordinated events locally, and some that have even traveled across the U.S. to scrapbook together.

Using Your Pazzles Cutting File ...

The biggest benefit to being an Inspiration owner is the ability to create and design within the software and not being restricted to costly cartridges with a limited amount of images. With the Inspiration Studio software you can create limitlessly. That means that whatever you can imagine, you can create! For those of you that are just getting started learning your new software or like the idea of cutting pre-made designs then you’ll want to check out our Image Library here in the Craft Room as well as our image CD’s that you can purchase in our online store.

Being Green

Being ‘Green’ can mean a lot of things. In my grandparents day you had a green thumb if you could grow plants well. The ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ movement has been gaining momentum but really started in the 70’s about the same time as the advent of Earth Day. More recently it means to be aware of the impact your everyday life has on the environment. My grandma would probably say that reusing and recycling was just a way of life for her generation and they would have called it being thrifty. However, it seems that having a thrifty mindset is something that the rest of us have to work at. Today’s project is a great way to use some “found” objects that you might have thrown away in the past. You can also use up those small bits of vinyl you have after cutting a larger project. It makes a great gift for someone who loves to garden or just something fun for your own green thumb!

June Challenge

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?

Varying Pressure Settings

I hope you were able read the blog posted by Amanda last week and took a tour of the Craft Room. It was nice to see the many amenities that are offered there for our Craft Room members. I hope you’re taking advantages of the forums, videos, workshops as well as all the awesome images in our image library. You can never get too much of a good thing, and when it comes to your membership, there’s a lot to take advantage of! The Craft Room is also a great place to visit with other Inspiration users who use their machines on a consistent basis and can offer input to shortcuts, cutting different materials, and what pressure settings they use with their Inspirations. Take advantage of the resources that are available to you to help make the learning process easier and more enjoyable. Even if you don’t have friends to craft with locally, here in the Craft Room everyone is a friend!

Describing Dad / Honoring the ...

Father’s Day cards tend to be either funny or sentimental and often the meaning is lost on young children. Cards for the graduate become one of many that are quickly discarded and forgotten. This week’s lesson shows you how to make a meaningful word book as a card for a grad or dad. The Grad card becomes a special memento of a milestone in the young person’s life by including pictures and copies of the graduation announcements, programs and school logo. The book has plenty of pockets to tuck a gift card or money and include pictures of favorite moments at school. The word books shown are a variation of the traditional word book and are a little less complicated to create.

Take A Tour of the ...

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!

Basic Function Tool Bar

The Basic Function tool bar plays an import part to the software as it holds the Type, Special Effects, Draw, the Image Gallery as well as the Auto Trace, WYSIWYG, and the Cut Project ability. I hear from a few Inspiration users a week who call up in a panic wondering what they did wrong and why the tool bar isn’t on their screen. Right away people think that they’ve done something wrong or that they will be unable to bring the tool bar back up again but this is actually an easy fix.

Innocence Scrapbook Page with Stencil Butterflies SQR

Cutting Pazzles Stencil Plastic

I have always loved the look of stenciled wood and walls. It has long been a standard in home décor. Did you know that you can stencil almost any surface? I have seen beautiful projects using stenciling on walls, windows, furniture, plaques, fabric and even plastic. I have also used stenciling in my card making and scrapbook pages. I used a stencil to create the background for this scrapbook page and also used it to stencil fill the wings on the main butterfly.

May Challenge Winner

I didn't forget, I have just been out of the country, so I apologize for the announcement of the winner being a few days late. That being said, Congratulations to MCGAHIE for winning the May Challenge.

Pre Programmed Settings in Your ...

I love visiting the local craft stores. Although I may not go with the intent to purchase a specific supply, it never fails that I find a paper product that I love. There are so many different kinds of papers. Some papers are made with different materials that can range from linen, paper and even have more plastic components. Depending on the paper and what's it made of will depend on what settings will work best for you.

Luau Page- Editing your Photos

I love to make scrapbook pages but I have to admit that cropping the photos can be a bit hit or miss. I am sure many of you have created your design or frame and then found out that you printed the picture too large or too small. I am also guilty of the “I’ll just trim a teeny bit more off this side” disease and OOPS, now my photo is too small. I end up wasting a lot of printer ink and paper in an effort to get the picture just right. Another problem I encounter is that I am well into my project and realize the paper I thought would work to mat a certain photo is ALL wrong and I have no substitute. Several months ago I taught you how to make oval scalloped frames and then crop the photo to perfectly match the frame in size and shape. Today I want to expand on that lesson to encompass an entire project. I will show you how you can edit your photos in the Inspiration Studio Software to print exactly the size you want for the frame or mat you have created. You can even save on ink by not printing the parts of the photo that you don’t need.

How Many Versions of Software ...

Having different versions of software available to purchase can sometimes be confusing. We understand that, and I hope that by reading these blogs that it clarifies things for you. Since there are so many versions I’m sure a few of you are wondering what happens to the older versions of software, and if you should continue to hang on to all the different versions you’ve purchased.

Heart Photo Frame Card

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.

Spiral Photo Frame Card

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.

Daisy Photo Frame Card

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.

Scroll Photo Frame Card

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.

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