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.
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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.
Scrap and Sketch: November 17 ...
It is time to use all of those paper scraps up. We are going to be creating and learning how to use the fabulous new sketches to use up our paper scraps. Join us starting Sunday at 7pm, Monday at 5am and 1pm (all times are USA Central, Chicago Time). If you are not sure what time that is in your location, go to the World Time Conversion site to see what time you will join us. To join, simply go to Klo’s Classroom, then Enter Classroom and sign in as a guest.
Thanksgiving Kids Craft: Headbands
Every family has their own Thanksgiving traditions. It begins around the table with generations of love, delicious recipes and the memories of times past. A tradition we had growing is up is that all the children in the family sat at the kids table. I loved that it was set exactly like the grownup's table, except a miniature version just for us.
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.
Sweet Pumpkins Shaped Card
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.
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.
Wine Bottle Wrapper
One of the many things that I enjoy about the Pazzles Inspiration is the amazing capability of the software. This wine gift wrap was actually formed by just joining six Skinny Tags together. Size the skinny tag to 9" height and then join six of them together with kiss cut lines between each one. This can be easily done by selecting the Move Point tool and using the Cut Path advanced function to separate out the left and right sides of the interior tags after you break group. The Craft Room video Construction Points is helpful to understand this process.
No Class: November 10 and ...
Just a reminder there is no class this week. I hope you will take some time to watch some past classes or videos. Spend an hour with your Inspiration and learn or create something.
Folded Pumpkins Thanksgiving Centerpiece
Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year. Creating these dimensional pumpkins for the fall season just seemed like the right thing. I chose colors that match my house so that I can have them out for everyone to enjoy.
Thanksgiving Turkey Place Cards
Super cute little Pilgrim turkey place cards with a rosette tail that you can make for your Thanksgiving table this year.
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Thanksgiving Pumpkin Place Cards
These place cards I created go together in a snap and will greet your guests and hopefully make them smile.
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.'
Thanksgiving Table Collection: WPC, AI ...
Before you start making your holiday pies, use our recipe for an adorable paper pie. The Thanksgiving Table Cutting Collection features eight different place card ideas that will impress your Thanksgiving guests. Make a table full of turkey legs or a different place card for each guest. The Thanksgiving Table Collection also makes a great kids craft activity while dinner is being made. However you choose to use this sweet set, the miniature dimensionals may just upstage the turkey.
Apple Mavericks, Yosemite and Your ...
Attention Inspiration users using an Apple computer! Apple has introduced their new operating system Mavericks, and we have discovered that your Inspiration will no longer work once you have upgraded. This affects anyone using the Adobe Illustrator plugin, Sure Cuts A Lot(SCAL), Makes the Cut or any other third party software running on Apple. Apple released their own version of our driver that doesn't appear to work. At the moment, we are waiting for an official fix from Apple or possibly even the maker of the driver.
Thanksgiving Turkey Centerpiece
Show off your creative side and shake your tail feathers this Thanksgiving by creating this cute turkey centerpiece for your Thanksgiving feast. Use the feathers as place cards for your table and have your guests write down something they are thankful for. Collect the feathers and place them in the pocket on the turkey for a beautiful array of color, and a reminder of thankful blessings.
No Class: November 3 and ...
Just a reminder there is no class this week. I hope you will take some time to watch some past classes or videos. Spend an hour with your Inspiration and learn or create something.
Halloween Eyeball Box
I got my eye on you! Are your Halloween treat boxes made yet? If not, this is a quick and easy treat box to make at the last minute. I only used two files to make it. The Round Box File and the Eyeball Card cutting file. I cut and assembled the round treat box as is. I enlarged the eye part of the eyeball card so the circle of the eyeball covered the top flap of the round box. Then I just glued the eye on the top of the box. Draw in the white reflection mark on the black circle part of the eyeball with a white gel pen.
October Challenge Winner
Congratulations to our October Challenge Winner...tabecker! She made this really cute card for her best friend.
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!
Autumn Splendor Fall Layout
Good morning crafty friends! Today I am sharing a project I created for the Pazzles Design Team. This layout features pretty patterned paper from the DCWV Autumn Melody Stack as well as some beautiful files from the Pazzles Craft Room. I used several files from the Craft Room Library: Autumn Harvest Sunflower, Monarch Butterfly and Butterfly 001. I created the lattice frame in my Inspiration Studio Pro software.
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.