HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Gobble, Gobble Crafters!

 I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  

Here's some crafting FYI about sales:

Silhouette America is having a 50% off sale on all of their designs on the online store. And they are selling their accessories and supplies at 40% and free shipping once you spend $25.00 or more. The discount promo code is HOLIDAY.  Don't worry they have the code listed on their website.

Circut is also having a doorbuster sale on their website.  I thinks they are doing different sales for different days.  I got an email that indicated that for today the Disney Cartridges, physical and digital are on sale.

Since I use those two machines a lot, I thought I pass along the info.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

LEGALBEAGLEPANDA CREATIONS

Using a Card base to make a Notepad

Hello Crafter's!  As promised from here is the video showing how I used the card base from Wild Card 2 to make a notepad.  For this project, I had to bust out my YourStory machine to bind the book.  I do talk a little about using your glue gun and the YourStory to bind your homemade book.  But for this project, I used the glue strips that were made for the YourStory machine.  

HAPPY CRAFTING

LEGALBEAGLEPANDA

2nd Wednesday: Wild Card 2 Cricut Cartridge

Welcome to 2nd Wednesday, although this one seems to be more like 3rd Wednesday.  I'm determined to get these post out on the correct day, one of these times.  Anyway, this Month's Cricut Cartridge is Wild Card 2, this cartridge has a lot of fun cards that will make you smile.  You can click here to see a really quick overview of the cartridge and the projects that I made.  

Tomorrow there will be a video showing how I put together the Notepad.  So don't forget to check back.

HAPPY CRAFTING

LEGALBEAGLEPANDA

There's been a delay.

Work got a little bit busy, or more so than usual.  So Cricut Wednesday is being postponed.  It should be up by next Wednesday, if not sooner.

LegalbeaglePanda

Silhouette Thursday #2 : Using your Silhouette to Fussy Cut around your Clear Acrylic Stamps

It's the first Thursday in November, so you know it's time for the Silhouette Thursday video.  Well for this months video, we looked at the trace and offset feature of the Silhouette Studio Design Software.  The video does an overview, of how you can use those features with the acrylic stamps you have in your collection.  CLICK HERE to see the video.

No time for the video right now, let me give you a written rundown.

There are times when you decide that you want to cut close around a stamped image (fussy cutting) you are using in your project.  How about we avoid using our scissors, and bust out our Silhouette machine. Pick your stamp, fire up your scanner and let's get started.

The first thing you want to do is stamp your image, and then scan it into your computer.  I saved my scanned file in as a .jpeg.  Now open up Silhouette Studio application and open your scanned file onto the mat.  Next your going to select the trace feature, and trace around your image.  Get as close to the image as possible.  Select the trace edge option, and you can now pull away the outline of your stamped image. Your almost done, but now you need to select the offset option, and create the amount of distance your want to be around your image.  When you get the distance that suits you, select apply, now you can pull away the offset outline away from your trace image.  Now copy that offset image as many times as you want and cut the image out as you would normally.  

What you now have is a perfectly die-cut shape, take your stamp, and stamp away.

HAPPY CRAFTING

LEGALBEAGLEPANDA

Silhouette Cameo Project - Halloween

Alas, October is at a close.  Nope, I didn't get dressed up in a costume.  But I did make a take some candy sign for a friend to post at their house for all those kids that would stop by while they were out.  
The signed is made using my Silhouette Cameo.  I actually took a card design (Design ID #50104 ) and then selected the knife tool, and cut just below the perforated line.  I then enlarged the bottom half of the card to the size I wanted.  I used the LD Frightmares Font (of course I can't find the design #), if I remember where the font came from I will update the post and let you know.  I took a little bit of glitter and a red stamp pad and went to work.  I also added some wiggly eyes that I had in my embellishment stash.

Happy Crafting

LegalbeaglePanda

ETCHING CREAM

I kept seeing projects using etching cream and I really wanted to try my hand at glass etching.  So I went looking for the brand that I saw people using, but I could not find it in the store.  In fact a lot of the big box stores did not appear to sell etching cream.  Well I looked online, and the cost of the cream plus the shipping seemed a little much, given the size of the bottle (2 - 3 ounces).
Then I was walking through Michael's and you guessed it, I saw etching cream.  The one I found was made by Martha Stewart, came in an 5 + ounce bottle and had a little brush to use.  I was able to use a coupon so the price for the size turned out to be really good.
Now there are a bunch of stencils you can buy, but I have die cutting machines and vinyl. You can click here and watch the video for the doing this glass which I used the Winter Wonderland Cricut Cartridge for the shape.

Here is also a picture of my first attempt at etching, for this one cutout I used the Silhouette Cameo ( I give love to both my machines)

I think some folks are going to get gifts this holiday season that have some personalized etching.

HAPPY CRAFTING

LegalbeaglePanda