How my new Continuous Ink System turned into a snowy day scene.

Santa was good to me this year! Aside from a new Kindle, he brought me a continuous ink system for my wide format printer. Now you might ask what is a continuous ink system so to answer that I am going to direct you to company(CISInk) he got the system from. They can explain it better than me and in far fewer words.

 Needless to say not long ago I had bought new single use cartridges for my printer and at over $100 bucks for the set I was not going to toss them out until I can empty most of them. You see you can't mix the two delivery systems- so either I toss the single use out and hook up the continuous or I wait to hook up the continuous after I use most of the ink in the single use cartridges. To help use up the ink I downloaded a lot of digital paper from Jessica Sprague.com and am in the process of "printing" away the single use cartridges so that I can hook up the continuous system.

One of the papers I printed is from Echo Park "Winter Park Collection (Pack 2)" called Park City. I picked that particular paper for two reason- 1. it just looked so wintry , 2. it had a lot of different colors that would use the ink up evenly. The down side was I really couldn't find a project I wanted to use the paper on- so I added it to my have on hand stack.

Now the other day when that awful storm was making it way east , were I live in Virginia only got cold and rain. So what do I do on a really cold and rainy day- I cut paper of course! I was playing with the Everyday Winter Card Kit that SVGcuts released a week or two ago and in it is a shaker card. I'm not going into details as to what a shaker card is since many descriptions and details can be found on the Internet and counting the wonderful instructions and video SVGcuts does for their kits.

Well to shorten the story even more...Back in the fall, Bridgit Mann did a wonderful Window Pane project using various pieces and parts of kits from SVGcuts. I had made a fall version as well that I now have hanging the my coat closet. I happen to notice the frame when I was digging around in the closet and a bolt of lighting hit me- A shaker frame- using that Echo Park Paper I had printed a few days ago. So without further torture here is the end result of combining shaker technology along with 3d creativity and wonderful files that lend themself to any number of things.

 

 

 

Files used:                                                                   Paper Used:
Winter Bliss                                                                Echo Park- Winter Park Collection (pack2)
Snowflakes Mini Pack                                                Cosmo Cricket Half Way Cafe
Fall Wall hanging by Bridgit Mann

Hello Dolly

 

For the Christmas Challenge sponsored by SVGCuts.com I decided to make a doll.Though I call her Dolly, if you look real close she looks like Kitty Russell from Gun Smoke.

The kits used are:

Christmas Ornaments and Clara’s Christmas Eve.

Dress-

• The Skirt is the Christmas Tree Ornament (Christmas Ornament Kit ) sized to 11X11 with the various branch layers sized to fit the tree.
• The bodice of the dress is the Nutcracker's head and arms (Clara’s Christmas Eve) cut to the kit size.
• The dress yoke is the Nutcracker hat top- enlarged to 2.5X2.5 grouped with a circle from the shape library sized 1.25X1.25.

Head and Hat-

• Head - The Spindle Ornament (Christmas Ornaments) cut to size. I then cut the spindle along the first joint from the bottom, turned it end over end and inserted the pointed end  into the top of the spindle. - imagine a tree topper- if that sounded confusing.  
• Hat and Parasol - the Hat is  2 sets of the rosette  found in  the Dolly Snowflake Ornament (Christmas Ornaments).  I glued three of the rosette strips together -formed the rosette then hot glued it onto the hexagon used for the top of the Nutcracker' s hat (Clara's Christmas Eve). For the parasol I used the forth strip-  folded along the lines- tied it with a ribbon and added a handle.

Her hair is two different twines cut to length, blended then hot glued to the head.

It feels good to help out!

SVG CUTS's newest kit, Gimme Candy Boxes SVG Kit, has had me cut'n and a glu'n since I bought it Friday.

I have made a few in the traditional Halloween theme boxes but for the most part I have been making them out of paper from the mambi pack by "me & my Big ideas" I bought at Michael's and AC Moore. My good friend Carol Landers is holding a fund raiser for Breast Cancer Awareness October 6th during the homecoming activities for the  Sandston Jets Football Association.

Below is a small sample of how the boxes look in Pink and I would have posted more but they have already been delivered to Carol for filling with an assortment of candy. Hopefully you can get an idea of versatile these boxes are.

 

The last fund raiser Carol hosted she used gift bags I made from Betty's Bags and Boxes II SVG Collection and the mambi paper to dress up her cookie baggies and requested more if possible for this fund raiser. The cookies in the gift bags went fast!

To add a little variety I also cut out a few of the lacy cubes from the One-Piece Boxes SVG Kit that I modified using the free file Awareness Ribbon and added a LED tea light for her table decoration.

I've already bought two more mambi packs to have on hand to make as time permits for her next fund raiser.

Remember Ladies- get your Mammogram if you have not already done so!

Halloween Challenge Entry

 

SVG Cuts is having a Halloween Challenge.The idea is to make a Halloween project  using only files from selected kits. The kits are:

Elmhurst Hollow SVG Kit

Midnight Jamboree SVG Kit

Party on Elm Street SVG Kit

Spooky Silhouettes SVG Collection

Hazel's Wicked Witch Crafts SVG Collection

Gotchic Flourishes SVG Collection

My entry for the challenge is a glass block that holds a silhouette that I created. After cutting out the welded piece I inserted the silhouette into the block along with a printed piece of vellum and some clear lights.
This was a fun project because I actually got the weld feature to work right and I got the vellum and silhouette into the block without dropping it! I know I will be making more blocks in the future.

The elements used to make the silhouette are:
 Hazel's Wicked Witch Crafts SVG Collection - Tree and Window frame
Midnight Jamboree SVG Kit - Moon ,Witch 1, and Happy Cat
Spooky Silhouettes SVG Collection - Fence, Witch 2 and Haunted House
Elmhurst Hollow SVG Kit - Bats

The pattern on the Vellum is from Cosmo Cricket Digital Paper Pack - Matilda - Black Brew.

Fall's Window

Fall is in the air! I love the fall season probably more than any of the others. Crisp air, vibrant colors and MUMS. I love MUMS.

The Fall Window Wall Hanging by Brigit Mann on SVG CUTS.com was the inspiration for this wall hanging that I am going to add to my office. Charlotte's Web by E.B.White was the inspiration for the the welcome sign. Various pieces and parts I made just because they are so cute and easy make up the rest of the window's decorations.

For my version of Bridgit's project I used the following SVG files on various papers that I have in my stash.

• The mums are from 3D Mums and Fall Flowers SVG Kit that I made one day just because I wanted to try them.
• The Pumpkin was a left over from items I had made for the SVG Cuts Autumn Challenge and came from the Harvest Hill Farm SVG Collection.
• The 3D acorn is a miniature from the Acorn Autumn SVG Kit.
• The Welcome web as an adaptation of the spider web square found in Salazar's Scary Squares SVG Collection. I added text to the WEB and welded it. Worked beautifully!
• LAST but not least- Charlotte (as I like to call her) comes from the Spooky Cuties SVG Collection.
• Again Welcome and enjoy!

I love Halloween!

I just finished a project for Halloween that I think will be really neat once I get all my stuff out. I only wished the pictures were better cause it turned out really cute and I figure one of my grandsons will walk off with it once they see it.

 I used the cauldron found in the Party On Elm Street SVG Kit from SVG Cuts to give the witches from the Lemax Halloween collection a little place of its own.

To add a little light on the decoration I cut out a circle and poked a string of Halloween lights through it here and there, to mute the lights I cut another circle out of frosted vellum. I think it gives it a smoky hue.

Well I did call this site Eclectic. For the past week I have been absorbed into a series of books by Mark Tufo called Zombie Fallout. Yeah I know Zombies. But in all honesty I started reading the first book cause I was bored and it was .99 at Barnes and Nobles-  Nook Books.

Well what started out as "what the heck" reading turned into a marathon. I just finished book 5 and was hoping there is a book 6. Well there will be October 1st. But I was happy to also see while I looking online was the the TV and movie rights had been bought. OK. I never did get into the Living Dead series nor the one Noah Willey plays in but I think (if done right) I could get into Mike Talbot  and company on the screen. Well off to see if I can find another "why not" book. Happy Reading folks.