Random.org chose comment #50 as our winner. Congratuations Christine Ousley!
Christine Ousley said: My favorite product is SCAL in a Mac version!!! I have been waiting so long for this. What a wonderful giveaway. Somebody is going to be very very happy! xoxo, Christine January 4, 2010 7:53 PM
Christine won one copy of Sure Cuts A Lot 2 for Mac OR Windows (your choice), a Winter Woodland Cricut Cartridge, Zing! Embossing Powders, Clear Stamps from Prima and American Crafts and items from the Twitterpated and Craft Fair Collections.
I’ll email you for your address and ship your goodies out this weekend.
Now for some fun projects I’ve been working on. I had my wisdom teeth removed this week, so I haven’t been feeling up to doing much of anything. But, these projects took literally less than 30 minutes to complete. This was because the products from My Time Made Easy are designed to save you time! If you haven’t heard, Lauren Meader has a new online store offering clear stamps, packaging templates, digital paper, and cut file accents. Let me start off with the Pretty Impressions clear stamps. I received the All A Flutter stamps and sentiments and was immediately shocked by how many stamps are included in each package. Then I opened the package and was very pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the stamps. They stamp beautifully.
I’ve been a fan of Lauren’s packaging templates for a while, but now that she has her own store, they are offered in a variety of file types for various electronic cutting machines (Cricut, Pazzles, Wishblade, Shilouette, CraftROBO, Klic N Kut, and Gazelle). These will save you tons of time. In my case, all I have to do is import the SVG file in SCAL2, resize if necessary, and cut. This is the same process for the cut file accents.
My Time Made Easy also offers digital paper designed by Kristin Bueter. These were obviously designed with coordination in mind. These will make your projects come together so quickly. When our printer is working correctly, I will be utilizing these more in my projects.
Here are my two quick and easy projects. The first is a layout using only the Flutters and Flowers Pretty Pieces as my embellishments. I pulled the cardstock colors from my little cousins shirt and started cutting tons of butterflies. I simply opened up my SCAL2 program, imported the Flutters and Flowers SVG file, resized the butterflies and cut! The welded title was also cut in SCAL2. I really like the simplicity of the layout.
This card came together so quickly! You may notice that the white focal point is actually the scraps from the Cutesy Cover template. I will be showing you a project tomorrow using that template (which is FREE by the way!) After pulling the template off of the mat, I noticed this shape and thought it would be nice on a card. I used American Crafts scarlet and white cardstock as well as Stampin’ Up! tempting turquoise cardstock. I used Stampin’ Up! real red ink and Kaiser Crafts red and turquoise rhinestones. I also used a Stampin’ Up! tempting turquoise grosgrain ribbon and scalloped border punch.
I hope you’ll check back tomorrow for a cute project and a FREE SCAL2 file!
