So with my favorite software, MTC, I tried my hand at making a cut file from a photograph…after 8 hours of working on it…here is my first attempt (mind you, I couldn’t find my glasses so my faces are a tad, lets say not so great) :(
And this is my second attempt…still need a little more work to get it to where I will like it. Feel free to leave your comments.
I think if I can fix my head, I will be very happy with the rest of it, thanks for looking!
Here’s some cards that one of my younger girls made and allowed me to take pictures of her cards to share with all of you. She did a very good job…be sure to comment below and let her know how good she did. Enjoy!
This weeks class ended up being on a Tuesday evening because my beautiful baby girl had her 20th birthday on Monday and wanted to spend the day with me without my having to leave to teach a class, so I thought that was pretty sweet of her. But guess what? As the day went on, she received an invite from a friend she hadn’t seen for a while to go to dinner, so I told her to go and have fun. So class took place on Tuesday evening and it was a reunion of sorts. Our friend from Florida is up for the summer and her and her daughter who lives here both came, and another dear friend who hasn’t been for a while also came, and of course one of my regulars came and so we had a wonderful evening and everyone’s pages came out beautiful.
I hope you enjoy seeing our pages, and how when made with different paper and rearranging the layout, each taking on their own personalities. Enjoy :)
Jamie had some beautiful Close to my Heart paper that she used. I love this paper.
These next few layouts are Nina’s, Annette’s and Rubies, here we used photo copied cardstock for our mats. This paper came out of a pack and we didn’t have enough for everyone so we photo copied it!
Usually we chalk or ink all our pieces but this week we only did a little on our tree and used micro black pens and a white gel to add some detail to some of our pieces…they came out so cute, and the added little extra was some hemp for the bow on the bathing trunks, it just added that little extra.
Our Palm trees were missing the coconuts…and so with a pair of scissors, not the Cricut, the girls cut these cute coconuts and added it to the layout…how cool is that?
These cuts were made using Myscrapchick penguins…I own everyone of their files! Literally! I used the Make the Cut software to do all of our cuts. I love this program. Learning new things everyday on what it can do.
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This weeks class was supposed to be a Fishing Layout, but for whatever reason, I had no one attend class that night! My guess, it was 89 degrees and extremely humid and I think that everyone was just trying to remain cool and that it probably would be too hot in the back of the store to do scrapbooking, but several kits were sold and I still have a few more left if anyone else is interested. I truly love my layout…it is supposed to have a boy or a girl fishing on it, but since I have both girls and boys and they all love to go fishing, I decided to use both of the diecuts on my layout. I love Lisa’s cuts, they are so adorable and easy to put together. This has got to be one of my favorite layouts that I have done in the past few weeks, I hope you will like it also.
This is a close-up of the cutout.
If you look closely, I used some metalic ink on my title “The Big Catch” I also used my Cuttlebug to emboss the title, I think it just added that little extra to this page.
Recipe:
Right Page
(2) 4 x 12 inch border strip
1 paper ruler cut at 12 inches each
(1) 6 x 4 1/2 inch cardstock dark
(1) 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inch CS light
(3) 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch CS DK
(3) 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch CS LT
Left Page
Journaling box 2 1/4 x 4 3/8 inch Dk
2x4 inch Lt
top mats
4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch DK
4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch LT
3 x 4 inch Dk
2 3/4 x 3 3/4 inch LT
(2) 4 1/4 x 5 3/4 dk
(2) 4 x 5 1/2 Lt
I love these pictures that I put on here, it is of my son Chris and his brother Sam, they loved to go fishing with their dad. It was nice doing this layout this week for me as Chris’s birthday was 2 weeks ago and he would’ve been 23 years old. So it’s nice to be able to get this picture into the album to be able to share it with it our family. Chris was quite the little “ham” if you can’t tell by looking at these pictures…I am going to make another layout of fishing as I still have a few more pictures I can put on it.
Love you and Miss you Chris.
The day I was working on this layout, our son Sam went fishing and he caught an 18 inch rainbow trout and so as I was looking through the pictures, I found one of their dad, probably 10 or 15 years ago when he caught an 18 inch trout also. Gotta love my fishermen!
On this page, I decided to do my journaling on the side and the pictures I chose were ones of my daughters so I could use the little girl diecut on here…she actually was a cutout for roasting marshmallows, but thanks to Make the Cut, I was able to alter her and turn her into a fishing girl. :) Anyhow, in this layout are two Korean students that our oldest daughter, Erica, had in school in China and they came to the USA for the summer with her…in the 6 weeks they were here, we introduced them to many things and one was fishing. They were naturals. Also in these photos is our baby girl “Princess” Hannah…she did really good casting, unfortunately, no fish were injured on this day :) We had such a good time, the kids fishing and me with my camera! The picture above is a day of fishing with Sam and Dad. I love remembering these fun times and now I have it in my album and journaling done. Enjoy!
So as we are trying to decide weekly what layouts to do, the ladies decided we should do a Sister/s or Sister-in-Law layout. I also used on this layout my favorite stamps of all time…Magnolia stamps…I love them, so I showed the girls how to use copic markers, watercolor pencils to color our little darling.
I decided to use pictures of my two daughters who are so close and believe me, they have a lot of pictures of each other…I dare say over 500 or more, some really nice, posed photos and many, many silly photos…that make me laugh…I so love my girls…I hope you enjoy or layouts.
Our mat size were (2) 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 and (5) 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 adding faux stitching along the border. Also one 2 x 5 inch, For the layout we used 12 x 12 background and top strip is 1 1/2 x 12, middle is 2 x 7, and then 7 x 12 and bottom is 3 1/2 and we used a tear ruler for the edging, this is page one…on page 2 you just choose which colors you want to start with, making sure that it pulls your focus from page one to page two…so you start with at the top, 2 x 5, 2x7, then your bottom strip is the same as the first page, and on some of the layouts, they did it a little different in the middle. Our flowers were cut with Scal2 and then chalked and then we used a stylis and curled the ends of the flowers and added buttons in the center…We were going to emboss the letters for SISTERS, but someone had borrowed the Sizzix from the store and I forgot to bring my Cuttlebug…but they still came out really nice…what do you think? Be sure to leave your comments and we love to hear them. Enjoy!
I’m a little behind on my layouts, and I’m so sorry. My weeks are pretty busy with the sweet little ones that I take care of and I try and devote my time to them and then at night, I’m exhausted! I guess I’m not as young as I used to be, and get wore out pretty easily these days. But I’m only 2 weeks behind and I’m going to try and do the updates all this evening. However, I don’t have everyone’s layouts as some of you wanted to email it to me after you finished or after you adhered your photos…don’t forget, if you want them on the blog to email them and I can still add them.
So tonight we did something a little different. I’m not used to doing this type of a layout with flowers and no paper piecings, but I think it came out really nice. Jane brought black and white photos and it looks very heritage, in my opinion…I love it! so here’s some of the layouts and I will add the rest as soon as they are sent to me. Enjoy!
On this layout we also used the new Stampin Up border punch, glitter paper for the butterfly, ribbon, and of course SCAL2 was used to make all the cuts.
And of course, none of these layouts look anything like mine, which I will post as soon as I finish putting my photos on, as I just got them in the mail of my mom, my kids, Nana…love you MOM!
Make The Cut! : $79.95 (USD)
Make The Cut! allows users to cut virtually any shape you can imagine including TrueType Fonts using your Cricut™ machine without needing to purchase cartridges. With its easy-to-learn interface, you can unleash the true power of your Cricut™!
I have both MTC and Surecutsalot 2 and I love them both….I must say that I was impressed with the MTC software. I like some of the features with this software, and yet I also still love my SCAL2 program…but either way you are a winner, because both of these programs open up your possibilities to cut more with your Cricut! Freeing you from buying expensive cartridges. You be the judge, both softwares allow for a free trial download click here for MTC or here for SCAL2. Give them a try and then you can choose. Just think the cost for this software, it will replace purchasing 2 cartridges or one new release. If you have any questions, you can always email me at dimahi@hotmail.com and I will do my best to help you decide which program is best for you…Let me add this one thing, Make the Cut, or otherwise know as MTC has just updated their software to backup your Cricut cartridges…now how cool is this, you can now back up a cartridge and maybe sell or rent it out and recoup your purchase price for this software….hmmm just a thought.
Enjoy!
So I got very carried away this week with my Cricut…I love these little animals that I got from Lisa (I own just about all of her designs)…they are so CUTE! So I cut 4 little jungle animals and now I’ve changed my mind and will probably be adding about 3 more animals to my page…and then I cut a circus clown with his canon, and a circus tent…we will be adding more to this because we have decided to make it a 4 page layout due to the colors are brighter for the clown and tent and other featured paper piecings. We were going to add some colorful Shrinky Dinks to the layouts giving it more of a 3D appearance, but I no longer can find the kind that you can put in your printer and then shrink them! So, as I was looking at this layout that I’m working on for the clown and tent page, I realized that there needs to be elephants!!! You can’t go to a circus without seeing the Elephants! So here is the picture of the first two pages that I’ve started…it is not complete yet, but we will finish it next week at class…I hope you like it so far, I love the colors that I chose and am very pleased with how it turned out.
Mat size: CS (2) 6 1/4 x 4 1/4
(5) 3 1/4 x 3 1/4
PP (2) 6 x4 and (5) 3 x 3
Pattern Paper used for the strip was Ashville Strip1, this has 8 strip pieces on the 12x12 that can be used, plus it is double sided, the orange paper is also by Ashville, and is called Orange Street, I also used Stampin Up cardstock Bashful blue and Really Rust, and Caramel. What I did to make this page, was I was trying to show the ladies how you can still use your left over pieces and actually make a cute page…I took a 12x12 and set it down behind so I had my size, and then put my strip on the top of the bashful blue, it was about 5 inches, I then added about 3 inches of really rust at the bottom, and then added a 3 inch piece of caramel that I tore and then I used dk brown colorbox chalk. Chalk I used on the animals were dk brown, amber clay, and burnt sienna. Enjoy!
If you like this tutorial, please leave a comment…I am planning on doing more tutorials of different products that I like. I’m also planning on doing videos of my classes so that you can download them and make the layouts at your own convenience. Classes are $7 at SCRAPS in Houlton on Monday evenings…I offer a complete two page layout, with embellishments, cutouts etc. If you don’t live in the Houlton area and would like on of our kits…I would be happy to send you a complete kit with all the cuts and paper for $14. Be sure to let me know which kit you like, you can pay with Paypal…and I will send you a video link to the layout so when your kit arrives you can make it at your convenience!
As always Enjoy.
So I tried something different tonight…I brought down 3 layouts so the girls could see them and pick which one they wanted to do…well they liked them all and so I guess they plan on making their own pages. So here’s the layouts the girls and I did…oh yeah…I fell so my skiing page got dirty so I have to do a remake on that one.
Enjoy!
So just in case you didn’t know we have classes every Monday evening, held at SCRAPS, downtown Houlton. Classes are at 6:30, and if you come a little early, you can shop before class, most of the girls purchase their paper for their layout just prior to class after they see my layout. If you can’t make it to class…I am now offering online classes on Wednesday evenings…you just need to have Yahoo messenger and add me dimahi59. Classes are $5 and if you need files, those are an additional $2.00. I try to design using all 3 software's, DS, SCAL and MTC
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A couple of weeks ago, we tackled a paper piecing that had many little pieces…but the girls never waivered…they did such a great job. We did a few things that we hadn’t done before, like splitting a page so it was on both pages…we did this by splitting our tree in half as well as our star. We chalked all pieces and then glued them together. I find the easiest way to glue such small pieces is to use a Ziggy 2 way pen. As you can see the girls put their own little touches to these pages, I really like how they make them their own…I tease them a lot about not doing my layout, but it is nicer to see them use their creativity and make it theirs. I hope you enjoy this layout that my ladies, and our young girl did….be sure to leave comments.
I will try and get the rest of the layouts posted as soon as I get their pictures. I have a bad habit of forgetting to bring my camera, want to send a Big Thank You to Gail for taking pictures for me that night and sending them to me so I could post them.
