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Monday, March 10, 2014

March Release SVG winner!

Hello Everyone!

We have a winner!

Jennyfer L is our winner of the complete set of my
MARCH SVG RELEASES!

Make sure to email me with your email address so that I can get you your winner code!

CONGRATULATIONS!


Saturday, March 8, 2014

Make your own flip calendar with Mini Calendar/Flip Calendar SVG cutting file!


MINI CALENDAR/FLIP CALENDAR SVG
by Lori McCroskey

Do you love creating your own calendars?
Do you like giving calendars as gifts?
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PRIZE ALERT!!!!!!!!!! 
Make sure to come back each day for a week and comment on my release posts and 
ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th!
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With this set, you can pair your digis with any of Laurie's digital images to create adorable calendars!
I'm going to try and get one done to show you next week.....so stay tuned!

This set has all of the month configurations you could want in a year.  There is a month that starts with every day of the week and ends with 28,29,30, and 31....so you can make it work for any year!


I had time to make the simplest of examples for this set....I think it turned out really cute, but I wish I had time to make some fancier ones!

 

I used the Mini Calendar Digital/SVG set and combined it with the Calendar Minis Set by Doodle Pantry
It is perfect for a calendar project as it has an image for every month!
 
Calendar Minis

First I arranged my images in a word processing program.  I used Publisher.
I used the Cutting template to layout my images.
I am going to print these and just roughly cut them out.
Why?
Because they are going to be framed in the flip calendar that I cut out with my cutting machine...and it doesn't matter....no one is going to see them!


Now I am ready to start sandwiching them in my flip calendar pieces I cut out with my cutting machine.
These pieces are also in png format so you can import them into your document and hand cut them if you like.


 Here is an easel I made from a acrylic picture frame.  
I just drilled a couple of holes in it to hold my calendar.

 Here are all of my calendar pages.
 My finished calendar :-)
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PRIZE ALERT!!!!!!!!!! 
Make sure to come back each day for a week and comment on my release posts and 
ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th!
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Thanks for commenting and have a wonderful day!
 

Friday, March 7, 2014

Scrap Cuts 1 SVG and Paper Cut Flowers SVG - perfect for scrapbook pages!


Hello Everyone!

Are you ready to take a look at what you can do with a little cardstock patterned paper?

Let's take a look!
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PRIZE ALERT!!!!!!!!!! 
Make sure to come back each day for a week and comment on my release posts and 
ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th!
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SCRAP CUTS 1 SVG
by Lori McCroskey

I have had so much fun playing with these cuts!
You can cut them out of cardstock to create paper pages!
You can use the Photoshop File to make a layered scrapbook page! 

This scrapbook page was done in Photoshop.
I used the new Paper Set at Doodle Pantry:  Juicy Fun Digi Papers.
All you have to do is "clip" the paper to the layer and it makes it fit the layout!

This page was done the old fashioned paper way :-)
I still really like playing with papers!


 My daughter made this page.....
I thought it was neat how she filled the different slots with embellishments, pictures, and titles!

Jen Y from the Doodle Pantry design team made these two pages
I think they turned out adorable!
These were done digitally....the colors on this one are some of my favorites!

Oh my goodness!
What an excellent way to display all the photos from this event!
This one was also done digitally.
Cute cute cute!

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My other scrapbooking SVG files are my papercuts!

I can't wait to play with these more!


PAPER CUTS FLOWERS SVG
by Lori McCroskey

Last month I introduced my first Paper Cut file....I hope you have been enjoying it!
 This month I have a wonderful flower cut for you to create with!


I created this page with the SVG file....I think it would make a gorgeous book cover!
If I have time, I am going to cut it in whites and silvers for some wedding pages....wouldn't that be pretty?
I still have my wedding to scrapbook....how long ago?  16 years, but who's counting????
 


Thursday, March 6, 2014

Try out some cute little tags! Tweeny Tags SVG cutting file is a must have!

Hello Everyone!
 
Ready for some more inspiration?

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ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th!
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TWEENY TAGS SVG
by Lori McCroskey
These cute little tags are perfect for gift tags, scrapbook page tags, and so much more!
How about tagging some of their lunch with little tags to brighten their day at school?
Enlarge the banner tags and make a cute banner for a party!


My daughter made up all these Tweeny Tag samples....she just loves the tags!

The first thing I did to get her inspired is to cut a bunch out and organize them for her:
 I cut out several colors so she would have choices.

And then I waited....

And before long....

I had three scrapbook pages for samples :-)

On this one she used the heart tag.....


On this sample she found this layout I had cut from the SVG set Bee-utiful Beehive SVG file and finished it up for me!  What a good girl!
She used the rectangular tag at the bottom....

Here she used the banner tags (center bottom).....

Not bad for a beginner scrapbooker...would you say?
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PRIZE ALERT!!!!!!!!!! 
Make sure to come back each day for a week and comment on my release posts and 
ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th!
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Have a wonderful day!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Tweet Birdhouses SVG....how tweet it is!


Hello Everyone!

Time for some more SVG inspiration!
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PRIZE ALERT!!!!!!!!!! 
Make sure to come back each day for a week and comment on my release posts and 
ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th!
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TWEET BIRDHOUSES SVG
illustrations by Laurie Wilson
converted to SVG by Lori McCroskey



Here is the Digital Image Tweet Birdhouses Set....
isn't it cute?  I just love love love the papers!





I decided to do a scrapbook page using some of the elements from the SVG set:

I used the roof from one of the birdhouses and made the shape of the birdhouse a little rounded....so it kind of looks like a pumpkin for fall.  I added some of the flowers from the set to add some embellishments.


This is the companion page I did for the set using the UR Tweet sentiment from the SVG set.

The little white frame tag under tweet was a scrap from the Card Cut 4 pieces that I had cut out and not used.  I really like how it pulls your eye down the page!

I can't wait to make some birdhouse cards, but that will have to be for another day!

Here's a sample from Susan on the Doodle Pantry Design team....so cute!

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PRIZE ALERT!!!!!!!!!! 
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ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th!

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Purse Parfait SVG cutting files.....a must have for any tween collection!

Hello Everyone!

I'm here today to show you my little sample I made with this SVG cutting file!

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ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th! 

Come back tomorrow for some new inspiration!
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 PURSE PARFAIT SVG
illustrations by Laurie Wilson
converted to SVG by Lori McCroskey


When I saw the Doodle Pantry's Purse Parfait digital file, I just knew it needed to be turned into an SVG cutting file....it was perfect!

Here is the digital set:

I wish I had time to make all of the little purses up, maybe later this month!
Wouldn't these make cute birthday invitations?
Scrapbook embellishments?
So many options!




This adorable sample was done by Lori Z on the Doodle Panty design team.
THIS TURNED OUT SO CUTE!!!!!!
She made a tage for the purse from the Purse Parfait Digital set.


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PRIZE ALERT!!!!!!!!!! 
Make sure to come back each day for a week and comment on my release posts and 
ONE LUCKY WINNER
will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th! 

Come back tomorrow for some new inspiration!
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Have a wonderful day!

Monday, March 3, 2014

Create cards quick with Card Cuts 4 SVG file!

Hello Everyone!

Back again today for another product focus!

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will be emailed the complete set of my SVG Releases for March! 
March 2-8th!
The winner will be announced on Monday the 10th! 

Come back tomorrow for some more inspiration!
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CARD CUT 4
by Lori McCroskey

I love using these card cut files.....they just make it easy to create a set of cards as gifts or as items to make a little extra money!

Don't forget they can be enlarged to make frames for scriptures and scrapbook pages!

Here is my first card I made with this Card Cut 4 SVG cutting file.
I just love white space on cards!

Laurie Wilson made this adorable card with her new
Carousel Horse 2 Digital set
that was released this month:


Next, I decided to make a card set.
I just started cutting and decided to make as many cards as I could with my cuts and even my cutting mistakes and scraps!

 Card Ingredients:

Papers and Images:
Doodle Pantry New Butterfly Digital Set

Frames and borders:
Doodle Pantry Card Cut 4 SVG cutting file

Embellishments:
Self adhesive pearls and rhinestones (Mark Richards)
both from Hobby Lobby

Embossing:
Swiss Dot embossing folder (I think...they don't label them so how do you know!)

Tools:
Cuttlebug, Scor pal score board, Zing/Make the Cut, color printer

This little card I made because I had the little paper scrap that was 2.5 x 5 ish in size.
I think the little label looks really cute over it!

On this card, I needed my background paper to be a little larger than what was printed.  I decided to cut it diagonally in quarters and then emboss it.  This gave me just the right amount of white space that points right to my focal point of the card!  The center frame has a little circle space just right to hold pearls!

This card I gave a lot of white space to the background!
I really like white space!
The image I printed out of Publisher.
I decided I wanted the butterfly to be a little bit lighter so the words showed up better.
 So I adjusted the brightness under the format tab to +10% which lightened just enough to make the words show better!
Brightness on the far left of the Format tab.




This card I had an even smaller amount of printed cardstock to work with, so I scored the outside edge of my card at 1/2 inch on each side.  I then quartered my square of background paper and aligned it within the square the score lines created.

I wanted my image to look dimensional so I cut out the little butterfly and put him on with pop up foam.

Here I had these scraps of green from cutting out my Paper Cuts Flowers page.
They seemed to look nice with this image, so I tacked those on as an embellishment!
In hindsight, I wish I would have put a white embossed layer for the entire backdrop of the card.
Maybe next time!

Here you can see the layers of my card.
I put dimensional foam between all the layers.

The reason I started doing card cuts is so I could have options to layer my printed digital images with my frames so I wouldn't have to try and get my cutting machine to cut it correctly.

This way, I print my image the correct size,
lay my frame over the image to determine where it needs trimmed,
trim the image to layer behind the frame and just very sloppily chop it off to fit.
Saves time.
Like that :-)

See you tomorrow to show you some more creating I've been doing!

Have a blessed day!