MTC Blog Hop May 1-31

 Can you believe it?  I am participating in my very first BLOG HOP!!!  Yeaaah-Huh....{i think i just heard a few peeps fall off of their chairs} LOL  Well get up and listen to this...

Let me tell you...I actually committed to STARTING and FINISHING a project and will have it posted here on my very own blog for all to see. yep:) My day is Sunday May 22nd....oh yeah, and this year...2011...hehehe.  And so hopefully all you wonderful bloggers and super crafters will come and see what I have been planning to make for this event.  Our goal is to share with the world how AMAZING our favorite crafting software, MAKE THE CUT! is...and how easy it is to use with the many different cutting machines available on the market today.  Everyday, beginning with May 1st. through May 31st, at 7:00 a.m, there will be a new blog to visit.  There are amazing designers lined up with awesome projects to share to help you keep your MoJo flowing at top speeds.  Please come join us in the fun.  Make sure to check back here May 1st to see where to go first and then back everyday throughout the month of May to see where the hop will take you next for the excitement...you just might find a project or two that you will have to do before the month is over.  And...there just may be some blog candy along the way to sweeten this adventure! ;)

If you'd like to check out why we are so excited about our MTC, download the TRIAL. And when you are totally blown away by it's simplicity to create your own cuts, and you just have to buy your own copy of MAKE THE CUT! just click this highlighted link, you will be directed to the order form. Feel free to and contact ME with any questions about this wonderful program. 

Cutting machines that support MTC!

* Black Cat Cougar and Lynx
* Boss Kut Gazelle

* USCutters MH/LaserPoint Series

* Craftwell eCraft

* Any cutter machines that support HPGL printing (Craft ROBO, Silhouette, etc)

* And many more to come in the near future

Winter Scene Window Painting

The girls at work informed me that I was in charge of painting a window for our window display...yay.  For those of you that don't know me...I procrastinate about procrastinating.  But even I surprised myself on this one!  LOL  I went to the salon on my day off and in 4 hours got it mostly done.  The following day, I put in two more trees, and while my client was in the pedi spa, I "found" the snowman sitting in the back yard waiting to be seen, so I picked up my paint brush and got him in there.  I really wanted to redo the sky because it isn't how I wanted it to be, but DH said it was done.  hahaha....it looks like Lake Michigan.  I used acrylic paints for all but the sky.  The girls at work thought I should use window paint daubers...ummmm...no.  You can't layer with that stuff to make it look realistic.  They thought that we...I...could just wash off the window and paint something else for next season....ummmm...again...no.  I will fix the sky next winter, and I will find another window downstairs and paint something else on it to use in the display.  So help me if I see someone with a razor blade heading for that painting! ;)  Here's a few pics I took of it on my iPod...just incase I can't save it from the co-worker that doesn't understand how attached I am to my artwork. 

Inkspot Workshop Hump Day Giveaway!

Inkspot Workshop and The Twinery are teaming together this week for an AWESOME Hump Day Giveaway!  Check out Inkspot Workshop's blog site for details!

Best Buds...

So we went to visit our best buds in Indiana last weekend and had a fantastic time as expected!!  Of course I had in mind that I wanted to make a scrap book for Debbie...just didn't know exactly WHEN I was going to actually start it...lol...doesn't that sound just like me???!!!  Well, after a few attempts in DS and then decided I love MTC far more, I went ahead and started my project.  Worked on setting up the pages for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours, only to forget to save the darn thing and closed out of the program,  Yeah, dumb me.  But all worked out in the end, because on further meditating on the idea, I went about it way too difficult.  That's what I get for not pounding out projects on a more frequent basis.  Well with a few very late nights, I got 'er done just the way I had imagined...with a bit of extra ideas that came to me because I had actually gave it more time and thought.  I was kind of worried about Deb's reaction towards it.  She's not a scrapper, and is a very thrifty and practical person.  When we were discussing my addiction to this hobby, she was kind of callused with her comments.  Before I gave it to her, I at first doubted if she would appreciate the time and effort I put into the book.  But she was THRILLED with it!!!   Yeaaaa...as was her hubby! :)  I had left one mat empty because I could not find a pic with all four of us together, but she and Aaron ran to find their photo albumns to put a pic in the spot and we completed it together.  I only wished that I would have gotten a final picture of that page.  But any how...this is the book.  I like how it turned out and have plans to make other books as gifts also...but ahead of time...right.  hahahahha....

 

 

Winter Bears colored in MTC

Here's something I did with a new stamp image I found.  I just LOVE Make The Cut!  It is so easy to convert images into layers for scrapbook pages and cards.  Isn't this image sooooo darn CUTE!!!!  The eyes were too small to cut out, so I'll have to draw or stamp them on.  You can download your own copy of MTC by clicking on the icon on my sidebar.   

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OKAY!!!  Here's the cut!  I used my Make The Cut software to make the layers and cut it out with my sweet Pink E.  See Amy...I can multi task too!  LOL  My DH was razzing me too...he said this was cute, but what am I going to do with it!  HA...I need to get a couple pics together and put this on a layout.  I'll show him! ;)

Altered Tin Box

Alright...this is a metal box that I've stored my gel brushes for work for the past 6 years.  I found it at Hobby Lobby, and it had the Disney Princesses on it.  Yes...I kept it like that and it was a topic of conversation for a while.  :) Well...I decided it was time to "mature" the look...just a wee bit...Won't my clients be shocked!!  I took some of my pretty paper from the My Minds Eye~Simply Delightful paper stack, a bit of Modge Podge and this is what I came up with.  I am still undecided if I like the bling I put on it...some random and a few aligned...just don't know if it's working. I keep moving the bling around, but am afraid one of these times I'll tear the paper when I do it. Why do I stress over things like this???!!! {I'll probably change it another time or two yet...sigh}  So here it is...leave me your thoughts on what I should do.  Thanks a bunch!  This reminds me that I'll have to take pics of my tin I altered when I first started scrappin'.  I put my Cuttlebug folders in it.

Testing out Bloggers' new insert image tab...and a pic from my Breyers party

This is just a pic of the items I got for free for my Breyers Ice Cream party from Houseparty.com. Pretty cool, huh?!

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Okay...I'm getting closer. I still need to tweek a bit...but after I go pick up my 12x12 mats from WalMart.

More Cards...

Breyers Ice Cream Invitation

Well okay...I should have put some of these up sooner, but here are a few cards I had worked on recently. The Breyers Ice Cream card is an invite that I slapped together quite quickly for a Breyers Ice Cream party through Houseparty.com I'm having on Saturday. I used my Make The Cut awesome software program to weld the Breyers logo to a ice cream bar coloring book page I traced into MTC. I decided to color the image with Copics instead of paper piecing...very terrible job at that, I was trying to rush the project and didn't stay in the lines!!! I told DH I wanted to make a better card, but he reminded me it was just an invite...LOL!!!