Michelle Underwood just came out with NEW kit today called I Heart Spring ! It’s such a cute kit with these cute little trees! And I love the clouds! And the bright colors…love those too! I had so much fun creating these layouts! And it’s been so fun to create layouts using my childhood pictures! { Climbing Trees } { My Bike }
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I *Heart* Spring!
Oh yeah…. almost forgot to post the BOB today! LOL — I’m making something and the creative process takes me FORRRREEEEEVVVVER. Hold onto your hats because I’ll have a post later today and that will be TWO days in a row of making stuff. Onto Crafting 101 — where the best artists in the Blogosphere share with you the basics of rubber stamping, paper crafting and scrapbooking. We’ll even teach you how to use that Photoshop program you have sitting under your desk right now! All this for the bargain price of FREE! Read on… Best of the Blogosphere Crafting lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don’t show up in Google Reader, so if you can’t see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small “read more” in the bottom, right hand corner… click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!) All the Best Tutorials: How To Videos: Tips You Shouldn’t Miss: Templates To Help You Make Stuff: Photoshop Tips and Tricks: Everything you ever wanted to know about Copic Markers: Please remember that my site is powered by YOU. Please comment here if you’d like me to read your blog or if you have seen some amazing blog art that I’m missing! Thanks!
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Crafting 101, Tutorial Tuesday: March 2, 2010
I read a lot of blogs and I see a lot of amazing artists. However, I was completely floored by Sunghee’s Scrapbook Challenge this week. I asked her if I could use it here, because it’s a fun quick project and great for so many things. First, here’s the project: If you want to make a calendar book, I’ve made a template of the inner calendar pages using Sunghee’s template for you. If you’re savvy with Photoshop, just “turn on” the layers that you want to print and print them. (I’m going to use this calendar template for the cover soon, found at the Shutter Sisters’ website .) You’ll need: 1 piece of cardstock for the cover, cut to 8.5 x 4. Score this at 4 and 4 1/2. 6 pieces of cardstock for the inner pages. Print these and cut them to 4×8, scored at 4. Glue the pages together to form a book and adhere the cover around the outside. Add pictures. The entire book takes about an hour, less if you’re making it for a second time. Here are some links to Sunghee’s other finished books: I hope you love this as much as I do!!! I can’t wait to see what you make from this. Here are some ideas for a great little book like this: Baby book — one picture per month and then journaling on the opposite page. Calendar book — we did that here 
Mini cookbook — pictures of recipes on one sides and recipes on other side. Sports mini book — pictures of players on one side, sports stats on the other. I know you can come up with even more! Play along! Make a book and upload the pictures to Paper Craft Planet. Use the tag ” 3d51 ” so that we can find your book and pull it into our gallery. We will pick one talented crafter to be our Shooting Star for this week! Join the 3D Challenge Group
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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun - 3d51
I am starting a new type of post on Tuesdays - one about scrapbooking tools and products. For my first installment, I will be talking about my favorite inks and associated tools. The inks I use the most are the Cats Eye chalk inks by Clearsnap and I use those for inking the edges of paper, chipboard, die cuts, etc. I like them the most because they dry practically instantly and so I don’t end up with ink all over the place. With other “juicier” inks, I tend to get it on other pieces of the project - specifically where I DON’T want it. Grrr! The biggest downside to the Cats Eye ink pads is that the pad likes to become unglued and fall off if you are a vigorous inker, which I am…. Which leads me to my next favorite tool for inking….the dauber. I use this with Memento and Papertrey Inks and if it gets a little chewed on, I throw it away and grab a new one. They are cheap and easy to use. Here is a list of my favorite inks and when I use them: Cats Eye Chalk Ink - Ink edges of Paper Papertrey Hybrid Ink - Ink edges of Paper, stamp images and sentiments Club Scrap Hybrid - Ink Stamp images Memento Ink - Use with Copics (this ink doesn’t bleed with Copics); also good for general stamping; not bad on drying time Staz On Ink - Use when I need a dark color that dries quickly; use on acrylic, transparency, glass, etc. Do NOT use with Copics Pigment Inks - For Embossing - take a LONG time to dry Dye Inks - Dry quicker but not as rich a color If you find you use the same colors over and over, consider getting some reinkers (bottles of ink) in those colors. That will extend your inking capabilities practically forever as those bottles take a LONG time to use up. This is not a comprehensive list, but rather just the kinds I like to use. Don’t forget the paper giveaways I have going on this week from the fabulous SEI. Click HERE to see yesterday’s post and enter to win the Claire Paper Pad and Accessories. Tomorrow, I will feature a different card and paper line from SEI, with another giveaway so be sure and check back! Happy Tuesday! Subscribe to Obsessed with Scrapbooking to learn more about ways to use the Cricut in your scrapbooking!
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Welcome to Scrapbook Tool Time Tuesday and info about Inks!
Oh my friends! I am just delighted that so many of you gave last week’s Tuesday Trigger by Kim Hughes via Kimberly Crawford a try! Holy Hannah! I just love how many of you were comfy cozy with a color combination that before last spring seemed highly unlikely. Remember last year’s I’m Dreaming in Yellow & Gray Challenge in the Moxie Fab World? And how so many of you felt completely out of your comfort zone? My-oh-my but how we’ve all grown since then! I just love it! And holy-are-we-living-in-the-land-of-difficult-decisions-or-what?, Batman! I went back-and-forth and back-and-forth in coming up with these five names. Thanks to everyone who made made my life so difficult! 
A hearty congratulations to these Moxie Fabbers for achieving Trigger Target status this week: Theresa , Jennie Harper , Melinda Spinks , Elena , and ~amy~ . Who’s ready for the next? I see you raising your hands over there, stretching them as high as they will go, reaching for the ceiling. That’s OK. I see you. You can stop waving now. Shall we get right to it? This week’s delicious Tuesday Trigger comes to us from Kim Wilson: Inspiration Board by Karen Wise via Style Me Pretty Kim says: I really love the variety of textures and colors–so much inspiration there! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! And here’s Kim’s card: You likey? I just love the sweetness that pours out of this card, and I like how fresh, fun, and spring-time-y these colors are. I also love that the inspiration board gives you so many options–and we all know how much I love me some options . Good stuff, Kim! Thanks! So, link ‘em up, friends! If you’re new to the Tuesday Trigger, let me ’splain. Create a project that is inspired by the Trigger that Kim has provided and post it to your blog. Then, click on the title of your blog post, copy the URL at the top, and link it using Mr. Linky below. If you don’t have a blog, post your project to this flickr group and link it to Mr. Linky as soon as you’ve grabbed the URL. Easy peasy and TONS o’ fun! Also, if you’ve submitted a Tuesday Trigger post-Valentine’s Day, I’d love to keep it in the running through March. I’m seeing some supah fun triggers already and can’t wait to see what else comes in. If you’d like to have a chance at seeing your Tuesday Trigger featured here in the Moxie Fab World like Kim’s is today, send me your trigger image, the project you created based on the trigger image, and a blurb that tells me why and how you were inspired. Please also be sure to send me the links I’ll need to give proper credit. I’ve got a special gmail account set up for just this purpose: tuesdaytrigger@gmail.com . I can’t wait to see what you’ve got for us! Now friends, I announced some BIG winners from Stamp It! Cards Week in the post just below this one. Be sure and check to see if you are one of them. Remember, you have to email me with your contact information in order to be eligible for the prizes . I’d hate for you to miss out on some stampy goodness if you are one of the winners and you didn’t get in touch with me! I’ll have the winners of the Fun With Floss Challenge tomorrow, so be sure and stop on by. In the meantime, don’t forget about the Olympics of Stamping Challenge . Click here for all the stampy details! A Trigger’s worth a thousand words, ~Cath
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Tuesday Trigger: Sweet on Spring
Are you just so excited? I know I am! After all, Stamp It! Cards Week is one of the biggest weeks in terms of prizes here in the Moxie Fab World. I’d like to send out a big fat moxie fab thanks to all the manufacturers who so graciously accepted my request for donations! Well, what are we waiting for? Ready? Set! Scroll! The winners of the Technique Tuesday stamp sets in last week’s Moxie Monday in Stamp It! Cards Week: Stellar Stamps from Technique Tuesday are: Heidi Van Laar who said… Start Me Up - Sew Fabulous…swoon! and Cheri Howard who said… Hands down, it’s Borderline! I can think of so many uses for it! The winners of the Gina K Designs stamps in the Tuesday Trigger: Inspiration Straight from the Pages of Stamp It! Cards are: Natalie who said… I loved both of these cards. The crisp design, the fresh colours. Beautiful. I love the Hope is Faith stamp the best. So sweet! and Kristy Lynn who said.. . Love the circus animals…awesome! The winner of the My Cute Stamps sets in the Stamp It! Cards Week: Hop Your Way to the Olympics of Stamping post is: Heidi who commented on Tina Fussell’s blog and said: What a great card set-love it! I love to paper piece too, it gives that extra little pizzaz! The winner of the Hero Arts stamp sets in the Ask Around in Stamp It! Cards Week: Jennifer McGuire post is: Jen who said… Gorgeous butterflies and thanks for letting us get to know Jennifer! Ah, inspiring! And the BIG WINNER of 43 stamps/sets from 32 different manufacturers from last week’s Five (x8 + 3) for Friday in Stamp It! Cards Week: Oh My Moxie Fab Stamp Giveaway is: Lori who said… Wow!!! You do it up big, Cath! Though there are many ideas on the web, there is nothing quite as satisfying as turning the pages of a magazine. I still buy PaperCrafts and it’s specials like Stamp It! Congratulations to our big winners this week and thanks to all of you who left a grand total of 8,622 comments ! Now that’s what I call Stamp It! Cards Week! Winners, you must send me an email to cedvalson@papercraftsmag.com with your address and the prize/post you won in the subject line in order to claim your prize. I hope to hear from you very soon! I moxie love Winnerday in Stamp It! Cards Week, ~Cath
I recently bought my first Clear & Simple Stamps — this is the MP3 Darling set. I’m smitten How fun is this card? I’m playing with cutter files again…. I made a little box to go with it, but in typical “Susanna” fashion, I gave it away before getting a chance to photograph it. I’ll try to make another one. I also couldn’t figure out whether to color the MP3 player. I don’t think it has to be colored, but in the end, I couldn’t resist. Here’s the word art cutter file if you want it. Download You rock welded
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You ROCK!
Well, hello Moxie Fabbers! I hope this blog post finds you well. Believe it or not, we’re at the beginning of a rather regular week. As in, there’s no special issue promotion, I’m not on vacation, nor am I at a tradeshow. It’s just business as per usual, and as much as I love those “special” weeks we share here in the Moxie Fab World, I love business as per usual the best of all. There’s nothing business as per usual with today’s Moxie Monday, however. Unless, of course, you are talking about the way that Cosmo Cricket keeps cranking out collections that rock this moxie fab world of ours–their business-as-per-usual modus operandi. Take the Material Girl collection, for example. What I love the most about this line is not just how it inspires me visually, but I love how it runs a thread through my life that stitches me through to my past. When I was a girl, my mom made most of my clothes. We spent hours and hours at the fabric store choosing patterns and fabrics, and while I would rather have had store-bought jeans with their even, flat-fell seams and glossy threads, and while I might have wished for more fancy dresses to wear to my piano recitals, my mother was on a tight budget and had a gift for putting in buttonholes and zippers at a time when the equipment with which these were made was cumbersome, clunky, and confounding at best. When I grew too old for homemade clothes, I watched my mother continue to make her own wardrobe in an effort to save money as she worked as an elementary school teacher. Surrounded by grandmothers and aunts who also created magic with a sewing machine, I learned how to sew myself. I made my own original patterns to create custom Christmas gifts for my friends and later found myself sewing the entire layette for my babies, decor for my home, Halloween and dance costumes, and countless nightgowns for Christmas Eve. And so, it is a cherished, humble nostalgia that whispers to me as I look at the 12 x 12 papers that Material Girl offers. It takes me back to a long-lost time that is not quite as far away from my heart as I thought: Measuring Up Tailor Made Snip Snip In Stitches Calico Inspiration Ready Set Chipboard Elements Cardstock Stickers Borders Where does this line take you, friends? I’d love to hear. Leave me a comment by midnight MST on Sunday, March 7 and I’ll choose two random winners to receive some nostalgia of their own. Before I sign off for the day, a couple of things. Business as per usual, I’ll be announcing all of last week’s winners in my weekly Winnerday post (soooo exciting!) Remember, you must send me an email to claim your prize, so be sure and check in to see if you are one. (I know, I can h-a-r-d-l-y stand the suspense, either!) And of course, I’ll name the Trigger Targets from last week’s Tuesday Trigger and have a new Trigger for you tomorrow as well. Also, you’ve got until tonight at midnight to enter the Fun with Floss Challenge . I’ll show the five winning projects on Wednesday’s post, so if you want to be considered, now’s the time. I am a material girl, ~Cath PS Speaking of challenges, don’t forget the Olympics of Stamping Challenge that goes through March 8! Gold, silver, or bronze, you’re a winner just for entering!
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Moxie Monday: Material Girl from Cosmo Cricket
Watch the Ultimate Cake Off on the TLC channel at 10pm eastern, 9 pm central time on Monday, March 1 for a chance to see the Cricut Cake machine up close and in use! Subscribe to Obsessed with Scrapbooking to learn more about ways to use the Cricut in your scrapbooking!
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See the Cricut Cake Machine on TLC’s Ultimate Cake Off show!
First, you won’t want to miss out on the BIGGEST giveaway this year (so far…) over at Everyday Cricut ! Holidays with the Cricut has been renamed to Everyday Cricut - same great content with a bit more thrust on everyday Cricut cards and layouts. We still will have holiday items, too, but we wanted to broaden our base. Don’t worry if you are already subscribed or following - none of that changes! We also changed up our blog design to reflect this. We had a wonderful blog designer, Sherbet Blossom Designs , who worked closely with us and created the gorgeous new look. She not only does custom designs, but also has some beautiful premade designs. She is an amazing, hard working designer so if you are in the market for a new design, head over to Sherbet Blossom Designs ! In honor of the event, we are giving away a BLUE Cuttlebug machine, NINE cartridges, SEI, Core’dinations and Jillibean Soup paper packs and a Cuttlebug folder carrying case! To enter to win, click HERE to see the information and leave a comment over on Everyday Cricut! Now, onto the coupons! Michaels has a great one this week! I couldn’t get Hobby Lobby’s yet so if I find it, I will add it in here later! Michaels: Archivers: ACMoore (with a charity near and dear to me!): Joann’s: Subscribe to Obsessed with Scrapbooking to learn more about ways to use the Cricut in your scrapbooking!
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Coupons for week of Feb 28 - March 6, 2010 & giveaway info!
