MY CRAFTS and STUFF

25 May 2008

just a QUICK card

I was able to create a card while cooking lunch (how's that?!) I was actually going to use the cut out heart for the card but ended up using the negative side (the part where I got the cut out) instead. At least, it somehow looked ok. What do you think? Materials used are: Kaiser blank card, DCWV Pocket Full of Posies, cardstock and Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder

23 May 2008

cards...cards....cards!

been playing with my cuttlebug folders since they arrived this afternoon. I was able to finish 2 cards today...

this is a birthday card and obviously, I used the A2 Happy Birthday folder =) Pink cardstock went well with the design.

this one is a late Mother's Day card for a dear friend... here I used the Perfectly Paisley folder and made an accent by embossing a big paisley and coloured it with a watercolour pencil for emphasis.

MY FOLDERS ARE HERE!

just want to share my excitement with you! in addition to what I already have, my new Cuttlebug folders have already arrived! I got 2 yesterday and 3 today (another 3 coming!)

my new A2 folders are as follows:

- SWISS DOTS
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY
- FLORAL FANTASY
- BLOOM DOTS
- ALLEGRO

can't wait to play with these folders and make cards! so excited!!

baby boy birthday card

this isn't actually the first card I made using my Cuttlebug...but this is the first birthday card that I ran through my Cuttlebug using Fiskars texture plates. this is just a very simple card for the 1st birthday of my friend's son (that baby boy is my godson). simple as it is, I just used versa color to ink the embossed parts and punched some bears to add accent. will post other cards that are currently "in the making"...

19 May 2008

TWO SANDWICHES COMPARED

Card A

Card B

Hello everyone! This afternoon, I tried 2 sandwich combinations for the purpose of comparing the impression these two sandwiches give. Sample card A was embossed using my sandwich combination (it was on my previous post - the one with the silicone bake pie pan, extra sheets of paper and sheets of cardstock shim). Sample card B was embossed using a different layer of sandwich (silicone, with 2 fun foams). As you can see, card A has a deeper impression than card B (sorry for the small photo, just look at it closer) which proves that fun foams don't give that much "extra" push needed for the cardstock to be embossed deeper. You can try this for yourself and pls feel free to share with us your observations and experience between the 2 sandwich combos. THANKS!

'Til then, happy CUTTLEBUGGING!

15 May 2008

EMBOSSED CARDS THROUGH FISKARS TEXTURE PLATES AND CUTTLEBUG...

As promised, here are the cardstocks that were embossed using the Fiskars texture plates through the Cuttlebug..

The photos didn't do justice to the real appearance and texture of these cardstocks..they're very embossed! Let me know your comments about this...thanks!

CUTTLEBUG and the Fiskars texture plates

Finally, after (just a few) trials, I already found the right combination (as I've said, right combination for me...which can work for you, too) for the fiskars texture plates to be used with the Cuttlebug! Thanks to my DH who, in most part, did the trial and error thingy.

Here's the sequence/order that I came up with:

from bottom to top:

Cuttlebug Plate A
Fiskars texture plate (in this case I used the "raindrops" texture as a sample)
Cardstock (the green one here)
Silicone bake pie pan (the blue one here, which I cut to the same size of the plates)
Pieces of thin paper (in my case I used something similar to bond paper, and I have 3pcs here, cut into size of the plates)
Cardstock shim (2pcs)
Cuttlebug plate B

this sandwich should go through the Cuttlebug. If you want a deeper impression, you can always add bond paper or something similar to its thickness (or should I say thinness), but this one should be able to give you a deep impression enough to satisfy your liking somehow. As I have said, you and I can never get the deep impression that the Cuttlebug embossing folders give for it has the negative and positive side.

Here's the silicone bake pie pan that I bought from the Reject Shop which only cost me $3 (it's on special, actually). I just cut it to the same width and length of the plates.

Try this one out and if you do, please share with us the outcome of your experiment. Just go easy with the Cuttlebug, don't make it work too hard just to get a very, very deep impression.

Will post the embossed cardstocks later...have to pick up DS2 from Childcare. See yah later!