This two page layout was created using the Treasure Box Designs paper piecing file: "Mudding", Little Girl's head: Kiddies and Crackers file, Treasure Box Face Stamps, cut with Make the Cut software and my Gazelle.
Showing posts with label Make the Cut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Make the Cut. Show all posts
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Here are some tear bears that I have made using the Tear Bear files from Treasure Box Designs. Love these bears. So quick to put together.
This is the Tear Bears with the Beary Babies and Mermaid clothes sets. These were made using no-pill fleece instead of cardstock or mulberry paper.
All were cut with my Gazelle and the Make The Cut Software.
Easter Layouts
Finally getting around to working on some Easter pictures. I am really behind.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Baby Shower Stroller Decoration
This baby stroller was created in the Make the Cut software and cut out with my Cricut. I am not the creator of this wonderful idea. It was shared with me by a wonderful person over on the Make the Cut forum: Rachellann. Rachellann designed this file and shared it with me so that I could make one for my daughters upcoming baby shower. Someone on the forum suggested that it could sit on the refreshment table and hold either nuts or mints.
Thanks Rachellan for sharing this file. If you would like to see this file or other creations she has made you can visit her on her blog: rachellsmanycrafts.blogspot.com or over at the Make the Cut forum: make-the-cut.com.
Thanks Rachellan for sharing this file. If you would like to see this file or other creations she has made you can visit her on her blog: rachellsmanycrafts.blogspot.com or over at the Make the Cut forum: make-the-cut.com.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
One more Shape Card to share
Here is my second card I made for the Shape Cards challenges. This one is a tri-fold card. I had already stamped this Tilda stamp image onto cardstock and had colored it with my Copic markers, but didn't know what I was going to do with her yet. So I thought about adding her to a card. I was having a hard time thinking about a "shape card" to do then it hit me....why not make Shape cards using the same concept as the Shape books. So this is what I came up with. I traced my Tilda image into the MTC software to create this card.
If you would like to know how to add "stamped" images to Make the Cut, check out my written tutorial: Using Stamped Images in Make the Cut, in my tutorials section. Same concept as the tutorial.
I sponged inked the sun with an orange and red ink pad. The clouds are cut from vellum. The rock is a textured paper. The flower, I cut out four layers and put them together using a brad. Before putting together, I ran the separate pieces through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder. The fence was also done with a "woodgrain" paper. I used the Peachy Keen face stamps for the nose/mouth on the Tilda stamps and for the face on the sun.
Hope this card inspires you to try to make Shape Cards.
If you would like to know how to add "stamped" images to Make the Cut, check out my written tutorial: Using Stamped Images in Make the Cut, in my tutorials section. Same concept as the tutorial.
I sponged inked the sun with an orange and red ink pad. The clouds are cut from vellum. The rock is a textured paper. The flower, I cut out four layers and put them together using a brad. Before putting together, I ran the separate pieces through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder. The fence was also done with a "woodgrain" paper. I used the Peachy Keen face stamps for the nose/mouth on the Tilda stamps and for the face on the sun.
Hope this card inspires you to try to make Shape Cards.Shape Cards Challenge
Over at the Make The Cut forum, this weeks challenge is to make a Shape Card. Also there is another challenge going on for Card Angels to send cards to a little girl named Cheyenne who is very sick. So this is one of two cards I made for both of these challenges. This entire card was made with the Make the Cut software, my Cricut Expression and Stickles.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Wicked 2-Page Layout
I did this for another challenge over at the MTC Forum message board. This challenge was to use a silhouette image. The image of Elphaba the Witch was from a colored graphic, which I traced around in Paint and then brought it into MTC to finish and cut. The Time Dragon Clock was a photograph that I traced around and erased the background using Paint and then brought it into MTC to finish and cut. The flying monkeys were already a silhouette image.
My daughter and I are going to see Wicked the Musical in June when it comes to Charlotte. This will be our second time seeing it. We saw it June 2006 in New York City. If you haven't seen this show and ever have a chance to go see it, I highly recommend it.
Thanks for looking.
My daughter and I are going to see Wicked the Musical in June when it comes to Charlotte. This will be our second time seeing it. We saw it June 2006 in New York City. If you haven't seen this show and ever have a chance to go see it, I highly recommend it.Thanks for looking.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Layout for a Challenge
Here is a layout I did for a "border" challenge. If you will see I used the cat border that I had shared. Check my site for the Borders mtc file for this.
On this layout I used mtc to create and cut the cat border and the large spiderweb. I used silver stickles on the spiderweb. I used a Tilda stamp (from Magnolia stamps) and colored it with the Copic markers. I also used the Martha Stewart Punch around the page - spiderweb punches around this mat and then added a couple more mats with ribbons.
On this layout I used mtc to create and cut the cat border and the large spiderweb. I used silver stickles on the spiderweb. I used a Tilda stamp (from Magnolia stamps) and colored it with the Copic markers. I also used the Martha Stewart Punch around the page - spiderweb punches around this mat and then added a couple more mats with ribbons.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Comments about the borders
Hi All,
just wanted to say thank you to all that left a comment. It is truly appreciated and I am glad to share these with you.
Now I started to just answer this comment, but thought ....Uhmmm, others may want to know too. So....
jjred40 said...
thanks for sharing your awesome borders - how did you do these. I played around after watching Rob's video but didn't come up with anything this cute. How did you get the words inside the border? Thanks for sharing.
Here was going to be my response but sharing in case others were wondering also:
To get the words inside the border: You just type in the words in the add text group box and then place it on your mat. Then move/drag the word(s) "inside" of the border (rectangle) where you want them to be. Then you select all of the "rectangle/with words" and then just click on "join".....they are now in the border like the one in my Happy Birthday border.
PS.....I used the stencil font for this one. Remember when placing letters inside, think of how they will cut out. For instance an "a" the inside will be cut out so that you just have the edge layer....so you would have to somehow keep that inside to glue in place. The stencil font works great for these though.
As far as the other images. Just add them to your mat then place them along the border they way you want them placed. Make sure a little of the bottom edge of the image is touching the top (or bottom if you have the image descending) and once you have them overlapping "just a little" then select all of the border/images in one selection box, then do a weld. This makes it all one piece.....PS....you do not want to add any words until you have finished the weld....so that you can do a "join" with the letters. If you add the letters first "inside" of the border and click on weld they will disappear and be welded into the border.
Hope this helps with some questions about how to make these borders. The possibilities are whatever images you choose to work with....just think of a "theme" and go for it!!!
just wanted to say thank you to all that left a comment. It is truly appreciated and I am glad to share these with you.
Now I started to just answer this comment, but thought ....Uhmmm, others may want to know too. So....
jjred40 said...
thanks for sharing your awesome borders - how did you do these. I played around after watching Rob's video but didn't come up with anything this cute. How did you get the words inside the border? Thanks for sharing.
Here was going to be my response but sharing in case others were wondering also:
To get the words inside the border: You just type in the words in the add text group box and then place it on your mat. Then move/drag the word(s) "inside" of the border (rectangle) where you want them to be. Then you select all of the "rectangle/with words" and then just click on "join".....they are now in the border like the one in my Happy Birthday border.
PS.....I used the stencil font for this one. Remember when placing letters inside, think of how they will cut out. For instance an "a" the inside will be cut out so that you just have the edge layer....so you would have to somehow keep that inside to glue in place. The stencil font works great for these though.
As far as the other images. Just add them to your mat then place them along the border they way you want them placed. Make sure a little of the bottom edge of the image is touching the top (or bottom if you have the image descending) and once you have them overlapping "just a little" then select all of the border/images in one selection box, then do a weld. This makes it all one piece.....PS....you do not want to add any words until you have finished the weld....so that you can do a "join" with the letters. If you add the letters first "inside" of the border and click on weld they will disappear and be welded into the border.
Hope this helps with some questions about how to make these borders. The possibilities are whatever images you choose to work with....just think of a "theme" and go for it!!!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Baby Shower ShapeBook, continued
This new version of MTC has made it so easy to do shapebooks now. With the prior versions you had to have a separate file for each page. With this new version and the layers feature, you can do it all on one page. I have put together this Baby Shower shapebook. For the picture below, I have the "eye" open on all pages to show the effects of the book and the layout of the pages. If you will notice at the bottom of this page are all of the page elements that will be cut.
As you see in the picture above, all of the elements are on top of each other and I know you are wondering how do I cut them. But if you click on the "global eye" at the bottom of the Layers property box, it will close all layers and make them invisible so that your Cricut will not cut them. Then as you begin to do a page, click the "eye" on that layers page and it will only show the items to cut for that page, as shown below in the next picture. So for this picture you can move the pieces around if needed to like colors of cardstock on your real mat. Remember when cutting out shape books you will need to cut a second copy of the page layer for the back of the page.
To cut the back of the page, you will need to place your cardstock face down on the mat and then cut the page layer again. You will not need to cut the elements again. Another option is to "flip" the page layer and then you can place your cardstock face up and cut.
As you see in the picture above, all of the elements are on top of each other and I know you are wondering how do I cut them. But if you click on the "global eye" at the bottom of the Layers property box, it will close all layers and make them invisible so that your Cricut will not cut them. Then as you begin to do a page, click the "eye" on that layers page and it will only show the items to cut for that page, as shown below in the next picture. So for this picture you can move the pieces around if needed to like colors of cardstock on your real mat. Remember when cutting out shape books you will need to cut a second copy of the page layer for the back of the page.
To cut the back of the page, you will need to place your cardstock face down on the mat and then cut the page layer again. You will not need to cut the elements again. Another option is to "flip" the page layer and then you can place your cardstock face up and cut.In this file, with the elements being attached to the Page layers, you do not have an option to make just the "elements" invisible, so you will either need to move these to their own layer, or I find it easier to open up a new page in MTC, and then just do a copy of the page layer, click on the new page and do a Paste in Place, then cut using one of the two options above for the back of the page.
The Layer Properties box. I have labeled each "grouping" by Page numbers and within the Pages are the Page Layer itself and the elements for that page.
This shape book would be a great gift to give at a Baby Shower. After cutting the book, you can bind the book; my choice is to use my Bind-It-All, you may have another preference. Then you will want to create other page elements such as tags, mats for pictures, etc.
Some examples to include in the book could be: copy of the shower invitation, guests that attended, presents received, games played, refreshments served, etc.
Hope you like it and find it useful.
Hope you like it and find it useful.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
My shapebook is almost done...
I have been working on getting this finished for quite sometime now. Just have been really busy and even today trying to get this much done, my 3 granddaughters came up for the weekend. Thanks to my darling hubby, he kept them entertained playing outside for awhile while I worked on this. The only thing left now is to add more embellishments (tags, mats, stickles, ribbon, etc) and the pictures to the inside pages.
My Girl Scout troop (I was the leader for 11 years), went to Europe in 2007 for our last year of scouts. We did a 10 day tour visiting London, Paris and several cities in Switzerland. (The dragon is from the legendary Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland.)
I used the Make the Cut software program to create this shape book and several other images from clipart.
I used my Zutter bind-it-all to bind the book with white 3/4 inch O-wire. I just love this little machine it does a wonderful job in making these books.
I am hoping to have the rest of the embellishments done very soon. I will then share a picture-video of the book to show all of the pages and all of the elements I used.
My Girl Scout troop (I was the leader for 11 years), went to Europe in 2007 for our last year of scouts. We did a 10 day tour visiting London, Paris and several cities in Switzerland. (The dragon is from the legendary Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland.)
I used the Make the Cut software program to create this shape book and several other images from clipart.
I used my Zutter bind-it-all to bind the book with white 3/4 inch O-wire. I just love this little machine it does a wonderful job in making these books.
I am hoping to have the rest of the embellishments done very soon. I will then share a picture-video of the book to show all of the pages and all of the elements I used.Again, thanks for looking and check back soon.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
MTC Version 2.2.1 just released
Well it is official, the upgraded version of Make the Cut is out. It went through several more updates from the Beta version and is now Version 2.2.1. I have been playing with the new features and am really excited about the new version. If you haven't tried this wonderful software please click on the link under My Favorite Places to Visit to check it out.
Update: I have been steadily working on my Europe Shapebook and have all of the page layers added and will now be adding the embellishments. I am really pleased at how this is turning out and will be sharing it with you shortly. Please remember to check back in a few days I should have pictures to post by then.
Oh yeah and the "posterboard" I am using, purchased from Wal-Mart, is holding up as well as the brown chipboard. I do believe this will be what I use from now on. The white seams just look so much better than the brown seams.
Have a great day and remember check back soon for pics of my book.
Update: I have been steadily working on my Europe Shapebook and have all of the page layers added and will now be adding the embellishments. I am really pleased at how this is turning out and will be sharing it with you shortly. Please remember to check back in a few days I should have pictures to post by then.
Oh yeah and the "posterboard" I am using, purchased from Wal-Mart, is holding up as well as the brown chipboard. I do believe this will be what I use from now on. The white seams just look so much better than the brown seams.
Have a great day and remember check back soon for pics of my book.
Friday, March 12, 2010
MTC Beta Test is here!!
The new 2.03 version of MTC is now out for Beta Testing. It is not "officially" out yet. However, if anyone would like to start testing it out and giving feedback on it, you can download this version by clicking "HERE" and make sure to give feedback to the forum.
Here is my Review for now. (I am still testing and making my way through it)
This is going to be a great version. Working through the Beta testing I have found several things have changed.
The Objects Property box has been replaced with a Layers Box.
The Layers box is wonderful and makes choosing layers and coloring the layers so much easier. You no longer have to do a Shift-Tab to move through the different pieces.
The warp feature has changed. You no longer have a box that will open with the warp feature. Now you click on the image and you will see "arrows" all around the box. By clicking on these arrows, this now is the "warp" feature. You will need to click on it through a three-part cycle. The cycles are the "sizing", the "rotation" and the "warping". Click on the arrow until it allows you to get to the function you want to perform.
The Boolean Join function has changed slightly. Instead of a box coming up and having a preview in the box, the "preview" is now directly on the mat. Once you have your two images selected, and click on the Boolean button a small line box will come up. When you go through the different choices it will put the choice on the mat for you to see, if you decide you like the feature, then click on the mat to accept it. If you find that those choices do not work for what you are wanting to do, then just click the "X" on the box and it will restore your image back to what it was before you started the Boolean join.
There is a "Snap" function which I have not had a chance yet to play with, so not quite sure I understand what that does....well not yet anyway. Will be playing a little later.
A couple of things missing on this version and hoping Andy (the creator of MTC) puts these back in are the "Select All" button on the Shapes toolbar, the Scale is gone which was used to make an image an exact size.
I am not quite sure at this time if I will make tutorials for these changes, as Andy stated that he is working on a manual to put out. So will see....
Back to playing.....
EDITED: .....The Snap feature is soooo cool....it is like an invisible ruler, and when you "slowly" move your image it will move over/down/up, etc in the increments you have chosen. If you choose 1 inch, your image will move 1 inch everytime. If you choose 1/8 inch it will move by 1/8 inch as you move it. The KEY TO THIS is you have to move it slowly to see the effects....if you move the image to fast it will not really "register" as to what it is doing.
Also the "nudge" feature works differently now...you just use the arrow keys (up/down/left/right) to move "nudge" the images.
Love this new version.
Here is my Review for now. (I am still testing and making my way through it)
This is going to be a great version. Working through the Beta testing I have found several things have changed.
The Objects Property box has been replaced with a Layers Box.
The Layers box is wonderful and makes choosing layers and coloring the layers so much easier. You no longer have to do a Shift-Tab to move through the different pieces.
The warp feature has changed. You no longer have a box that will open with the warp feature. Now you click on the image and you will see "arrows" all around the box. By clicking on these arrows, this now is the "warp" feature. You will need to click on it through a three-part cycle. The cycles are the "sizing", the "rotation" and the "warping". Click on the arrow until it allows you to get to the function you want to perform.
The Boolean Join function has changed slightly. Instead of a box coming up and having a preview in the box, the "preview" is now directly on the mat. Once you have your two images selected, and click on the Boolean button a small line box will come up. When you go through the different choices it will put the choice on the mat for you to see, if you decide you like the feature, then click on the mat to accept it. If you find that those choices do not work for what you are wanting to do, then just click the "X" on the box and it will restore your image back to what it was before you started the Boolean join.
There is a "Snap" function which I have not had a chance yet to play with, so not quite sure I understand what that does....well not yet anyway. Will be playing a little later.
A couple of things missing on this version and hoping Andy (the creator of MTC) puts these back in are the "Select All" button on the Shapes toolbar, the Scale is gone which was used to make an image an exact size.
I am not quite sure at this time if I will make tutorials for these changes, as Andy stated that he is working on a manual to put out. So will see....
Back to playing.....
EDITED: .....The Snap feature is soooo cool....it is like an invisible ruler, and when you "slowly" move your image it will move over/down/up, etc in the increments you have chosen. If you choose 1 inch, your image will move 1 inch everytime. If you choose 1/8 inch it will move by 1/8 inch as you move it. The KEY TO THIS is you have to move it slowly to see the effects....if you move the image to fast it will not really "register" as to what it is doing.
Also the "nudge" feature works differently now...you just use the arrow keys (up/down/left/right) to move "nudge" the images.
Love this new version.
Monday, March 8, 2010
More Wall Art for my Work Office
We just moved into our new office building mid-December and already the middle of the building in some offices and hallways has developed a crack. My office is one of those. They have repaired the "cracks" in the hallways, but I believe they have forgotten about the offices. Everyone that stops by says....did you know you have a crack in the top of your wall.....well yeah.....So I decided to do a little more art on my wall to show off maybe the "humor" in the crack......(So, drip, drip, drip.) What do you think....see the humor? LOL!!!
A close-up shot:
Everyone that has stopped by this morning is laughing and loving this...... (I have laid the water drops in the open spaces so that I could save on the vinyl (Well contact paper-Black Faux Contact Paper purchased from Home Depot.) The water drops were easy to just pull off of the backing....no need for transfer paper for them...so cut them out and just use the transfer backing on the little boy and pond.
Everyone that has stopped by this morning is laughing and loving this...... (I have laid the water drops in the open spaces so that I could save on the vinyl (Well contact paper-Black Faux Contact Paper purchased from Home Depot.) The water drops were easy to just pull off of the backing....no need for transfer paper for them...so cut them out and just use the transfer backing on the little boy and pond.
Hope you enjoyed this, and if anything got a laugh for the day.
Have a great day.....and will be having more things to share soon.
Europe Shape Book
I am still continuing to work on the shape book I have started. Here is the first picture of just the pages cut out of the white poster board (trying this instead of the grey/brown chip board). I spent a lot of yesterday afternoon cutting out the page layers and need to finish a couple of more pages, then once I adhere those will probably show an "update" picture as I progress.
To see how this turns out....check back again soon.
Monday, February 22, 2010
My wall art on my office wall
Okay I did it!!! I went to work early this morning and put this on the wall in my office. It was so easy to do using the transfer paper to transfer the image on to and then removing the back and attaching the images right to the wall, then removing the transfer paper. There it was....all done. I think it turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself. I am so excited with this project that my head is thinking of what can I do next. We will be painting this spring so holding out before I add any to my home...but it is definitely next. For now maybe some butterflies on the wall behind me in my office.
Don't forget to check back to see what other projects I will be adding. Thanks for stopping by.
Don't forget to check back to see what other projects I will be adding. Thanks for stopping by.Sunday, February 21, 2010
Working with "Vinyl", Cricut and MTC
Well today I have been playing around with using the vinyl technique with my Cricut. For this project, however, I have used the faux leather contact paper instead of vinyl and it works great and is a lot cheaper. Found it at Home Depot.
I made this sign for my son as the first cut to see how it was going to work. I put together the layout in my Make the Cut software and used it to cut the images out with my Cricut Expression.
This next picture is going to be wall art that I am going to add to my office wall. One of the ladies, KLee from the Make the Cut forum inspired me to do this after seeing her work on her wall. It was just beautiful. So I cut these images from my Cricut "E" using my 12x24 mat with the black faux leather contact paper.
I made this sign for my son as the first cut to see how it was going to work. I put together the layout in my Make the Cut software and used it to cut the images out with my Cricut Expression.
This next picture is going to be wall art that I am going to add to my office wall. One of the ladies, KLee from the Make the Cut forum inspired me to do this after seeing her work on her wall. It was just beautiful. So I cut these images from my Cricut "E" using my 12x24 mat with the black faux leather contact paper.
Isn't the cat just fantastic. The cat design was a file shared by KLee. I created the other images using the CDS software, Home Decor and Serenade cartridges. The stool I found a graphic online and pulled it into the MTC software to cut.
Check back later this week to see a picture of how everything is put together on the wall.
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