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new silhouette!

Hello friends! We had a wonderful Christmas! I hope your's was just as magical ^_^ There was one thing on my list that I new I would have to wait for. Since my boys got to my first Silhouette machine I've had my eyes on the Cameo.

This sucker really does it all and in 12 inches! So...as much as I wish I could play with this I will have to wait just a little longer. Of course that won't stop me from making some designs for it ^_^

Here are the latest releases

Just in time for some New Year creations! I hope you enjoy these :) There are arrrow that have an outline and fill so you can use them separately or together. Gosh I love arrows....be right back!

lately + a freebie

I got a bright surprise from DerRick. Like...really? So sweet ^_^...

Put pen so lampshade and went to town lol...It was for my sister Chelsea. She asked if I would jazz up her lampshade for her dorm room. I covered the whole shade with randome doodles. Pic is kind of hazy so here are some close ups

Fun stuff.

I had my coffee and cream this morning. I have some creating to do. It's about freakin' time! And speaking of design. I have some

YAY! It's been a while. (about to get off here and make some more lol!) Here are a couple new ones

 

 

To see the rest of the designs available you can visit my shop. I hope you enjoy :) 

Soooo....tonight is Halloween night! Here are some free brushes for your upcoming halloweeeeeeeeen pages ^_^

 

I hope you all could use them somehow ^_^ There is a set of four brushes in this set. You can download them Download here 

Be safe tonight and stay warm. Be right back!

 

 

Lift Me Up Showcase + some new stuff!

Hello, Hello!!!! Want to see some scrap goodness? Head on over to the  2011 Lift Me Up showcase! The blog is live and the ladies want to share what they have cooked up ^_^ ....enjoy!...

Lastly I have some new releases up in my Silhouette Shop!

Again, if you love the Silhoette and a diggin' my designs let me know! You can email me and drop a line! Thanks everyone and I'll be back in a flash!

LOVE this

Hello everyone. Just stole some food from DerRick. Some steak sandwich thingie from Chili's I really don't like Chilli's food but I was hungry ^_^

So yeah, tonight the girls got their pop poms for cheer. They are so exited. Can't stop flinging them around. I told them to take care of them. Put them in their room and shut the door. Because once they are out in the living room they are free game and any little 1 year old can use them as slobber toys! lol! So yeah, I'm glad they're glad ^_^ 

The coach is really impressed with Kody's natual talent. He can jump high and is fearless on the mat. Of course he ran and did some type of ninja front flip and I almost had a flippin' heart attack! But yeah, she wan's me to help coach her level 5 team (high school age) on Fridays. So that's where I'll be tomorrow! Who knew right? ^_^

Just in case your like what? I've been doing all-star cheer ever since the 7th grade on through College. I was on the University of Louisville All-Girl team and won the 2001 and 2002 NCA National Championships. I wish I could fit my rings but I need to do a resize...bigger...^_^

So on a crafty note, I have a layout to show you from Creative Artist Margelz!

She's got that dirty minimalist thing goign that I love! She used the latest kit releases and I'm adoring that black! I also got a new Silhouette release in my shop for all you Silhouette lovers out there ^_^

Ok...so I'm on a stamp kick lately. Like dude...can't get enough! This design is cool because you can use them separatly or overlay the stamp design over the solid. They fit together like a glove ^_^ Try playing with cut patterned papers too for coolness. But that last suggestion is more directed towards me becuase I tend to only cut with white cardstock lol!!!! I might be looking for some Silhoette designers to some magic with my designs. That would be awesome! Drop me a line!!!!

But yeah, I hope you enjoy. I'm going to enjoy my last night being in my 20's.

 

a peek & new release

Hey everyone! I have some new releases in the Silhouette shop!

I have more designs coming soon! If you do some die cutting magic with my designs link me! I'd love to see!!!! On a digital note, here's a peek at the up and coming release

You have a chance ot win the Vintage Alphas! All you gotta do is answer me this

What other hobby to you have, if any, besides scrapbooking?

That's it! Give an answer in the comments and I'll be back tomorrow with a winner and more ramblings ^_^

an eventful day

Well, I saw my dentist today. Yeah, got two teeth pulled. So much fun!!!!...(um? no) Oh, and how can I forget the ride there...I ran over a squirrel. I mean seriously? Do we really need to look in the rear view and watch it try to get up? Why must we be such curiouse creatures? And why do squirls jet out in the middle of the street, get all the way to 2.5/3rds of the way across and change their minds? It's not cool...

On a more crafty note, I have two new releases in my Silhouette shop!

These would be SO cute as overlays on a layout! I hope you enjoy :) Until next post folks...drive carefully! ...oh I'm so hungry...

december album day 1

Ok...first of all I want to say that I'm SO sleepy. Why? Because both my boys decided to scream at the top of their lungs until 3:50 in the morning!!!! Now Chris only cried when he needs to be changed. So I figured that was the issue with him. But he was fine. Kayson always makes some kind of noise when we first lay him down but this was crazy! I finally had to go in the living room and lay on the couch. But that was uncomfortable and the boys were STILL going at it so I laid down on the floor. Much more comfortable. But then wouldn't you know. All this happened on the day DerRick sleeps in the bed with me (long story) and he ended up coming in the living room with me. After hearing him snore past the boys finally going to sleep I went back into the room. There are many more details in this story including Chris waking around the house and Kayson poking my face in the bed but I'll just spare you the drama lol...

So I got day one of my December album finished. Not exactly the end of day 1 officially but a sista has to do what she has to do  ^_^

So this is the cover. Without the gut looking textures like before lol!

I thought about doing the back cover but decided to leave it plain.

Kody drew this for me today at school. That's me and him by a tree that has yet to be put up ^_^ Like super sweet...

I used my handy dandy Silhouette to cut out the 3:50am insert. It along with the vertical journaling strip are sewn inside a page protector.

This was another one of those times I had to journal with kiddos nipping at my heals lol! Sloppy but said yes? ^_^ Here is Kayson and DerRick chillin' on the couch together. I wanted to throw this little boy out the window this morning but with that smile I'll give him another chance. You can't see it well in the picture but the red snowflake border is sparkly...oooooo....^_^

It snowed today for the first time this winter! Are you all ready?

A couple things I realized while doing this album. I don't have much room to work, everything seems to come out crooked, I'm going to be interrupted...a lot, my x-mas scrap stash is in the basement and there's no way in hootenannny I'm going down there with all the creepers to get it. And ... I'm so very glad I'm doing this. It's been a while since I cut and pasted!

Catch you soon!,

 

Holy Mac!

Look just what popped up in my inbox! ...they are listening yes they are! Now us Mac heads can do our thing too with the new Silhouette Studio! But this isn't it! You have to check out the site for some really neat things it can do! I've been itching to start designing again. I got back to it for a milisecond and then had many personal changes happen at once. Many inquiries have come in with design requests and I'm really looking forward to doing new things.

Later on in the year I will be releasing new cutting files and new designs for screen print in my shop! YAY! Chests and baby butts beware lol...

One question for all machine cutting folk out there. No matter what machine; what designs are you looking for as of right now?

 

Holiday ( halloween, christmas etc. )

Word Art ( simple text, handwrittten designs )

Florals

Flourishes + Splooshes ^_^

Alphas

Home Decor ( stuff that looks mad fab in the home)

Baby

...

 

I'd love to hear what's on your wish list! And also, Everything is in the Silhouette store in %15 off through the 30th! All ya gotta do is use promo code: SEPTEMBER

 

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hello...hello

Hi friends. I've been very busy ^_^ A lot of the time I spent with the family. Kids staying occupied during the summer is a work out lol! Watching 24 on Netflix ( deeply in love! ) Then DerRick and I found a great app on the Droid we like to play with called WordUp!. We play it every single night. Of course I spank him about 80% of the time ^_^

I just recently started kit making again. The kit I just finished is already my favorite. I've been sketching a bunch of things that will end up...who knows where lol! Sometimes I'm not sure if a design will become a paper, a brush, a template...It's kind of funny ^_^ 

I found this really cool tutorial on how to make notebooks out of cereal boxes! They end up looking kind of like Moleskin journals.

The small on is the one I made out of a baby snack box and the larger one is a Moleskin. I just used graph paper on the inside and used my Paper Gator to make the corner round. SO simple and super fast. You can make a dozen a day, easy. Visit here to see how to make them!

And just so you know...Silhouette has all designs on sale for only .75 through tomorrow! And Francine Clouden over at Craft Gossip has a link to some free actions!

Here is a photo of Kayson I played with using these actions

SOOTC

With actions : summer hase and beach blanket bingo

Pretty cool eh?

Catch you in a bit,

-Karla

 

a little play before...

So...I've been doing a little playing around. I really liked doing the paper flower frame. (You can view that post here). And I wanted to make some 3D flower designs for the Silhouette. Ones that you can jazz up the way you want.

      

I played with these and started on a canvas

   

For the large floral will be in the shop next week. I don't know what I'm going to do with the canvas yet lol!I also fooled around with making some silly characters ^_^

   

They made adorable cards. each one of the cards has a pocket you put a letter in.

Anyway...just fooling around trying to get back into things. What are you all doing this weekend? Kody is going to spend some time with one of his school friends from this past school year and the girls desperately want to get some 'princess' shoes ^_^

Later,

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