How many of you celebrate your dogs birthdays? A favourite treat, a new collar, maybe a new coat or even a doggie cake like this one.
Bronte Birthday has it all, a new hat, a new tutu, and even a doggie cake with a bone biscuit topper. You’ll find Bronte Birthday at Mo’s Digital Pencil
Coloured with FlexMarkers by Letraset and some pitt chalk pencils.
Ribbon is from Ribbon Carousel along with the flower centers.
I love the sweet expression, it needs bottling.
Penguin Friends by High Hopes and I used a double ribbon band in Vintage seam binding and a plaid ribbon from Ribbon Carousel
Lets take a look at the Cricut Mini
For those taking the next step into a cutting machine that cuts shapes and alphabets, apertures and 3d projects, this mini machine packs a big punch.
It’s smart looking so no worries about having it on show, it also sits neatly under my computer desk. the easy step by step wallet that comes with it guides you all of the way through the set up process and even guides you through your first cut on the machine.
Open view, this has a physical cartridge loaded into the machine, You can however buy the download versions to use with the software for the cutter (Cricut Craft Room) and they even include patterns in your purchase.
Before you know it you can be a wiz kid on the Cricut, designing layouts and cards.
This was my first try at it myself, I made a lattice cut out to overlay a card.
It was so easy to design too, I just loaded the Cricut Craft Room used a shape that I got free with the machine did some copy and pasting and there you have it.
Simple even for a beginner. It even allows you to save your layout for to use at a later time.
All in all I have to say this is an impressive piece of machinery, it cuts quickly and also cleanly and the icing on the cake is that it is relatively quiet.
If I could make a change to it the only change that I would want is to be able to import my own cutting project into it but I believe that they may have this in the pipeline for future updates.
It’s been a funny old day (Sunday) and I’ve been playing with some colouring techniques, I started my day at 05:45 feeling quite groggy and a little under the weather, so many germs going freely at the moment to anyone who will have them, it started with a headache on Saturday that just wouldn’t go, by Saturday evening I was taking pain killers and taking myself off to bed.
So at early o’clock I started colouring with my FlexMarkers by Letraset, I’m loving the new colours in these, I also love the brush tip that allows the ink to stay wetter longer allowing better blending, I also love that the colours are true and not wishy washy.
So this is what I was colouring. A selection from Mo’s Digital Pencil
Now as I was a little unwell I ended up back in bed and staying there until around 13:30. I have a wonderful man who made dinner and the went shopping for the weekly groceries while i took more medication and just played with images.
I decided to use Pastel Pencils on top of the FlexMarkers colouring I‘d done, I love that you can do this, I often do it with prisma pencils but I decided to invest in some Faber Castell Pastel Pencils and I love them. I use them with paper blending stumps by Derwent and I’ll thing you’ll agree that they work well.
This is the Tin of pencils that I invested in.
Feeling a little better now but not managed to make a card I thought you would like to see what I’d been up to.
