Hubby gets the awesomeness of Pazzles Inspiration

 So my hubby has a couple of guys at work who are about to hit their 20 yr. anniversary with the company and he wants to do something to commemorate it for them. Now we have been racking our brains on what to do, first of all their men so frilly fufu just wont work and I have already done etched beer mug for them and they work in the electronics industry so we need something related to their work.
 So my hubby came home the other day with these round mirror looking things he called Electrodes I guess they came off of a machine and asked if I could etched them, well I don't see why not," wrong" apparently you can't, whatever they are made of won't etch and trust me I left the etching cream on plenty long enough and nothing not even a scratch.
 Alright on to Idea 2, maybe I can make a stencil and use alcohol ink or paint imagine my surprise when the ink just beaded up and it has tiny hole which aloud ink to get under the stencil." Fail" What the heck is this thing made out of? OK Idea 3 Vinyl that should do it and thank God it worked because I was really running out of ideas.
 So here is the stencil and the final product, with just one stencil I was able to try 3 different ideas. So I have to say with out my Pazzles Inspiration this would not have been possible. The Inspiration really gives you the ability to do things in so many different ways.  

            Just between you and me hubby hit 20 yrs. this year too so guess who this one is for?

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Inspiration Creative Cutter

 

With the Inspiration Creative Cutter you can: Design and cut your own images from clipart, photographs, drawings, or freehand your own designs Cut up to 12'' wide and 24'' long Cut all kinds of cardstock including the thickest textured cardstocks Cut chipboard, vinyl, iron on, stiffened fabric, thin plastics, sticker paper, magnet paper, stencil plastic, and much more! Cut fonts already installed on your computer Add additional tools to draw, distress, pierce, engrave, and emboss, and cut pastry Use the included Inspiration Studio Pro 2010 software to automatically outline, automatically weld, automatically convert clipart to cuttable images, import and cut SVG and PDF files, create lattice designs, create rhinestone designs, and much more!

Votive Candle Holders

You want to know how I made these then check out The Pazzles Craftroom.

Kitchen Progress

Ok here is the before pictures.

construction

and we now have can lights and a bright shinny new fridge. The bar area is going to be a whole wall pantry making the kitchen functional and adding an 8ft. eat in island again adding function. More pics. coming.

 

Pazzles Design Team Blog Hop

 Today I have this cute Holiday Card for you. I used the speech bubble card sketch and the Snowy Bird file. The first thing I did was add an outline around the main background and then resized it to fit my 6.5 x 5 card base and then I cut it out in red American cardstock, then I cut all the background parts out  on DCWV Homemade Christmas stack. I then imported the Snowy Bird file and sized it to fit. I used the pentool and a pazzles onestroke font to add my saying and cut out the speech bubble. I used ribbon instead of paper for the sash piece because I thought it made the card more dimensional. I also popped up the bird and the whole focal piece off the card base. as finishing touches I added holly leaves and a button and some stickles to the leaves and the birds hat and rounded two of the corners on the card base.

And now the hard part deciding who gets this card.


Your next blog hop stop is Tara Brown http://tarascraftstudio.com/?p=4383 

Coaches Gifts

Here is another great etching project, More Beer mugs, buy the time I'm done everyone in my city will have one, so here is for the High School Football Coaches and team mom. I love being able to customize these with the school motto and year for the coaches and lion paws and her signature XOXO for the team mom it makes the gifts truly just for them.

Thanks to my Pazzles Inspiration and I say this again "The Best Cutter Ever" I was able to make these wonderful gifts and it was at a very minimal cost to our banquet budget.

Football Treat Bags

I bought these little muslin bags at a garage sale about 10yrs. ago thinking someday I will do something cute with them, well today is the day. It just so happens my sons school colors are red and gold so this works out great.

 

 The First thing I did was pull up my Inspiration Studio Pro Software and make a few stamps, pride matters is the logo as we are the lions.

 Then my friend Shelly and I stamped all the bags, all 101 of them.

 Filled them with candy,

 And wala, custom made treat bags for the JV and Varsity football teams in their school colors.

All of this made possible by the Pazzles Inspiration and their Stamp Kit .