3 new things to know on the 3rd January

1. Pentel Outline markers are CUTE!!! 

They are only about $3 each. 


Although they look like ordinary markers, as you can see in the picture, it looks as though you painstakingly traced around the edge of a silver pen with another fineliner. 


No effort at all required. 

I used them on my daily gratitude desktop calendar recently.

I made a gratitude calendar so that every day I can think about the little things to be thankful for. 

I did something similar last year and it is amazing how blissful your life can 
 be when you consider daily how lucky you are. I have templates if anyone is interested, just message me your email. My idea is to unbind each month when done and bind with ribbon, and make a 2 page layout of 2011 gratitude for my scrapbook.


This was my first entry. My dishes haven't been done and clothes are piling up and my husband never complained once. I got to scrapbook intermittently throughout the last week whenever I could.  I'm calling it my annual leave. 


I can't wait to show you what I was up to... I'm making a calendar that uses a heap of different cartridges. It's a great Xmas present for the relatives next Christmas (giving you plenty of time to plan)


2. Sure Cuts a Lot has a few new functions in the free upgrade if you own it and it is well worth downloading. I LOVE IT now... whereas before I used it only occasionally, now it is a constant at my scrap desk. 
 

 My favourite new function without a doubt is the Rhinestone function under object. 


There are so many awesome possibilities.

 Just write a word on SCAL or draw a shape - see below picture, there are new flourishes in the basic shapes section.

 

 Then select Rhinestones function.

 Choose the size and shape of your intended rhinestones (or i-rock gems) and the spacing you want for them.


You will have to use a pin pen to push out the holes that you want. You don't have to cover your letter in rhinestones, you can just select one side of your letter. 


The beauty of this is you can cut your template, undo the rhinestone function, change your font/shape into 'Shadow' and cut your word/shape so that the rhinestones fit beautifully.  

Then click OK and you can cut a template for laying your rhinestones/gems on your layout. Use unwanted bazzill colours to cut your template

You can also complete a layout, slide it into the cricut, cut a flourish that goes over photo corners, etc and simply glue your gems on the actual layout.

You will see the rhinestone function results in my project being posted tomorrow! 


3. A Xyron holder... my new invention. Get one!

 See you tomorrow!

Just one girly one...

Hi! I have organised my scrapping space, and even though this is a blog dedicated to boy pages, I thought I might put this one anyway to show my scrapping area.

It is only clean for about twenty minutes before the paper starts flying and little itty bits of scrap start falling everywhere so I took the opportunity to snap some shots.

I am so proud of my purchase of the cupboard from officeworks and I built the paper thing on the side myself and lifted the keyboard tray so I could slide my unfinished work on it.

The minute I saw that cupboard I know it would make an awesome scrap space.

The font for the title was Calligraphy but I turned the M backwards and squished it up a little. I used Fabulous Finds for the little heart charms... My Xyron ran out of sticker paper one day before this layout... I would have done anything to have a refill for my xyron to make all those hearts!!! It was fiddly!!! I used glossy accents instead. The stickles which link the photos to the main photo is Tiara. I absolutely love that colour!

Now two days later... I have to tidy it up again.