embossing n cutting!!

K, I'm in love... I'm truly loving my pasta machine... She a very good purchase [25 @ Ares] sweet! It embosses, die cuts and of course claying! :)

I swear trying out my new butterfly dies is a great thing! BF is like u don't have to buy the machine?!? We saw the revolutions which is sweet looking [love the chrome and black colors... combo].

they're coming with the Love Machine [video] which is still in prototype.. I think it will be coming out in October and hopefully not that noisy. Oh, yeah its motorized! but I have my cutter which is fine... and now that I re-invented my pasta machine... I no longer need a machine at all... yah! but still thinking if I should... heee... me and my shoppingness!

I used some of the line paper that I got at the dollar store and the other gold one from Costco! I love Costco, they sometimes carry really cute styles of paper... I got the ones that were handmade... sweet... I also have when they had the 300sheets for $20 about 2yrs ago... that was a great purchase! And let's not forget my scissors [all different kinds of cutting to be done w/ them] and my punches which are being used for claying! I need to get my hands on some punches and I think I have become addicted to dies, stamps and inks... sheesh... let's not tell bf... he'll have a cow! though he's a trouper now... heee... helps me when I go to scrapbook stores and seeks out good bargains... hee... I thought I need a friend [which none of my friends are into this, too busy life is moving at a faster speed w/ them...]. I still am single/attached and no kids... but kitties do keep us busy...

I spend most of yesterday watching crafty vids @ utube and updating my p-blog. Read peeps blogs... Slept 5hrs in the afternoon... sweet nap! :)

It's too freaken humid to do much... I feel sticky... yuk! The clay is like too soft to work with, I wanted to try out the origami vid I saw! I guess I have to wait on that!

Thinking that I've been bloging for like 5yrs now... heee... and well, I met some great peeps... Some have remain in my life others have completely dissapear... Anyways, this should go in my p-blog not here...

Up North Shopping

Driving to L to find the new SB store... It has stuff that the others I've been too don't have... Like the alcohol inks which I got... saw the baby blue embossing powder which hopefully its cute... Which it will be... hee... What am I saying...

The stickers that I cannot seem to prevent myself from not buying... hee... Those painted w/ Sakura pens! I sing "AAAAMMAAAZZIIINNNGGG!"

Saw the butterfly embossing/diecut that I was youtubing: erinmichele "2 in 1 Cuttlebug Dies". Saw she was talking about that and I had to get it... Gosh... Now, I will be searching for the flower petal ones... I love her IKEA scrapbooking table... nya!!!

And let's not forget the foil tape for my future project who got me thinking: Simply Swank Simply Solder Creative Art Kit Reported by Julia Stainton. Now I just need to go on a search for a soldering Iron... Hee...

Early Afternoon

Went shopping:

- got 2 cute metal boxes for 2.50
- the stickers I ordered like 2mths ago
- cuttlebug embossing templates 5.95 [more exp then at ss]
- cute, cute acrylic stamps for 4.95
- really cheap alpha. stamps for 1.25/each [a set each for my bf nieces]
- fall and leaves stamps for 1.25

Sweet....

Online Stores

Seller: bebita
CUTTLEBUG LOT Flowers Naturals Leaves and Netting

Needle Noddle was thinking of getting the Jelly Fish patter to make for the girls... Still thinking on that... Saw it at Tatsuko's blog... She got some amigurumi sushi for her kitties... :)

Another Shopping Day

Spend a few hrs @ W it was fun... Got the cutting dies and tried them on the pasta machine. It sort of works need to tweak it a bit... :) I saw the cuttlebug for $68... Was thinking of getting it if the pasta machine didn't do the trick but I want to use the dies for my polymer clay stuff... That reminds to be seen... :)

Martha stuff was all over the place got a bone folder for like 5$ which at the Scrapbooking stores is like 8-10... Too crazy!!!! Got also 2 cute brass templates for like 2$. Card stock [32pgs] for 5$... And my faves pearls which I want to use to deco my new cell: which one should I get: iphone or Sony w760i or Sony F305? Still thinking.......

Also got some Fiskars templates with its roller and shape templates with some crayola oil pastels [which I didn't know they had] @ B-en-G... Can't wait to use it on the tutorials I mentioned on still on the net post.

At the SS I got some vellum, acrylic stamps, ink pads and black shrink film [they were charging 12$ for the transparent one, freaken' crazy!]. I understand people want to make money but its like so GREEDY to do such things. Exploitation is one thing I HATE THE MOST!!! Just ruffles my feather when people try to take advantage. Let's not go on that rant, that's for my personal blog!

Pasta Machine and Embossing

I started thinking will my pasta machine work doing embossing and die cutting? Well, tried embossing with my machine and it did a pretty well job... Check out my tries... I need to get me some die cuts to try it... The cheap way is the best way to go! :)
Here are a few pictures of how I tested my theory...

Note: I put it on the last roller thingy and then slowly passed it through.











I used some of the pearl-ex/varnish on the paper from my flower tutorial... Will get my hands on some of those dies pretty soon... Off I go....