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Why I {heart} my Sizzix Big Shot

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I {heart} my Sizzix Big Shot for many reasons – it cuts through just about everything, including chipboard, I can emboss with it, it takes every die out there…  But there is another reason I {heart} it.

It is as easy 1,2, 3.  Let me show you.

One.

step 1 - create the "sandwich"

Two.

step 2 - roll the die through with easy-to-turn handle

Three.

step 3 - take your die cut out of the "sandwich"

It is so easy that my five-year-old has got the system down!  No excuses that it is too hard to figure out the adapter!

His favorite die?  The monkey of course.  He can cut monkeys for forever and a day.  Just give him a pile of scrap papers and he is happy, happy, happy. 

We currently have about 632 monkeys loose in the house…

Quick page for a quick moment…

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Hope everyone out there had a great weekend. :)   I spent the weekend with my nose in a book (loved, loved this book), lounging by the “pool”.  LOLlounging by the "pool"

I have another page to share today. I dug into my stash for this one – some paper from Prima from 2006 or 2007(?) and the last labels from a package of Martha Stewart labels.  (Don’t you just love finishing a package of embellishements off?)

Putty Face

To enhance the background I stamped this stamp randomly over the paper with some of this yellow paint.

detail - page title "putty face"

(Foam letters are by American Crafts.   Ribbon by Basic Grey.)

detail - journaling

Pretty quick to put together – I like to keep things pretty simple for a quick moment in time like this.