Enjoying listing these as I find them. Hope you enjoy.
has some great non-scary Halloween svgs I’ve not seen showing up in search engines anywhere else.
Check it out! Love her work!
2. Southern Belle: http://southernbellesvg.blogspot.com
Honestly, the great links on this site are too many to name. I downloaded a ton today. Can’t WAIT to start cutting!!!
I have been downloading a number of free .svg files for my SCAL software and Cricut. Those files can be found using Google search terms such as “svg free files”. Look in sidebars and often you will be linked to other bloggers who post svg files and tutorials.
A fun place I looked today was on svgcuts.com’s forum in a category called “svg repository” where forum members post their own svg files. Some are cleaner than others.
Another great resource I found was this blogger:
http://scrpbooklady.blogspot.com
A seasonal halloween favorite from the amazing Lora was this little ghost trick or treater! Such a cute and free SVG. It is one of those files that just “feels great” after you cut it. I held mine for a few days before I could bear to glue it onto a layout and carried it around to show all my friends!
Go visit Lora’s blog for the layered svg file and to fine other amazing things! Thanks so much, Lora! I totally LOVED this cute, little guy! It got me over the hump of disliking Halloween so much that I’ve never even scrapped my kids halloween photos! (I know, it’s a sad, sad thing!)
is hosting the giveaway of a Cuttlebug and embossing folder! Yeah! Click here for the deets.
Posting about a retreat you might want to check out if you are in England. Deets are here.
Wow, the photos are stunning!
Tonight I prepared some Palm Sunday crafts for my Sunday School class using Sure Cuts a Lot and my Cricut.
I got the original idea from the fine people here, then decided I didn’t want to devote the classroom time to cutting due to the make-up of my class this year…so I made a quick cricut pattern using SCAL and pre-cut those.
Also, in attaching the frons to the straws, I decided that stapling the paper through the straw was going to work better for us than the recommended gluing. I also decided to cut from green paper rather than going the “coloring” route, though if you wanted the project to take more time you could add those elements in.
It was suggested that the straws made a little safer project for 2nd graders than read palm branches, and it’s just a cool project using things I already had at home.
To create the fronds, I just opened SCAL, and “welded” together an oval and a rectangle to get the original shaped. Except for the special frond at the end of the straw…for it, I welded on a triangle for wrapping around the straw.
I wanted floppy paper, so I used regular green paper rather than card stock. That was all good, except that it did curl up when I pulled it off the sticky cricut mat. I figure that will make a good conversation piece. They can probably smooth it back out.
I plan to be placing some projects here soon on things I’m making with my Cricut and Cuddlebug. Yay! A home for my crafty stuffs.
I’m still working on the best way to take photos of cards…don’t feel I’m doing too well with that lately.
Say howdy and let me know if you are here!
For Sure Cuts a Lot: for Sure Cuts a Lot, you need .svg files or scal files for them to cut. The “cut” files are for Design Studio (the program Cricut sells). SCAL comes with it’s own sort of digital computer version of DS (Design Studio), and I am not a cartidge collector, so I doubt I will be purchasing it.
The free program “Inkscape” can be used to convert any clear JPG or photo file to an “svg” file (cutting file), but the image is best if it’s a clear black and white image, or one where vector cutting lines can be formed around the image.
This is my scrap space-guest room. I have spaces for two kids to work with me, a computer desk, a sewing desk, a main desk, and a bed in there.
The decorating people would say, “WHAT IS THIS ROOM!?” But, it’s next to the TV room, and by my bedroom…a great area to flow in and out of…and I LOVE IT!
I may move to the basement in my next rework, but for now…the Wii is upstairs, so that’s where the kids are and where I need to be–where they play is where I want to be.
Where there is “clickable” or an asterix (*), you can click the photo for more detail about the spot and why it’s the way it is…I typed in stuff for all the pictures, but half of them aren’t showing and I’m not sure why. I tried twice, so you’ll just have to have a visual tour. Ask anything you like…all the tables are second hand or makeshift. There are six work tables in the guest room. Yup…I said SIX. You can get around the bed, and it feels pretty orderly to me, though I’m sure it isn’t fashionable. I like the homey look to the room…I feel restful in there because all my nostalgic stuff is in that room.
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- Mini Albums*
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- My Cuttlebug *
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- Goldilock’s Desk *
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- The Window
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- Decor*
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- 360 view
If you use SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot), for your Cricut, this is a good video tutorial on how to crop things out of your image using Inkscape. I enjoyed it.
I’ve seen this technique done with Stampin’ Up Corner rounders and had been waiting for a cheap one off ebay ($8-$10). I was out of town in M-ville yesterday at their Wal*Mart, however, and saw EK success had the same punch for like $3.88, so you know I grabbed it up in a heartbeat. I think I can make scallops for any size circle or rectangle using this, with a little patience (until I give in to a die cut machine).
I was having trouble, however, getting around the corners well, so here’s a demo how to do that I just found on a search! How cool is that! Thank you, friend!
