August 11th, 2009 by Louise
Welcome to my new website thingy.
I thought maybe a blog thing may be easier to keep updated and organized, chances are it wont but its the thought that counts 
Anyway, if I do update it I will try to put something useful on it for you to read. That means in order for me to complete my side of the agreement you will need to either have or develop an interest in photography and or photoshop because I am obsessed with them and unlikely to post anything else
You will find the main navigation links <—- over there or over there —-> depending on the theme I choose and new content will arrive below this post. You can jump to the home page again by clicking the header pic
Have fun and don’t forget to leave a few comments laying around behind you
Enjoy
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February 14th, 2010 by Louise
It’s my pals grandsons 2nd birthday soon and she asked me to make a birthday card along a Simpsons theme.
I had already converted some Simpsons characters to cutting files so decided I would use those to make a 3D card with Bart jumping out of the TV. I don’t have any glossy photo card stiff enough to make the base card so I decided to print it on glossy paper and glue it to a thin card stock before cutting and that’s when the trouble began 
Basically I create the card graphics and cut lines in Inkscape, the card is then printed with some registration marks, glued to the backing card and then fed into the cutter to cut it out. But when I cut it the cut lines were missing the picture by up to 2mm in places.
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February 3rd, 2010 by Louise
My pal Tricia asked me to make her a card for an engagement and I thought it turned out quite well so here it is 
I wanted to make a 3D card of some description and eventually decided this book idea was the best. I have to admit the concept wasn’t mine, I stole the idea for a ‘Book’ card from Linda who is a fellow member of the Black Cat Forum. My design is completely different in that it is like a real book with pages and has been created completely from scratch by myself.
The card was cut with my Cougar cutter from several different sorts of card stock. The book cover was printed onto hammered card stock and jazzed up with glitter flourishes cut from silver glitter card. The pages of the book were cut from linen card stock and the verse etc printed on before cutting, the glitter border was again cut from silver glitter card.
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January 15th, 2010 by Louise
I have just taken delivery of a new cutter, the BlackCat Cougar, and its ab fab
I am getting to grips with the new software so it may be a while before I add any more cutting files but I will try to get some uploaded as quick as I can.
Check out the details of the new cutter on my Digital Craft Cutting page
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December 31st, 2009 by Louise
Another flower cutting file for you.
I was suffering CR withdrawal symptoms here at my parents house so snapped a shot of an artificial flower and set about making a cut file for it. Unfortunately I didn’t have the RoboMaster software installed on the laptop, but I managed to find a download for it so I could make the GSD file as well as the usual Illustrator AI file.
This one is a 4 layer print & cut flower template. It’s a bit of a hybrid because the middle bit of the photo I took wasnt very flower like so I knicked the middle from a sunflower photo I found
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December 20th, 2009 by Louise
I am here, arrived at my parents house about 4:45PM Friday.
The drive down from ScottyLand was fairly uneventful, apart from some crazy mutha white van man who decided he wanted to pass me as I was passing slow moving lorries in the other lane.
I was doing about 60, which I think was plenty fast enough anyway given that there was snow on the edges of the carriage way and it was below freezing out, the lorries were doing about 50. This retard in a white Merc van starts flashing his headlights at me from behind, there was no where for me to pull into the slower moving lane without cutting in dangerously close to a lorry so I just carried on (not that I would have changed lanes for a retard flashing headlights anyway)
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December 15th, 2009 by Louise
Another quickie Craft Robo/ Wishblade cutting file for you.
The example picture looks a bit ‘muddy’ which was a consequence of enlarging to export the jpg and then reducing for the web site, when printed & cut they are much clearer/ sharper.
This one is for Christmas die cuts which you can use for cards, planners etc. I know its getting a tad late in the day for posting Christmas stuff, but I knocked them up for some cards I am doing and thought I would stick them online just in case anyone wanted them.
As with the other cutting files to date, the zip file has GSD files and the Illustrator AI file. I have also included RoboMaster GST template files so you can add them to the programs templates for quick access if you wish.
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December 12th, 2009 by Louise
Just a quick flower cut file for all you crafters out there.
Zip file includes RoboMaster template file, RoboMaster GSD and Illustrator file to cut a flower.
The GSD and AI files have 3 different size flower shapes, just cut them, curl the petals with the back of a craft knife and glue the smaller ones inside the larger.
When curling the petals just curl the petal tips on the largest, about half the length of the petals on the middle size and curl the smallest right from the centre.
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December 11th, 2009 by Louise
A Print & Cut Christmas card file for you.
This card has a dual layer Pop up/ Pop out insert in the middle and has a frame on the front suitable for a 4×6 inch photo or other artwork with jingle bells die cut decorations.
The ZIP contains the GSD file, an AI file and example photo featuring my cat in a hat
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December 9th, 2009 by Louise
Clawdius is my pal Tricia’s new mad cat!
She brought him round to my new flat to visit yesterday so I took the opportunity to fire off a few snaps of him before he gets past the cute kitten stage 
My two grumpy cats were not entirely impressed and spent most of the time sulking on the back of the couch or hissing & growling, unfortunately for them Claudius wasn’t put off by it and did his best to wind them up even more LOL
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December 6th, 2009 by Louise
I will be adding a new subject to my blogy thing soon.
My latest toy is a Craft Robo vinyl/ card cutter so I am going to include cutting files and the like on here once I get things organised.
I have been playing about with it for a while and I am starting to get to grips with it, I made a nice nameplate thing for the front door with a cat silhouette border and I am working on Christmas cards now so those of you who know me will probably get crappy home made cards from me – Still that’s better than none at all which is the alternative LOL
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