a cameo appearance

OK, I have been absent for a week or two, but I have been busy playing with a new toy!, oops, I mean tool in my studio.

I am the proud owner of a brand new silhouette cameo digital cutter and have been experimenting with all types of media, to see what it can do!

Above is a page from my notebook.  As you can see at the left, it cuts light lutradur/rainbow spun beautifully, and below it is some acetate sheet (For stencils) which it also cut well.  It did not cut painted baby wipes, which is a disappointment, but I am not finished experimenting with that.  I have tried papers of different weights, plastics and vinyls, and of course fabrics.  It cuts cotton really well and I am looking forward to thinking up a few applique projects to do with it.

I cut these beautiful boxes from card.  I purchased the cutting file from silhouette.com.

and all these wonderful masks and textures and text and....

Here were a few of my first efforts.
And some starts at journal pages, none of which is completed yet.

By the way, the black butterfly is a design I created myself with the software, while the blue butterfly, I only attached on one side so it becomes an extra page.

My collage from the last post is finished and just needs mounting

Here are a few close ups

Also, the fabric pages I finished a few weeks ago have reached their owners, so now I can show you

I have been doing a little crochet

This is from a pattern in piecework magazine last year.

And this is from an old annie's attic pattern.

And I think I'll just finish with this winter leaf I found the other day

It had such beautiful lines, I couldn't resist.

Happy creating.

a bit of a hodge podge

Well, I have been a bit remiss in blogging, so here is a bit of a round up of what I have been doing.

This is a slideshow of a book I am working on as a part of your living canvas with Christy Tomlinson.

And this is the cover of another project for the same course.  Inside there will be six panels for the six fs we worked on.  It's all about balancing our wheels.

These are close ups of the panels of the cover.

These are a few scrapbook pages and the cover of the album, I am putting together for a display at the community house to get a few people interested.  I am not really a scrapbooker, more of a journaller, but we have lots of supplies, so we want people to come and do it.

These are a few pages from my journals I have worked on lately.  1st and last were inspired by Donna downey's inspiration wednesday.

And to finish up for today,

Some free motion butterflies I am working on on felt, which will be cut out for a shadow box when finished.

And a little butterfly I made with some embossed foil, nail polish and jewels, after seeing one in a jewellery mag at the community house this morning.  It is about an inch across, not sur what I will do with it, but it satified my need for bling, today, at least, lol.

So, you see, even when I am neglecting my blog, I am always doing something.