Pazzles Inspiration Creative Cutter

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I have a resale license to sell scrapbooking supplies, and this is my newest inventory item.  This machine is my new happy thing in my scrapbook world.  Last weekend I traveled to St. Charles, Illinois near Chicago to the Scrapbook Expo at the Pheasant Run Resort and spent 2 days with my buddies Thea and Klo (Pazzles guru) learning how to use the Pazzles Inspiration machine and demoing and selling it to scrapbookers.

Frankly, it’s freaking awesome.  People kept coming up and saying, “Okay, what does this thing do?” And we’d have to say, “Everything!”  You can cut out your own titles, design and cut out your own die cuts, window clings, vinyl quotes for the wall or other items, make your own rubber stamps, make iron ons for shirts.  This machine will cut through chipboard and acrylic and fabric.  I don’t even know how to use it well enough to know how to do everything, and I can already say it rocks.  We made me a window cling for the back of my car to advertise my website.  I think I showed the cool T-shirt that Klo made me a while back here on my blog.  Here are some things I made while learning how to use it at the expo.

Here’s a cool title guru Klo made for my daughter (Klo hurt her feelings once and made her cry so she was trying to make it up to her).  Their newest CD just out has a lot of Disney-ish princess images and fairies and dragons and castles and cool stuff.  I love it.  Tinkerbell is from that.  (By the way Klo, Summer says thank you and she loves it, but she’s still mad at you!) hehe

If you’re a good drawing artist (not me!), then you can freehand draw pictures on the software and cut them out.  You can download clip art from the internet or scan pictures from books or coloring books or your kids drawings or whatever and it will cut them out.  You can even scan photographs and cut them out.  I’m a font person and I have a lot of them, and this software will use any true type font you have on your computer (or download free off the internet) so you don’t have to go out and buy cartridges or disks or whatever like some of the other cutters on the market.  You CAN buy CDs if you want.  Pazzles has some pretty cool ones, like the one with Tinkerbell, but with a little more time you could just make your own.  Personally I like the convenience of not having to make my own!

I also love it because you can “weld” your letters together for a title and cut it all out in 1 single piece all hooked together instead of each letter individually and then trying to line them up straight (can’t do it).  You CAN cut them out individually if you want, but you’d have to be crazy!  haha

My friend Klo (Pazzles design team and demo person) has a blog here where she shows free video tutorials teaching people how to use it, and she has a great way of explaining things.  The videos are great for people who tend to be visual learners and want to SEE how to do it. 

So the machine sells for $599.00 plus $35.00 shipping.  What saves you money in the long run is that you don’t have to buy the cartridges or disks or anything else to go with it.  You also don’t have to buy diecuts anymore!  Make your own!  It comes with a cutting mat and a cutting blade, so you will need to replace those eventually and they inexpensive.  The blade goes through 1,000 cuts and the mat lasts for 70-100 cuts.  Included is also 60 fonts already on there and 300 images already on it to get you started.  They also offer a 90-day phone support and a 1-year limited warranty.  It is shipped directly to you from the Pazzles company.  If you’re interested, contact me.  You can purchase one from me through my Paypal widget just to the right up there at the top of my blog securely.  I also have it available on my website at www.summerrosescrapbooks.com but to purchase it you would have to fill out the contact form and let me send you a Paypal invoice (don’t have a shopping cart yet).  I do accept credit cards and you don’t have to have an account with Paypal to use it.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.  I can also provide you with a brochure by mail if you’d like. 

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Altered Dog Treat Container

Here’s a cute little (big) peanut can (could also use coffee cans) that I altered with dog print patterned paper and some ribbon and turned it into a dog treat container.  It sits on our piano by the back door so that when we bring the dogs in they can have a treat if they behave.  Wish it was that easy with kids! 

and here’s the lid

What do you think?  Cute?

I think I’ll use some kitty papers next and make a smaller one for the cat treats.  Have I mentioned my hubby taught one of the cats to catch?  No, I’m not kidding. 

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Altered Notebook

My daughter had her tonsils and adenoids removed on Wednesday.  Wow, was that a long day.  Beforehand they told her she wouldn’t be able to talk for a few days because her throat would hurt too much, so I altered a regular size school notebook for her to write notes to us in, with the ulterior motive of course that I could copy the pages and include them later in a scrapbook!  The wheels are always turning, people! 

I must say, my 8-year-old girl was VERY impressed with my craftiness! 

I might even put one of these in the etsy shop www.summerrosescrapbooks.etsy.com. 

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Father’s Day Scrapbook in a Box.

I showed a sneak peak of this right before Father’s Day, but I couldn’t show the whole project or any of the photos inside the album cause my dad reads my blog!  (Hi Pops)  I must say, from his reaction I think he rather liked my little Father’s Day scrapbook.  It’s a little Petaloo accordian scrapbook that came in a little box for gift giving, but I altered the outside of the box also to be the album cover and used adhesive to attach the book inside so it unfolds out of the box when you open it.  Here’s what it looks like lying flat on my counter. 

Here are a few views of the pages closer up while lying flat.

Here it is standing up and opened on display.

Here it is just opened and unfolding out of the box.

and a little more….

and the last bit unfolding out of the book.

 Here are closer views of the individual pages.  These were so hard to do because they’re only 4 x 4 inches.  So really your photo takes up the whole space and there’s not much room for a lot of “scrap crap.”  I tried to keep it as simple as I could so the focus would stay on the photos.

The book cover and spine can be seen in my previous post in the link at the beginning of this post.  I think I’ll put these up for sale for $20 as a custom order in different themes in my etsy shop at www.summerrosescrapbooks.etsy.com. 

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Father accordian scrapbook.

Summer and I made this for her daddy for Father’s Day this year.  I let her pick out all the photos, and she also chose what the cover would say.  I’ve never heard her SAY this phrase, so I’m not sure why she wanted it on the front of the book!  haha  She wanted me to draw guitars and drums on the front for a “rock” theme, but I’m not artist and I said no way so she settled for drawing her own dance floor under her and Daddy.  Daddy loved it.

This is an accordian book with only 6 photos and the photos took up most of the space, so I had to really work at adding things on top of the pictures like rubons and tiny Prima flowers and I really like how it turned out.

There were 2 horizontal photos that Summer picked to go in the book, so I put those at the end so that when someone is looking at it they only have to turn the book one time to see those last 2 pages instead of going back and forth. 

Here’s what the book looks like opened up like an accordian.  Ken’s going to display it on his desk.

This is the type of book that I will selling in my etsy store for around $20 at www.summerrosescrapbooks.etsy.com.  I enjoy making little mini books of memories like this one and they’re more affordable for people.  This can be done in any theme such as baby or wedding or school, etc.  Lots of possibilites. 

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Pazzles Inspiration machine.

I’ve been so inspired by my friends Klo and Jill and Edie and what they can create with their Pazzles machines that I knew I had to own one someday.  Since I have a resale license for my store, I opened up a retail account with Pazzles so I could sell the machines to other people, and I sold my first machine.  Woo hoo!  My friend Thea bought it from me and I’m so excited for her cause I can drive a few hours to her house and play on the Pazzles with her! 

My friend Klo is a member of Pazzles design team and has a blog where she gives tutorials about the different fun stuff you can do and make with the Pazzles.  She has also created a CD of cutting files that you can buy.  She offers some for free in her store and also some  for sale.  (If you have a Pazzles or are thinking about it, go check it out.  She has some great stuff on there.)  I wrote previously about how Jill made me a cool Cupcake title at the St. Louis convention and showed on my blog another time a couple of neat layouts Klo had made with her Pazzles.  I think my favorite thing so far was the iron-on for a T-shirt that Klo made me with my business logo.  LOVE IT.

If you’d like to place an order with me for a Pazzles, you can do a custom request at my etsy store at www.summerrosescrapbooks.etsy.com.  My ebay store has other scrapbooking supplies at http://stores.ebay.com/Summer-Rose-Scrapbooks

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Project sneak peeks.

Here’s a sneak peek of a couple things I worked on this weekend.  The first one is a mini scrapbook in a box.  It’s from Petaloo (I think) and I covered the front with patterned paper, stamped the people stamps, and used some Mod Podge-ish stuff to seal it.  When you open the box, inside is a mini accordian album that unfolds.  It’s so CUTE if I do say so myself!

Here’s a side view.  I love to tie stuff to the spines of my albums.  It’s just one of my things.

Here’s some more little birdies that my daughter made the template for and I’m putting on bird-day cards.  Get it?  I know, it’s corny, right?  But I’m hoping they’re cute too since the cards are for a swap with 9 other ladies!

You may not be able to tell, but they are actually covered with baby blue Stickles so they’re just a teeny bit sparkly.  I also showed some birthday party invites that I made with these in a previous post here.  My daughter wants me to put her birds up for sale in my etsy shop so other scrapbookers can use them in their scrapbooks and cards also, so I’m thinking about that.

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A little birdie told me…

My daughter’s birthday is next week and to save myself some cash this year I made her invitations with what I already had on hand.  The bird is something she drew for me to use in my scrapbooks because she’s an artist and I traced it onto white cardstock.  I love how these turned out!  The front says, “A little birdie told me” and then in the inside it says “You’re invited to Summer’s birthday party” and the details.

She’s also an animal lover big time, so she’s going with a pet theme this year, and she’s asking everyone in their invitations to bring something for the animals at the local animal shelter so she can take presents to them.  The animal shelter’s website has a list of things it desperately needs and we copied that and included it with the invites. 

This year for the first time she’s having”boogie party” at the dance studio where she takes lessons so hopefully that will be a good time.  She’s invited 10 kids and I don’t have to clean the house so what could be better? 

To see other handmade items for sale, go to my etsy shop Summer Rose Scrapbooks.

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We have a winner!

Okay, I realize I said that I would draw the name on Saturday morning for the contest to win the note cards, but my daughter had rehearsal that morning then recital then Sunday was our Scouts picnic then…..then…..then I forgot. 

Anyway, thanks so much for coming and leaving comments to all the people who did.  I wrote everyone down, mixed them up, closed my eyes and picked out SHANNON at http://palmersf.blogspot.com/.  Shannon, I have emailed you privately to get your details to custom make your cards.  Thanks for entering the contest and hopefully this will make you smile today!

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A Year of Memories mini scrapbook.

I was hired to make a mini scrapbook for a school fundraising silent auction as a donation, and the customer really wanted it to be kind of general so that anyone could use it and this is what I came up with.  I tried to mostly use generalized things for the months such as the seasons instead of holidays since we don’t all celebrate the same holidays, but I did throw Christmas in there.  I used a Karen Foster black chipboard spiral bound book for this project.  Forgive me if the pictures aren’t so great here.  They’re GREAT in real life, of course! 

I am also going to offer a similar mini scrapbook in my etsy shop later today.  It won’t look exactly like this one because I like for everyone’s items to be unique, but the main idea of the months/seasons will be the same.  The book may be different also because I only had one of these.

Welcome Spring is my favorite page because my little girl made the birdie and she also told me that the butterfly had to have a trail of jewels behind it.  That kid was born to be a scrapbooker!

What do you think?

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