Friday, August 30, 2013

Only one more day. Time to Play!

Only 1 more day to save during the Back to School Dollar Sale! Hundreds of products marked down to only $1-2, including the new Old School Play CollectionHurry! Shop and Save now!


Earn the Old School Collection FREE! Just spend $10 August 15th -August31st Click here to see and learn more!

Our most popular Back to School promotion is back for only 1 more day! Save 88% when you buy the Super Spectacular Back to School Bundle! This Bundle is a $126 value and available now for only $15 for 4 days only! Buy the bundle and save!
  • 25 Fonts
  • 20 Doodlebats
  • 3 Graphic Sets with 60 images total
  • 1 Alphabet
  • 1 Paper Pack
  • Class Act Printables

It's Friday FREEBIE time! Grab our Old School More Play in Graphics or Cut its absolutely FREE until Sunday at midnight, MST! 

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Thursday's Tip: Good Luck Smarty Pants Favor

 Need a fun way to get your child excited about going back to school? Or maybe just a little cute good luck before the next big test! Create these easy to make favors using the new Wise Owl Collection to brighten their day!
This favor could easily be made as a print and cut, or a cuttable. But today I'm going to demo a photoshop print and handcut version, for those that don't have cutters.

Materials:

Wise Owl Graphic Set
Talk Cut  It Simple Shapes
Ld Hipster Child
Smarties
Hot Glue

Directions:

Begin by opening your owl in photoshop as well as the smarty pants phrase. I used a talk bubble from the Talk Cut It Simple Shapes to place behind my smarty pants phrase. And used LD Hipster Child for "Good Luck" and "(like you'll need it!)." Even if you don't have a digital cutter, you can used any of the Cut It products as a graphic. They come in several formats, just open up the pdf version in photoshop, or if you have illustrator, open up the ai version and paste it into photoshop. Use the type tool to write the additional type and center it on your talk bubble.

To create the back of the owl copy the owl and paste another version next to it. Now if you go to the menu bar at the top of photoshop click on edit>transform>flip horizontally. This will make a mirror of your originally image so that you can have a nice back side.
Now I'm going to select my brush tool, and then use the eye dropper to select the orange on the base of the owl and color over the eyes and beak.
Now you can just print it out like this or if you want to get more technically correct, continue on and I'll show you how to create the tail feathers over the butt.

Begin by creating a rectangle marquee around the tail and body.  Use the wand and click on alt while you click on the area outside the body so that the marquee will select around the body. Create another layer on the layers palette, by hitting shift + control + N. I named this layer wings.
I then used the eyedropper tool and selected the reddish color on the owl. Select the paint bucket and fill the marquee with the red in the new layer.
Now since its its own layer you can do some additional shaping to the tail/wing feathers with the brush and the eraser. I erase away some of the red so the underwear could peek through, and just added some curve to the back with the brush.
Now I printed out all my pieces. I printed out 3 fronts and 2 backs just to have some layering.
I layered the eyes, beak, underpants on top using foam sticky dots, and then an additional wing piece for the back. Then take your hot glue, gluing the front to the back by the legs, then just around the body, leaving the top open. Fill with some smarties and your done!

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Super Savings on the Best Back to School Bundle!

Our most popular Back to School promotion is back for 4 days only! Save 88% when you buy the Super Spectacular Back to School Bundle! This Bundle is a $126 value and available now for only $15 for 4 days only! Buy the bundle and save!
  • 25 Fonts
  • 20 Doodlebats
  • 3 Graphic Sets with 60 images total
  • 1 Alphabet
  • 1 Paper Pack
  • Class Act Printables
Buying the Super Spectacular Back to School Bundle also qualifies you to earn the Old School Collection for free. Click here to see and learn more!
Only 4 more days on the Back to School Dollar Sale! Hundreds of products marked down to only $1-2! Hurry! Shop and Save now!
Earn the Old School Collection FREE! Just spend $10 August 15 -August 31stClick here to see and learn more!

Friday, August 23, 2013

"Owl" you need on sale during our Back to School Dollar Sale



We've got you "owl" covered! Our new Night Owl Collection not only includes a flock of night owls, it has a coordinating wise owl for "owl" you smarties!
Save up to 75% on this new product during the Back to School Dollar Sale!
For those of you who love cutting files:
For those of you who love graphic files:
Get all the above on sale now during the Back to School Dollar Sale! Hundreds of products marked down to only $1-2! Shop and save now!
Spend $10 or more now thru August 15th - 31stClick here to see a sneak peek and learn more!

Get ready, set go, it's FREEBIE TIME! Grab today's Freebie, an offspring of our new Wise Owl Collection, we are giving you our 17 piece Wise Owl Sayings Graphic set absolutely FREE! Grab this set for FREE until Sunday, August 25th at midnight, MST.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Earn $20 in free product when you shop the dollar sale!


It's time for the Back to School Dollar Sale! Hundreds of products marked down to only $1-2! Shop and save now!
Love the adorable product you see in this ecard? You can have it for free! Just spend $10 or more now thru August 31st. Click here to see and learn more!

Monday, August 19, 2013

Birthday Bee Gift Bag from Joy's Life

You have to check out this amazing and simple Print and Cut from Joy's Life using the Bees Knees Collection! Take a peak as Joy gives step by step instructions on how to make this incredible item. This sure makes one bee-autiful gift!

Friday, August 16, 2013

Back to School Dollar Sale starts now!

With our creative new product, not only will you have something to write about, you will have something to write in! The new Dear Diary Collection is full of girly goodness. Make your diary with the Dear Diary Cut Project and fill it full of cuteness from the rest of the Dear Diary Collection.
Save up to 75% on this new product during the Back to School Dollar Sale!
For those of you who love cutting files:
For those of you who love graphic files:
It's time for the Back to School Dollar Sale! Hundreds of products marked down to only $1-2! Shop and save now!
We have a special surprise for our customers who spend $10 or more now thru August 31st. Click here to see a sneak peek and learn more!

And its FRIDAY! We are celebrating the marriage of one of LD's favorite employees this weekend! So in honor we are giving away our Love Me Do paper pack, absolutely FREE! Offer ends Sunday at midnight, MST. Grab your Love Me Do Paper Pack now!

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Thursday's Tip: Tagged Letter Solutions

Have you checked out our new Tagged Letters Cut Its? I've been having lots of fun with these as my new favorite go to for gifts tags. A simple fast solution to fun creative celebrations!

Use Simon Says for a modern monogram:
Or Petticoat Tagged Letters for this balloon tag:


Saturday, August 10, 2013

Happy National S'mores Day!

Happy National S'mores Day! We've got new product available exlusively at checkout for 50% off! Love Me Tinder is the perfect product to wrap up your summer fun with! Check out Love me Tinder now! Need some fun variations on traditional s'mores, check out these yummy versions now!

Friday, August 9, 2013

You'll be "wokking" on sunshine!


You'll be "wokking" on sunshine with the new bright and happy Chinese Xìngfú Line. This collection will make you stop, "wok" and roll with joy. As always, save when you purchase inbundles!
For those of you who love cutting files:
Or purchase all of the above at 50% off in the Chinese Xìngfú Cut Bundle for only $9!
For those of you who love graphic files:

We've got new product available exclusively at checkout for 50%! Love Me Tinder is the perfect product to wrap up your summer fun with. Check out "Love Me Tinder" now.





Save more when you purchase $10 or more. Use coupon code: Tw3nty5 for a 25% discount

Because we thing it coordinates so nicely with our new Chinese Xìngfú Line we are giving you our Scrap Samurai font FREE! Get our Scrap Samurai font absolutely FREE until Sunday at midnight, MST.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Bee-autiful Projects from the Bees Knees Collection

Have you had a chance to check out our new Bee's Knees Collection? Check out some of these bee-autiful projects and see how we made our Bee's Knees 3D hive!
To create the fun 3D hive, begin by cutting out all the pieces to the hive from the Bees Knees Project  Cut Its.  Fold together at all the score marks:
Get everything glued together and stacked on top of each other. (You can turn this into a fun gift, by filling up each layer with something fun or a tasty treate!) Cut out several of the bees and flowers from the Bees Knees Cut It set and assemble them together. I wrapped ribbon around the stack of boxes and then tied a tag from the Bees Knees Graphic Set. I attached my bees and flowers, as well as attaching a couple to some wire I curled around a paint brush.


Joanna from I love 2 Cut Paper created this fun card and darling gift wrap. Check out her card tutorial here.
And check out her super cute gift wrap idea here:


Did you get a chance to get our Bee Hive bag while it was free? Check out this fun take on it from Crazy about Cricut Blogspot!

Shark Week Project from Joy's Life

What do you have planned for shark week? Check out this amazing project from Joy at Joy's Life. And to help you out with your projects, and to celebrate shark week, we put all things sharky on sale until Friday at midnight, MST.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Print and Cut, Print and Cut and more Print and Cut

We've got more Print and Cut tutorials just for you, and for today's Manic Monday special, we have marked down many of our Print and Cut items to just $1 for one week only! Check out the following links for the Sizzix Eclips with Ecal, the Pazzles Inspiration and Studio Pro Software, the Silhouette Cameo with Silhouette Studio, the Silouette SD and Make-the-Cut, and the KNK Zing using Make-the-Cut.

For your Sizzix Eclips with Ecal Tutorial with Joy's Life, click here
For your Pazzles Inspiration with Studio Pro Software Tutorial with I Love 2 Cut Paper, click here:


For your  Silhouette Cameo and Silhouette Studio Tutorial with Under a Cherry Tree, click here:
For the Silhouette SD and Make-The-Cut Tutorial with Under a Cherry Tree. click here and here (video tutorial):




















For a video tutorial on Print and Cut using the KNK Zing and Make the Cut, click here:

Friday, August 2, 2013

We've got the bee's knees!

Two bees or not two bees? Actually there are six! Six whimsical bees and two adorable bears in our new Bees Knees Line. This collection is a real hummmmm-dinger with a colorful alphabet, 21 piece graphic setpaper pack, 21 piece cut it set, and cut project. Save 50% when you buy the Bees Knees Collection!

Did you know all of our full-color Stringbean graphic sets are now available for purchase? Each set has "stringbeans" with multiple skin colors and hair colors. Make sure you view all the Stringbean graphic sets now so you can find the sets your family needs!

Check out our Stringbean Darling Daughters so you can see all the variations that goes in each set! Popular stringbean sets include:

As always, you save when we bundle. Want all 1060 Stringbeans in all 38 sets? Save 50% when you buy the bundle!

And while your at it, don't forget today's FREEBIE! Grab our new Bees Knees Gift Bag absolutely FREE until Sunday at midnight, MST.