ONE MORE POST ON RESOLUTIONS...

since that is the theme for the January release from QuicKutz.

Resolutions - a perfect theme for January. But not just resolutions are addressed. There are a few dies that could fall into categories like goals, to-dos, should-dos, and dreams.

The Scrapy Land "Fab Four" and I have been working with these dies for several days now. And you've probably guessed that we love them all. But everyone picked a couple of their favorites to start with - so let's dive right in:

EmmBee was most excited when she saw the newest QK Cookie Cutter Shape...

the Rooster! It's not because she lives near a farm, it's because she and her friends and family are ALL addicted to Farmville on Facebook. What a riot! But since it's part of her life right now, she saw this die and decided a page was in order! She also used - the retired QK Star Classic and Mini fonts, and 2x2s Present, Cat, Seed Packet, Sheep, Tulip, Funky Chicken, Strawberry, Cow, Tomato and Penguin. The "fence pieces" that come with this die could easily be formed to also make a T, a L, an E, a M, an N, an H, an I, or a K. What a cute idea!

Lolly was most excited about the newest QK Revolution Tags.

I looked at them and saw "more tags". Lolly looked at them and saw NEW TAGS! Here she wanted to just show you the size - as all four tags are on one die. But she also sent some closer peeks at her bitty tags of fun...

Using patterned paper, vellum, decorative scissors and stamped sentiments - she made up stacks of cute tags to include on goodie bags, in cards, oh backpacks or on edible treats! Don't these look just like cuppy-cakes?

And look at the lime green hearts {she catches on quick, doesn't she?}. How much fun can one person have with one little tag...

LOTS! See how she snipped the green tag to reveal little wedges of the brown cardstock underneath. CUTENESS! All kinds of cute ideas...just from tags.

When Lara saw this next die she said she knew exactly what to do with it...

She is helping to organize a "Spa Day" for her MOPs Group at church this Friday. Her contribution to the decorations...table cards! She used the NEW Revolution Bathtub, Wintergreen Scalloped Page Inserts, Santa's Workshop font along with her C3 and C5 Copics for the tub feet and shower head. E47 also colored her die-cut letters. The moms are going to love these!

I wanted to make sure that the Revolution Paper Doll fit inside the NEW Revolution Bathtub die. It does! I also used the NEW Revolution Spa Paper Doll and the NEW 2x2 Water Bottle. The letters are cut from the NEW 4x8 Garden Mini font.

EmmBee also chose to play with this DoubleKutz die...

the NEW Revolution Tea Set. {Wow this is a cute die, with lots of possibilities. I think they'd make the cutest invitations for a bridal shower.} EmmBee cut her tea bag from QK Adhesive Backed Vellum, and colored the "tea" with her E47 Copic. Gives the vellum a great, sheer look! She embossed her tea set with the Perfectly Paisley Embossing folder. Love how this looks! The font here is QK Sticky Note.

I told you Lolly loved the NEW Revolution Tags...

here she used the triangle tag from the set, added the NEW Garden font, and had an adorable little "love banner" for her husband. I've now got Valentine's Day ideas tumbling through my head. Thanks Lolly!

One of my resolutions this year is to better drinking water. My goal is 6 refills a day of this sized bottle. The NEW Cookie Cutter Door Hanger is perfectly sized to be a bottle neck tag...

I cut my letters and numbers from the NEW Garden font. All I have to do now is keep track each day of my "refills". This one tag lasted me all last week...and I was relatively successful in my water consumption goal! {LOL}

Lara also got to play with these dies...

the NEW Revolution Scale and the Revolution Weights. She cut her scale from QK Adhesive Backed Metal and embossed it with this folder. Love the look it gives! The fonts she used are QK Sticky Note and QK Chemistry.

Do you remember the pop-up card we did last November? Well EmmBee turned that simple pattern into a cute birthday card...

She printed her sentiments from the computer and used the NEW Revolution Cruise Ship & Waves. She added a teeny-tiny "HB" for her happy birthday ship with Studio SkinniMini - but the ship could be personalized with anything appropriate. CUTE CUTE CUTE!

Here's a front-on look so you can see how cute this ship is. Love the double-cut waves she added. Just love it!

This piece is from Lolly. And we've just changed her name to "flower-die-cutting-crazy-woman". Holy SCRAP! She cut 1.4 million Sizzix Flowers!

She made the base of her "calendar" out of a magnetic vent cover...{sound familiar??}. She made herself a window frame from chipboard, made a sleeve that can house whatever patterned paper is seasonally appropriate {teal wood grain paper is seasonally appropriate right now!} and then used all of the flowers to decorate the edges of the frame. But her centerpiece is the NEW Cookie Cutter Border Months of the Year. Hers is die-cut, and then she just free-cut a border around the shape. She put magnets on the back of her border die-cut...and then cut out all of the dates from the NEW Garden font. {she also possibly used this flower, and these flowers...LOL!}

All of those calendar dates are housed in this tiny little matchbox...

The dates again were die-cut and she hand-cut their border. More magnets and any kiddo you know can officially be the "family date changer" at breakfast each morning. What a fun idea!

And just to give you a better feel for the size of this border, Lolly sent this picture...

It's huge, and I am sure you'll find 1001 uses for it. A monthly collage of random photos, a fave photo of the month, a reminder of a "family night" once a month...all kinds of great stuff. If you've got on, feel free to share it!

Lara made one final card today, getting a start on her Valentine's cards...

she used the NEW Revolution Credit Cards, QK Banana Split, the 2x2 Hearts Mini and her Scalloped Border. Couldn't these be personalized a bunch of ways? How about using them for "coupons" for your kids or your husband. Great idea Lara, thanks!

I loved the NEW Revolution Apples as soon as I saw them...

This card went together in about 10 minutes. I used the NEW Apples, the Spellbinders Label Three and the Garden font.

And to show you a close-up of this NEW font, that it seems we all love...

it is a unicase font, but it has numbers and punctuation. Love that...thanks QK!

One more project tonight - and I'll save the final few for later tomorrow. I just have to show you how I've been using the NEW Days of the Week border.

My kids share a bathroom - but each have their own sink. They are forever standing at their sinks in the morning arguing over the "car schedule". Who is going where, what time is pickup, who gets dropped off where, etc. I hit on this idea when I opened this die.

I cut the Days of the Week border from Navy Blue Silhouette Vinyl, and stuck it to the mirror inbetween their sinks. With a write-on-wipe-off marker {that now resides in their toothbrush cup} they can easily see who is doing what today. Love this idea, and the best part is...so did my kids! Seriously, try it. Writing on the bathroom mirror - it's a good thing!

WHEW and double WHEW! Does that give you some ideas to go on? I sure hope so. We've had a bunch of fun with these dies, and the fun has only begun. Look for further inspiration, suggestions and tips in the weeks to come.

Leave your comment-questions, your comment-ideas or your wonderful comment-love here on this post. If an answer is due, we'll get on it as soon as we can, tomorrow.

I'm off to fire-up the studio...because we're doing Scrapy Land "Release Reveal" tonight. What fun we have here at Scrapy Land. And to think - this is just the January release.

You know what next week is - right?! {snicker, snicker LOL!}

WHO STOLE MY PICTURES...

from last night's post! OHMYGOSH...they just vanished! There must be a Blogger Grinch out there who is swiping images! {LOL, or I forgot to upload them! One of the two...}

Good thing I didn't delete anything before turning in last night. I noticed the missing pictures this morning - so here is some more eye candy!

This is the Gingerbread Mini Album Bundle (Epic Only). {edited to add - which I just noticed is already SOLD OUT! But the parts are still available right now...act fast!} This album is big, as I stated last night. 5.25" x 5.75" - GINORMOUS!

The package of dies that is leaning up against my Magpie Tins is the Gingerbread Mini Album Set. It includes the album covers, the album square page, two nesting squares for mats or cut-outs and two cool window dies. The pieces that are laying flat are the (from left to right) Shaped Page Insert, Spine Set and Folder (pocket) Insert.

And just to give you a visual of how honkin' huge this "mini" is, check this out!

This is the Gingerbread album cover...it fills up the Epic platform! And look at that spine - you can put a lot of pages in this baby!

And in case you're thinking to yourself, "Self, how are we going to nest shapes on this album if we only have sticky mats that are 4"x 12". Well check out this "Susan Solution"...

Matte Finish Removable Scotch Tape! Just tape everything in place, perfectly aligned and center to your liking and CUT! The Scotch Tape adds nothing really to the thickness, and since it's a Cookie Cutter die you've got wiggle room already - thickness wise! LOVE IT!

Here are the the dies that make up the Accessory Bundle.

The "pop-ups" and the "accordions". Now when I first saw the packaging of the pop-ups, I thought they were 12" long borders with dimensional pieces cut out of them. But they are not - each piece is separate...one circle, one rectangle, one square, one small flower, one bigger flower, etc. All usable on any one page or cover - mix-and-matchable to your hearts content.

The accordions are just dang cute. They'd make great little additions or tie-ons to a card front or a mini album page! LOVE 'EM!

And here are the others part of the Accessory Bundle -

The Recipe Bundle and the Heritage Bundle, also available separately. The Recipe Bundle has already been crazy-popular. Lots of family cook books and feast table-toppers coming your way I think! These are all Cookie Cutter dies and are going to become favorites very quickly!

To show you a few more of these awesome Holiday Gift Set and Holiday Accessory dies - one of my QK Elves made this cuter-than-cute album for a friend of hers.

{click on the picture for an enlarged look!}

Now I know it's a tall picture - but this was the easiest way to show all TEN PAGES of this album. She put this together in an easy afternoon - using the Wintergreen Album pieces that come as a part of the Holiday Gift Set, and the Wintergreen Album Mini Bundle add-ons.

She also used the Heritage Accessories for the family tree bracket and the tree. QK Disco font is on her front cover, and the Santa's Workshop font is used throughout her little album. The scalloped ring around little Jacob's picture on page 1 is from the Reuse Gift Set last spring.

The feature this Elf loved the most? The pocket pages. She cut a bunch of loose cards to slip inside the pocket page, so mom and dad can journal about their experiences and memories. She added plenty - to cover lengthy memories or do-overs!

And she said, she loved how quickly this came together. Since she only had a few pictures from the hospital, she didn't have a bunch to work with. But dies, fonts, pages and patterned paper made it all come together very quickly. I think new momma will just treasure it!

{thanks Miss Elf} Wait until you hear her ideas for the Recipe Accessory Set!

Okay - I think that does it for the missing pictures and an awesome mini-album update. Sets are selling extremely fast over on the Scrapy Land website, so if you're sitting on the fence about one of these collections - jump off right now! No time to waste!

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QUICKUTZ HOLIDAY GREETINGS..

from your favorite lime green elf!

You know, ELF, as in Santa's little helpers. The helpers that are all around his big ol' workshop.

You know, Santa's Workshop! {wink, wink!}

Which just happens to be the name of the QuicKutz 2009 Holiday Gift Set..."Santa's Workshop".

This gift set is AMAZING. It's also a lot of other adjectives, but for now let's just leave it at amazing. Because I have lots to share with you, and you don't want to read a bunch of words!

See, I know you!

Here are the contents of the QK Gift Set...in visual form. Lots to look at because this gift set is packed with lots of dies. Which means lots of possibilities!

The dies to make three different sized mini-albums, a lower-case cookie cutter font and a bunch of nesting/graduated accessories for embellishment purposes.

If that sounds confusing - how about this:

Hopefully that makes it a bit easier to understand. LOTS of dies, lots of options, lots of mixing-and-matching. QuicKutz has done it again!

BUT HANG ON...there are lots of add-ons that go along with the QK Gift Set. Sure you could live without them, but they are fun. They are embellies, they are shizzle and they are available right now.

The Peppermint Album add-ons...a scalloped page, a pocket-page and some decorative spine sets. Oh the thrill!

The Sugarplum Album add-ons...a scalloped page, a bracket page, a pocket-page and the decorative spine sets. {do you detect a pattern here?}

The Wintergreen Ablum add-ons...the pocket page, the scalloped page and the decorative spine set

Now - lots of mixing and matching can go on here. All of the Sugarplum pages will fit in the Wintergreen album...good stuff. And all of the pages can have the hole-punches trimmed off to be used as photo mats, journaling blocks or card fronts. LOVE IT!

And how about just the decorative spines? Trim them in half and you've got all kinds of frilly edges to overlap on photos, mini borders or cards. So dang cute!

But hey - how about some ideas and inspiration and downright enabling?

That's what I thought...bring on the ideas!

Let's start with one of my favorites - the Gingerbread Epic Album set.

Love, love, love this set. It's big (5.25"x 5.75"), it's got lots of fun pieces-parts and it can become whatever you little heart desires!

My heart desired it to become a November album for my family - which we started filling in yesterday, on the first. I used Chicken Noodle for the opening page, along with the Santa's Workshop font - and then filled up the album with twenty-six pages of scallops, brackets, squares, pockets and tabs!

The more I got into it - the more versatile the parts became. Here is the pocket page, which I see bunches of uses for! Tags, receipts, tickets, brochures, extra pictures. It's all possible with one little pocket!

You just have to love it - don'tcha?

Here is the Peppermint Album, which is part of the Gift Set. Love that the "belly band" can easily become Santa's belt and buckle!

I filled this book with twenty pages - cardstock, patterned paper, pocket pages and more!

Wouldn't this be cute as a stocking stuff - to open up on Christmas Eve? Everyone in the family fill in a page - with memories, or thoughts, or favorites or inside jokes. That's my plan! OH - and the numbers on the front page are the Santa's Workshop font cut from the QK Adhesive Backed Metal sheets. LOVE THIS STUFF!

And don't think just albums. Here is the Wintergreen album pieces used just as a card.

I used the album cover from the Gift Set, but added in the Wintergreen Spine and some scalloped window parts from the Heritage Set. The entire set - so amazing!

{And just as a quick side-note, I used the QK Adhesive Backed Plastic sheets for my window effect - so dang easy to get a great look I think!}

Here is an album quickie - made from the Sugarplum pieces of the Gift Set, as well as the Sugarplum Bundle. Decorative spines, frilly pages and tiny little pockets. So dang cute!

This little guy has twenty pages inside, and could have held a few more! Lots of fun shapes and sizes in this one. Love that the spine is extra wide...1/4" to be exact...so it easily holds a bunch of fun snippets!

FUN FUN FUN! This one is just for me!

And I did this one at the last minute, just to show you some size comparisons. This is the Wintergreen album, part of the Gift Set, but also using parts from the Wintergreen Album Bundle. I love this size and the horizontal orientation.

The cover will easily hold any four-letter word you want it to...cut from Diesel. {LOL} This is also the Santa's Workshop font, found in the Gift Set. Don't those two look great together? I sure think so...this one is going to become a standard!

Now for the cover on this little guy - I wanted to try something different. I cut the album front and back {which is all one piece} from the QK Adhesive Backed Chipboard and from two different pieces of patterned paper. I stuck everything together, which was easy since the chipboard is sticky on both sides.

This made for a nice, sturdy cover - and the album easily held six pieces of cardstock for its pages.

WHEW - I'm exhausted and drained. I have the cutest darn project to show you tomorrow. It's from one of my own QK Elves. She sent it to me tonight but I'm running out of time. And there's always tomorrow.

If you have ANY questions about the Gift Set or the pieces associated with the set, do let me know. Leave a comment or send me an email. I'll do my best to get back with you immediately!

Hope you've enjoyed your first glimpse of Santa's Workshop. I think it's going to be enjoyed for a long time to come!

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IT'S STILL THURSDAY...

where I am, so technically I'm not late.

Yet!

However the laundry is still going, I'm not packed yet, I need to write out 3 different lists for while I'm away and I haven't gone to get cash yet.

Gosh - I better hurry!

Okay - here are the other fun ideas I promised you. All projects created with this week's amazing QK October release!

First off - an answer to some questions. Lots of questions about the size of the 2x2 Paper Dolls...

so here's a quarter size reference for you. Great sizes for cards, perfect for long borders - ideal for little accents with extra accessories! Thanks Brenda for making this up for me in my time of need! {LOL} That's code for die-cutters emergency!

One of my trusty QuicKutz Elves made up an adorable page - and she improvised on one of the outfits...

look how cute! Love how she made the Paper Doll border into a Halloween border instead! She used - the Paper Doll border {she cut off the last doll to make it shorter, but spliced the hands onto the "new" end doll so it hand fingers!}, Ballerina Costume, Super Hero Costume, Football Costume, Revolution Hair (girls), Revolution shoes and a discontinued QK Flower die set to decorate her clown costume! How stinkin' CUTE! All of her pieces were accented with her Copics - and they look awesome as a result of it!

Another fun page from Ms. Brenda...

all about school. Well, at least the teacher at school. This is Ms. Brenda's future daughter-in-law, who is a brand new teacher! {yay Brenda...a wedding!} She used: Paper Doll border, retired Paper Doll {just for the faces, she placed those over the top of her border dolls!}, Paper Doll font, Paper Doll clothes (boy and girl) and String Bean font. Look closely at Brenda's face-work on these dolls - how adorable. Amazing what a little pink chalk and black pen can do - huh?! And can you tell Miss Perry teaches at a uniform-wearing-school? As soon as I saw this page I knew that! I LOVE IT! Thanks Brenda!

Brenda squeezed in one more card this afternoon - and it's a doozie...

full of fun and attitude and creativity! She made up several of these - assembly line style. The insides say either "You brighten my day!" or "You color my world!". How fun would this be to receive in the mail after a run-of-the-mill-week! She used the 2x2 Paper Dolls and all of the 2x2 clothes and accessories! Absolutely stunning!

As for me - I didn't do a darned thing today! {LOL}

But I managed to get the Scrapy Land Starting Blox Week #31 photographed for you. So while I'm away - working my fingers to the bones this weekend {HAH!} you can be busily scrappin' your little heats out!

A page that's perfect for a story! Space for a 5"x 7" photo - but also a 5"x 7" space for the story! A little collection of borders, in between the two photos - and a big space for an embellishment cluster. Either a big label die-cut, a journaling die, or just your favorite font. But accented by some additional die-cuts!

See what you can do with this one - I'll show mine on Monday.

After I've recovered! It's going to be one C-R-A-Z-Y weekend! Trust me, I'll have the photographic evidence to prove it come next week!

As of midnight tonight - I'm going dark. I'm not traveling with my computer this weekend. No email, no blog, no message board, no instant message, no iChat, no UStream. I'm going electricity free. I think I'm looking forward to it. So I'd love your comments for my QK Elves and for Brenda - but they wont' get "posted" until Sunday night when I get home. No worries though - it'll be the first thing I do!

I hope you've gotten some great ideas this week! Some fun ways to use the newest QK dies, and some fun suggestions on how to use them. Next week - Scrapy Land LIVE! is back - videos, videos and videos! Details on Monday!

AND - it's about time to start registering for SLVC 2.0!!

PEACE for the weekend - behave yourselves while I'm gone. Be, live, scrap and cherish!

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WHOOHOOOOOOOO...

I have some cute ideas to show you today.

And I have more cute ideas to show you tomorrow.

Basically - it's a cute-ideas-week all the way around.

The only problem is, where to start.

Hmmmm - I think I'll do this. {and selfishly, it's just to make it easy on myself!}

A couple of ideas today, a couple of ideas tomorrow, I leave town on Thursday, a post-dated Starting Blox post on Friday while I'm gone, and then a completely computer free weekend for me, while I'm out of town playing!

Sound fair? {tap, tap, tap - talk about it amongst yourselves!}

GOOD, I had hoped you would think that was cool. Thanks!

First up today, a card I made for my youngest nephew. {the only one in our family still young enough to trick-or-treat!}

supplies used: QK Rev Paper Doll, QK Rev Construction Worker, QK 2x2 Frankenstein, QK Rev Anime Speech Bubbles. I roughed up the edges of my patterned paper with a nail file, printed my sentiment on cardstock and lined it up with the Speech Bubble die. EASY!

For the inside of the card...

supplies used: QK Paper Doll font, QK Honeybee font, QK Chicken Noodle font, QK Trick-or-Treat and QK Mini Candy. Totally love how Honeybee and the new Paper Doll font look great together! {and Honeybee is an amazing price right now...WOOT WOOT!}

In fact, all of Scrapy Land's 2x2 dies are a smokin' hot dealio today! Check out the Frankenstein, the Trick-or-Treat bucket and the Candy Minis...BARGAIN CITY!

Next, I have a gorgeous page from Brenda. But today, we're going to call her Brenda - the Artist! Because look at what she did with all of her 2x2 shapes...

She cut them, dressed them, embellished them - even used photographs for some of the faces - and then put them all in a pair of hand! A pair of hands that she drew! Brenda made this for the class of children she teaches at her church. She used the NEW 2x2 Paper Dolls and the NEW 2x2 Bundle. I think each and every one of these children is absolutely precious!

The large globe was cut from the Going Places Cricut Cartridge and her title was cut from the QK Holiday font. She inked and chalked her pair of hands...for an entire effect that is outstanding! Thank you Brenda - I hope the kids in your class appreciate your finished project!

Two more cards for you today - from my QuicKutz Elves.

This fun little card could easily go to anyone on your "people I need to touch base with" list...

supplies used: NEW QK Rev Paper Doll, QK Cheer Uniform, QK 2x2 Speech Bubble and QK Oatmeal font and the QK Retro Square Embossing Folder. What a great use for this 3-part speech bubble. Especially this time of year! With high school football and the NFL in full-swing, why not send someone you love a cheer-y greeting!

And finally, for today, a fun twist on the paper doll dies. Simply because there aren't any paper dolls used at all!

supplies used: NEW QK Rev Paper Doll Outfits (boy) and Doll Outfits (girl), QK Paper Doll font and the QK 2x2 Bird. SUCH CUTENESS! And just to answer the question that I know is inevitable - for her little "clothes pins" she used the the "eye black" from the Football Uniform! I just love it when scrappers get inventive!

Good stuff from everyone today. I heard from a bunch of you yesterday - lots of excitement about ordering, dreaming an planning. Can't wait to see some of these paper dolls show up on your Starting Blox pages in the coming months!

Thanks to Brenda and my two QKEs {QuicKutz Elves!}...your creativity is appreciated and your ideas inspiring!

More tomorrow - a Starting Blox, another idea or two - and weekend plans! Any questions for the QKEs or comments to pass along - you know what to do. We LOVE hearing from all of you!

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