Decorated Lemon Curd Jar

I love it when I see a FREE file.  I tell my crafting followers, to take advantage and download files when they are FREE, as you never know when you might need them in the future.  The LD Fruit Cocktail Lemon is available as a cutting and graphic file for your cutting machines till April, 19th (tonight) midnight, MST.

I love decorating gifts and taking them round to friends, when I have the opportunity to pop over for a chat.  I removed the sticky labels from this jar of lemon curd and wrapped some patterned papers around the jar, very simple to do!

Using my Pazzles Inspiration Vue, I was easily able to import the svg image, select the base layer and make a thin outline to create my cutting line.  

I then Print and Cut out the lemon and adhered it to the front of my jar.  If you have a Pazzles Inspiration Vue you can check out the most recent video tutorials (here) for Print and Cut in the Pazzles Craft Room (no membership required for InVue tutorials) 

I cut a circle, using the same patterned paper for the top of my jar and added some pretty flowers from my stash.  How much nicer this is, as a gift for a friend, which only took a few minutes using my Pazzles Inspiration Vue cutting machine.

Cutting Supplies :-

Pazzles Electronic Cutting Machine – Inspiration Vue
LD Fruit Cocktail Lemon - Cut It Project
LD Can It Collection - Cut It's

 SAVE an additional 40% off  any purchase of $20 or more 
with Coupon Code : AprilShowers.

Whilst you are visiting the LD site don't forget the Stringbeans Cut It's and Graphic files are still on SALE.  I just love them and there are massive savings if you using the above Coupon Code, too.

Joanna xx

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Shadow Play Puppets

Oh my goodness, if you have young children or grand-children 

you are going to adore the NEW LD released products called Shadow Play.

As you can see, my kids had great fun retelling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears!

I was able to quickly cut out these easy silhouettes out of black cardstock, using my Pazzles Inspiration cutting machine with LD's  Shadow Play Cut It Set's.  You can buy the sets individually or as a bundle.

Shadow Play - Cut Sets

Shadow Play - Cut Bundle

Then, you have the Shadow Play Graphics Sets, where you can Print and Cut out your coloured favourite characters using your cutting machine.  If you have a cutting machine which uses registration marks for Print and Cut, you should find this easy to do.

Shadow Play - Graphic Set

Shadow Play - Graphic Collection

Aren't they adorable?  Click HERE to view all the Shadow Play Cut It's and Graphics sets. 

Even better, is that you can SAVE an additional 40% off any purchase of $20 or more with 

Coupon Code : AprilShowers

Plus you can grab these LD FREEBIES below, which are available till Sunday, April 11th, midnight MST.

Shadow Play FREEBIES (whilst offer lasts)

Enjoy the FREEBIES, Joanna x

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Paper basket weave

Here is a paper weaved basket that reminds me of when I made one at primary school.......such good memories.  I created this from the LD Patricia's Easter Baskets using my Pazzles Inspiration Vue cutting machine (99.00 Dollar Special).  Initially I made if for Easter, but never got round to posting it!  Never mind, I think it is kinda cute for any time of the year filled with candy.

LD Patricia's Easter Baskets - photo provided by LD's

Above is the original basket created by Patricia Zapata who designed the file for LD......such a creative lady.

A couple of weeks ago I visited my local papercraft store and bought some pretty Kaisercraft paper, which I combined with some textured cardstock.  I inked the edges to give extra definition to the paper weave and flowers.

This file, easily came together, with the help of the pdf instructions included in the download.  The LD Patricia's Easter Baskets - Cut It Project comes with two different files, and of course, can be resized using your cutter software.  For this project I used the smaller of the two files included in the set.

Cutting Supplies :-

Pazzles Electronic Cutting Machine – Inspiration Vue
LD Patricia's Easter Baskets - Cut It Project

 SAVE an additional 40% off  any purchase of $20 or more 
with Coupon Code : AprilShowers.

Whilst you are visiting the LD site check out the latest offer of Stringbeans Cut It's and Graphic files.  I just love them and there are massive savings if you using the above Coupon Code, too.

Joanna xx

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Click image below to see further details on the NEW Inspiration Vue cutting machine 

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Bunny Bag using FREE LD Bunny Straw Topper

Sorry folks, I know I said I was done making Easter projects, but I had to squeeze this one in today.  I thought you would all like the chance to grab this FREE file!  The project is supposed to be LD Bunny Straw Topper, but I have used the cutting file as a bag embellishment..

LD Bunny Straw Topper (CP) - LD project photo

I know little Zander (one of the youngest members of the LD family), is the cutest Bunny ever, but I thought I would use the cutting file to decorate my little bag. I used some white, black, glitter and pink flocked heat transfer material using various brands with my
Pazzles Inspiration Vue cutting machine.   

It turned out so cute, I even surprised myself at how easy it was to assemble.  I used all the elements of the file, but deleted the slits for the straw. Just resize, cut the various heat transfer materials and apply using an iron!!!

Cutting Supplies :-

Pazzles Electronic Cutting Machine – Inspiration Vue
LD Bunny Straw Topper - Cut Project

Wishing you all a Happy Easter ~ Joanna xx

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Click image below to see further details on the NEW Inspiration Vue cutting machine 

which uses a NEW OPTICAL EYE for precision Print and Cut. 

Easter Chick Gift Bag

Oh my goodness, I adore this Easter Chick  Gift Bag taken from the LD Lil Peanuts (CP).  I work in a primary school and during the last 2 weeks we have had 10 chicks hatch and watched them grow right in front of the kids.  I must admit, that all the staff had a sneaky cuddle with the chicks, when the kids had gone home.

Once, I had cut out the elements using my Pazzles Inspiration Vue cutting machine, I inked around the edges to give extra dimension.

I resized the LD Lil Peanuts - Cut It Project to almost fill a 12" x 12" cutting mat so that I could fill it with Easter eggs. This is a simple project to put together if you are a beginner, or you want to make a few of these for the kids or if you think this is way too cute!  You must pop over to check out the rest of the products in the set as they are all adorable.

Lil Peanuts Cut Bundle

Cutting Supplies :-

Pazzles Electronic Cutting Machine – Inspiration Vue
LD Lil Peanuts - Cut It Project - Chick in Bag
Lil Peanuts Cut Bundle - includes Lil Peanuts Cut Set & Cut Project

Joanna xx

Click image below to see further details on the NEW Inspiration Vue cutting machine 

which uses a NEW OPTICAL EYE for precision Print and Cut. 

Easter Bunny Ears - Sour Cream Containers

I love making Easter projects especially for the kids.  Here, I have made some Sour Cream containers and added some Bunny Ears to the top using LD Hop Hop Hooray Photo Props (CP).

Of course, I couldn't stop at one........you know the saying "they breed like rabbits!"

Here are the supplies I used...........  

I cut a piece of gingham paper 4.0" x 5.5". I resized the bunny ears to fit in the top of my sour cream container using my Pazzles software.

Once I had cut out the gingham paper, and the bunny ears using my Pazzles Inspiration Vue cutting machine I used some tape runner to adhere the pink bits of the ears.

I did a batch of these in one go.

I then used strong adhesive tape on 3 sides of the gingham paper.  I used ordinary self adhesive tape to start with, but they fell apart when I added my chocolate eggs inside the container, so please use the tip of strong adhesive!

Roll the paper and secure.

I then removed the self adhesive tape and inserted my Bunny Ears.

I added my mini eggs into the container not overfilling, but just enough! Then, closed up both ends of the container.

I Print and Cut my sentiment (included in the same cutting set as the ears), having changed the background colour of the speech bubble to coordinate with my gingham paper.

I love how these have turned out.  It is so easy to make a batch of these for Easter parties and the kids at school.  

Click here for LD Hop Hop Hooray Photo Props (CP)

Cutting Supplies :-

Pazzles Electronic Cutting Machine – Inspiration Vue
LD Hop Hop Hooray Photo Props (CP) - Easter Photo Props (Ears) and speech bubble sentiment.
Joanna xx

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Click image below to see further details on the NEW Inspiration Vue cutting machine 

which uses a NEW OPTICAL EYE for precision Print and Cut.