inspiration and pazzles inspiration, pazzles, tutorial 7:44 pm
Here’s my first attempt at creating a tutorial on how to use the Pazzles Inspiration Studio. My first installment will be an introduction to line guides. 
This is dedicated to Klo (here’s her blog: http://scrappingklo.blogspot.com/ ) for being an inspiration to me and many others!
I hope you enjoy it. I apologize for the resolution and the difficulty in seeing the little dots on the mat! 
summer and Uncategorized summer 5:57 pm
Uncategorized 6:21 pm
Well, the contest listed here
http://sircraftalot.com/Sir_Craftalot_Contest.html
was over on Friday, July 12. I was happy to see a few entries from people who thought they knew what Sir Craftalot looks like (or SHOULD look like!)
It was hard to choose the first-place winner, so I decided to give TWO first-place prizes:
One to CamAtwell (from the MB):
Here's SC standing proud!
Guarding his scrapbook proudly!
Here's SC with Riley, his steed!
Here's S.C. ready for action!
S.C. in a heroic montage!
Both squires will receive a $5 Michaels gift card!
Also, I’ll take the time to introduce a friend of the Sir Craftalot Royal Artistic Patrol (SCRAP)… Mini-S.C.!
Mini SC!
Uncategorized 10:52 pm
Okay, seems I was “tagged” by Capadia (from the Cricut Message Board). I’ve never been one for these types of games, but I figure it’s rude to just ignore it…so here goes:
Ten Years Ago: I was 31 and still fairly new to teaching.
Five things on today’s to-do list: Well, it’s close to 11 PM so I guess I should say, “Put on pajamas, brush teeth, get into bed, turn off light, sleep.” 
Snacks I enjoy: I like sweet and sour things (Sweettarts, skittles, etc.) I also hear brownies can be quite good.
Places I’ve lived: New Hampshire, California. Boring, I know.
I’m going to tag: Really…nobody. I guess I’m a party-pooper…but I did play part of the game!
Okay, better late than never I always say (just not to my students).
Here’s a video of my scraproom that is in response to one of Robyn’s earlier SQUIDs on the Cricut MB.
This is dedicated to SftBrn.
article and tips article, published, scrapbooking 12:42 pm
Okay, so it’s not published in the traditional sense, but I did get an article into the electronic magainze, found at www.scrapbooking.com!
A couple years ago, when I first got into the hobby, I created a fun post on their message boards that included a guy’s guide to scrapbooking. Well, just recently, the editor came to me with the desire to finally publish it in the magazine!
And the rest is *cough* literary history!
Anyway, here’s the link… I hope you enjoy it!
images and tips and video tutorial photobucket images 8:51 pm
After creating a tutorial about embedding multiple photos on the Cricut message board, I was asked to create a tutorial on uploading photos to Photobucket.
Here’s what I came up with:
*Please note, that this is assuming you have a Photobucket account. If you don’t, go to the website and create one. It’s self-explanatory. There won’t be a tutorial on doing it.
Thanks for looking!
Until next time, loyal readers!
Okay, so I decided to NOT use the Button Bank that I purchased at Joanns for my Skittles. I’m hoping that I still have the receipt to return it!
I did find these handy magnetic jars at my Home Depot (in the same aisle where they sell pegboard hooks, etc.
These are pretty cool. They come with a thin metal bar and the screws to attach the bar to a wall, or underside of a cabinet. The lids of the jars are quite magnetic and they basically “cling” to the included metal bar. So, you can have the bars hanging from the underside of a shelf or cabinet…or you can have them perpendicular to the wall as I chose to do (with the help of my handy dad!):
The magnet, as I said, is pretty strong and able to keep the jars from falling.
To use a Skittle (for example, a yellow one), I simply remove the jar:
And I have the Skittles in my grubby little hand!
With the jars within reach of my workspace, I like the fact that they don’t take up valuable table space and they’re not too big or small.
Until next time!
S.C.
A couple of edits:
1. The price was about $7 I believe? I can’t rightly recall.
2. The jars do NOT hold an entire bag of Skittles. They do hold much of them. I just store the leftovers in snack-sized ziploc bags in another drawer.
ribbon and storage and tips 12:02 pm
Hello all,
While wandering around Home Depot, I suddenly remembered that I needed some pegboard hooks. So I meandered over to that section and discovered a possible solution for my ribbon storage! Who’d a thunk?!
Below, is a picture of what I found. It’s a holder that is used on pegboard and it’s for paper towel, twine, and wire. So, why not ribbon?! It cost about $2.57 and seemed to be on clearance (as the tag was yellow):
Although it states it’s for pegboard, it comes with corner holes (as you can see) so somebody can drill it into regular wood (or your wall).
I decided to try it out in my scraproom that has some pegboard near my worktable:
As you see, it works great! I purchased three of them. Now, please note that the plastic rod is rather thick, so I did have to use a steak knife and widen the holes of most of my spools. But that didn’t take too long.
And yes, perhaps it’s not the prettiest ribbon holder out there…
but it gets the job done!
And for about $8.00 for all three of them, it’s a lot less expensive than the $10 (I had a 50% coupon!) I paid for the Martha Stewart Ribbon Storage boxes. That’s $10 EACH!
Hope this proves inspirational for somebody.
Until next time!
S.C.
