Rockin' Love

Tonight I made it a priority to finish my Valentines for Nathan and Chris.
How stinking Cute is this???

An ipod candy Valentine, because you know...... they Rock!

So Cute and so simple. The idea is from the family fun website. You can download and print the menu circle and the playlist. Or even edit a playlist to write in your own songs. I did for Nathan's (He is kind of young to get the ipod concept) I put in songs that were sort of love themed, but that he would know, like You are My Sunshine.

and then just a few simple "ingredients" and your done! LOVE IT!!!

I spent way to much money at Michael's today

So for Christmas my generous Mother in Law gave me a gift certificate to Michael's, and she was asking before she'd left on her trip if I'd spent it yet...so I figured I better get it done before she gets back...

The only problem is, that Chris took Nathan to the electronics store and left me to my own devices in Michaels for over an hour...Bad News!!!!

I cannot be trusted in Michael's unsupervised!

I ended up spending nearly 3 Times the amount of the certificate! Bad Bad Bad

But I think I got some cool stuff! So that should count for something,

One of the main problems was the stamps were on a 40% off sale...

and I had to get some embossing plates for my new cuttlebug (3) plus a die cutter to try as well- which in my defense was 50% off.

2 canvas for 5 bucks each where they are usually 13 for a 2 pack.

and then I hit the 1.50 bins and pick up some scrape book stuff like ribbons and stickers...

oh, and the paper was 69 cents instead of 99...I made sure to only buy the sale ones though


I have to tell you I'm pretty impressed with the embossing that the cuttlebug can do...not only does it look super cool, it leaves such a great impression in the paper, that I love running my hand over the texture it creates!
Very Cool...even if that wasn't my original intention for the bug, it's "real" purpose is pretty great too!

My New CUTTLEBUG

I'm so spoiled!
Chris was thinking about buying me a Cuttlebug for Christmas, but he wanted me to take a look at it first. We we're out shopping today and he pointed it out...when I got excited about it, it came home with us! NICE.

It comes with a bunch of cutting plates to provide the pressure to either emboss, or do die cutting.

But why I'm really excited about it is I think it will also work as a printing press, like one that I've been wanting since college. It was the same rollers and therefore basic mechanics as what we used in my course, it's just much smaller. I don't think any of my old etching plates will fit, but buying new sheets of plastic and doing some drypoint etching shouldn't be hard...as soon as I can get the plastic, I'm going to cut them down and give it a try...the machine won't produce anything much bigger than a greeting card size, but Hey, it's a start...and like I said I've been wanting something similar since I left college. so I'm super excited to see if this works. And in the mean time, I think I might go out and get some of the embossing plates and use the machine as it was intended, since that looks kinda cool too!