SNEAK PEEK!!! New Catty is out!

The new catty starts February 1st!

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My first shippment of goodies just arrived at the house today and here is a few pics of the new paper:

 Above: Pemberley - Blues & Golds - love the flowers - that stamp set is heading here within the week.

 Above: Stella - Lagoon, Olive, Sunset and Tulip - looks better in person!

Stella Stickease that are fabric!  How cool is that!

 Below: Florentine - Bamboo, Creme Brulee, Goldrush, Olive and Twilight - check out the patterns!

And the last one that I have photos of is Footloose!

A beachy theme with Pear, Smoothie, Sweet Leaf, Lagoon and New England Ivy!

More sneak peeks coming soon - don't have a new catalog?  Email or call me for one!

The last of the Christmas Gifts

This is a set of socks!  I bought these at Walmart and I wanted white with 

sparkles so that when I wrapped them, they would look like a cupcake!

 Here is the Brighton Bracelet That my Girlfriend Wendy got yesterday!  

(we do Christmas after the holidays are over so that there isn't extra stress.)

 It doesn't sit the greatest, but I wanted it to match my other friend's gift too.

(love the crystal's colors!)

 The cute backdrops are the little material bags that come with the 

jewelery and tissue paper for the gift bags. 

The cupcake wrapper I got on MTC and I added cute snowflake cutouts myself!

 Here is Teri's gift.  She got 3 charms to go on her Brighton Charm Necklace.  

There is a round ornament for the "cherry" on the cupcake.

 Little diamond on both sides for extra sparkling.

 Ahhh, the Brighton logo on the ribbons of the bags.

 Here is one of the other charms - a little Gold and Silver purse . . .

  The Gold & Silver purse opens!

 

Here is the Red little purse - wanted to give her different colors.

 I took ribbons and tided them onto the charms so 

that I could poke the ribbons into the cupcake and they 

could hang off the sides like a topping.

 Side view.

 Other side.

 You think the bags will give them away??

 Here is the screen shot for the cupcake wrappers.

I'll let you know what I get soon!

Vinyl Princess

A person I know mentioned that her walls had a knock down finish and that vinyl didn't stick to her walls. I asked if she bought it as a pre-made image from a store - and she said yes.  So I did two sample pieces for her to see if my vinyl would stick better.  I'm hoping that she will want more art on her walls once she sees the commercial vinyl sticks better.  Here are the images I did for her daughter's bathroom:

 Allie & Katie - I forgot to take pictures prior to putting the transfer tape on the images.

 I couldn't leave out my baby girl - so I added one for her too!

 Here it is on her bedroom wall above her bed - on the knock down finished wall!

Thanks for looking!

Cricut Cake, Gum Paste & Sugar Sheets

 So with the help of my faithful assistant Jeanie, 

we attempted to figure out how to cut a few different things with my 

NEW Cricut Cake Machine!

 Jeanie is using a pizza cutter to trim the excess off the edges so that the rollers

don't run over it and move the Gum Paste.

 I had to get creative because the Gum Paste gets sticky when rolling it out.

 I never took enough out to cover the whole sheet, but I was only testing it out.

 first cut, I had to stop it - missed the fact that the Gum Paste wasn't covering to the corner.

But after moving it up, the butterfly was perfect and flawless!!!!

 Instead of picking up the Gum Paste, I decided to keep going and use

up what I rolled out, a crown, star, and a few flowers.

 Jeanie is showing off the butterflies' details

 Look at how thin I cut the edges of this star! That's 2 inches big.

 Here is all of them on a plate.

 I then decided to add a few drops of food coloring and do some colors.

Several flowers.  The picture below shows white tape like strip above the pink Gum Paste.

That is from the roller.  The white got run over and then dried on the roller and then rolled off 

while I was cutting the pink. Note to self: make sure rollers are clean before slipping in another color.

 The brown swirl is from a Sugar Sheet - that is a thin sheet of frosting pre-made for you.

You WOULD have thought that it would have been easier to cut - since it's thin, rolled out for you - but NO, it was worse.  I blew a whole 1/3 of the sheet and it tastes yucky.  It's from Cricut and it could be 

dried out.  I will try putting a damp paper towel in the bag to bring it back and try this again another day.

 See the white flower with the rough edges?  That one is upside down.  

The backs all looked that way - weird hey?

 Here is what happened with the other pieces - 

Jeanie took regular tube frosting and decorated them - then she ate them.

I'm keeping them to see what they feel and look like in a few days - 

I think these will get SUPER hard and brittle.

I have a marshmallow fondant recipe that I'll have to try next too!

Now, I need to write up my class handouts for my newest Cricut Class!

I've been a VERY GOOD GIRL!

If you saw my earlier posts you know that I picked up an Imagine Cricut Machine the day after Thanksgiving.

Well, guess what I got for Christmas?!?! 

(actually, it came 2 weeks prior and I've been trying to find time to play with it!)

 Love the boxes!

 This is machine number 4 for me!

 Those colors I'm really warming up to!

 Stainless Steel Housing - MMMMM!

Stainless Steel sides - very pretty - I just may have to get some shiny crome vinyl 

and dress her up even more!  

After taking her out of the box, I noticed that the bottom door is not aligned and doesn't stay closed.  

I'm debating calling the company or working around it. 

Play with it, Don't Play with it - that is the question.

I'll let you know what happens!

Newsprint Rub-Ons

Find out what makes Newsprint rub-ons so easy to apply and fun to use,

and then watch as we show you how to create stunning artwork using these rub-ons!

Order these at my website: www.MaryEisen.myctmh.com.

Believe Paper & Christmas

 Since I do Base Page Workshops in my house every month, I thought it would be a good thing to actually  use the layouts that I make.  Put photos onto the page - I only have a foot tall stack of layouts!

This is Enchantment In The Park.

 The Believe Paper Pack has great Stickease stickers - I used the sting of lights as accents going down the pages.  I used Glitter Glue and added a sparkle to the string of lights.

 I used my Cricut and MTC software and cut out the words.  

I used Sparkles to add a little bling to the words.

 Close up - you can click on the photos to make them bigger.

 Here is the date with Sparkles.

Here is a close up on the Glitter Glue lights and the Sparkles.

Thanks for looking!