Upcoming Blog Hop - March 1st

Jimmye Sue Mitchell, Texana Designs Owner
Joyce Meyers, Stamp Artist
Jilda Bolton, DTM
Janet Bradshaw, DTM  ← You are here
Megan Bickers, DTM
Libby Hickson, DTM
Karen Lambert, DTM

Feel free to visit now to see past posts, but come back Saturday for the 1st Blog Hop!

Everyone who leaves a comment on all seven blog hop entries next week will have a chance to win the one and only set of original card fronts. 

Me & my Brother SnC

My newest craft tool is the Brother Scan n Cut.  I ordered the CM100DM from Amazon. You can check out the full scoop and Brother videos here.  It was delivered two weeks ago and I have been having a ball learning how it works and putting it through the paces.  I will try to post several entries here to share and to use as my references.  Use the search box and look for all entries with the tag SnC. 

Verbiage from directly from Brother:

The secret to ScanNCut’s amazing versatility lies in the 300 DPI built-in scanner, making ScanNCut the only cutting machine that can take your scanned images, photos or hand drawn sketches, and turn them into unique cutting designs, without the need or expense of a computer, software, or pricey cartridges.  Brother  Scan N Cut Website

ScanNCutCanvas is a cloud-based web application that combines the versatility of your favorite design software and the awesome cutting power of your Brother™ ScanNCut, giving you the ability to easily convert .SVG files to .FCM, Image Tracing and Processing Overlapping Patterns.

Greatly expand your craftwork by importing projects that you have created or edited with ScanNCut Canvas into your ScanNCut cutting machine, via the ScanNCut memory stick port.  Visit Scan N Cut Canvas

Most of what I've learned about the machine is from viewing videos online.  Simply start with a google search here.

Comparisons of the two different models is here.

Texana Cacti Stamps

Thanks to all of the Design team members, I am able to create these theme pages that focus on the stamps only.  Each team member has contributed colored images using various techniques.  There's paper piecing, water coloring, copics, distress markers.  The title block is cut with my newest crafting tool - Brother Scan n Cut.  Some of the images are fussy cut using the SnC Direct Cut feature.

We've been coloring and creating

How much fun is this.... The Texana team has been gathering up colored images of many of the stamps.  Some are done with markers, some are paper pieced, some are water colored.  There are so many ways to use these stamps.  My next goal is to organize the stamps by theme.

Oh Happy Day

Here's a fun card I made using two STACKER words (Happy & Today).  I wanted to play on the small sentiment "Oh Happy Day", so I stamped TODAY twice and discarded the T.  I stacked the "O" at the top of Happy and placed DAY at the bottom.  I used the script word "anniversary" as part of the background.  I made a mistake and stamped one of them upside down, so I just made several of them upside down.  Did you notice it before I pointed it out?  Embrace your imperfections and go with the flow.

Friend Valentine

A2 Card

Fussy Cut Patterned Paper and covered with Glossy Accents

A2 Card

Fussy Cut Patterned Paper and covered with Glossy Accents

 

ATC card

ATC card

Stamps:

FRIEND, BW Heart

Sentiments:  "Happy Heart Day”

Wink of Stella Glitter Brush

Core’dinations Purple Cardstock

Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments Collection

Violet Bouquet

Fussy cut violets & applied Glossy Accents

Stacker Technique:

Color in shadow only with Wink

Texana Design Team

01/31/2014

You Make My Heart Happy

     

  

Two cards  using Texana Designs stamps.

HAPPY, Lg Face

Sentiments:  "You Make My Heart Happy”

Distress Markers

Chipboard Hearts

ATCs used BW Heart (mini)