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Our perfect dog bike trailer

We stopped biking since we have our lovely little Shiba Inu girl Akira and it is a pity, because we live in a surrounding where biking is perfect. But I do not have the dog stay alone at home while we are having fun outside. For running with us I do not know how far she comes and for a basket or back pack she is too big. This spring I said we need a solution. So we did some research and ended up…

Beauty bags from waste paper, magazine pages and transparent htv

I found some big sheets of card stock, that I had left over from cutting with the cutting machine. At the same time I found an oversized magazine with beautiful photographs. I knew I had to make something with it. I ended up with these beautiful beauty bags. They don’t look like selfmade at all, it’s almost a pity :-) If you want to make one yourself this is what you need: the sewing machine and…

Laminated feather book mark

I am playing a lot with the laminator lately, making a brochure for a laminator company. There is so much more, that you can do with the little machines than just business cards, signs and menus. This was just a little test to try if I can actually run a big real feather through the machine and it worked unexpectedly well. I used a feather I found in the woods when I walked the dog. First I…

A look behind the door

Yesterday I had a very special guest: Johanna, a journalist from our local newspaper, who is writing a series of articles about artists living in our area. This was a good reason (actually a MUST-DO) to tidy up my workshop, that has become a real mess during the last year. It was so much fun to meet her and we laughed a lot. She did not know much about electronic cutting machines, so we were…

Maybe the most stupid mistake you can make with a gelli plate

…is not to remove the cover from your brand new big size gelli plate before using it. And it just happened to me. Having my head in the clouds, thinking of many too many other things having on my “plate” right now. After 4 prints I was wondering what was wrong with my acrylic colors today – too cold, too old, dried out… and then I saw it!!! But let’s just call it artistic freedom and enjoy those…

More spirograph art on t-shirts and shopping bags

And I found more ornaments made with the wild gears, that work to be cut from heat transfer vinyl to be ironed on t-shirt and shopping bags. I LOVE the irregular motifs made with 3 wheels (another wheel in a big “hole” of the inner wheel) . You have to stop at some point, otherwise it will become a regular circle in the end with too many small shapes. The start position of the wheels make a big…

Making a spirograph drawing into a t-shirt design with the ScanNCut

I did it again! Two years ago I got my first two sets of wild gears and I had so much fun with it. Now, 2 years later I discovered there are new additions, so I made myself a big gift and ordered 3 more sets. Again it was so special to unpack them. This time I did not remove the brown protection paper, that I could clearly see which were my first sets and which are the new parts. After some…

Looking back at 2016

I just don’t want to miss to send some greetings at the end of the year hoping you have a good start into the new year tonight. 2016 was maybe my most busiest year ever. I just cannot believe my last blog post was in April. Keeping it short I just show 3 things: 1. my favorite new toy 2. my new book 3. our new family member “Arthur” So lets start with my new favorite toy. Since it was released in…

Wastebasket – sewing project from different materials

Another sewing project from the beautiful materials I lately bought is a new wastebasket, well it is rather a waste sack. I love it to be soft and flexible and fitting the fun vintage faux wood floor from our new garden house. I did not make or use a pattern. I just measured and cut the square and rectangles pieces. The bottom I made from a square vegan leather (SnapPap which is actually paper)…

Material shopping at the crafts show and my first project: a new iPad mini cover

Two weeks ago I spent 4, yes, four luxury days at Germany’s biggest crafts show CREATIVA together with a crafty friend. It was great to have enough time to look at everything without a hurry and not having the need for “panic purchases”. The only limit was the luggage, because we have been there by train and had to carry everything back to Berlin ourselves (a big thank you to the inventor of the…

Another sketchbook decorated with vinyl and a fashion silhouettes freebie

Ok, I admit it, I did not buy only one notebook, but a couple of them. I just love the square format. It is great to decorate them. This time I made some fashion silhouettes in my favourite 3D program PoserPro, which I unearthed and upgraded lately to the newest version (see the image at the bottom of this post). At the bottom you can also download the silhouettes file for non-commercial purposes…

A book for a cook – black glossy vinyl on a golden notebook

When I saw these matte golden notebooks as a double pack in the crafts shop last week I had to have them. They are bound with a thread instead of metal clips, beautifully, and you can never have enough notebooks! Today I made a gift for a hobby cook with decorating one of them with a very detailed design (an altered graphic from a vector design collection) from black glossy vinyl cut with the…

New year, new order

January is always a month to put things in order for me. Christmas madness is over, my workshop is one big mess from too much work and never enough time. With constantly adding new products to my shops and a growing warehouse I also had to find a new system. So last week I went through the shops to find those beautiful black boxes, perfect for A4 and letter size vinyl, heat transfer sheets and…

I am wishing all my readers, friends, customers and followers a wonderful happy and healthy new year 2016. This last year was the craziest year ever for me and it’s been you who have made this so special. While I have made and written it, I have never ever expected that my book “Crafty Cuttings” and especially the german version “Frisch Geschnitten” which is there for 2 months more, would become…

Landscape Christmas Card made with the Silhouette Curio

I did not cut a lot with the Curio yet. I still prefer to cut with my “work horse” Cameo, just being more familiar with it. Now I got the bigger platform and mats and this makes the Curio for me a full working cutting machine. I still find this machine more difficult than the Cameo, especially to find the right settings and amount of platforms. Anyway I LOVE the stiff basic platform and how easy…

Almost there, the english version of my plotter book

Last night I got some first books to check if everything is fine, before the whole quantity will be bound. This was so exciting!!! The Germans are full of praise about “Frisch Geschnitten” and I am so happy about the good reviews. It was like a miracle, that I met Lesley, a wonderful translator, right in time to translate the book.  While she was busy with the text I was reworking all…

Why it’s been so quiet here on my blog

For months I have been busy working on the german plotter book. Before publishing I could not show any of the projects from the book. I hardly could resist to show off all the fun projects I was working on. Then I thought while the book is printed I got plenty of time to try new things and write about it. I listed the book in my german Dawanda Shop to pre order. But I did not expect, that…