UP the Flag pole

Here is another flag I made for Neal's bike. This 

flag he can have on his bike when it is not a special 

day.

made using heat transfer vinyl  and cut on ZING

after designing in inkscape

On SAFARI

Still loving playing with the new alota rubber stamps

digital stamps  and making scenes with them in 

inkscape. I then printed and coloured with copic

markers

Heat vinyl and ANZAC day

Today in Australia is ANZAC day 

(to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.)

Neal requested another flag for his bike this time HERE is what 

I made him using the heat vinyl transfer.

making the pattern in inkscape importing into make the cut and

then cutting on the ZING

ZINGing adventer with print and cut and digital stamps (updated fixed lesson)

This week (10) came and went so fast.
But having enjoyed the print and cut soo much 
and with the release of the new digital stamps from 
Alota this past week. I continued this week 
playing with that function on the ZING

I used inkscape to make all my bases for my cards 

and get all set up , before going into make the cut

and opening the svg to cut ( I just find it easier this way 

cause i am used to inkscpate

Had fun adding words and making a scene 

with the stamps by masking in inkscape 

(lesson below)

Added the words in make the cut putting on seperate layer 

and opening both print layers before printing .

TIP

When you have put you digital stamp in make the cut for 

printing remember to turn that layer to black 

(trust me i forgot one and it printed pale blue YUKK)

Using masking lesson (end of post)

I was able to combine the monkeys in the tree and 

have the lion in front

Inkscape has a wonderful gear generator  and for 

me  I use it heaps. This card i printed on grey card 

and used white gel pen on the teeth

Printing letters so just the out line is easy when set 

up in inkscape  I can do a lesson on this if anyone 

would like it ?

 HERE is a TIP LESSON as requested

I am of to explore some more.

 If you live in Australia and New Zealand 

and wondering where you can get a KNK Zing 

SKAT KAT  is the place to find them

Family of Robots (scrapbook easel card)

Here is another card using the digital stamps from Alota 

This time i thought i would use the robots like a set of photos,

which shows them all together when the card is open 

on display

THANK YOU Neal!

Last week while printing and cutting i made the mistake of 

not turning of the print part before cutting and as it started to cut 

the eyes out i quickly turned of the machine and i ended up 

with a picture of frog that was not usable. BUT Neal said 

"why don't you put boggle eyes on it ?"

HERE is the card

We're going to the ZOO you can come too !

Have you seen the new digital stamps over at 

Alota Rubber stamps? 

Here is a card I made using some of the zoo animals 

and the girl rose hat.

If you look at the heart that the girl is holding can

you see what she has painted  on it ?

The stamps come as svgs so you can put them into you paint

programs and print from there. The good thing is being svgs 

they are sizable with out loss of picture.

Scrabble Box Tiles

I made these for my friend who loves playing scrabble 

online. They are 2.5"

Made the pattern using inkscape cut using make the cut 

on the ZING. Cut the letters out on black vinyl

Easel card Challenge No #81

It's time again for an ALota challenge 

this time it is to make an easel card 

you can enter as many times as you like 

and don'f forget to tag it with Alota81 and go to 

alota blog and link with linky

PRINT AND CUT ( I never gave up (but neally !)) glad I didn't

This week (week 9) on the Zing adventure  

I was determined that i was going to get the print and cut working 

how I want it too (having tried back the first week i had the 

zing but was not 100% sure of it )

So revisiting this week I can not say went perfect first off .I knew I had 

done something really simple wrong and i was not getting a good result.

Skat kat told me to make sure I have done the  Resolution Calibration

page 31 of manual. I had not done this, so I went and did this 

and IT WORKED it made calibrating the print and cut work.

As you can see I ended up with 4 times more tryout arrows 

than I should have.

SO BEST TIP do 2.12 Resolution Calibration FIRST

Lots of arrows  but did not want to waste them so i glued them together 

to use in a later project

Once I was near to perfect (I did say near). I then started cutting out 

printed images  

got it down to  perfect  (key is DON'T GIVE UP it is worth it 

in the end) and i used all the other robots and glued them together 

to make them look like a chipboard robot putting the perfect one on

top

Then I was able to build my own coloured images in make the cut 

and print and cut   YEAH

But I did not want to stop there i wanted to be able to print 

and cut anything. I happened upon a pdf with all the instructions

that could help me do this 

HERE if you have not been go there.

YEAH YEAH  this is what I wanted to do.

So I went into the Kaleidoscope Kreator 3 program I have 

(have you heard of it is a wonderful addition for any papercrafter HERE)

So what i did is made up a tile first one i used the feathers tile to make it 

and then i took that tile to inkscape and made a shadow for it before 

putting into make the cut for first printing and then cutting 

(I had some errors which i will show what i had to do at the end)

making the till 4" , 3.5", 3" and 2.5" and layed with foam tape

 then i tried a flower kaleidoscope and made another 

this time i took to inkscape and made the shadow for it there 

Now with my love of stamping weather is be with rubber and inkpad

or digital and being able to add the colour with my copic markers 

I thought next I would try my frog i drew that i used on my tshirt last week

(learnt the same lesson when cutting after printing if i want the white shaddown all 

around Read on will show that tip i learnt)

One of the things i love is teabag stamps  and with having 

to cut 8 images to make a medalion that was the next thing I 

wanted to try so i used that same frog and made it into a teabag image

(put the big frog on a action wobble)

TIPS /Lessons

Then I learnt that you had to do the same when you were 
a shadow around it 
Below is the marks with just the print 
(flush up against the frog outline)

But after printing and turning the print off and the cut on

you will find that the marks move out flush up against the 

shadow.

SO what you do is have a layer with the basic shape on it 

out from each side  and have it turned on for both

HOPE this helps and that you don't have all the trial and 

errors I had while making these for the first time

BIG TIP   
DON'T GIVE UP ON CALIBRATING print and cut 
it is WELL WORTH Playing with

I am of to explore some more.

 If you live in Australia and New Zealand 

and wondering where you can get a KNK Zing 

SKAT KAT  is the place to find them