Challenge #95 Sketch challenge

It's time again over at Alota blog for another 

challenge this time it is a sketch .

All you have to do is make a card using the sketch 

upload it to your gallery , blog  and tag it with ALOTA95

and go to Alota blog and link it to the inlinky for 

you chance to win a shopping voucher

Hope you join in 

Here is a card to inspire you

Alota Challange 86 "Looking through window"

Looking through a window. Create a card with a window, it can be a stamped window, a window die or if you don't have an actual window image/die … then just create a window card. Remember when you look through a window you could be looking from the inside out or the outside in. Have fun!


All you have to do is create your card and upload it to your blog and/or to your online Gallery using the keyword Alota86

Don't forget to Alota Rubber Stamps Blog and link it on Inlinkz so that everyone else can see it too.

I hope you have fun with the challenge.You have til the 15th July to complete this challenge, you can enter as many entries as you wish for a better chance of winning!!! You have a chance of winning some wonderful stamps if you card/project is selected randomly from all the entries received.

 I put the robots in the window of the car
(car designed by me and robots are alota rubber stsmps)

Alota Challenge time again #85

Challenge time over on the Alota Rubber Stamps blog,

It's a  color challenge this time round

Blue + pick one highlight color but it can't be White

Would  you want to play along? 

 you can use any stamps you want, although if you have

 Alota Rubber Stamps 

we would love to see them on your cards.

You have until the 30th June to complete this challenge, you can enter as many entries as you wish for a better chance of winning!!! You have a chance of winning some wonderful stamps if you card/project is selected randomly from all the entries received. 

Don't forget to tag your card with Alota85 and head on over to 

 Alota Rubber Stamps blog and linky it

HERE is a little card I made

 

They go shopping

Here I am today with another card using 

the Tess bears from Alota 

This time I used inkscape to create the 

scene and  the zing to cut the base of the 

card

All stamps used in this post are ALOTA Rubber stamps

 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

Animal card ALOTA challenge No#82

It is time again for another alota challenge 

this time it is animal 

Enter as many times as you like for more chances

to win Don't forget to tag it with ALOTA82 

and head over to ALOTA blog and linky it  .

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

Birthday Alota Challenge No#80

Its time again for another Alota challenge

this time it is a Birthday challenge and enter as

many times as you wish to have more chances to win

the prize . Don;t forget to tag your  creations with 

Alota80 and head on over to ALota blog and linky it 

PINK

Stamps from Alota Rubber Stamps

Will carrots help me see better??

I have still been having fun with the new release  Alota stamps 

BUG holding carrot

BUG with carrot wagon

and CARROT

TIP ,partytime . thank you chef and rocket to the moon

WEEK FOUR wow time is flown and I still can not find one button on my Zing, it must have one but i cant see it ! What button is that you ask? the OFF button LOL .
This past week i have been surfing the net and thought i would do a week of things from the web.

BUT FIRST a tip *that I should have said last week sorry

If you are going to use the pens for drawing with the cross hatch and plan to use different colours in the one drawing you need to cut using the WYSIWYG for cutting that way when you change the layers it does not end up all in the one place on your mat  

OH and that you use the same size barrel pens in the one project, so the "off set" is in  the same place and the draw right .

NOW for this week 

I am normally a person who likes to make my own pattern or put my own spin on the idea of someone else's projects. But this week while doing lots of surfing to work out things to do I came across things that I would like to try making,  so I thought i would.

I love slice forms and one person who does make great sliceforms is 

Jenigami by Jennie Bean crafts so while i ordered her Cd's and waited for them to arrive. I Got some of the freebees of her website and made a few of them .
These 2 are the Squirrel BUT i cut there tails and made them into rock wallabies as we have them in Australia

and made two apples

Before long  (wow did not take long)  the cd's arrived , so I made  the bath tub and bird cage so far , Using inkscape to separate parts to cut in different colours first.

While surfing the internet and looking a youtubes I came across someone that was making her cut files for her heading on her scrap page and was giving her font a box shadow and i liked  how it looked so I went straight to first make the cut to see if that program did the same sort of thing and then after finding none on that I went into inkscape and could not find it on there either. BUT that did not stop me  I thought i would play around with it and find the best way to make it myself.

Which was quiet easy.

So I thought I would make this card  with that idea  using an alota stamp to complete the look.

Up until now I have just been making my shadows as a complete shaddow all way round the letters but i love this look and found that it looks best on letters that are more squared than rounded.

HERE it is on rounded letters and although it still looks great i did like it on more squarer fonts

(the two chefs are alota stamps)

If anyone would like an inkscape lesson on how i did these drop shadows please leave me a comment asking or email me and i will make one.

In the past i have cut using dingbat fonts , but while i was looking at DaFont  seeing what other fonts I could use with the drop shadows I got a little side tracked and came across this Panda font so i downloaded that and using the letters "g" and "h" i made this card (used inkscape to take away the bamboo to cut the white to put behind the pandas)

Then thinking that was enough for the week, I went surfing the net yesterday and came across this site and found these wonderful rockets and knew I just had to make!

Firstly the pattern is for thick foam so you have to teak the pattern for cutting for card stock other wise the slits are too wide and the rocket falls apart

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

ROBOTS and Pens in ZING

The other day i did a lesson on putting the eggbot hatch in 

inkscape to make files and draw with pens in 

make the cut on the Zing HERE

So i was playing the other day and made 

this card adding it to a alota rubber stamp stamped image

I used inkscape to generate the gears

 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

GEARS and ROBOTS and tips

Last week I ended my post with a center step card

that i made. Well the start of last week I was still 

playing with that idea  and I made this card.

I designed this using inkscape. then imported it into 

"Make The Cut" to cut on the KNK Zing. Then used a 

border punch to punch the gear/robot border and adding

Alota rubber stamps robot stamps (oh designed by me)

Next I wanted to try the pens in the KNK Zing
so I set out to find the best way to use them.
After seeing a youtube video of the software knkmax
and that  could fill in the area of the font so it engraves
the fonts filled in. Not able to get either MTC or inkscape 
to do this easy for me. With the help of the net we found 
that the Eggbot machine has a piece of software that 
can be put in inkscape so i can then do this for my svgs
(Yes it does slow the make the cut down when you import 

the svg after you have made it BUT hey who is in a hurry 

when it works this good )
So here is the first svg I did to try it all out 
the Bing and Beep are done using inset
and bolts and robots are just out lining 
All the rest are using the the eggbot hatch fill .......

....... Then I thought i would give it a try and i used a 
black metalic pen  and gave it a try (sadly there was not 
much ink in the pen!) The output with the pen was soo 
cool even with the pen being short on ink  gave it another
look altogether .

Then I thought people would wonder why would I bother
with printers able to do this sort of thing  
But as i don't have a printer that works on black 
I gave it a try with the same svg and used a gold metalic
pen (though it was a cheap one and when on black 
looked silver) and I was soo impressed with the look of it .

 

Here is one with a better metalic pen this time silver pen

 Not wanting these to go to waste i made a robot 

cut file and cut some out  Here are the finished cards . I used 

action wobbles to put the robots on the card

Here are two quick videos of the action wobbles

 I was soo happy with the way that turned out I was soo 
looking forward to trying the engraving tool  but what to 
 engrave i dont think i had anything
Then i remembered that someone said the plastic can be engraved 
so  I cut some plastic of the blisters i had here and gave it a try
After it was engraved I added some copic ink  (opps too much UGG )
easy fixed ......

 I used colourless to take some away 

OH did not judge how much i needed for martyn's one 

will be better next time.

Not happy to leave it there  for the week.
I then thought i would give coloured pens ago
Had enough of the word back ground so i thought 
oh i will use my robot and eggbot hatched that 
and here is the results  (orange needs touch up did not 
see till photo was taken)

Then i engraved it on some white and added a 
green copic ink  hard to see in photo but here it is 

TIP
MOVE WHITE RUBBER BANDS to side when drawing and engraving

TIP
 Benefit of using eggbot hatch
R with hatching 
obot with out 

TIP

 OFFER

If anyone would like me to do a lesson on the 

inkscape and eggbot hatch just leave a comment and 

i will see what i can do 

 

THREE WEEKS have gone by  and I 

am not sure i have found the off button on the 

Zing yet.  (question is there one?)

I am loving it soo much learning new 

things each day .

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