First week with "Zing" (aka KNK Zing)

Here I am to tell of my first week with "Zing".

Opening the box and getting it out.

Pluging in to computer and starting up my make the cut software.

Well then what to choose first to cut.

Of corse it had to be one of the susanbluerobot sliceform 

designs. Thinking to myself what sort of test will I give this , so 

I cut it small to see how it handled it . Well it cut it with ease 

not a problem (cut my teddy sliceform at 2" high (having never

ever cut him that small before) ) I was amazed with how fine 

a cut it cut even on the slits they were only on pixel wide when 

cutting the teddy this size and not one tear. SADLY with all 

the excitement of seeing it cut so nice at 2inches high, I did not 

give it a thought of how I was going to put it together (all 37 pieces).

And though the zing cut it perfectly my hands were too fat and it was 

impossible to put together UGG (this is not going to beat me I will 
visit this at a later date)

Next cut was a butterfly card that I had designed many years ago 

and had no luck cutting it on either two machines that i had already.

CUT fantastically The cut on the Zing is soo fine that it looks wonderful.

This I was able to  put together  as a card. Did run the base of the card

though the cuttlebug before putting together.

Made the 2 Alota cards challenge  Theme is shaped cards  which 

was great  having the Zing that just wanted to cut  them out.

Designed these in inkscape and imported to make the cut.

Next  was a big surprise as  before Christmas when making 

the snowmen for the snowglobes i made. I tried both my 

other cutters doing all tweaking to get them to cut the

Velumn snowmen out with very little success (I ended up cutting out

57 pieces , needed was 10 and  i picked the best of them even though 

i had to cut of all the snowmens arms as they were a mess)

So then  Friday was going to be the BIG test when i got out my 

velumn  and tested it by slowiing Zing to 9 speed and cut out a 

line of butterflies  they ranged between 3/4" and 1 1/4" with 

antennas of  butterflies i pixle wide. OMG it cut them perfectly

I mean PERFECTLY i ended up cutting out 200 more  and only had

to throw 2 away but that was not cause of Zing , 

but cause of how i took them of the mat .

Here is a book I made using some of them  ,

 OH also cut the lettering  out .

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

Teddy for Melissa

Here is a slice form teddy I made 

for my friends girl

Designed by Susanbluerobot  using inkscape 

and cut on machine

alota challenge No 77 "Shaped card"

\Alota's Shaped Card Challenge!
This time we are doing different  Shapes for cards, 
no square cards please
We want to see some DIFFERENT SHAPES for cards :) 
Here is the prize you can be entered to WIN from Alota Rubber Stamps

 All you have to do is create a card/projectand upload
 it to your blog and/or to your online Gallery
 using the keyword Alota77.
 Don't forget to go to ALOTA BLOG here
 and link it on Inlinkz so that everyone else can see it too.
You have til the 29th of February to complete this challenge,
you can enter as many entries as you wish
 for a better chance of winning!

Being the topic of a shaped card it was a 

great opitunity to test out the ZING cutter

and I am VERY impressed with the way it 

cuts  will tell more later 

MY House Guest

Hi! I thought i would tell you about my house guest.
 14th February 2012 started like any other day,
only exception is that even though son was working he was not starting till a
little later so i could sleep in a little. Waking at 8am, with plans
to do a few things before
going out for lunch. came out to computer turned it on. and thought oh
i will catch up on
emails before getting a drink and having food (which is the order i do
this most days)
Open email client  quick glance which one will i open first.

           Oh there is will open this one first (picked one).
  <email>

 Hi! Would you
like a house guest for a while? If so you have to
treat it kind, let it stay with you for at least 3 months ? Keep me
informed with how it is
going from time to time? even if it is just through your blog?
    <my thoughts> 

OH OH
should I? How will I know how to look
after it ? Will I treat it well ? Will I be able to feed it old and new stuff?

SO  for that next hour I surfed the internet and youtube videos before
I could make the
 dissension to say yes or no to this offer. Well there were lots and
lots of videos on the
right way to look after such a guest  .

  <my thoughts> 

OH OK
three months will be soo easy  I
think it will be great to have it in the house. Now lets see  ! OH look
the person has given
me his phone number to ring him.
    

<ring ring>

Hi! it is
Susan here I will like to take you up on your
offer can we come and pick it up today after lunch <him> Sure can .

We had our lunch and off we went for the drive to the other side of
town to pick up our
house guest. When we arrived home it was time to just chill out for
the rest of the day and
we would get it settled in tomorrow morning.
Watched a little tv, and went of to bed. Could not sleep with all the
new thoughts in my head
 1. Where will it sleep?

 2.What will i do to entertain it first?
3.Will it be happy here?

4. Will the others in the house get along with it
5.and on and on  with lots of questions

I tossed and turned all night  had no sleep.
I can see till i open that box and put it on the table and plug it
into the computer, and turn
it on and CUT something  I don't think I will be able to sleep!

 OH I think i should have said that "it" is a KNK Zing electric
cutting machine that i was offered
to play with for 3 months and review it .
  WHAT ? What sort
of guest did you think
I was talking about ?  HEHEHEHE

SeaSide

I Showed you Saturday night the lighthouse

I had made. I am back today to show you some

3D wording that I made to go with that Project.

I cut the letters our and then two shaddows of 

each letter and then i turned them into

3D letters,

To light the way

Here is a light house box I made using a 

pattern from Creationsbyar after 

cutting out and making it up I then 

used a cuttlebug embossing folder  

and embossed some card and cut out the bricks 

so there was one and half bricks and glued them down 

each edge of the light house.

  Also cut away the railings of the walk way and added home 
made rope . added a Christmas colour changing light 
and embossed all the acetate for the windows.
and cut out a weather vein for the roof

.

This is a project i am working on and i will show 

more as i have it ready

TF Bear

Here is a Teddy bear sliceform I made for my 

friend Tracey. He is about 11 inches tall 

and I added rhinestones to the purple pieces

to give it a little bling. 

Designed with inkscape cut on ecraft by me

Pop Up card

Used the hippie stamps from alota rubber stamps 

to make this pop up card

Flight

The Hot air balloon teabag  stamps  from 

Alota Rubber Stamps 

It is such a fun stamp.

Hippie Bugs

Still been having fun with the new stamps 

from alota rubber stamp.

This time I used the hippie bugs and combined them with the

border and background peace signs, as well of using  4 of each or

the teabag stamps to make the teabag medalion

Dreams take flight

One of the teabag stamps  from 

Alota Rubber Stamps  is a Hot air balloon teabag 

stamp. It is such a fun stamp.

And as I love flying in balloons i thought this 

was a great title for my card.

Cut the base of the card using inkscape and ecraft cutting machine

up up and AWAY

One of the newest release stamps from 

Alota Rubber Stamps  is a Hot air balloon teabag 

stamp. It is such a fun stamp as you have 

it any colours you want to look soo diferent each time.

Cut the base of the card using inkscape and ecraft cutting machine

HIP Hip Hippie

Alota realease some Hippy stamps 

but they also have some teabag folding stamps as 

well,

Here is  another card this time I used Two diferent 

teabag stamps and combined them together 

to make the medaloin. And added the left over from 

the peace card i made.

TeaBagFolding PEACE card

Not only did Alota realease some Hippy stamps 

but they also have some teabag folding stamps as 

well ( I love  teabag stamps  they have 100's to choose from).

Here is a card I made using the teabag stamp and 

combined it with two other hippy stamps

Peace Bugs

Alota Rubber Stamps have released

hippy stamps  and i have been having fun 

making cards with them.

I cut the base card out using the ecraft cutter
using sure cuts a lot

The kookaburra sits in the

IN THE CLOCK 

Here is a clock i made for my mum 

who loves Kookaburra

I used the same pattern I made for the snowman snow globe

Customized T Shirts OOSHIRTS

I was asked to review the T-shirt printing service of OOSHIRTS
(http://www.ooshirts.com)

The web page was easy to use to upload a picture of my signature
silver robot. The guys at ooshirt were very helpful with getting the
format just right to print well. There was a large variety of shirt
styles to choose from, I picked a big t-shirt.

Less than two weeks
later I was in receipt of two very nice cotton shirts, with Robot (and
my blog url :-) ) printed large as life on the front. Prompt service
from California to Australia.

(Sorry its not a great photo tho').

I am soo happy with the T Shirts 

Visit 

OOShirts 

you will not be disappointed

Blue Kimono Doll

And here is the pair to the pink one 

These went to two sisters so they were not 

split up