When I met Gretchen she was unaware of what I do. (I know, I know . . . shocking!) But in her defense, she was several months into a use-your-stash challenge where she didn't buy anything new.
I gave Gretchen a set of pop-up dies and it's been a joy to watch her create stuff with them. For G, every die is new, so it's also fun to see some of my early favorites become stars on her blog.
Her latest creation, Welcome Home Baby, uses the Pop-up House Die, which is currently on sale at Sizzix.com!
I threw together a little mash-up of six ways I've decorated the house:
(Click to make it bigger)
The house die is single-piece construction, so it's a quick one to assemble. Of course, you can spend hours on the decorations, because it's just plain FUN to make door decor, window frames, flower boxes, roof tiles, etc.
What can you make with the Pop-up House Die?
Check out Tara's Gothic Cottage card.
My Mom is in town visiting for a couple of weeks and we've been tackling my office. I've been working out of bins and boxes and two card tables for months and it's time to finally get the supplies organized and the room cleared out so the new cabinets/counters can be installed.
One of the walls of my office has built-in bookcases already (NICE!) so Mom organized all my extra die inventory into one of the cabinets:
When you design products for a company you get a certain number of your product as part of your contract. I use these dies to supply my design team and other designers with dies, and then the rest are used for classes and door prizes.
But I haven't been teaching many classes this year.
For more on this subject, read any of my blog posts for this year and look for the word TEXAS.
Heh.
But enough about that. The point is - the dies fit in the cabinet! Yippee!
While we were celebrating the perfect fit . . . the doorbell rang . . .
Uh oh.
New dies have shown up on my doorstep. Now this is a good thing, but I really need to get organized and having boxes of things that have no home is not part of the new zen.
Obviously I need to give away some of the dies in the cabinet!
First up:
Two lucky winners are going to get their own Pop-up House die, PLUS, the discontinued Pop-up Tree die, which works so nicely when glued to the back of the house. (See samples in the mash-up for visuals of this effect. Hang a swing from the tree - I always do!) Both of these dies are Bigz XL size, so you'll need a Big Shot or Big Kick machine to use them, plus some Extended Cutting Plates.
SHAMELESS PLUG FOR FRIEND:
If you need an online source for Sizzix supplies, you can get your machines and plates at a discount by visiting Maria B's Sizzix online superstore: it'scheaperthantherapy.com
END SHAMELESS PLUG FOR FRIEND
OK, back to the free stuff.
Leave a comment here and you're entered into the drawing. That's it. You've got the whole weekend to comment, and then on Monday morning, September 27, 2010, I will have Mom randomly choose two people to win a House and Tree die. I will post those people's names on my blog on Monday and we'll connect by e-mail for mailing addresses.
Good luck!
RKQOTD (Emma: Mom, I found a new song that I really like by Owl City. Me: That's cool. Emma: Yeah. I'm not telling Karl about it, though, because then he'll just play it over and over until I hate it.)
"Karen it was great to meet you at CHA. We now have two things in common - Eileen and Sizzix dies.... What a combination."