Happy Mother's Day to Moms Everywhere! From Google Doodle!

Three Inkscape Videos by CutTwoPieces

Carolyn shows how to make radial tiled clones in this video (very useful for many projects including the knot designs).

Carolyn shows us the basics of making knot designs in Inkscape.

Carolyn shares more tips on knot designs in this second part of her series.

April is Stress Awareness Month

This short monologue by Ellen DeGeneres does a great job of summarizing April as Stress Awareness month.


And here is a good summary of how to cope with stress.

Zip It!

Very cool Gideon Sundback Google Doodle. Hope you don't miss it, but in case you do...here's a YouTube recording of it.

Quite an Honor!

Anne Vis of Inspiring Gifts has included one of my cards in her "Artistic Gifts inspired by Earth Day" post on her blog. What an honor and a privilege! Thank you Anne! Here's the card she chose. Happy Earth Day a little early everyone (it's April 22, 2012), and be sure to visit Anne's wonderful blog!

Happy Green Earth Day with Leap-Dreaming Frog! by ilovecuttables
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Best Seller's List

I try not to post my own cards too often, but I'm going to do just that right now. I'm so proud that one of my cards made Greeting Card Universe's Best Seller's List recently! It is this Happy Norooz Card that celebrates the Persian New Year (March 21st). It won't be selling many more until 2013, so I'm going to post two more cards next to it that I created recently, and I hope will also reach the level of Best Sellers. :) The first is a funny "Easter Egg Humor" card, and the second is a witty "Get Well After Back Surgery" card. You can click on any of the cards to see what the inside says. :)

Pinterest!!!

I have a new Pinterest account and I LOVE it!!! Here's my portal link http://pinterest.com/ilovecuttables/

And here are links to my favorite boards.

"Incredible Nature and Its Fabulous Awesomeness"
http://pinterest.com/ilovecuttables/incredible-nature-and-its-fabulous-awesomeness/

"Remarkably Colored Images"
http://pinterest.com/ilovecuttables/remarkably-colored-images/

And "Amazing Animals"
http://pinterest.com/ilovecuttables/amazing-animals/

Callie!

My niece is pretty darn special, so I created her name in my own special design. :) I want her to know about it, so I'm posting it here. By the way, Callie, I'm nominating you for the Best Sister Award, too! You're mom is my sister, but you're the one I'm giving the award to on behalf of your siblings. ;) Lots of love from your Aunt Cindy. :)

March 1st Face Since I Missed February 1st

I'm adding one more face since I missed doing one on February 1st when the 29 Faces Project began. But this one's my last for this challenge, I promise. ;)

I've seen some interesting 'sugar skull' images recently out there on the internet, so I thought I'd try my hand at one. It's not very good, but it's my challenge for today, so.... oh well.

Feb 29th Face - Happy Leap Day!!!

My face project for the very last 29 Faces project just had to be frogs. :) Happy Leap Day!


Oh, and I turned this challenge project into card.

Happy Belated Leap Day Birthday! by ilovecuttables
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Feb 28th Face - Sunshine Smile and Star-Framed Shades

Yes, I know every single facial feature on this face has been used before. Sorry, I'm running low on time and had to rush through this one. Yesterday's flower made a nice flame burst for the sun, and the eyes, mouth, and cheeks were from my Kokeshi Doll. I did create the star circle for the shades today (plus the pink lenses) but that's about all that's new. lol.

Feb 27th Face - Pretty Purple Posy

She's napping, but she has a face. :) I'm kind of running out of ideas, so this was what I could manage. I remade the lips and eyebrows from yesterday's project, but everything else was created from scratch. And, as you can see, I'm still avoiding making hair.

Feb 26th Face - Kiss Me, I'm Irish!

Today's face was inspired by an email from Zazzle that I received encouraging sellers to enter a St. Patrick's Day Pinterest Challenge. I haven't opened a Pinterest account yet, but I hope to soon...and then I hope to make a t-shirt with this image (or portions of it) so that I might enter it in the contest. :)

Feb 25th Face - a Dragon Kite

I needed to get away from anything with hair today (after yesterday's horrific experience), so I created this abstract dragon kite. This year (2012) is the Year of the Dragon (Chinese), so I might be able to use this on a card or on some Zazzle items. :)

Feb 24th Face - OMG!

This started off to be another fun Friday project of a cartoon woman expressing shock, but as the day wore on and my laptop kept crashing, it became the project from H3ll. :( Very difficult to complete. I'm not even 100% sure what was causing the crashing, although I have a hunch it was probably the hair. In any event, I finally just took a screen shot because I couldn't export it into a format that I could upload into my blog. :( So, OMG! What a horrifying project.