Silhouette Portrait!!!!!!!!

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Silhouette America store is having amazing sales! During Black Friday, with the help of some select promo codes, you could get 40% off almost all of its products. Well, unforetunately, that didn't apply to the very awesome cutting machines. However, with Linda Kaiser's code, I got $20 off my Silhouette Portrait (190$ total )- a deal's a deal. I BOUGHT A SILHOUETTE! Anyway, it said that it would take about 2 weeks for the shipment to arrive (just in time to do Christmas cards:). and I'm just sitting here anxiously waiting! To pass some portrait-less time, I spent a few timeless hours planning out what 10 shapes to buy with my 10$ gift card that the machine comes with. There are so many jaw-dropping shapes and patterns to choose from! Did you know that their store carries 3-D crafts? Well, the new Christmas-themed ones are fantabulous! There's these pretty ornaments, words in frames, a merry-go-round, pillow boxes, shadow boxes, frame arts, plus thousands more! I think the Silhouette artists really outdid themselves designing this branch of shapes! If you hurry, you can still purchase all your shapes for 50% off, 20$ off the Portrait, around 220$ for the Cameo plus the design studio software. Great sales await- of course, now I have to cut back  bit on additional craft shopping, but it sure is worth it! I can't wait to post all the fun I have with this new machine!

P.S. Silhouettes are perfect for crafting because, you  don't have to buy any cartridges- you can cut anything you can paste into teh Silhouette software- which is virtually everything!

Image above is credited to Silhouette America.

Have a yummy day everyone (I/m eating noodles. SLURRP!)

A Bowl of Ice Cream

Winter's coming, and its time to start making gifts for eeryone! This year, I'm giving everyone a dessert-realated gift- who doesn't like sweets? Here are the first three charms I've created...

A Bowl of Ice Cream!

A Honeybun!

And, a Chocolate Chip Cookie!

Don't they look yummy enough to eat?  These, by the way, were made with colored Play Dough and will soon be glazed with glossy clear glue. I'll keep you guys posted on more of my dessert charms. Until then...
Have a sweet day, and see everyone next post!

Paint Markers? From Elmars

Yes, there are such things. I was at Walmart looking for more of those amazing journalism pens from Elmars, but apparantly, Walmart doesn't carry them. However, I stumbled across these markers that look similar and decided to buy the prettiest pack (they are also sold individually at the sam unit price)- the Sherbet Swirl pack (I know I spelled the title wrong in my last card post guys...:) plus a gold paint marker. Apparantly, these markers are filled with real acrylic paint, yet works just like a marker. Confirmed! The paint in these arkers are just like regular acrylic- they are a bit thicker than water- based markers, so you have to make several layers for full coverage, dry quickly, and don't let you see your streaks. That's good. The sad thing is they do bleed on copy paper after about 2 layers. They don't bleed if you let the first 2 layers dry, then add your other layers accordingly. And like paint, the paint does occaisionally pick up, but not much. Now for the gold...

• Bleeds slightly and strangely evenly after one layer of color
• Great, solid coverage-like a journalism pen
• Semi-shiny aka does imitate gold lining
• You have to shake and press down often!

Caution: The tips of these markers are pretty soft, so if you poke like a needle on it, there will be a hole!

They work lightly on wood, ceramic, pottery, metal. paper, plstic, fabrics, and glass?
Hmm, I wonder how well they work on glass... be back in a moment to test this out...
Verdict: They do work! However, the coverage is semi-solid, and easily removable.

All in all, pretty great buy!

Hope this helps with any qualms you have against purchasing paint markers- oh, and they're $2.50 each.

Have a good day, and see everyone next post!

Changing With the Season

I'm pleased to announce that Go Brushes has just undergo a fabulous make-over...

Well, actually, it has only changed wallpaper, but I like to think of it as mood-altering. Now, this blogpage has more of a warm, wintery feeling to it. I think I might change this blog's skins every season for fun from now on. What do you think? Leave a comment on my blog! Thanks and see everyone next post!

Just A Note Card

Here's an adorable adaptation of a card I found on Scrapbook.com's card gallery (so much inspiration there!) I cut out a 4.5" by 5" rectangle out, and folded it horizontally. Setting up the pre-card up long ways, i cut out a sky blue cardstock square (2.5" by 3.3") and pasted it onto the top half of the card. Next, I cut a 4" by .4" tan construction paper strip with  Xacto 's tiara-edge scissors. I creased every centimetre to create ruffles on the strip before liquid-gluing it (glue stick won't work). With an Elmar's acrylic paint marker (spring green in the Sherbert Swirl pack), I wrote the word "Hi" in large print on the card, and with a blue acrylic marker, I drew blue flowers on the bottom half of the card. The last step was to use a smooth shading technique to add hints of dark brown and finish off the flowers and the card.

This is a great card for a "Just Because" messege you want to give to the wonderful people in your life! Have an marvelific day, and see everyone next post!

Let It Snow!

I "shop-lifted" this extremely adorable card layout from My Paper Secret at www.mypapersecret.blogspot.com. I used silver and gold acrylic paint markers from Elmars to create the snowflakes, and black for the sentiment. The red edge was from red Crayola color pencil blended with mineral spirits (I'll do a post on that later). I drew and cut out the snowman, using mineral spirits to blend again- and glued half a pom pom on the stomach. Then, I glued it onto the sentiment's tag. You canh't really see it, but the image is also attached to a foggy piece of plastic. The whole piece was mounted onto the base card.

Yeah, I know its not Christmas, yet, but making Christmas cards is so addicting!

Tea Card

Hi everyone! It's good to be back- I still have a mountain amount of homework to do, but escaped for a few minutes to share with you guys this card I made a few days ago. I created this spotted red tea card with beige rectangles, and a tied brown ribbon. I actually cut a slit through the left (took a minute to know) to string the brown ribbon around. When I give this to someone, I'll probably stick a moss-rimmed tag under the bottom of the ribbon- like an actual gift!
Have a stress-free day and see everyone next post.