2013 - PaperChaserTO

Christmas came early this year, on my door step sat a large box containing my dream toy...The Klic-N-Kut MAXX Air 15"

I was a kid again ripping the box open and reveal all the goodies inside. I am forever grateful for my hugest supporters out there, without you guys I wouldn't be here.

Along with the cutting machine came a bunch of extras on top of the bonus kit which came with the purchase of the machine. Even though it's always nice to get extras, it was very overwhelming and confusing having to go through all the extras which were jumbled and all over the place.

The manual has to be retrieved from the KNK website resources which I understand it's economically smarter for the manufacturer but such a hassle for the user. I was going crazy for half a night trying to figure out if I could save the manual as a pdf, eventually I found the link (thank god). I'm still reading through the manual and would imagine that come time to learn the Make-the-Cut software, it's going to be a b*tch having to switch between windows.

I still have so much to learn about it, but like a mother seeing her child for the firsts time...I already love my machine.

Just wanted to update on the Halloween crafts I made. Made a couple more minion goggles for some friends but this time using recycled fruit cups!

Here's how they ended up:

And some photos from the night:

I want to MAKE THIS!!!

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It's that time of the year again where girls and boys dress up and go trick or treating! (and for those old enough...party til the sun comes up!)

So this year I've decided to be the evil purple minion from Despicable Me 2 to pair with my BFFL who's going as the yellow minion. I've looked around and found some really nice tutorials for the costume and took a little bit from each to make mine own.

Check out what I was inspired by:

After looking through what others have made before me, I was off to make my version of this cute costume. I found an old high-waist skirt that I didn't wear anymore and cut that up.

I sewed close the 2 sides of the top rectangle and using the scrap pieces I was able to make 2 straps. With a white coloured eye liner pencil (don't judge me! lol) I drew out the M logo for El Macho and painted it with white acrylic paint.

I wasn't worried about the extra white lines, they just rub off over time. Then going through my button collection I found 2 buttons that were the same size, except one wasn't black. So I busted out the black acrylic paint and shazam just like that we got 2 black buttons!

I hand sewed the button to the strap and to the rectangular part of the skirt. Pictures of this will be at the end!!

I really liked the fitted with the goggle look from the North of Heaven costume. I searched my house for something to make the goggle from and found this takeout container

With an xacto knife I cut out the inner circle. This was surprisingly really easy and the plastic cut like butter!

Next I painted the outside of the container and the lid with grey acrylic paint. EZPZ

I then measured out a circle to fit the bottom of the container for the eye. With some paint I painted the purple eyelid and eye.

I had bought some elastic banding for a skirt I was going to make for my convocation but my serging needle broke and that plan flopped. So, I re-purposed the elastic (mine measured 1 1/2" by 20 1/2").

Finally with I just hot glued the container to the elastic

All I need now is a purple fitted and some black gloves...But all-in-all I was very pleased with how it all came together. Here is the costume:

My friend decorated these pumpkins (minions)
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I am SO excited to share this new project I recently finished. I was asked to make a 12"x12" companion cube! For everyone who doesn't know what a companion cube is, it comes from a popular video game called Portal.

It's a puzzle based game that is super addicting and whose theme song was the most fun to play on rockband!

So the companion cube I made was for a wedding, they will be using it as a card box. So the requirements for the box that I had to work off were:

must be able to open and close; and
red colour scheme instead of the usual pink

Off I went drafting the design for the box. It was very different from the companion cube I made in my portal themed explosion box.

To be honest, it was the first time I've created anything like this on this kind of scale so I learned A LOT. What did I learn?

support pieces are a MUST
measure twice, cut once
always take into account the thickness of your medium
most importantly, PATIENCE

After a week and a half of hard work, I completed the project and am very proud of my work :D

craftyamy93 on youtube made an awesome rucksack that is perfect for back-to-school!

I've been meaning to get my hands on a knapsack project and this is the exact tutorial I needed ^^

A case Keilantra did to protect her Ipod or Iphone =D super cute

Read this tutorial at my new website!

CraftKlatch on Youtube made a super pretty christmas flower ornament out of toilet paper roll.

I know it's a little too early for christmas talk but stumbling upon this video reminded me of my toilet paper wall decor craft.

Using the techniques CraftKlatch used on the wall decor would look so amazing. I might need to give it a try one day!

craftylittlemonkey made cute little monsters from her old sweaters. This is an awesome recycled craft and is a easy way to repurpose your old funky sweaters. Check out her how-to here.

HEY GUYS! I'm super excited to share this project with you. It was the first time I've done anything like this and it turned it AMAZE BALLS :D

My friend recently moved out and is furnishing her apartment; she found this plain wood drawer that really needed a revamp.

Using leftover National Geographic Magazines from my light switch project, we clipped out images to decoupage over the boring wood brown.

We used 1 part water and 1 part regular school glue to glue everything down.

At the end of day 1, we had most of the drawers completed. On day 2 we added the finishing touches; completed the top of the wardrobe and the skirt at the bottom.

Read this tutorial at my new website!

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