Boys rule, girls rule with the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder

Well what should you do on a Sunday afternoon in the summer when there are thunderstorms?  Create of course!  And not feel guilty!  I used the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder with a Sakura metallic Gelly Roll gel pen to draw the lines and the title on this.  I used the offset method to fill the lines in the title.  You can find out how to do that here... offset fill in

I love making lines for journaling right on my background paper, then I can get all my words to line up and look clean and neat, even in my own handwriting.

Here are the finished pages!  My daughter told me I spelled boys drool wrong!  LOL!  She cracks me up!

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And now for the Explore...

Well I did it.  I took the plunge.  So many of you have raved about the Cricut Explore & begged me for tools for the Cricut Explore, that how could I turn you down?
So this came this weekend...

And my husband has already drawn up the plans for a marker holder (it will fit up to 1/2 inch markers, or a fine point original Sharpie), a pen holder for gel pens & an engraving tip to etch on metal sheets, acrylic, etc!  So watch this blog for more details!  I will work on pre-orders this week.  Hoping to start shipping Mid-August, fingers crossed!  For now I got to play with a prototype and got this... 

This is a Sakura metallic Gelly Roll pen in what will be the Explore pen holder! 



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Joy's framed art and a give away!

My crafty friend Joy from Joy's Life used the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder with a Sakura gel pen to make this cute framed design!  She does give some instructions on her project as well!

Want a chance to win both the Chomas Creation's adjustable pen & marker holders?  Go to Joy's blog Joy's Life for a chance to win!

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1st birthday with Chomas Creations adjustable marker holder

Wow it has been a busy year in my house!  We have been remodeling, and it takes a lot of time and effort!  I did finally get to get a scrapbook page done of my nephew's 1st birthday, he is almost 2 1/2 now, eeeek!
I used the Chomas Creations adjustable marker holder with the white Signo Uniball gel pen.  I used the sketch feature in Studio to change a normal rectangle into the swirl pattern you see on my page.  The title was a Studio download.  The journaling is my own handwriting.

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Cricut owners I need your help!

Cricut owners I need your help! I have had quite a few of you with the Explore ask if I'm going to make any holders for the Explore. Well I need opinions on what you are looking for!
If I had a pen holder that centers most gel pens, would anyone be interested in that? What about an engraving tip?
I don't have the machine (yet) and don't know if a 1/2 inch holder is an option (think original fine point Sharpie marker) but is that something anyone is interested in?
I need to see some interest before I invest in the machine and time to do all of this! Thanks for all your help!
You can contact me at amyc222@yahoo.com or just reply here!

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Ooooh new gel pens to share with you!

Sometimes I get so excited about some new pens to share with you that I don't have the time to put together a project, but I did make a sample!  I can't wait to play more with these! I  was shopping at Joanns and ran across Sakura Gelly Roll pens that said they would work on matte and glossy surfaces, and I'm like, whooooah I need those!  LOL!  So here they are, and what they can do!  This is silver vinyl.  The gel pen fit in the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder.

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Puppy Love with Chomas Creations adjustable marker holder

I just LOVE the look of white gel pen on kraft cardstock!  I'm seeing it a lot out there lately as patterned paper, but why not make your own?  I didn't have any dog papers, so I did just that.  I used the Chomas Creations adjustable marker holder with the Signo Uniball white gel pen to draw the dog bone pattern on my background paper.  Because the white gel pens are very wet, I used a speed of 2and a thickness of 1 to draw this.  The bones were from the Studio store.

The title was also from the Studio store. 

We call my daughter the dog whisperer, she is so good with all of our dogs and they just love her to pieces!  I added some extra hearts and brads for some more fun!

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Drew layout with Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder

This is my super duper cute new nephew Drew!  Don't you just love his hair blowing in the breeze!?! 
One of my favorite things to do with the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder for the Cameo is to make my own background paper!  You can download the graph paper file for Studio here...graph paper  I used the Chomas Creations black metallic gel pen in the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder with a speed of 3 and a pressure of 10 to draw these lines.

I also used the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder to draw the journaling lines in this thought bubble.  You can get the file and tutorial for that here... thought bubble

The title was using the Lettering Delights Remington Portable. 

 

And here is the cutie patootie I was talking about, my Drew!  My daughter asked me to please please please put some buttons on this layout and picked them all out for me! 

 

 

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Senior photo mini album with Chomas Creations ajustable holder

Leave it to me to leave this to the last minute!  Just 2 days till my daugther's grad party and I'm still working on little projects (ok, so this one is kinda a big thing time wise!  I had this mini album sitting around just waiting to be done (2 pieces of acrylic and 4 pieces of chipboard, I had to decorate them).  I thought it would be cool to write on the arylic sheets of the album!  So I added the sheet with the blue protective cover on the bottom (that is why it looks blue in the picture) to my Cricut mat, then added some blue painters tape to keep it super secure, and added my Chomas Creations adjustable marker holder to the Cricut Expression 2.  Now being that I had this piece of acrylic in the machine that is higher then your standard cardstock, I wanted to adjust the height of my Bic Mark-It so that it didn't write on the surface of the acrylic.  So this time I added the popcycle stick on TOP of the acrylic sheet when choosing my height.  This kept it higher!

 I used a speed of 2 (didn't want my marker to smear!) and a pressure of 2 then drew my design with the Chomas Creations adjustable marker holder for the Cricut and a Bic Mark-It.

I used the Chomas Creations embossing kit to emboss the design onto a metal sheet.  I added the colored side of the metal sheet to the embossing mat, embossed the design, then sanded the raised image.

Here are some more pages in the album!  Wheeewh so glad that is done!

And here is the entire book put together! 

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Birthday card with Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder

I love how this turned out, looks so much like chalk on chalkboard!!  This is the Sakura moonlight gelly roll gel pens in the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder.  The file is from the Studio store.  I used internal offset to fill in the pattern on this file.  I kept adjusting the internal offset until the whole thing was filled!  Worked great!  Because these pens are pretty juicy, I used a speed of 2 and a thickness of 6. 

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Valentine's Day cards with the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder

My daughter seriously cracks me up!  I showed her these Valentines I designed and she was over the moon!!!  She couldn't wait to get them started! 
If you would like the share to make these for your kiddies, here you go!  I mustache you to be my Valentine
I seriously made over 60 of these today with the Silhouette and the Chomas Creations adjustable pen holder.  It does take a bit to draw, but it is so worth it!  I do love the look of gel pen on paper!  These gel pens are the Sakura Moonlight Gelly Roll. 
I used a speed of 3 and a thickness of 4 to draw these.  These pens are juicy and you don't want them to smear!

I gave the kids a glue stick and a white gel pen to write on the backs of their cards (I layered these with red cardstock) and put them to work!

I cut the mustaches out of black fuzzy vinyl!  Soooo fun! 

My daughter put together an assembly line and cranked these out in no time, all 31!  eeeek

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