Hello Everyone,
How is your weekend going to shape up? Mine is going to be fairly round I think, a round of craft, a round of housework (dirty word), a round of gardening and a round of reading. Yep that sounds about the size of it, bit fat circles I will be running in.
So how do you like this spiney little fella??? He is an Echidna (Porcupine) and we see him a lot around here, he plays in the garden, walks across the grass and does not seem to be bothered by anyone. If he is he just rolls himself into a little ball with all his spines out to protect his soft parts and just lays there until the danger goes away.

So thinking about him I took the time to make a card between trying to tidy the craft room. Didn’t get far with that, I keep finding cool stuff to play with.

This is a simple card on a white A6 base with a pink PATP. I did not measure this, haha, and just punched, but it didn’t line up, but you use your mistakes don’t you? Well I did. A doily layered and some colourful ricrak, sp.??.
I stamped the sentiment with a Penny Black stamp and used a die cut from Quickcutz. Decorated the cake with the flower punch outs from the border punch.
When I first got this die, it would not cut cleanly and I used a shim, another shim and another and thought oh boy I am going to bust my BigShot on this. 😦 Bummer my first die that would not work at all for me, it was just hopeless….. I did not get around to sending it back and was going to bin it……. But I thought, I am going to take the ejection foam off it and see how bad this is made and write to the manufacturer and complain.
Well slap my thighs and call me Dusty, there was nothing wrong with it, cuts perfectly without the foam. 🙂 I looked at the foam carefully. It seems to have a plastic coating on the die side of it… yep you guessed it, I cannot even cut it properly with scissors….
So I gave it some brand new foam and Ta-Dah!!! Works like new!! Perfect cutting. Lauren you are my hero, good girl!! Gotta love it when you fix it yourself!! 😀
Thanks for calling in, hope your day is going well.
Hugs 

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