All of the "Tool Talk Tuesday" facebook posts in one long list.
Some of the crafting tools regularly found on my desk
See My Amazon "Favorite Craft Products" List here:
On My Desk 9/8/21 - Layered Paper Fall Designs
My intention is for these to be strung together as a fall banner - but I have not gotten quite that far yet. :-)
This is the first time I have used textured, and pearlized, papers in layered svgs. I combined regular cardstock (I most often use Recollections brand from Michaels) with 12x12 cardstock I bought in packs at Hobby Lobby. I love the dimension and shine the "fancier" papers add to these designs.
The Pumpkin Sunflower Mandala is a free svg from:
The Sunflower is a free svg from:
The layered crow mandala is a free svg from:
The layered mandala Scarecrow Gnome is not a free file, but if you purchased the Gigantic Halloween Papercut Bundle in the August $1 deals, he is included in that bundle:
You can find him available for purchase on his own, here: https://tinyurl.com/mhw7kvcr
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New Book Releases September 2020
New Book Releases, September 2020
The Books I'm Adding To My Fall To Read List
Quick Tip - Screenshot the colors panel
Tip - When I'm cutting projects with a lot of layers, I sometimes open the color sync panel on the right, make sure I combined as much as I could, and then I take a screenshot.
Then I click make it, and sort out my cardstock. The screenshot helps me to decipher subtle shade differences that can be difficult to figure out from the "make it" screens.
A lot of these complex mandalas - especially from Okadee - have SO many shades. I don't always have that many shades of one color in my cardstock collection.
Often I can combine a few - especially when combining projects. For instance, that scarecrow originally had more brown layers. When I looked at the color panel, I realized I'd like him to have more orange, so I drug a few pieces to the same colors used in the pumpkin.
If I didn't like a change, I just clicked the undo button. This project still has a LOT of colors, but it's more manageable than when I started.
Jennifer maker has a long post on how to change your project colors so they cut in the order you want them to cut - but that is too confusing to me, I want the mat to show me what color the pieces should be, so if I want to cut out of order, I simply click on the mat (from the cut screen, after choosing make it) and it cuts whatever mat is selected. The chart above tells you which order cricut will use when sending the project to the mat. It starts with the white and works to purple.
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Find an index of all of my Quick Tip Cards, here:
Thirty - A Dice Game
Thirty
Objective: To be the last person with points left, whilst attempting to knock the player to your left out of the game.
Equipment: 6 dice, Pen and paper for scoring Number of players: As many as you want
Game play:
Every players starts out with 30 points. The player takes the 6 dice and rolls them with the primary objective of scoring 30 or over. With each roll, the player must set aside at least one die, but is allowed to set aside as many as they wish. The play continues until all 6 dice have been set aside, and then the face value is added up to determine the total for that player.
Every players starts out with 30 points. The player takes the 6 dice and rolls them with the primary objective of scoring 30 or over. With each roll, the player must set aside at least one die, but is allowed to set aside as many as they wish. The play continues until all 6 dice have been set aside, and then the face value is added up to determine the total for that player.
If a total value of 30 is achieved, the player scores 0 points, and the dice are passed to the player to the left.
If the total is LESS than 30, the player will subtract that number from their own points, and then the dice are passed to the left.
If the total is MORE than 30, the player takes all 6 dice and rolls again. For every die they roll with the face value being the number of points over 30 they had rolled, the die is set aside and the player to their left gets those points subtracted. This continues until for as long as they continue to roll dice of the correct number. Play then continues to the left.
Example:
Player A rolls the 6 dice to reveal 6, 6, 5, 2, 3, 4
He sets aside the two 6s and rolls the remaining four dice to reveal 4, 1, 1, 2
He MUST take something from each roll so he sets aside the 4
On his next roll he reveals 6, 5, 1 so he takes the 6
He rolls again and reveals 5, 2 and takes the 5
On his last roll he manages a 4 and sets it aside
The dice set aside are 6, 6, 4, 6, 5, 4 to give him a total of 31 points.
Player A now takes all 6 dice again to attempt to roll as many 1s as he can. For each 1 he rolls, Player B to his left will get 1 point subtracted from his total score.
Player A rolls 6, 2, 4, 5, 1, 1 on his first go and sets aside the two 1s
On his second go he rolls 3, 6, 1, 4 and sets the 1 aside
On his third roll he has 5, 2, 5, 3 and as he has no 1s, his turn is over. Player B subtracts 3 points from his score which are written down on the score sheet and play passes to him.
Player B is not so lucky. After his rolls, he has ended up with a face value of only 28 points. As he is under 30 by 2, those 2 points are subtracted from his previous score of 28 to leave him a total of 25 points. Play continues to his left.
Player C is relatively lucky after his rolls, he scores a face value of exactly 30, which means he does not subtract any of his points, but he also does not have an opportunity to subtract points to player D on his left. Play passes to player D.
In this way play continues around the table until game over.
Game Over: When a player runs out of points he is out. The game ends when everyone has run out of points except one person, and he is the winner.
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Card Game Storage - Free svgs
Cosmetic bags make great storage for our favorite card games.
Download the SVGS For The Bags In One Zip File Here
Printable Hand & Foot Rules, Cheat Sheets, & Score Sheets
The Hand & Foot Card Game is a variant of Canasta. It is typically played with 4 players, two teams. But up to 6 can play, using one deck of cards per a player.
Download a pdf file of rules, cheat sheets for the players to keep track of the rules, and scoring sheets, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19LVdLgJxNRD_F8x8abO5Cn7BDHsVPA8X/view?usp=sharing
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