Mixed Patterns Mandala to color

Mixed patterns were at one time considered a definite fashion no-no. That's changed. This mandala combines polka dots, chevrons, and stripes. I hope you enjoy it. Click on the images for larger versions to print and color.

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And look! My raspberries are starting to ripen!

Printable learning quote and blank chevron page

I liked the chevron box so much that I decided to use the same fill for paper and if there is going to be paper, there will probably be a printable quote.

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford 

Click on the images to download larger versions. Feel free to use the blank page as stationary, in scrapbook layouts (it's 8x10 inches), to add your own quote or in any crafty use. The quote can be printed and framed.

Other stuff- the Duck Tape contest is voting until 11/15. If you haven't voted, you haven't seen the cute mockups they made of how the designs might look on the roll of tape. Here's mine! Isn't that just so cute?

Because my chef skull design has been so popular on Spoonflower, I've decided to do some other design collections in different colors. So sometime in the next week or so, I'll be posting examples. 

Chevron Box

I haven't done chevrons in a while. I hope you enjoy this fun, colorful free printable chevron box.

Click on the image for a larger version, print on card stock, cut out, score, fold, glue!

Please go vote for your favorite design to be made into Duck Tape on Duck Tape's FB page. 

This is my design entry, which I'm still just so happy made it to the finals (and thank you Kai for you incredibly kind encouragement!) You can vote daily until 11/15/12! 

For people who are having issues with the size of my printables being too big for web printing, I save them in a large size for more detail. If you want to print directly from a browser, Chrome is a good option. It will scale the image to fit a single sheet of paper. Other options include saving it to your hard drive and printing from a graphics program or picking fit to page from your printer dialogue. Since the templates are set up at 8x10 inches, fit to page may come out slightly bigger than my stated measurements on US paper sizes.

Geometric boxes in Fall Fashion Colors

2 printable 2x2 gift boxes, both with the same colors, and just slightly different layouts. The colors are inspired by Pantone's Fall 2012 color forecast. One pattern is the chevrons from last year, the other is based loosely on the very popular geometric patterns this year. I hope you enjoy them!

Click on the images for larger versions, print on card stock, cut, score, fold, glue!

Spring Color Printable Boxes

This set matches the Ghirardelli Square  slide boxes posted a couple of days ago. Bright pastel spring colors.
Click on the images for larger versions. Print, cut, score, fold, glue.

I posted the template for the Ghirardelli square box in my Etsy shop. You'll get the templates for both boxes that I've sized for Ghirardelli squares. Also newly posted in my Etsy shop is an earring pattern for Cross and Easter lily earrings.

Chevron Box and card

I hope you enjoy this fun chevron box. The business sized card can imported to your word process software to make calling cards. I thought about making a fillable form PDF, but decided that I wanted to post these right now before forgetting about them again! Click on the images for larger versions.

I'm thinking about putting a digital grab bag in my Etsy shop. It will have some of the backgrounds I've used on printables like the chevron above, some braided frame PNG format digital stamps, a knot digital stamp and probably a couple templates. If I do this, what do you think I should charge?

Another chevron zig zag box- Sunset Palette

This pattern uses a palette from one of the sunset photos that I posted recently. I also shifted the colors a bit to create 2 more color choices for this chevron themed box.

2x2x2 inch cube, click on the images for larger versions. I suggest printing to fit a sheet of card stock. Cut, score, fold, glue!

Zig Zag Recipe cards and a few other things

Hi Everyone!

In the last few days a lot of people using Blogger have noticed that they are using a new code for images. This code was implemented without a good way to turn it off and causes images to show up in something called Lightbox. I used the code snippet from HERE to revert DETP. The people at Blogger do realize that a lot of their users really dislike the new feature, and hopefully will offer an easy way to opt out soon. 

Recipe Cards! 

The last couple of days, I've been playing with some PDF recipe cards. I'm still not completely happy with the results, but this is what I have so far. You should be able to type recipes directly into them using Acrobat Reader, and save the PDF to your hard drive with your recipes filled in and print them out. These are 4x6 inch cards formatted for US letter size paper or card stock.

Zig Zag Recipe Cards

This was my first version. I accidentally missed putting in some of the cutting guide lines. This is filled out using a couple of my grandmother's recipes. One for bourbon balls, the other for pecan balls.

Ball Cookie Zig Zag Recipe Cards

Another chevron zig zag box

It's been an amazing week. More on that in a minute. First the box!

This box was based off a palette created from a photo I took today just for the colors. I picked the colors manually and loaded the palette on ColourLovers, along with a palette that I generated using their software from the second photo.

So my amazing week started normally enough. Books, beads and crafts. Not sure when I realized it was a very good week. It just kept building up steam. All sorts of things lining up well and working out well. Today was just the icing on the cake. Michael isn't normally a very spontaneous person. He tries though because he knows that I am and today he decided it was time to go to Thunderbird Falls, and I'll be posting photos of that later. That was *after* he dropped Turnip Girl and I at Salvation Army while he got a hair cut. Then after the hiking, we hit my favorite coffee roastery for a few lbs of my favorite coffee. If you like dark roasts, you might want to try the Arctic Wolf.  It's a deep, rich, fruity roast. Dark and oily and my favorite coffee. If you prefer lighter roasts, the Pioneer blend is one of my dad's favorites. One of my plans soon is to make an appointment with Ron to work on a special Don't Eat the Paste coffee. 

Check out this How-Tuesday about weaving Ojo de Dios (God's Eyes)

Chevron boxes and a chevron chain

Chevron 2x2 printable gift boxes in 4 colorways. I hope you like them. Click on the images for larger versions. Print on card stock, cut, score, fold, glue!

Recently someone left a comment that they weren't able to print out my boxes anymore since I started increasing the DPI on them. If you're printing from a browser with these style boxes, you'll want to set your printer settings to Fit to Page. Most of my single page boxes are set up on an 8x10 page so fit to page will be just right. With the 2 page boxes, it's very important to print both pages at the same DPI, so if it downloads for you at 200 dpi, print both pages at that setting.
I really recommend for printing from a browser, switching to Chrome browser. It's print preview gives you a look at exactly how it's going to print and it's "smart" enough to handle higher DPI settings.

Instructions for this chevron chain are HERE. It's made fairly quickly in one of my favorite bead stitch techniques.