A nice peaceful day...

   Today I have had a nice low-key kind of day.  I slept late again, until after nine, which for me is very very late! I told hubby last Sunday to wake me up, if I sleep past 8, since Sunday is the one day we never set an alarm.  But, he didn't and as he reminded me again, I really MUST need the sleep, if I say asleep that long.  I guess he's right, but with Fibro - fatigue is a daily battle and you would think I would be better with it.  It is nice to get the extra rest, but I feel like I wasted my morning too.  By the time I finished chores and laundry it was 12:30..!

    Needless to say, that really cut into my cardmaking time.  Even so, I was happy to create two new cards today and both are for OWH and based on the new sketch challenge over at the Stars and Stamps Blog.   This is a copy of the sketch that I copied over from the site and as soon as I saw it, I knew I loved it.  It's very much like the Cuttlebug cards I had made earlier this week.  I knew I could use some of the squares I had already cut, and simply trimmed them down to this size.

  And here are the first two cards I created based on this sketch.  Again, I incorporated using my Cuttlebug and the 2" dies and folders.  I know I'll be making more of these cards, like the Cuttlebug Challenge, this another great use of scraps.

   These cards to also really FUN to make and there's no doubt I will be using these ideas again!  I love how easy the cards are and since I have so many Cuttlebug accessories, it's simple to make them very quickly and all a bit different! 

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   I also was working a bit more with my SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot) program today and I'm still trying very hard to learn how to use it so that I can create flourishes and designs for my cards.  One of my craft friends sent me two of her flourishes files, which I really love, but for some silly reason I can not seem to import them into my SCAL.  I hope to figure it out and if any of you are great with the program and have any ideas, please HELP me!!
    The files did arrive in my email as SVG files, but each time I try to import them, I get an error massage that says 'Failed to Load SVG File".   Until today, I had never every received that message.  I went over to the SCAL forum at Craft Edge and posted about my problem.  While I was there, I found some fabulous free SVG files and downloaded them for my collection.   I was happy to see that they imported easily, but then on the very last file, it would NOT work, I received the same error message.   Go figure!  I had never ever seen it before and now it comes up twice in one day.   

   SCAL and I seem to have a love/hate relationship and I've never been overly thrilled with the program.  I had problems when I first installed it, because I had so many fonts on my computer.  Come to find out, it can not run right if YOU have too many fonts?  After talking to CS, I found the only way I could run it was to delete over 1,000 fonts I had collected.  I was told that I had too many and was not overly happy, since the idea of th program is to cut your own files in ANY font. But, I moved over 1,000 onto my external hard-drive so I could run the program.  Too bad, I never really figured it out, it's not a very user friendly program and I still miss not having easy access to all my fonts,  Especially when I am creating sentiments for my cards.  I loved had a huge variety of fonts and had to delete so many!  Bummer!!  Sometimes I wonder if I will ever learn or love this program.  Maybe I should give up and put my fonts back, but since it was not cheap, I'm NOT ready to give up yet!!  I've had it over a year now and bet I haven't used it more than 10 times!   I really could use a class?  If anyone knows of any online SCAL classes, please let me know!  I'd really LOVE to learn how to easily use the program! 

   Well that's it for today folks!  I'm sore and tired and think I need more time away from the computer.  I think I overdid it big time, by spending so much time online today!!  I should have known better!!