I'm happiest when I'm crafting so my craft room is the most important part of my home. I'm in a completely different world with no concept of time when I'm working in my craft room, thus the name of my blog, Ligaya's Creativity Zone. 
I waited for more than 2 years before I eventually decided on the Silhouette SD machine. I did a thorough research on the various digital cutting machines and I was overwhelmed with the ton of information that I found online. I initially liked the Cricut machine by PrvoCraft but I hated the idea of having to spend more $$$ on the cartridges. It will be just like an endless purchase of rubber stamps in which it will never be enough as you would always want something new practically every time you create a new card. I strongly preferred the concept of buying individual designs at a minimal cost and having the flexibility of being able to redesign, resize, weld, and do a whole lot more on the design and its elements. The program of the Silhouette also allows you to make your own designs. The possibilities on what you can do with the program and the machine are limitless! It's truly amazing! For me, it's simply the best personal digital cutting machine.
I tend to waste a lot of paper from printed documents that I no longer need. I'm ashame to admit that I'm not really conscious in recycling but now and again I'll have some fleeting moments of guilt for being wasteful. So, I created this scratch paper holder to be more conscious and stop throwing paper than can still be used. It initiated the idea of creating more of this holder to organize my card stock scraps. I haven't done them yet but that will be my next project. I'm sure that some of you will come up with ideas on other uses for this holder. I just want to motivate everyone to be organized. I'd love to see what you come up with.
Silhouette Design: 
I created this card to experiment on the faux chipboard and it ended up being my favorite card Since the Silhouette machine is not capable of cutting thick materials like chipboard, I replicated the scallop shape 4 times and glued them together to create the frame. Not only did it make the frame sturdy, it gave the frame a pretty dimension. The bead flowers look so beautiful on the subtle green flourish against the light shading of yellow dye ink on the shimmery base of the card. The 3D flower with a pearl in the middle added an elegance on the card. I dabbed the same yellow dye on the edges of the petals as well as on the outline of the scallop base of the card.
I was very good this year in finishing my Christmas cards a lot earlier than usual. All because of my dependable digital cutting machine, the Silhouette SD. I just can't stop raving about this truly amazing machine. My crafting couldn't be easier and faster. And with the new software, the Silhouette Studio, working on my designs is simply heavenly :).
I used red felt paper for the card and embossed it with the Fiskars Snowflakes template using the Cuttlebug. The hunter green cardstock ribbon was embossed with the Fiskars Dots template.I used the print and cut for the sentiment, the message inside the card and the Hand Crafted By. The card has 9 layers of cutouts and with the 45 cards that I made, my Silhouette did a total of 450 cuts!
