Turn your umbrella upside down

My SIL's birthday is this Friday so I thought I'd get started on her card early.  I am also entering this card in a couple of challenges this week, (1) Polka Doodles [Pretty in Pink Challenge] and (2) Fantabulous Cricut [April Shower - umbrella, clouds, or rain challenge].  This card is an A2 sized card. 

Here's a side view of the card:

For the front of the card, I cut the umbrella from the American Alphabet cart that came in pre-loaded on my AE2.  I cut the blackout and the top layers two times and put them together using foam mounts for depth.  I attached a strip of ribbon in the middle of the top layers.

The three rolled flowers were from the Art Philosophy cart.  The presents were cut free-hand from my stash of scraps.  I used one of the border folders from the  With Love CB border folders for the flowers on the side of the front and Swiss Dots CB folder for one of the presents.  I used twine for the presents.  I also used a doily MS puncher and Recollections rhinestones. 

Here is a look at the finished inside of the card - I used the same MS doily puncher for the matching cardstock. 

The sentiment on the outside and the inside of the card were printed and cut using the print and cut feature of the Silhouette Cameo.

I sized a box cut line for the inside sentiment by 4.125 x 5.375 inches, then wrote my sentiment inside this box cut line.  The sentiment in the front of the card is seen on the bottom of the screen and it says "Yep, better keep that umbrella turned upside down..." using the Abbeyline font.  The sentiment in the box that will go inside the card reads "...'cause you're bound to be showered with gifts today" , and "Have a wonderful Birthday" using the Harrington and Before the Rain fonts, respectively.   I did not put a box cut line around the sentiment for the front of the card because I thought I had a die to cut it with but ended up cutting it with a pair of scissors. 

Thanks for looking! 

Polkadoodles Easter Blog Hop Entry

Hi there!  I can't believe Easter is almost here!  I put together a bunch of Easter goody bag treats for my kids to give out to their classmates this Thursday (they're off for Good Friday).  I am also linking this project for the Polkadoodles Easter Blog Hop going on now through this Sunday noon, with the Easter theme. 

The goody bags were each filled with three different "eggs" treat containers I purchased from Walmart.  A few containers were actually shaped like cupcakes.  We (my kids helped, of course) put together a total of 35 bags. Here's a closeup of a couple.  The ones with the green tags are for my DS's class and the ones with the yellow tags are for my DD's class. 

The tags were created using an image from the Silhouette Store, cut with the Cameo.  This particular image is one of a set of four by Jamie Koay.  The image was cut using the print and cut feature on the Silhouette Studio because I wanted to put "Blessed Easter" and my kids' names on the tags. 

Here's a screen shot of the tags in Silhouette Studio.  I used the Angelica font, and flood-filled the font with black ink before sending the page to print in my printer. 

 This is how the page looks like after printing.  The red marks shown in the screen above did NOT print because they are cut lines.  (yes, I am using a 12 x 12 Cricut mat on my Cameo because you can!)

Since the Cameo knows that this is a print and cut job, it will look for those registration marks on the page before cutting.  I did not want the letters cut out, just the tags, so I made sure I deleted the sentiments in the Silhouette Studio before I loaded the mat and hit cut on the Cameo.

So this is what the tags looked like all cut.  Again, the yellow tags are for my DD's class and the green ones are for my DS's class.  The tags were cut using yellow/gold and green Recollections cardstock from Michaels.

 

I used the Off-set feature on the Silhouette Studio to create a shadow for the tags and cut those with a K & Company double-sided cardstock.  I wanted to put a button in each finished tag before I thread a strand of twine on the back but the holes on the tags were too small for the back of the buttons to slip in nicely, so I used an old Fiskars hole puncher I have had for years.  This particular one is flower shaped.

Now the back of the buttons fit nicely onto the tags.  I threaded the twine onto the buttons through the back of the tags and voila!  Hope you like my project for the Polkadoodles challenge hop - that was a fun one!  I'll be back in a few days to share with you all the ones I've made for my kids' teachers.  Have a pleasant day!