Oopsie my bad!

Hello there bloggers!  Today starts a new challenge over at the Cameo Creations Challenge blog and the theme is patterned paper - so go ahead and whip out your favorite pattern (or patterns) anywhere on your project and link up with us.  Since I am not very good at combining patterns for the most part, my project contains 3 different patterns from the Silhouette Store onto 3 different cards.  As always, this project is designed using the Silhouette Studio, images printed on my faithful home printer and cut with the Cameo.

The easel cards stand at 3.540 x 5.345 inches when folded up.  The shape of the card is based on one of the set of 12 tags by PPbN Designs (Design ID #44045).  I used the offset and the weld features on the Silhouette Studio to create all the coordinating layers for the card to create the easel effect.  For the images, I used pre-colored (cuz I seriously stink at coloring ;) ) digis from Scrapper's Delights Store - I used to do Guest Design Team work on Janice's blog and still loooove her images. 

Below is a screen shot of the images in the Silhouette Studio.  The digis were in png format which means they have a clear background and so they're very easy to size them to fit your project.  The sentiments were created using the Cartoon font from my library.

 

after printing from my home printer, I load the page

(yes, you can use a Cricut mat on the Cameo)

onto the Cameo - the 3 registration marks will

guide the machine where to cut. 

 

after the cut

I used the offset feature of the Sil Studio to create  mats for the images, then flood filled each with the patterns purchased from the Silhouette Store (from top to bottom, candy cane grunge, blue diamond snowflake, and black stripe, respectively).  I let the Silhouette Studio faux stitch the mats for me. 

And here are some close-ups of the finished project, with some flower embellishments. 

 

 

 

I'm bound to forget someone's birthday so at least I'll have a card to attach to a late gift ;).  For the inside sentiments, I used the Cartoon, Horseshoes and Lemonade, and Cajun Boogie fonts. 

 



 

 Thanks so much for looking and I look forward to seeing what you link up with us at the CCC blog. 

 

Also linking to the following challenges:

 Scrapper's Delights - Challenge #7,  Birthday Inspiration

Old Backporch -  52 card pickup  



Ok, whatevs!

First of all, I love my niece! But like some teenagers I know she needs some attitude adjustment once in a while and she knows it   ;)   so I don't feel bad about creating this birthday card for her - she'll shrug off the humor behind it, roll her eyes at me then give me a hug, as she always does anyways.  I know a bit confusing, but then again we're talking about a 15 year old here :).

Hello, fellow bloggers!  Part of this post can be viewed over at the Bugbytes where I hang out the first Sunday of each month.  Thank you, Pam for having me over!  As I mentioned above, this card is a birthday card for my niece. The card was designed using the Silhouette Studio and everything was cut using my Cameo.  The card is roughly 6.25 x 5.25.  The base of the card with the flower cut out is by Jamie Koay, purchased through the Silhouette Store. 

After sizing the card base to my liking, I imported a png image (digital stamp) by Scrapper's Delights (she's already colored in, so a big time saver for me!) onto the Silhouette Studio then sized it to fit in the front of the card base.  Png images don't have cut lines so I used the trace feature of the Silhouette Studio to create a cut line around the image so that my Cameo can do the cutting for me.

png images have clear backgrounds, making them

blend with whatever background you choose to put

them on top of

using the trace feaure allows me to create a cut line

around the png image I want to use

 

here's a screen shot of how I planned this card on the Silhouette Studio,

including the envelope

 

I don't like to waste paper so here's a pic of the girl image,

the sentiment and the patterned matt after I printed them on my printer.

Notice the cut lines will not show here, but the registration marks on

the three corners of the page will guide the Cameo where to cut.

 

And here are some closeups of the finished card:

 

the image is foam mounted

I inserted a vellum panel just behind the front panel of the card.  

The top banner pennant was embossed with Plum Blossoms CB folder.

The plumeria (a png image) is part of my digital scrapbook collection

from Scrapgirls.  Like my little humor jab at her?  Like I've said,

she'll shrug it off  LOL! 

I did some stitching too.



 

 I am also linking this card up at the Old Backporch 52 Card Pickup challenge week 48. 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.



Peace out, bday girl!

Quick post ;).  Just wanted to share a card I made for my little niece Milan (cute name, eh? Her older sister's name's Paris, I kid you not!) who turned 7 yesterday.  We will see her this weekend, hopefully.  The card is 5 x 5.  The prints on the banners were all from my library of patterns from the Silhouette Studio.  I used the High Tower Text font for the sentiment.  I used the Plum Blossom CB folder to emboss the brown mat.  I dusted my mini sewing machine - but don't go clicking on the photo to enlarge it or you may see my horrendous sewing job :(  The digi image is from Scrapper's Delights which I imported onto the Silhouette Studio and used the trace feature so I can cut her with my Cameo; she is colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Here's a closeup of the image. 

Peace out! (So sorry, couldn't help myself LOL!) Thanks for looking! 

It's your birthday?

Hi there!  Wow it really has been too long since I posted!  My summer was just so busy with the kids and extended family affairs that needed to be taken cared of; hence the long break from crafting and blogging in general.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the sweet emails from those who missed me - truly appreciate all the concern and the encouragement  ;). 

Well on to my project today, shall we?  This card is one of the many doily cards I'm currently working on.  I have had quite a collection of doilies from the Silhouette Store.  Last count according to my Silhouette library is 51 doilies!  Aside from butterfly cuts, I have a weakness when it comes to doily cuts. (We won't even talk about the doily cuts on my MANY Cricut cartridges LOL!)

I started by sizing my doily to be about  5.85", then using the offset feature on the Silhouette Studio (I have the designer's edition, but you can easily do this using the basic SS program), to make 2 shadows.  I then welded the two shadows to make the base of the card, so all in all the card turned out to be roughly 6 x 6.    The image on this card is a digi I purchased from Scrapper's Delights Store and colored with Prismacolor pencils.  I used the Abbeyline font to type the sentiment "It's your birthday?"  I put both the digi image and the sentiment together inside a circle and printed them on my computer and used the print and cut feauture to cut them in my Cameo.  I did some faux stitching on the blue circle mat around the digi and the sentiment with a white Sakura gel pen, then added some light crystal gem stickers on the doily.  The envelope and the paper bow were cut using files purchased from the Silhouette Store.

Below is the inside of the card.  I used the Abbeyline font again for the sentiment inside the card, putting the sentiment on top of a digital note image, also from Scrapper's Delights (Fairytopia digi scrapbook kit).  On the inside left of the card, I used a pocket cut image from the Silhouette Store so I can insert a gift card.  BTW this card is for one of my kids' friends in their new taekwondo dojang who is going to turn 11 this Saturday.

Well that's it for me for today!  Hope to get some crafting  and some blogging done again very soon since the kids are back to school.  Hope you all had a wonderful summer!  Thanks for stopping by! 

~ Melody

The same but different flip swing cards

Wow it's been a while since I posted!  The kids have summer vacation which means less time for me to craft :(   Anyway, part of this post can also be viewed over at the Scrapper's Delights Papercrafts Blog.  Thanks Janice for letting me post in your blog today.  For this project, I made 4  A2 size cards.  The base of the cards is a flip swing card image by Lori Whitlock I purchased through the Silhouette Store, cut with the Cameo.  I chose to play with the Tears of a Clown digi set 2 which came out I believe in May.  I also incorporated some of the digi kit elements from the Scrapper's Delights' Forever Blowing Bubbles digi scrapbook kit.  I imported the digi stamps onto the Silhouette Studio to size them according to how big the coordinating scalloped circles were going to be.  I colored the clown digis with Prismacolor pencils.

Below are some images after they have been cut in the Cameo (I'm using a 12 x 12 Cricut matt because you can with the Cameo).

And here are closeups of the cards.

Card #1

the flowers on a string is from SD's Forever Blowing Bubbles

digi kit; I used the Curlz MT font for the sentiment on the

front and on the inside of the card; I embellished with Card Candis

and Prima flowers

Card #2

for this card I embellished with a wavy ribbon and buttons

from my stash.  I used the Abbeyline, Arial and Chopin Scripts

for the sentiments.  The flower on the inside sentiment is from the

SD's Forever Blowing Bubbles kit

Card #3

The heart ribbon image is again from the same SD digital

kit.  I used the Abbeyline font for the sentiments, and embellished

with Card Candis and brown ribbon

Card #4

the sentiment in the front came from the Tears of a Clown

digi set; I used the Curlz MT font for the sentiment inside the card,

then embellished with a ribbon, a homemade stick pin, and some

flower buttons.

Hope you like my project for today.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you all are having a wonderful summer.  

Card Patterns #169 - Sweet Birthday Wishes

Busy summer for us but I finally did get a few moments to play along with Card Patterns blog.  The sketch pattern we are to follow is below by Michelle Bertuzzi, and is sketch #169.  My card is an A2 size card and all cuts and patterned papers used were from the Silhouette Store and were cut with the Cameo.

I imported the jpg image of Michelle's sketch onto the Silhouette Studio so it was easier for me to refer to it while designing my card.  The digi image I used for the front of my card is one from Polly Crafts (you can click on the link, but her store is closed down).  I added the sentiment "Sweet  birthday wishes below the digi stamp image using the Before the Rain font, then drew a circle cut line around the image and the sentiment, matching the size of the circle in the doily cut.  I used elements from the Scrapper's Delights' Morning Dew and the Nature's Little Wonders digi kits for the images for the inside of the card.

Then using the print and cut feature, I "peeled" the pieces of my card and put the images I wanted to be printed and then cut onto the same matt.  I used my wide format printer to print the images below on a 12 x 12 cardstock.  For the solid colors, I used my scraps of cardstock (why waste precious printer ink, right?). 

After the images printed, I was ready to cut, so I put the printed images onto my cutting matt (I'm using a Cricut matt here, cuz well....you can with the Cameo!). 

The pieces after the cuts and before assembly.  I used my Prismacolor pencils to color the Polly Craft fairy image.

 Closeups of the card after assembly.

Thanks for stopping by!

Let's pop out of here!

Yesterday was my kids' last day of school - phew!  No more getting up at 5:30 in the morning for a couple of months!  I don't know about you guys but I am going to enjoy being in my jammies until 11 am (or later) for at least a couple of weeks until the kids start summer day camps (gotta keep them busy!). 

I wasn't going to get anything for my kids' classmates because I'm exhausted and this past school year had been packed with so many field trips!  And then I was scouring the Target bargain bins and came across these cute star bubble bottles - my local Target has started getting the Independence Day stuff out.  Well I couldn't help myself from getting a bunch for the kiddos to give out on their last day of school.

 I used a couple of tag images from the Silhouette Store and used the Gabriola and Sixties for fonts.  I also used a bubble cluster digital image from the Forever Blowing Bubbles kit from Scrapper's Delights.  Below is a screen shot of the images on the Silhouette Studio.  I used the print and cut feature of the Silhouette Studio to cut the tags with the Cameo. 

 Hope you can see the bubble clusters behind the sentiments. 

And here are the pics of the finished bubbles with the tags.

The ones for my son's class. 

 I made a total of 17 with this design.

These are for my daughter's class. 

I made a total of 13 with this design.

These were very easy to decorate in a flash and soooo inexpensive!  They were such a hit with the incoming 2nd and 4th graders as they blew and popped those bubbles at dismissal - what a fun way to start the summer vacation! 

Hope you all have a wonderful summer!

Hey Big Guy!

Today's project can also be viewed over at the Scrapper's Delights Paper Crafts blog.  Thanks Janice for allowing me to post over on your blog once again.   It's an easel card that's a little over 5 x 5 and is for my hubby.   It is also highlighting one of Scrapper's Delights' new set of digis.  I chose to play with the motor bike digis and you can get it here.   I also decided to add a png format image from one of the Scrapper's Delights kit called On the Wings of Love.  It's no secret that I just love combining digi stamps and elements from different digital kits with my paper crafts.

Here is the matching envelope I sized to fit the card.

front of the envelope

back of the envelope

I used the Silhouette Studio to plan my card.  I imported the motor bike digi and the digital elements from the On the Wings of Love  kit onto the Silhouette Studio to help me plan where to put the images and how big to size them.  Since digi stamps and elements from digi kits are either png or jpg formats, they will print using your printer, but they will not automatically cut around the images; you would need to use the trace feature on the Silhouette Studio, then use the offset feature to create a shadow  around the images that would serve as the cut lines for your Cameo to cut.

For the front of the card, I chose to add a fairy from the On the Wings of Love kit to sit on the uncolored motor bike digi image (I could have used a colored motor bike that also came with this set but I wanted to challenge myself and color the image with my Prismacolor pencils).  After doing a trace and creating the shadow for both images, I sent the images to my printer.  Then I laid the cardstock onto the cutting matt for the Cameo to cut around the images. 

(pardon the shadow - that was me taking a picture late in the night)

The registration marks helps tell the Cameo that this is a print and cut job.

I printed two because I wanted to popdot one on top of the other. 

The other die cuts on the card are images purchased from the Silhouette Store (the envelope, the elements to the scene and the plank)  I used the Adine Kimberg Script and the Before the Rain fonts for the sentiments.  For the envelope I added another motor bike image to the front - this one comes already colored in.  For the back of the envelope I added the heart on wings images, again from the On the Wings of Love kit, to the flaps.  The same heart on wings image can also be seen on the inside of the card, layered under inside sentiment.  Another element I used for the inside of the card from the kit is the cluster of hearts. 

Here are some  closeups:

I used Card Candis by Craft Works Cards to help tuck

the front of the card up for the easel effect.

 

I hope you liked my project today and inspires you to make something for that special man in your life.   Thanks for stopping by!