Wedding card

I just realized I never posted this card.  My cousin got married about a month ago in San Francisco and  I created this card for him and his new wife.  All cuts are done on the Cameo.  The card was roughly 8 1/2 x 4.  The envelope was sized to accomodate the card and matches the butterflies in the front of the card.  Rather than bore you all with the details on an early Monday morning, I will show you pictures instead (plus I'm doing some errands today). 

Close-ups of the front of the card.

The inside of the card. You guys know I love pockets inside my cards for gift receipts or gift cards if I didn't have the time to buy a gift.  The sentiment on the right was I believe a freebie digital sentiment from Digi Doodles. 

The card and the envelope.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  Happy Monday and hope to "see" you all again later this week!  Thanks for stopping by! 

For the love of Bugs Bunny and Friends

Hi all!  Happy Sunday!  I am still loving the look of the sketch feature on the Silhouette Studio that I made myself (yes, for ME!  I know it may sound a little selfish but I make a lot of  stuff for other people, so this is MINE....until I give them away) a set of Looney Toons notecards.  I don't know about most of you, but I grew up watching Looney Toons.  When I ran into these images on the Silhouette Store, I had to have as much as I can get.  Some of the images I have collected are print and cut, coloring pages, or layered SVG images - and would you believe any of these formats can be converted into a sketch?  Blew me away too LOL!  The photo above shows the notecard set inside a crate box (file by Lori Whitlock).  I used the sketch feature on Tweety's image and positioned two on opposite sides of the box, as you can see in the Silhouette Studio screen shot below, sent the image to print in my wide format printer then cut the box in my Cameo.  The tulip flourish is by Hero Arts, purchased through the Silhouette Store.  The layered flower is a pre-assembled die-cut by K&Company. 

Another shot of the crate box.

And a shot of the inside of the notecards - I kept them simple enough so there's plenty of room for me to write my own sentiment/notes.

Anyway, here are the 12 finished notecards I created.  I am a note-giver.  I used to use stationeries, but I ran out so this is a good alternative.  The notecards are 3 1/2 x 3 1/2.  I'm so sorry I forgot what fonts I used for the sentiments.

Bugs Bunny

 

Penelope Pussycat, Pepe Le Pew, and Speedy Gonzales

 

Tweety (my all-time fave!) and Marvin the Martian

 

Tazmanian Devil and Sylvester

 

and last but not least, Porky Pig

 
I am linking this project over @ The Old Backporch 52 Cards Challenge.  Patrice, the blog owner has a challenge to link up ANY cards, starting the beginning of this year.  Won't you join me?!  Since I just found out about her blog when she visited me a few days ago, I have a lot to make up LOL!

BTW if you are a Silhouete Studio user and would like to know how to use the sketch feature, go  here to my blogging friend Sabrina over at Sabriolet Designs - she has an awesome tutorial! 

Ok crafters, so long!  Hope you all are having a great weekend!

Two down....

...and who knows how many more to go!  While some of my blogging friends already have a stash of Christmas cards done and ready to go, I'm just barely getting started.  I needed a push since I always procrastinate and end up buying (gasp!) Christmas cards to hand out (for the most part).  The cards you see above are inspired by two challenges I'm linking them to:  (1) Going Buggy [make a Christmas card with non-traditional colors ie., no reds or greens] and (2) Clean and Simple Stamping [sketch challenge].

Some close ups of the finished cards.

The cards are size A2.  If your don't count the front and the black matt, there is almost NO die-cut on these cards.  The trio of Christmas ornaments and the first line of the sentiment were printed on my printer using the sketch feature of the Silhouette Studio.  The Christmas ornaments were originally die-cut (or SVGs) purchased through the Silhouette Store, and is by Sophie Gallo.  The fonts I used were Janda Curlygirl Chunky and Arial.  To truly appreciate how to turn anything into a sketch on the Silhouette Studio, please go here to my blogging friend Sabrina's blog - I really couldn't have improved on her instructions. 

Here are the front of the cards after sending it to my printer and before I loaded the matt to my Silhouette Cameo (you can use a Cricut matt on the Silhouette Cameo).

And here's the inside of the card, all ready to be addressed when I'm ready. 

I'm really liking the look of turning images into a sketch.  Thanks again for stopping by!  Have a wonderful weekend!

A stack of "books" and some wobbly bookmarks

Hi there!  Today's my day to post over at the Bugbytes blog so this post can also be viewed there.  Thanks once again Pam for letting me post my project in your blog for your readers.  School is back in full swing for just about everyone here in the US so I made some goody treats for my little nephews and nieces starting their preschool and 1st grade this year.  All the cuts on this project were designed using the Silhouette Studio and cut in my Cameo. 

Here's another look at the "books" upright.

 

The 3D book box is an image by Lori Whitlock, purchased from the Silhouette Store - it comes with three images to build the sturdy book box.  The blue rectangle scallop and pink oval scallop cuts (seen below) are also by Lori Whitlock.  I sized a rectangle and an oval from the Silhouette Studio to layer on top of the scalloped shapes, then typed the sentiments for the kids I'm giving them to,  "signing" them off with love from my kids Ryan, Mya and Mojo (our one year old cockapoo). The circle label is a print and cut by Sarah Bailey.  

  

 

 

I inserted a strip of ribbon between the two panels (the outside layer and the inside layer) so that I can close up the book box securely after filling them with goodies.

 



 

After making the boxes and decorating them individually, I set out to create the bookmarks.  The Disney images were free images I downloaded from free sites, and were originally GIF images.  I used Photoshop Elements to convert them into PNG images, then imported them to Silhouette Studio to size as I please.  Here I created a cut line (shown in red) around the images so my Cameo knows where to cut after I printed the images in my printer.

 

 



 

I then adhered the Disney images to the bookmarks with wobblers.  The bookmarks with the name of my nieces and nephews were done using print and cut (fonts and patterns used were ones already in my library).  For added stability, I used the back of a cereal box as the bottom layer for the bookmarks.

 



 

 

 



 

Here's another look at the book boxes all decked out.  Besides the bookmarks I plan to fill the boxes with some edible goodies. 

 

(the Disney balloons were free images from Kelly Bell Designs -

 I created a cut line in the Silhouette Studio to let my Cameo know where to cut)

 

 

Thanks for looking!  Until next time! 

 



So call me maybe

I created this card for one of my nieces who is now a full-blown teenager :(.  Time flies.  Eventhough she lives just 5 houses down from us I hardly see her anymore because she has a very busy highschool life.  I am linking this to Mojo Monday sketch challenge #256 and also to The Cameo Spotlight Challenge #2 (my second link to their numbers challenge!). 

This card is a little under 6 x 6 and is again inspired by one of my doily collection purchased through the Silhouette Store, and is by Jamie Koay.  The base of the card is again created by 2 shadows of the doily welded together.  The oval and the circle cuts were shapes created and sized from the Silhouette Studio so I can layer on top of the doily cut.  I used a digi image by Polly Craft called Call me Chester and sized it to fit inside an oval cut then colored with Prismacolor pencils.  The sentiments in the front next to the image and inside the card are done using the Times New Roman font.

 

 

"hello" with two phone receivers is actually a plastic

 button purchased from Michaels

 

 

Here's a peek at the inside of the card.

 



The card with the envelope.  The envelope is by Snapdragon Snippets, purchased through Silhouette Store. 

Thanks for looking! 

To a sweet little girl

I'm playing along with The Cameo Spotlight!  The theme these next two weeks is numbers. 

A family friend's daughter is turning one in a couple of weeks so I created this card for her.  This card is 5.5 x 5.5 inches.  The card was inspired by one of the doily collections I've had for a while, purchased from the Silhouette Store, and is by Lori Whitlock.  The base of the card was created by welding two shadows of the doily via the offset feature on the Silhouette Studio.  The image is a digi stamp by Poly Craft I purchased a while back, sized to fit a square to layer on top of the doily, then colored with Prismacolor pencils.  I believe I used the Abbeyline font (I love this font and use it a lot!) to type the sentiment in the front and on the inside of the card.  The ticket is a print and cut image from the Silhouette Store and is by Alaa K.  I embellished with light peach half pearls.  The mini flowers I have had for years so I can't even tell you guys where I got it from. 

Here's a pic of the inside of the card. 

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