Silhouette Cameo – crazyforpaper

Relaxing Bath

Well, while in California we have all been ordered to shelter in place, I have been having some fun making some wall hangings for family and friends using one of my all time favorite Digital Stamp store, The Paper Shelter’s adorable digital stamps. This one is called: Relaxing Bath

Bath wall H2O

First of all if you are not familiar with digital stamps, then let me tell you why I love them and use them more then traditional stamps. When you buy an image you get the colored image, the black and white line image (to color yourself), a background with the featured image on it or you can choose to print out the feature image and the background separately, as I did for this project. The average cost is around $3.00! You don’t have to store them in your craft room because you store them on your computer. You can also print them out in any size! So let’s make some cute art to frame!

The Steps:

Step 1: Print out the colored version of the background and the featured image that goes with it on white cardstock. Cut the featured image out using a nested squares die set. I used Elizabeth Craft Designs: 1118 – Stitched Squares

Step 2: Make a frame using Elizabeth Craft Designs: Happy Frame XL. I chose to use a purple cardstock for this step so that the bath accessories would stand out. Here’s the link to the assembly video: Happy Frame Assembly video

Step 3: I used some Karen Burniston’s die sets such as the little ducks, bubbles and wine set. I used Silhouette files for the “slippers, soap, bath brush and yellow bottle of bubble bath.

Step 4: Trim the background to the same size as the frame. (if you measure 1″ from each side of the background and trim off the excess, then the printed background should be the exact size of the assembled frame (8″ square). Add double sided adhesive to all four edges of the trimmed background and attach to the backside of the frame.

Step 5: Add the bath accessories to the frame as shown. I chose a white 5/8″ wide ribbon to hang the finished project with. I tied a bow and left enough ribbon hanging from the bow to attach to the back at the length I felt would look good. Tape the two hanging pcs. to the back of the project. Then cut a 8″sq. of white cardstock and attach to the back of the project to cover the ends of the bow and make a clean backside.

Step 6: On the back of the project I attached Elizabeth Craft Designs: Lace Pocket

Lace pocket

This step is optional, but this is where I wrote a little note about why I chose this particular image for this project for the recipient, but also some things I love about them.

Here’s a few more I made:

I’ve made a total of 13 of these!

Thanks so much for taking a look and I hope you are staying safe and finding some fun projects to make if you are also “sheltering in place”. And I hope you’ll experiment with digitals!

Other Products Used:

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock

Amazon: 10mm double sided adhesive

Elmer’s Craft Bond

Cutterpillar Pro

Sizzix Big Shot Pro

To Honor My Granddaughter!

My Sierra H2O

This week’s challenge over at: Crazy4Challenges is to choose a card that was sent to you and use it as your inspiration!

Sierra card

Sierra card inside cropped

I chose my sweet granddaughter’s card because when I went looking at cards I had saved, this one from Sierra was in the mix. The little girl who sent me this card had paid for it with her own money and gave it to me with a bag of Starbucks coffee she had also paid for! This little girl just graduated from the University of Oregon. and was just married to her high school sweetheart! They both have begun great careers!

The Steps:

Step: 1: I used an older Karen Burniston’s die set that was called “Whiskers the Cat”. I cut the silhouette piece and whiskers piece from black cardstock 3 times. All the others were cut from white cardstock and colored with Copic Markers. The Santa hat is from an old KB die set that was accessories for all her “critters” that she released that year.

Step 2: Make a base card by scoring a 5.5″ x 11″ piece of white cardstock at the 5.5″ mark on the long side. Fold over for a tent fold card and trim to 5.5″ x 7.75″. (Although this is a huge card, it is the exact size of the one given to me!).

Step 3: I cut a blue card stock that had little white glittered dots all over it into a rectangle that measures 5.5″ x 7.5″ to cover the entire front of the base card.

Step 4: The Christmas lights and snow drift on the fence are Silhouette files. The fence for the snow drift is a 1.5″ x 7.5″ strip of “wood look” paper that I though looked remarkably like the one in the inspiration card.

Step 5: Once I had all the components made, I assembled them as shown and that’s it!:

Me and Sierra cropped

Other Products Used:

CutterPillar Pro

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock

Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue

Put Candy on it Challenge

Santas list H2O

Yep, this week over at: Crazy4Challenges According to the days of the week calendar, jit’s National Candy Day ! So this week is to put some candy on your project! I am working on Christmas cards, so I made this card to look like a fireplace with “Naughty or Nice” stockings hung up.

The Steps:

Step 1: I began this project by cutting out the pieces of an, apparently, discontinued die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs that was called: 932 – Stocking Solid. I used Green, red and white cardstock and assembled as shown.

Step 2: Make a base card by scoring an 11″ x 8.5″ piece of white cardstock at 5.5″ along the longer side. Fold over for a tent fold and trim to 5.5″ by 7″.

Step 3: Cut a rectangle from designer paper that looks like brick and measures 5″ x 6.5″. Adhere it to the base front. Next, cut a strip from the same paper that measures 1″ x 7″. Score 3 times at .25″, .50″ and .75″ all the way across this strip. Now fold on the score lines to create what I hoped looks like a mantel to hang the stockings.

Step 4: Cut a square that measures 3″ x 3″ from black cardstock. Adhere it to the card centered as shown. Now adhere the mantel from step 3 above the black square.

Step 5: I used another discontinued Elizabeth Craft Designs die set called 932 – Holly Border.

Step 6: The candy in the red stocking are Silhouette print and cut files. I had cut from black cardstock, the “coal” for the green stocking. Then I used a white Prismacolor pencil to write “Santa’s Making a List”. Here’s another quick look:

Santas list H2O

That’s It!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Other Products Used:

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock and designer paper

Beacon’s kids choice glue

Sixxix Big Shot Plus

C4C 436 Graduation theme!

An easy and cute graduation card.

Here’s a pic of the inside:

I have two grandchildren who are in college but the first to graduate won’t be until Dec. and the other is 2 yrs. away. They are both doing very well but one loves to study and write essays and the other does not. She’s more of a computer and gamer wizard! So I made this card to send to the latter for encouragement.

The Steps:

Step 1: The Grad Hat is a Silhouette file. But there are many dies out there that would also work great.

Step 2: Create the sentiment on your computer, print on white cardstock and cut out

with Elizabeth Craft Designs 1116 – Stitched Circles

Out of yellow cardstock cut a circle using Elizabeth Craft Designs 1172 – Dotted Scallop Circles– .

Adhere the white sentiment circle on top of the yellow one.

Step 3: Create a base card by cutting a 12 x 12″ pc. of white cardstock in half. Score one half at 6″. Fold over to make a tent fold card.

Step 4: Using Elizabeth Craft Designs 1168 – Bead Strings !, cut the diamond shaped string twice with gold mirror cardstock. Note: I first adhered a 2″ x 6″ strip of the mirror cardstock to Clear Double Sided Adhesive before I die cut. Also, cut the strip in half to end up with two strips that are 1 x 6″ strips. Always cut away and mirror cardstock that is more than you need to cut the die with. If you don’t the rest of the cardstock will be embossed with all the scratches on the cutting plate and no longer useable.

Step 5: Assemble the card by adhering the bead strings at 1″ from both the bottom and folded edge. The add the cap and sentiment.

That’s it!

As always, I really appreciate you hopping over here. I’d love to have you comment and follow. I love answering any questions you have about card making!

Other Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: White 12 x 12″ Soft Finished Cardstock, Clear Double Sided Adhesive 2″, Suzanne Cannon “Believe” Die.

An Easy Easter Card

My Design Team Easter Card.

It’s sketch week over at Crazy4Challenges C4C-422

You all know how much I love a sketch but I must admit this sketch stumped me. It looks so easy but I couldn’t come up with an idea! I am currently working on Easter so I wanted to use my favorite bunny stamp. It’s from Art Impressions and is called Holiday 1-779.

This is how I made this card.

Step 1: Stamp on white cardstock using the above stamp. Color with Copic Markers or Pencils. I chose to color with copics. (When you position the stamp give yourself about 3″ below the top of your cardstock.

Step 2: Cut the image with the largest die from this set.

This step is actually two steps because these nested fishtails are too short for what I needed to fit the sketch. Position the die on your stamped and colored image where you want the “fish tail” (bottom) of the die to end below your stamped image. Run through your cutting machine but STOP before the top (straight edge) of the die cuts. Now move the die up to where you want the top of the die to end. In this case that was 2″ above the image. Now run through your cutting machine again but stop before it cuts the fishtail again. You should now have a longer fishtail then the die. Notice that I positioned the image closer to the left of the die to allow room for the half oval in the sketch.

Step 3: Using the stamp set below from Pink and Main, stamp both the “egg” and the “Chocolate bunny box” 3 times. Color how you want. I added Crystal Lacquer to the bunny boxes like they were wrapped in cellophane. After the lacquer is dried, fussy cut all the bunny box and eggs.

Step 4: From the little die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs below cut the pieces for the basket, flower and grass. I used scrap cardstock. Assemble the basket. Add the grass, chocolate bunny boxes and eggs as show below. Add Prills to the little flowers. I used leftover little leaves from one of Susan Tierney Cockburn’s 1196 – Garden edge rose flower dies as shown below:

Step 5: Using the same Pink and Main Stamp as in step 3, stamp Happy Easter on white cardstock. Cut it with the long rectangle pictured below and distress the edges with Tim Holtz “peacock feathers” Distress Ink.

Glue the grass Strip (which is a Silhouette file to the top of this sentiment strip.

Step 6: Cut the 3 bunnies from this die set below using 3 different brown colors. I used scrap cardstock. Add a glitter dot for eyes. Cut an oval with coordinating designer and the second to the largest die set pictured below. Cut the oval in by first laying in place and making light pencil marks where one side should be cut off to make it line up with the mat’s edge as shown.

Step7: Assemble the card:

Score a pc. of 11 x 8.5″ white cardstock at 5.5″ on the long side. Trim to 5 x 7″. Cut two mats from designer cardstock that measures 4.75″ x 6.75″. Adhere one to the card front and one to the back, centered leaving 1/8″ border all around. Adhere the stamped fish tail to the front panel, centered with the top (Short straight edge) at the top of the designer paper mat. Adhere, the now cut oval in place as shown. Put 3 large foam dots under the sentiment tag by centering the one dot then adding one either side of the first. Put the dots closer to the bottom then the top to make it possible to side the bunnies behind the grass. Glue the two ends down. Add a half dome pearl to cover the hole on the right and adhere the Easter basket as shown with the highest bunny box hiding the left side hole.

That’s It!

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Other Products used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: White Soft Finish cardstock 8.5 x 11″, Glitter Dots

Beacons Kid’s choice glue

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

C4C – 421 A Valentine or Appreciation

This weeks challenge is to make a Valentine or card of appreciation. Well, another Valentines card it is!

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The Steps:

Step 1: In Silhouette Studio, using the file “Nested Hearts” resize to make a bunch of hearts in 3 sizes with both pink and red cardstock:

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Step 2: Now cut two of the “Wheelbarrow” pc. from the below die set:

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Color one of the “Wheelbarrow” pcs. with Copic Markers. On the second pc. color only the edges so that no white will show when you glue the pcs. together. Don’t glue together yet!

Step 3: Cut from this die set below once in white and once in red:

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Step 4: Make the base card by scoring an 11 X 8.5″ pc. of white cardstock at 5.5″ on the long side. Fold over and trim to 5.5 x 7″. Choose 2 coordinating desiger papers and cut a rectangle out of both papers that measure 3.25 x 5″. Out of one of your papers cut a rectangle that measures 5 x 6.5 “. Adhere all these designer paper rectangles to the base card as shown below.

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Step 5: Make the featured raised panel. Cut a pc. of coordinating solid color cardstock that measures 5.25 x 4″. Adhere the largest white “Wavy frame to this rectangle. Add the red negative pcs. from the same red frame as the white one into your white frame.

Glue the white with colored edges “wheelbarrow” pc. to your panel. Then glue the fully colored wheelbarrow over the first one BUT don’t glue the top of the wheelbarrows so you can tuck some hearts inside the “wheelbarrow“.

Step 6: From the set below cut “Love You” from red cardstock and the “xoxo”.

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Step 7: Finish the panel by adding the hearts and sentiment as shown. Add dimensional dots under some of the hearts and adhere some flat to the panel. Start your first layer of hearts by putting a little dab of glue on the bottom pointy end of the right side of four largest hearts and tuck into the top layer of the Wheelbarrows and then stick a dimensional dot under the top of this layer. Keep adding hearts, some lifted with dots and some flat as you like them. Add the sentiments.

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Step 8: The last step is to adhere the panel to the card also using foam dimensionals. For this step I used large square foam dimentionals.

For the inside of the card I used another of the red Wavy frames, the little hearts pc. that comes from the very center and the “xoxo”.

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That’s it!

Thanks for taking a look and I hope you’ll try your own version of this card.

Other products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Clear Double Sided Adhesive, White Soft Finish Cardstock 8.5 x 11″

Michaels: Designer paper, Foam Dimension

Beacon’s Kids Choice glue

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

C4C – 419 Opposites

Quick and easy with a big impact!

This week’s Challenge over at Crazy 4 Challenges is to make a card with the theme “Opposites” such as black/white, mirror images etc.

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I chose to make my DT card black and white. Obviously!

This is a really easy card to make. The background is a Silhouette Studio file called “Fern Artisan”. This file gives you two mat cutting files. One is the mat that has the fern cutouts (in my card the top black mat). The second one is a plain mat. You can make these files any size. However, if you don’t own a Silhouette Cutting machine you could use a set of nesting dies and cut out with black cardstock the third to the largest die. Then put some “leaf or vine type” dies over the black mat and run through your machine to get this same effect. Below is a picture of the negative from cutting the Silhouette file. I’ll more than likely use that on another project!

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The Steps:

I needed enough room to add the daisies that I wanted to be the main feature because daisies make me “Smile”.

Step 1. Size the over daisy overlay file to measure 5.5″ square. The plain mat file you will size to 6″ square and cut from white cardstock and another plain mat sized to 6.5″ in black cardstock. Adhere the layers together as shown in pictures.

Step 2: I used this die from Elizabeth Craft Designs to make these cute daisies:

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Cut the over lay piece 3 times from white cardstock. Cut the daisy silhouette pc. from Velum 3 times. Adhere the white over lay pcs. of the vellum silhouette pcs. Cut the pc. that is the daisy center from black and white polka dot paper or cardstock 3 times. Cut the stem pc. 6 times from white cardstock (glue 2 together to end up with 3 stems).

Step 3: Glue the daisies and their stems as pictured. I put a foam dimensional dot underneath each daisy center and then glued down one edge of each flower. I added a black and white polka dot organza bow.

Step 4: Cut the “Smile” sentiment out of white cardstock with this die set and adhere to card as shown:

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That’s it!

Thanks so much for taking a look. I know your time is valuable! Please comment and follow I love to read them. Heck sometimes they’re the brightest spot in my day!

Other Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Clear Double sided Adhesive 10mm

Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue

Recollections: Foam Adhesive Circles

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

Michaels: Ribbon

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