treehouse

I made this page ages ago, but I’ve got nothing else to post this week, not because I haven’t made anything, but because it’s been so late when I got home it was no longer light enough to get any decent photos.

American Crafts papers again (still using that TK Maxx supply up), AC card, letter stickers and a mixture of AC and DCWV chipboard.

smile once a day

No use of the silhouette today, mainly because I made this card late last night and I didn’t want to disturb my flatmates.

Instead I broke out the Dear Lizzy papers (from my brilliant purchases at TKMaxx) AC cardstock (not kraft just a looky likey) and a bit of ribbon, a couple of flowers (one Making Memories and one Prima) a button a tag and voila!

birthday numbers

So I’m messing around with the Silhouette, again...

And more of that American Crafts everyday paper :), American Crafts card too, and ribbon. Pebbles inc duplicates rub on (love these) and some Papermania blingage.

I’ve use the cute heart and stars labels from the silhouette store and the star I made in keynote.

Now the shiny edge to the star is from a Sakura glitter star dust pen, just makes it a bit less plain and a bit more fancy.

happy wishes

What did I do without my silhouette? I’m really in a card place right now and I’m really loving my silhouette.

This card was copied from a sketch I made of a card from Kristina Werner.

The butterfly is a shape from Echo Park at the silhouette store, the rest I designed and made myself. Papers are from the Basic Grey Urban Prairie collection which I’m still loving.

shabby thanks

Friday 13th and nothing bad has happened so far :)

More from the silhouette, I’m really proud of accordian fold flower rosette thing and if I work out how to do downloads I’ll put a link in the downloads section here. I warn you that it cuts out a bit erratically when putting the scorelines in but I have no idea on how to improve the cutting efficiency.

I made the scallop shape too, but the label shape, oval and thanks are all from the ‘thanks’ card kit by Lori Whitlock in the silhouette store.

Papers are by WRMK from the nonsense pad and the ribbon is Stampin’ up.

under the weather

A started a new this week, and sent me pictures of his first day. Well trained or what?

More from the silhouette.

I cut a white cloud but you can hardly see it in real life or in the photo so I don’t know why I bothered. The message is printed on the card using an Auburn font I think.

Shapes are from Echo Park at the silhouette store and the papers and cardstock are by American Crafts. The little bits of bling are from Papermania.

seeing stars

I know that every one struggles with manly, and I’m really no exception, I just don’t know how men think or what they like.

Anyway, this card I made all my own shapes for the silhouette once again, the message is print and cut and the font is Auburn. I have to tell you about the star though, the star is a little bit of clever thinking from me. I drew it in keynote (where I’m really familiar with the drawing stuff because of my job) in black, saved it as a jpg and then opened it in the silhouette studio software and then traced around the edge of the shape. Voila, the perfect custom shape, ok the star is super simple, but I’m learning.

American Crafts papers, cardstock and button. Stampin’ Up ribbon.

hi

Loving my silhouette right now, everything is using it.

I made all my own shapes this week, and the font is american typewriter. It’s all American Crafts stuff again, from their everyday collection. I buy the collection packs then I have enough papers to last 3 or 4 lifetimes :)

love

Playing a little more with my silhouette and check me out, I’ve been playing with the sketch pens.

Just a super simple card using papers from American Crafts (everyday collection) and AC ribbon and cardstock.

Kara Dudley hearts and Baby Kruffy font.

you're so sweet

Just back from my holiday, seeing my in laws in Northern Ireland, there was a big birthday celebration, lots of family stuff and lots of driving for A. The Sperrins are really beautiful, and unpasturised ice-cream is one of the best things I’ve ever eaten.

Really enjoying my silhouette, even if it’s only to cut basic shapes like little hearts.

I printed the frame and the message on my computer, I’ve put the file in the freebies section of my website if I find a way I'll make it available as a freebie.

So far I only have an A4 version, just pop your cards in the printer tray and run it through. I’ll do a US card size version as soon as I get a chance. Print it on scratch paper first to be sure.

Ingredients

Basic Grey Urban Prairie collection

Silhouette heart

hello friend

Ok I have to start off by apologising about how unwordy the blog has been of late. I’m now living in my 3rd house in 5 weeks, after problems with finding a house, I’ve had problems with my blog publishing on mobile internet (still not fixed) and I’ve been busy at work (as unexciting as that is).

However, I’ve just received the most amazing birthday present off my partner (I love him very much :)), a silhouette.

So here is one of my early attempts with the silhouette

The butterfly is by Echo Park and the background is the floating flower background by hero arts. The circle and the banner I ‘designed’ and cut myself, the banner was a print and cut. I have to say although I’m still learning I’m super impressed with this machine, I’ve waited a long time for one and finally they bought out mac software :).

Ingredients

Basic Grey Urban Prairie collection

Bazzill Basics flower from years ago

American Crafts cardstock

Echo Park Butterfly

Hero Arts Floating Flower Background

flirt

American Crafts I do