Designing with my Silhouette Cameo

 

As my title says, I have been crafting, just

not a lot for you to see.

I have been designing with the cameo.

I have taken a few online classes to learn some tricks & tips.

Then I decided to put some of them into action.

The first piece is a very simple digital card.

I printed off the background and then, using

some digital images I purchased online, I produced

my own print & cut files.

 

 

The paper is a free one supplied by Astrid Maclean which I then

resized to 4.5ins square and printed my two ladies onto it.

I then printed off my two ladies & cut them out

with the silhouette & attached one directly to the paper

& the other raised on foam pads.

 

This next piece I designed myself completely.

Unfortunately when you design in Studio

 it saves only as a studio file.

It has to be printed & scanned into a computer

to be changed to a jpeg.

So I apologise for the graininess of the picture.

 

I basically drew a rectangle, added the colour, flowers

& text then grouped it all together as one.

My very own print & cut design, with

of course, the truth for all to see

I truly am only at my Creative best when

wearing pyjamas!

Ladies are part of a collection called Clothier - Viva Artistry available from

scrapbookgraphics.com

Triple Library Pocket w/tri fold flap

Thanks to a cancelled train this morning,

I got a very last minute, half day holiday!

Here is what I did with the time!!

 I saw it on You Tube

fell in love & decided I wanted to have a go!!!

 

the inside pages



the outside



 

A rather poor top shot!

Papers DCWV - Mariposa.

Two sheets 12x12 Kraft cardstock.

I have not fully decorated the book as I haven't decided

whether to use photos of butterflies or

some quotes & stamped images.

 

Not sure if this link will work;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYjjKzDZjv0

 

Mini Blueprint Stamps Book

As you will know from my post below,

I was off work over a week quite poorly.

Obviously the only way for me to recover right was a present!

I got a Get Well Soon from Me to Me present (or two!)

 

I bought two sets of the brand new Stampers Anonymous

Tim Holtz Mini Blueprint stamps Sets 3 & 4 :0)

 

This is the mini book I made using them & a few other stamps.

Materials list at the end if you are interested.

 

Book constructed from one large tag which was cut on Silhouette Cameo

to the same dimensions of

Tim Holtz Size #12 Tag.

Distress inks used;

Seedless Preserves/Broken China/ Antique Linen

I saw these colours used by Hels Sheridan, but she used Distress Paint.

I figured the colours are the same it should work.

I quite like the result a bit like raspberry ripple ice cream

but with a spot of blueberry juice!

Bleach

All images were coloured with ordinary pencil crayons

then painted over with PVA glue to protect against colouration.

I then used the wrinkle free technique. The quotes were stamped straight

onto inked backgrounds

Book based loosely on one in CS March 2013 by Kaz Hall.