Birthday Card for my darling step-daughter.......

Janice!  Everything on this card was done using my wonderful Silhouette Cameo.  I designed the "Happy Birthday" border and the gorgeous centerpiece is a Silhouette America file.  Here is a photo of the card front:

Here is a photo of the inside of the card where I used the same pink Bazzill and another lovely border file from Silhouette America.

I've got to get back work on another very important project.......so this is short post.  Thanks for stopping by!!!

Finished Card Size:  Lg. Square (5 1/4"x5 1/4")

Supplies


Papers:  Bazzill "Smooth White" & "Berry Blush", Westrim Crafts "Black"
Ink:  Tsukinedo "VersaMark Watermark"
Tools:  Silhouette "Cameo", Ranger "Heat It"
Accessories:  Stamp-n-Stuff "Detail Clear Transparent" EB, Michaels "Silver Half Pearls", want2scrap "Pink Half Pearls, Recollections "Black Half Pearls"

Birthday Card for my Daughter-in-Law.................

and my 1st card of 2012!!!  Nicole's birthday is on the 12th and I really wanted to make something special for her.  Last week I purchased a new DCWV stack called "French Country" and I fell in love with it so I decided I definitely wanted to use it for her card!!!  This is what I came up with!

For the card front I made sure that I used the top left corner of one of the papers that I particularly liked and in order to do that, I had to make this a very large card, in fact a size A9 which is 8.5"x 5.5".  I used a Silhouette Amercia "Happy Birthday" file that I altered by adding some flowers to it and designed a mat to go behind it.  I also heat embossed the "Happy Birthday" three times and added some Swarovski crystals  for some bling!

Here is a close-up of the "Happy Birthday":

Here is an inside view.  I designed a "pocket" in Silhouette Studio, to hold a note that I wrote to Nicole, along with some trim!

Finished Card Size:  A9 (8.5"x5.5")

Supplies

Papers:  GA Pacific (card base), Bazzill "French Vanilla", DCWV "French Country" Stack, Parchment Card (Sentiment)

Ink:  Tsukineko "VesaMark Watermark", Tim Holtz "Vintage Photo" Distress Ink

Tools:  Silhouette "Cameo", Ranger "Heat It"

Accessories:  Martha Stewart "Doily Lace" Border Punch & "Monarch Butterfly" Punch, Swarovski Crystals, Stamp-n-Stuff "Detail Clear Transparent" EB Powder

My last card of 2011!!!

One of my dear online friends had a birthday on January 1st.........she was a New Years baby!  This is the card I designed for her.....it was also her big 50!  The "Birthday",  "Scalloped Background" and the "Corners" on inside of card are Silhouette America files and everything was cut using my Silhouette Cameo!  I designed the "50" and "Happy".

Inside View:

Finished Card Size:  A7 95"x7")

Supplies

Paper:  Bazzill Smooth White, The Paper Co. "Ivory Paisley on White", Recollections "Black", DCWV "the Bon Voyage" Glitter Paper

Ink:  Tsukineko "VersaMark Watermark"

Tools:  Silhouette "Cameo", Ranger "Heat It" 

Accessories:  Stamp-n-Stuff "White Pears Translucent" EB Powder, Range "Queen's Gold" EB Powder, Black & White Half Pearls

I LOVE using vinyl!!!

I bought these "tumblers" at Bed, Bath and Beyond about six months ago and I knew I wanted to use them with vinyl, but not sure exactly how and then I started seeing what peeps at the MTC Forum were doing with monograms and that settled it.  I made these for my son and his wife as part of their Christmas this year!

Every week we get together with some of my husband's siblings to play cards and we all use wooden card holders....they come in so handy and I decided to put our names on them in vinyl.  Here is a photo of three of them that I've done!

If you've never "played" with vinyl, you don't know what you are missing!!!  

Here are some Christmas Projects that I did not..................

get a chance to upload during the holidays as everything was so hectic....as usual!  Unfortunately, with everything that has been going on with my husband's health, as well as his daughter's, I was only able to design a couple of Christmas cards.

This is one that I designed for my good crafting friend that I served with on the Pazzles Design team.  I used my new Silhouette Cameo to cut the snowflakes, flowers and birds, which I heat embossed.  The lattice was done using my Martha Stewart "Garden Trellis" Deep Edge Punch.  The "Metallic Loop" trim is by Simplicity, and purchased from Walmart.

The other card that I designed was for my oldest son Doug, who was unable to come visit during the holidays due to his job and he lives out of state.  I can't remember now where I saw a card like this, but I love the design concept............as you place the gift card in the "package" that is in the sleigh!  Sleigh and snowflakes are Silhouette cutting files cut with my Cameo!

This is a gift box made from a free cutting file from SVG cuts.  I used pink mulberry paper to line the inside and the flower on top was made by me.  This was for our youngest granddaughter, Jennifer.

This is another SVG Cuts free file, made for our oldest great granddaughter, Jodi.  This was cut using my Cameo and the flower on top is by Recollections.

This little "purse box" was made for our three year old great granddaughter, Taylor Marie and I have to say that I had so much fun making this one.  It was made from a Silhouette file, including the graphics on the back, cut with my Cameo and I used some "nail art" to decorate the flap!

Front View:

Back View:

I used my Cameo to do "print and cut" gift tags that I found online...I used "Crystal" Stickles to make them come to life!

Thanks for stopping by to check these out and I want to wish each and every one of you a happy, wonderful and prosperous New Year!!!  Please come back soon and please don't forget to leave a little comment!

Guess who's going to be 80 on Wednesday???

Why, it's my brother-in-law John and we had a surprise birthday get together for him this afternoon!  For his card, I decided to use a different card format and I'm not sure what it is called........but here it is!

View 1

View 2

Close-up view of my "Gone Fishing" print and cut image!

The little "Gone Fishing" image is one that I found online and turned it into an image that you first print and then you cut with a digital cutter....it's only a little over an 1 1/4 wide!  I used my Silhouette Cameo which has an optical eye, so it makes "print and cut" VERY easy!!!  I used my Pazzles Inspiration Studio Pro software to design the "Happy 80th Birthday John" and then used my Pazzles Inspiration Cutter to do all of the cutting with the exception of the "Gone Fishing"  print and cut sign.  I also have to confess that I did something that I rarely do...............I used some store bought birthday stickers that I had on hand!!!

Thanks for stopping by and please come back soon!
Finished Card Size:  A7 (5"x7")

Supplies

Paper:  Bazzill (green), Coredinations (yellow), Wild Asparagus (patterned)

Tools:  Silhouette "Cameo", Pazzles "Inspirations Creative Cutter"

Accessories:  Scor-Pal, "Party Embellishments" Keepsake Essentials 3-D Die Cuts, Michaels "Silver" Rhinestone Stickers 

Y'all, I'm still exploring my Silhouette Cameo................

and decided I would keep posting my test cuts here at my blog so that I can direct those that ask me what I'm able with it can see for themselves!

In this first photo, I've done several "print and cuts" as well as a couple of regular cuts and for all of them I have used Bazzill smooth white cardstock, which is my favorite and it cuts like butter!!!!  The "frog", "flower", "pig" and "snowflake" are all Silhouette files.  I designed the "Thank You" and my friend designed the medallion using the "Replicate" tool in the Silhouette Studio software.  The "Poodle" is a digi stamp by Dani at printablecolouringpages.co.uk............isn't it adorable!!!  Please not that the "snowflake" is only 1" in diameter....just look at those perfect, tiny circles!!!

OK, now on to "chipboard"...........except I prefer to use cereal and beer boxes because they cut so much better and seem to be less fibrous.  I also like using poster board, which is a little thicker the Bazzill white cardstock I love!  I will say that the cereal box is a tad thicker than the beer box.  For the beer box I actually did 3 passes...one each with the ratchet blade set at 6, 7 & 8.  I find that doing the cuts graduated in that manner, I get a cleaner cut.  For the cereal box I did the same but set the blade to 7, 8 and 9.  As you can see in my photo, the cuts are petty clean!!!  At this point, I don't know if it dulled my blade or not!

All I can say, "peeps", is that I REALLY love my Cameo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  See ya again soon!