What have I been up to

It has been well over a month since I posted.  We did some traveling, but, that is no excuse. 

I got busy cleaning and organizing, again, and just have not posted.  I do have a few photos to share.  Hubby is away on a fishing trip and my goal is to get some scrapbook pages done before he gets back.  My supplies are everywhere so I will need to rearrange before he gets home.  Here are a couple of cards that I have done.

Design based on card by Tosha Leyendekker for Verve Stamps

Design based on card by Maureen Put for Verve Stamps

For the first card, I used all Papertrey Ink cardstock and used the Print N Cut feature on the Cameo to print all the papers (downloaded from Jessica Sprague).  Learned how to do the text to path in the last class that I took from Kerri Bradford.  Awesome class and I learned so much.

The next card has background paper subway art which I downloaded from the internet and I am sorry to say that I did not keep track of the web site.  This time I used papers from the Petals & Wings kit from Gina K. designs.  Fabulous kit and love it so much.  All cuts were done with my Cameo.  Love, love, love that machine.

That's it for today.  Be back again.

Easter Projects Completed

As I promised, here are the rest of my projects for the Easter holiday.  Had to get done early because I have to ship everything out of town and we are going on our first camping trip of the season a week from tomorrow.

Image from Mo's Digital Pencil

 

 

Easter Basket Stamp from Penny Black Slapsticks Stamps

Swallowtail Butterfly Lever Card from SVG Cuts

All Designs and Subway Art from Cutting Cafe

The first card used papers from KaiserCraft Gypsy Sisters collect and, of course, the image from Mo's Digital Pencil was colored with copics.

Next, I used a card from the Silhouette America Store.  I resized it and then I used papers from the Authentique Journey collection.  Used my copics again for the coloring.

On the next card, I used papers from several different My Mind's Eye Lost & Found collections--Market Street, Madison Avenue and Breeze.  Love those little 6x6 pads.  It is such fun to make some of the cards from SVG Cuts.  I particularly love the Edisto Island collection.

For the last card in this group, I used all files from The Cutting Cafe and just separated them with Gimp software and saved as individual JPEG files.  Then I was able to make them the size that I wanted and to add and offset so they would cut with the Cameo.  Also used the print and cut feature on the Cameo which I really love.

Easter Baskets for the Grandkids

I am so embarrassed about these baskets.  I saw this basket idea on one of the blogs that I follow and, now that I want to post the photo, I cannot find whose blog it was.  So sorry.  I actually took an egg shape from one of my Cutting Cafe files and resized it and then traced it.  Had to do a lot of erasing and cutting and drawing to get what I wanted and here it is.  Papers are all Coordinations and I also used a lot of the Cutting Cafe files for the images on the baskets.  All labels and candy bar wrappers are a Free Printable from Angela at Anything But Perfect.  She has such awesome designs and freebies.  Love them.

And now, I have just one more card (not Easter related).

Birthday Card for Son

This is a birthday card for our Son who will be turning 45 on April 16th.  He is a Command Chief in the Navy and out to sea so this had to be mailed very early.  Used all papers from Echo Park Lost & Found collection and some coordinations for the base and layers.  The design is one of Jen's Deconstructed Sketches #43.

Now that is it for this long post.  Next post will be after our trip to Delaware Seashore State Park and the first of many trips to complete our Bucket List.

Happy day to all and happy crafting.

March Challenge for Papertrey Ink--Aqua and Yellow

I have finally finished all of my Easter projects.  One just happens to meet the criteria for the March Papertrey Ink Challenge of Sunshine--use aqua and yellow.

Easter Card for our Granddaughter Emily

I really think this card is just so special.  I used an image from Mo's Digital Pencil and colored it with Copics.  Funny story--until I put the card together, I was thinking this was an Easter bunny!!  The more I looked at it, I realized that it is a little dog with bunny ears.  Still so darned sweet.  Love Mo's images.

I used all papers from Anna Griffin and did all my cuts with my Cameo.  So love that cutting machine and design capabilities.  The design is actually from Sketch Support.  I have taken a lot of sketches and designed them out in my Design Studio software so that I have them handy when I need to make a card.

I will be posting the rest of my Easter projects next.  Happy Sunday, everyone.

Happy St. Paddy's Day

Well, I have been having a very busy time creating my promised St. Patrick's Day projects.  Wish I could say that the card designs are my own, but, I am not that creative and use inspiration from the blogs that I follow.  To the best of my ability, I will give credit where credit is due.  The banner that I made is my own design.  It was very hard to photograph, so, does not show up as well as I would like.

Everything was designed in my Silhouette Software and all cuts were made with my Cameo.  I am so very thrilled with this machine.  Don't know how I could ever get along without it and the Silhouette Store.  This WILL be coming with us when we start our RV trips this Spring--cannot be soon enough for me.

Design and Digi Thanks to Waltzingmouse Stamps

Design & Digi Thanks to Waltzingmouse Stamps

Subway Art from Peonies & Poppyseeds

Thanks to Jodi Collins & YNS Sketch for February

My Own Design and all cuts from Silhouette Store

The images on the cards are all digital, except for the Little Girl that is Erin from Ireland from Your Next Stamp.  My digis were all uploaded to the Cameo and offset so that they could be cut out on the Cameo.  (Print & Cut feature used.)  Love it.

I took my first trip last week to Stampin and Scrappin which is a local store about an hour and a half away from me.  Kathy had some of the most beautiful papers and helped me to select all of the papers that I used.  Lots from BasicGrey and BoBunny and some lovely 8.5 x 11 papers that I do not know the vendor of.  Kathy is wonderful and the service was fabulous.  So much nicer than the big box stores.

I colored all my images with my Copic Markers and just had so much fun making these cards.

I will now start on my Easter cards and have decided to use card sketches from sketchsupport.com and design all else on my own.  I put the sketches into my Cameo library and then can just pick the one that I want to use.  Let's get those creative juices flowing.

Time to go now and start on Easter.  Happy crafting to all.

Stella Says Sketch #105

This is my entry for the Bugaboo Stamps challenge blog -- Stella Says Sketch #105.  This came at a perfect time.  I needed a card for a friend's 60th birthday and got this image before I even knew about the challenge.

SSS #105 Challenge

Bugaboo Image Stella Over the Hill
Papers--Unknown maker by all from Stamp N Scrap
xPress It Blending Card and Copic Markers
Buttons--Acrylic from Stash
Ribbon--unknown

I designed the layout on my Silhouette Cameo and all cuts were made with the Cameo.  This just makes making a card so much easier.  Hope you love it as much as I do.

Silhouette Cameo Layout Challenge

A layout challenge was posted on the Silhouette blog.  Use the challenge layout and your Cameo and see what you can come up with.  I used my Cameo for cutting everything (including my photos) except for my journaling tag (which is inside the file folder).  This was super fun and super easy.  All of the cuts can be found in the Silhouette Store and I got lucky enough to have them already.  Here is my photo:

The cuts that I used are as follows:

Project Life 4 x 6 cards by Lori Whitlock
Maine Title
Zigzag border
Star is from Superstar Retro Sign

My papers (except for some scraps for the aqua, teal and kraft) are all from The Great Outdoors paper pad from GCD Studio and twine is from the Twinery.  I did a little distressing with Tim Holtz distress ink and that was it.

Hope you like it and hope you all had a great week and are having a great weekend. 

I, also, designed and cut a St. Patrick's Day banner today with my Cameo.  Haven't got it glued together yet, but, I will post soon.

Happy crafting.

TSG143 and RCC40 Challenges

Happy Saturday, Crafty Friends!!  I have been busily, as usual, following my favorite blogs and am trying to work with some challenges to get my future cards created.

I am entering this card in two challenges:

There She Goes Color Challenge 143 to use Olive, Rose and Razzleberry
Ribbon Carousel Challenge using their sketch #40 and ribbon, twine, lace, thread--

On Wednesday, 2/15, while checking the blogs that I follow, Lisa at lisabarrie.blogspot.com had a post on how to design with Silhouette Cameo software.  She was doing layouts, but, I though, what the heck, try it with a card sketch (from RCC #40) and, my gosh, it was a breeze.  Laid everything out on my mat, picked out my papers, and just cut all the elements out in no time flat.  Thank you Lisa.

For this card, I used Anna Griffin papers, Really Reasonable Ribbon, my Copics for the coloring and the Scootin By stamp set from There She Goes stamps.  This stamp set is one of my favorites cause it is just so fun.  Then, I broke out my Sew Easy tool (which I had never used) and thought I would give it a try for the stitching.  Still don't think I really like it, but, I gave it a shot.  Love this card and I hope you all do to.

Enjoy your day and, I will be back again with some more cards for challenges.  Love these challenges and, especially, if there is a sketch involved to get my mojo going.