Baby Shower Card

Good day!

Today I have a card I made for a baby shower

to show you.

I bought the svg file from the 
Silhouette Design Store

and cut it on my Silhouette Cameo.

As fine as some of the cuts are, it was an

easy one to cut and weed.

I adhered the die cut to the background paper, 

added the cloud with the greeting and

then added it all to a white card base.

To be honest, I actually cut the image larger

than I intended, so I made it into a square card,

but I'm glad, as I like how it turned out.

I wrote a personal note inside the card to go

with the shower gifts.

Thanks for stopping by today, 
I hope you have been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then,

embrace your "mistakes"

As I always say, there are no mistakes in 

crafting, only chances to be more creative.

 

Tee shirts

Hello!

Today I have some tee shirts that I made 

as gifts for Christmas.

I created these with my 

Silhouette Studio Designer Edition software

and cut them with my Silhouette Cameo.

I created this for my husband.

He is a photographer and sells his work

at art shows.

I created this one myself using 

a picture that I traced for the photographer

and a background that is in my library.

I overlapped the background in a couple layers

to create something new.

The HTV (heat transfer vinyl) that I used is

Cameleon HTV

that Sara bought for me to play with.

It's hard to see in the pictures, but 

this HTV changes color with light

and movement.  You can see the two pictures

look like different colors, but are actually the same,

just from a different angle.

This HTV is a lot of fun to work with.

I used the same kind on the
"Yoda-Potter" shirts that I made for

Jaryd, Sara and Marie,

just with a different color.

This is the one I made for my daughter,
Kelsie.  She has an instagram  called

clumsy_girl_makeup

and thought this would be perfect for her.

She is very talented, if you are interested in

make up at all, check her out on Instagram.

These images were from files that I purchased through

The Design Store from Silhouette

Lots of layering on this one, but it turned out great.

Kelsie's boyfriend, Brad, loves his

Marvel and superheroes.

His favorite it The Hulk, so I 

made this for him.
The green HTV is also the Cameleon HTV

I even made one for myself,

couldn't not have one in my stocking!

The words are done with the 
Cameleon HTV.

All other HTV on this and the other shirts are just 

plain old HTV that I have in many colors in my stash.

I love how my shirt turned out,

I seldom make something for myself and I'm so glad I made this.

Thanks for coming by today,

I hope you have found something that inspires you.

Come again soon and see what else I've been up to.

Until then,

create something for yourself!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

 

Gift for Lennon

Hi!  Hope you're having a great day.

Today I'm showing you a gift I made for a little guy.

He turned 5 and absolutely loves dinosaurs.

This wasn't an easy and smooth process and I'll try to tell 

about my mistakes, so you don't also make them.

I started with a blank canvas, acrylic paints and Chap Stick.

Yes, I know that sounds strange, but I couldn't find my Microglaze and

thought I'd give the Chap Stick a try.

And I have to say it did work to a degree, but not as easily as

the Microglaze would have.

Here is a link to what I wanted to do with it.

I ended up not using it for the gift piece, but 

not because it wasn't working at all, I just didn't

have the time to play with it.

And of course guess what I found a couple days later?!?!

I know this might be hard to see, but it sure is hard to

photograph something that is clear.

I cut out a dinosaur design with Lennon's name on it

using my Silhouette Cameo and The Dinosaur Border Set

from the Silhouette Design Store.

I used a piece of acetate to make the stencil and mask.

I ran the stencil and mask through my large Xyron machine

and stuck the mask down onto the canvas.

I started painting with the lightest color that I had, which

was a pink.  I was going for a sunset/universe look.

I continued to add colors, one by one, lightest to darkest.

I also added the red to his name.

Then came the darker colors, blues and purples.

And BOOM that's when things went awry. 

It all looked fine, until I took the mask off and the paint

had bled under the mask and made a total mess.

So I began again.

I used a little different strategy for the second attempt.

I used a bit less paint, less water on my brush when cleaning

it between colors and was more careful about how I applied the 

paint, trying to brush out from the mask at all times.

This time the dinosaurs came out much better, but there was

still some bleeding, but no where near as bad this time

Then I laid the stencil part of the acetate over the painted

canvas to see exactly where the dinosaurs were and painted his name in

more carefully.

Once that was done, I took the stencil off and began 

painting all the white parts with black paint.

After a couple coats of black and some more red....

it was almost finished.

For a finishing touch, I used some white paint,

added a little water and used my paint brush to flick

spatters onto the sky.  

I did lay the mask over the dinosaurs before

flicking the white paint.

I also gave the dinosaurs red eyes and I was done.

Then I was on to the card.

I decided to make a card to match the gift.

I cut the dinosaurs and the 

Happy Birthday! 

from black card stock.

I used a star stamp and stamped the card with 

VersaMark Ink and heat embossed them with silver

embossing powder.

Here is a picture of the gift and card together.

The day of his party, I think Lennon was so overwhelmed

that he didn't really know all the gifts he got,

but his parents did and they both loved this gift.

I think it turned out pretty cool too.

Thanks for popping in to see what I've been creating.

Glad to have you here, come again soon.

Until next time,

have fun crafting!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Sienna' Gift

Hi everyone!

I have the most adorable :"greats"  

that's what I call my great nieces and nephews!

Today I'm showing you what I made for one

of my greats.

I used a 5x7 canvas board, that I picked up at 

Hollo's Papercrafts.

I mixed some red and white 

acrylic craft paints

to make pink paint and 

painted the entire board with the pink.

I cut a ballerina with my Silhouette from black vinyl.
I used one of the dancers from the

"Ballerina Border" which I purchased from

The Silhouette Design Store

I also cut her name using the

Segoe Print font.

I used transfer tape to apply the vinyl to the painted

canvas board.

I then made a 'dress' for the ballerina.

For the dress, I used a strip of lace

and a piece of pink ribbon,

I doubled the lace to give it a bit of fullness.

I layered the pink ribbon on top of the edge of the

doubled lace and used a running stitch with white

thread along the length of the lace and ribbon.

I then pulled the thread to gather the top edge 

and secured it with a few stitches.

I tied a small bow with the same pink ribbon and 

used Ranger Multi Medium Matte

to glue the bow to the dress.

I also used the Multi Medium to glue the dress

to the dancer on the board.

I used the same glue to adhere 3 flowers to the 

hair of the ballerina

I framed it in a black frame.

I think this turned out adorable.

I hope Sienna loves this as much as I do.

I enjoyed creating it for her.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Come again soon.

Until then, I hope you'll 

create something.

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.