Live, Laugh, Love

Good morning!  I'm really excited to show you my little project today.  I made this about a month ago and just managed to grab some photos of it.  A while back, the Silhouette Blog had this free shape of the week, which just happened to match some bedding we bought for my daughter and I had to make one of these frames for her room.  Here's a look at the whole frame -

The frame is an 8x10 with a 5x7 matte inside.  I used the free shape from Silhouette, which is the vine background, and used the negative image of it, so the vines are cut from the white card stock and then I slipped a sheet of yellow card stock behind the white.  The flowers are a 5-petal punch from EK Success and then I added a black rhinestone in the center of each flower.

Here's a detail shot of the sentiment -

I changed up the sentiment from the shape they used on the blog - I didn't have the sentiment they used, and didn't want to buy it, so I just made my own using the Silhouette Studio software that came with my Silhouette and used fonts I have on my computer.  If you are curious, the words are Bambi Bold and the heart flower is DB Cherish.  I edited the phrase so the letters overlapped somewhat and then welded the image into one cut file so I wouldn't need to glue on each letter individually.  There is a tutorial on that technique here.

I really like the way this one turned out and I have to remember to make more of these types of projects.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful day.

In the clouds

Good morning!  Maybe I should use an exclamation point there since it is a Monday morning after all.  Sorry gang.  Wake up!  hahaha!  I've been itching to get this cute little plane all inky since the day I picked it up at CHA.  It's a set from Papertrey called Fly Away - how cute is this?  It's the start of the school year, which means I'll be getting a whole new round of party invites, so I thought I'd get a jump start on some little boy cards.  I downloaded another cut file for the Sihouette so can make cute fluffy clouds and I just love the shapes of these.  Here I am with another minimal layered card - I'm on a roll!  I do think I'd like to make quick and easy cards for preschoolers since the card be all mangled up the minute it is opened.  But I try not to think about that and pretend that this will be preserved in someone's scrapbook for eternity.  :D

The layout is Taylor's TESC125 and the color combo is inspired by Curtain Call 44, which uses new In Colors from Stampin' Up! that I don't have, so I had to bend the rules a bit :D   

Have a wonderful day!
Karen

recipe -

stamps: fly away (papertrey ink)

paper: tempting turquoise, so saffron, choice snow white cardstock, fly a kite (october afternoon)

ink: real red, memento tuxedo black

accessories: silhouette clouds cut file, white embroidery floss, bits of bling (creative impressions), rectangle/scallop nestabilities (spellbinders)

Pretty Princess

Good morning!  I have finally finished Katie's birthday invitations and I'm thinking they no longer look like Pepto Bismol - aren't they darling!??  In all my attempts at making party invites, these were absolutely the easiest to make.  Of course it has everything to do with using a Silhouette cut file and not actually needing to cut them out by hand.  Woohoo!  I picked up some pink bling from Michael's and as luck would have it, all the packets were 40% off - so that was a stroke of luck, yay!  The cardstock is Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose (both Stampin' Up!), and Choice Snow White (Taylored Expressions) and I recently (and finally!) ordered a Bow Easy and look at the fun little bow it made - all cute and perfect. 

Have a fabulous Friday!
Karen

Pink-a-licious!

Just a little sneak of something I'm working on - and I must say, working with all of this pink makes me think of Pepto Bismol.  Is anyone with me?

Stay tuned!