Watercolored Masculine Card #2

I have another water colored masculine card today. It's also clean and simple, which seems to be the style I follow when making cards for men. The layout was inspired by CAS(E) this Sketch!. The card in general was inspired by this week's Muse. The background was watercolored and dotted with my white pen.

The birch trees were die cut using my Silhouette Cameo. I propped it using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam squares.The lovely script sentiment is from Penny Black Wishes.

Challenges: CAS(E) this Sketch!, Card Mania, Muse, SSS Wednesday.

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Watercolored Masculine Card

I have been playing around with my watercolors and made several cards using them. I will share some this week that are all masculine. It's something I don't do often, so these cards are a little different from my usual style. I did enjoy making them and seem to always be in need for masculine cards.

Today's card is a CAS Christmas card with no stamping! I first water colored my background with fall colors. I wanted to go with  non-traditional Christmas colors. The deer was die cut using my Silhouette. I lost the wall plate part somewhere along the way, so I hand drew it using my Copic Multiliner pen that I won a while ago from a giveaway. I'm glad I was able to finally use it.

The sentiment is hand lettered. The patterned paper is actually chevron, but it shows as stripes here. I propped the deer head using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam squares. And who says a masculine can't have a bow? I guess as long as it's twine, it's okay. :)

Challenges: Mixed Media Card, Poppy Sketches, Fusion, Diecut Divas, Card Mania, Addicted To Stamping, SSS Wed Challenge.

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Vintage Cards with Quietfire Designs Cut Files

I am guest posting for Quietfire Designs this month. Today, I am highlighting the QFD cut files that you can purchase HERE. These cut files are so delicate and I was afraid my Silhouette wouldn't cut them right, but was I wrong! I love their elegant design and they make a great focal point.

My first card uses the Friend cut file and is vintage shabby with girly pink all over.  The doily is by SRM Stickers. I also embellished with a Spellbinders Moroccan die cut, Want2Scrap pearls, paper flower and seam binding.

My second card is also vintage shabby, but milder on the girly scale (just my style). This time the focal point is the lovely Thank You cut file. I did some distressing and stitching on the edges and placed buttons to matched the strip of patterned paper (from Crate Paper's Maggie Holmes collection).

I think this is the first time in a while that I didn't do any stamping on my cards. With these stunning Quietfire Design cut files, I didn't need to. The cut files added more dimension and a different look from my usual stamped cards. And I love the results! On Friday, I have another guest post for another favorite company that offers so many different products I love.

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Cardinal Cards Using My First Freebie Cut File

Hello, friends. I have something new today. As I said in my previous post, I made a bird cut file to share with you, so you can create your own card using the Mortise Masking technique (aka reverse masking. I didn't even know there's a technical name for it). I'm having fun experimenting with my Silhouette Cameo. I have provided below a link to download the cut file in the most popular versions I know: SVG, Studio, DXF, and PDF. If you think it needs to be in another version, please let me know and I'll try to figure out how to do it.

Here are my cards using the cut file. For this one, I cut a white card stock. I then stamped and water colored a Penny Black Poinsettia image. I traced the edges with a thin black marker to highlight the image.

This one is CAS. I just cut a Christmas patterned paper (from Pink Paislee's City Sidewalks) and adhered to a card base. Some twine and felt snowflakes (that I bought ready made) finish the card.

 

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Penny Black and Moxie Fab Leaf Card

I've been enjoying playing with watercolors since last week and here's another mixed media card I made. I used my Penny Black's Foliage Fancy stamp set and Madison papers for today's card. The leaf and scallop border I made myself using my Silhouette. The tag is from Penny Black's Tagged dies. The Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L photo corner is my favorite little accent lately.

I put the watercolor directly onto the solid leaf image and stamped on a thick cardstock. When it dried, I stamped the line image using Versafine ink. I lined it up so it shows through the negative leaf cut and mounted the leaf patterned paper with SAby3L foam squares.

This card was inspired by Ribbon Carousel's fall or halloween challenge, this week's Moxie Fab's Tuesday Trigger.  

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TCM Previews: Christmas Lantern

I have a houseful of little ladies for my birthday girls' combined slumber parties right now. It's tiring, but oh so much fun to watch them enjoy their childhood. My kids are growing up too fast and someday I'll miss these beautiful chaos in our home. :)

Anyhoo, welcome to day 3 of The Craft's Meow's October previews. Today we're showing a beautiful set by my friend Clare Buswell called Christmas Lantern. It has one big stamp that is fun to color, which I did here on my card with Copic markers. The little strip of patterned paper is October Afternoon. 

The doily background is something I designed that I cut with my Silhouette Cameo. Some Want2Scrap bling embellished the different elements of my card.

Make sure you go to the TCM blog for more info on today's previews, including a chance to win today's set! Enjoy your day!

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Silhouette Thanks

I finally got on the Silhouette Cameo bandwagon. I have saved up birthday and Christmas money (Yes, I still get them :) for a long time and Amazon had a great deal a few months ago. I had all summer to play with it, but didn't have the chance to do it much until I returned to Croatia. I haven't been able to make successful cuts every time, but it's partially due to a defective blade (hopefully, the replacement is on its way here), partially user error. I have to fiddle around with the machine to get the right settings for the type of paper I have. It's not rocket science, I know, so I'll get there eventually. :)

I like that I can design my own cuts, which I already do anyway for Spellbinders and I love my SB Dies. But there are so much I like to do that don't get made into dies. Here is one example. The sentiment here is cut with my Silhouette. It's inspired by the Silhouette's current challenge. I weld the letters together for my sentiment. The papers are Echo Park. The pearls are Want2Scrap.

Here it is close up. I love the pop of blue with the dark pink background.

Come back tomorrow when The Craft's Meow team will begin the previews for the September release. Have a great day!