Addicted to CAS: Challenge #43 - Celebrate

Good afternoon blogger's, hope this post finds you all well.

Today I have made a card that I am going to enter into the current Addicted To CAS Challenge - The theme this time is - celebrate

I used my silhouette cameo for this card throughout.

I position a 6x6 card blank onto my cutting mat and placed the cutting file where I wanted it to be.

I ungrouped the file so it only cut the outer line from the card blank. This then gave me the aperture. I left the cut out on the cutting mat and using a sketch pen, I placed the word 'Celebrate' 

 and I glued the cut out through the aperture onto the inner leaf of the card.

Leaving everything in place, I highlight the flourish part of the cutting file and used some

shimmer paper to cut the file.

To add interest, I folded the front of the card in half and added a couple of strips of the same paper used for the flourish cut out.

Very clean, very simple.

Hope you like it and thank you for dropping by my blog today x

CAKE birthday card

Here is the card I have made for one of the chiropractors in town. 

Vicki is full of life and a piece of cake never goes amiss.

The digital stamp is from Redonkadoodles and coloured with Promarkers. I have been following tutorials on YouTube by Kimberly Brown - and am pleased to say, my colouring has got a lot better since doing so. I also use Neenah Card Stock.

The rest of the card was composed in Serif Craft Artist professional 2 and colour matched throughout 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today x

July 2014 card round up so far

Hi all, once again, here's a round up of what I have been making so far this July. 

As ever, I have used many different mediums, techniques, tools etc etc etc and I'll give a little bit of info for each one, just to keep the post brief.

First up, Aiden's camper van card.

Van paper pieced for a Silhouette cameo cutting file

Wording cut on Silhouette with matching mat

Backing paper & sentiment designed in Craft Artist Pro 2

Topper is one I have had for many years. Created a line drawing from it and 'drew' it on Silhouette Cameo

Film strip & name created in Silhouette software

Other embellishments from a silhouette cutting file

Photo corners from a Tim Holtz Bigz Die

Digi stamp from Mo Manning, coloured with promarkers.

Background created in Craft Artist Pro 2. Hand coloured with promarkers

Other embellishments from Silhouette cutting file 

Digistamp from Paolaspapers on Etsy

Coloured with promarkers

Backing paper from Craft Artist pro 2

Floral die cuts 

Embossing folder that came with ebosser

Distress inks

Create & Craft dies

Digital image from Polka doodles Digi on Etsy

Coloured with promarkers

Backing created in Craft Artist 2 

Simple sympathy card

main dies - Tonic

various floral dies

Digital image from Redonkadoodles 

Coloured with promarkers

background created in craft artist pro 2

Ta-dah :-) 

What I have been doing card wise

A quick over view of some of the cards I made in June

This one was made with masks, craft artist, silhouette cameo, distress inks, stamps and glue :-) 

This one was made with Tonic dies, sizzex dies, ready made flowers, and of course, glue :-)

Hunkydory topper and backing paper for this one. Create &Craft die for the butterflies (& glue) 

This card was made using Silhouette print & cut technique.
The beautiful princess digistamp is from Art By Miran available from her Etsy Store
The lattice at the back was from the silhouette store and I also used various dies for the leaves & flowers

This card used a honeycomb lattice from the silhouette store.
The flowers and leaves are from Fred She Said   I have used designs from this lady for many years and they are always a delight to use. I used the silhouette print & cut technique