Let's Write a Letter

I am so excited to share with you this wonderful project from The Cutting Cafe.

Please excuse my photography.  I haven't figured out how to take a photo of something laying flat without all kinds of shadows.  take a look at what comes with this cutting file.

WOW!  The possabilites are endless.  This set comes formatted as MTC, PDF, SVG or WPC and is priced at only $4.25.

Watch Regina's video for more inspiration.

Click on the link to get your own "Let's Write a Letter" cutting file. 

Other Products used:
Power Poppy's digital stamp - flowering branches (stationery) 
Die-Versions Spring Pond die (cover die)
s-e-i Bright Blossom 12 x 12 paper pad
Orange organza ribbon
Score tape

Autumn Greetings

I think Autumn has some of the most spectacular colors that nature has to offer. I love the all the pretty colors of leaves turning, mums of every color and pumpkins of every size.  The Cutting Cafe has quite a few cutting and digital files for you to celebrate this wonderful season.  Here are a couple that I have used on this card.

The Autumn Greetings frame  was printed on my laser printer.  I laid some gold foil over the printed image, placed a sheet of copy paper over the foil and ran it through my laminate machine.  I just love the results.  The Huge Pumpkin is printable from The Cutting Cafe also.  I loaded my image into the Silhouette Cameo and cut it with some glitter cardstock and added some jewels.  Look at what you get for a fabulous price.

Only $1.99 

and

Huge Pumpkin for $.99

Check out The Cutting Cafe for more ideas.  Now go forth and create something wonderful!

Back to School

School starts here next Tuesday.  Regina, The Cutting Cafe owner, gave her design team some fabulous cutting files to work with that are perfect for the start of a new school year. I chose the Apple Treat Card.

I was a little intimidated when I first saw her sample card.  Watch her tutorial video below and see, it's easy peasy!

 

As with all my Cutting Cafe post, I am reminding you that you do not have to own a cutting machine. The Cutting Cafe files come in various formats, so you can print and hand cut to make any of her designs. And wow are they ever affordable. This one is just $2.25.  

Check out the other back to school projects at The Cutting Cafe.

Christmas in August

Regina, the owner of The Cutting Cafe, asked her team members to do a Christmas in August project. And I'm thinking "why not?".  And should we not just do Christmas all year?

I chose to do this awesome Noel shaped card. It is so easy with The Cutting Cafe Noel-Word-Shaped-Card-Template-Cuttng-File.  

This file comes in various file formats, so even if you don't have a cutting machine such as the Silhouette, you can still print and cut by hand. And you can either print in color or use some pretty pattern paper. If you are printing on patterned paper, you will want to print on the back side and reverse the image. As you can see it even comes with additional images which I have not used in this project. And this entire set is only $.99!!

If you want a tutorial on how to convert files for the Silhouette Cameo, here is a really good one: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTYWfOmo8r8

Products:

Noel-Word-Shaped-Card-Template

White & Black Card Stock 

Gold Wrapping Paper

Cheery Lynn Holly Corner (B-184)

Paper Studio Gems

Silhouette Cameo 

QKR Stampede Challenge - #202 - Down on the Farm

This will be my last post as a QKR Stampede designer.  I was really more of a Summer fill in, and it has been a fun couple of months.  As I've mentioned before, I a especially fond of the QKR's rag doll digis.  And even if you aren't into rag dolls they have dozens of digital and rubber categories to choose from.

Here we have digi12201 Planting a Garden which I've colored with Copics and cut with the Silhouette Cameo.

Stamps - QKR Stampede & Verve (Sentiment)
Paper - White & yellow card stock - Graphic 45
Dies - Our Daily Bread Stitched Rectangles, Lawn Fawn, Stitched Circle, Paper Smooches (hills)
Accessories - Wink of Stella, Paper Studio flower
Silhouette Cameo - QKR image cut, plant border cutting file.

Come join in the fun for this QKR Stampede Challenge #202-Down on Farm.

QKR Stampede Challenge #201 Up and Away

This little Pigtail Angel is so sweet. You have probably noticed that I have a thing for QKR Stampede's rag dolls.  Every time I color one up I remember making a rag doll for my daughter for her first birthday. She would be very unhappy with me if I were to tell you how many years ago that was. I recently found her doll packed away in the attic. She needed a little scrubbing, but she is just as sweet and now the grandchildren play with her when they visit.

I picked QKR Stampede #13103 Pigtail Angel for this challenge.  Then I ran across this pretty flocked kraft paper from DCWV and cut a piece with my new Wonky Stitch die from Die-namics.
(For some reason this paper warps when used with dies.)  Next I printed (2) digis on plain kraft paper and cut (2) with the Silhouette Cameo.  I started to use a bleach technique to lighten the face and hands. Apparently I did not give it time and moved on to the second one with my pencils. I finished coloring her and looked over at the bleached image and it had lightened up perfectly. Lesson learned.

Stop over at the QKR Stampede blog and check out the rest of the design teams fabulous cards.

Products:  #13103 Pigtail Angel
                Paper Trey Ink (Sentiment)
                Die-namics exclusive from MFT Wonky Stitch Rectangles
                DCWV Playtime Stack designer paper
                Prisma Color pencils
                Pearls
                Raspberry Stickles (halo, wand & wings)

Happy Friday!

Super Size

Regina Easter, owner of The Cutting Cafe asked her design team to super size any file. This Dragonfly File comes as a 5-1/4 folded size. I was able to resize it to 5-5/8.  I wanted it to still fit into a 6" square envelope.  Just look at that beautiful super big dragonfly!  And I would also note that this file could easily be downsized to say a 4" square. 

This DRAGONFLY CARD SET - templates and cutting files features the following:2 dragonfly window cards - these are also good for making shaker dragonfly cards  these will fit inside of a A2 sized envelope.1 dragonfly card - approx. 5.25 by 5.25 inches1 card base - for A2 sized envelopes9 sentimentsMisc dragonfly cutting images

The cutting files come in PDF, SVG, MTC and WPC formats.The sentiments come in PDF and JPEG formats.

Other products used for this project:

Cuttle Bug Embossing Folder

Dies: Spellbinder Gold Majestic Circles, Our Daily Bread Double Stitched Rectangles, Cheery Lynn Mini Flourish Band.

Paper - DCWV

Pearls & Acetate 

Check out The Cutting Cafe Blog for more cutting file ideas.