Baby Girl Bookatrix

Ok I know a lot of sewing has been on my blog lately, but I still have my love of papercrafting.

this was a very nice project to get my paper crafting stuff out and play.

My nephew Adam`s wife Charlene gave birth to their first child on Wednesday morning.

So I just had to make them a special card and chose the bookatrix board.

The above photo is how it looks in its box

 This shows the card out of its box, just love the pretty lace on the edges

A close up of the shoes, it was cut on my Silhouette cameo using a Tina Finch cutting file, that I modified slightly

 A shot of the flowers on top of the box, these came from wild orchid 

 This is Isabella Ivy Hewings, having a cuddle from my daughter Aleysha .

The photo below is her proud daddy Adam, He was very brave and delivered this little bundle on the bathroom floor, her mummy was only in labour for two hours, not in much pain then her waters went and she was on her way, daddy had to deliver her himself before the Ambulance arrived

 Baby and mummy are both doing well

Perrie`s page

 A layout of granddaughter Perrie Grace.

The frame was cut on the Silhouette  Cameo also the border 

the flowers came from wild orchids, the lace ones I made myself 

second post today

Here is a link to the Mini I made for a form swap.

VIDEO HERE

Nicky who received the Mini kindly made a Video to show it to you

thanks Nicky

And a few photos that I took

most of the embellishments  were cut on the Silhouette Cameo

Scrapbooking With Silhouette Cameo

I have been having fun following Kerri Bradford`s designing with the Silhouette Cameo Courses over at
Jessica Sprague
I thought I had mastered  my cameo and design studio , but still learnt a lot from doing these courses, you just follow along with the Video Tutorials at your own pace.
This last course was all about how to use colour in your designs

 Here are a few layouts that we worked on during this course.

My darling granddaughter Perrie was the subject that I used in my Photos

 Love the idea of cutting out the flowery background, it looks like a lace overlay

 This one is my Favourite I will be using this again, 

I love the pattern papers showing through the main page, a simple idea but stunning, lots of ideas for shapes to use doing this.

 This layout was our class homework to take what we have learnt, and Kerri teaches you how to make from scratch all the banners, tags etc that you have seen in these layouts and go design your own

For this layout I used a flower background that I had bought from the Silhouette online store.

I made the banners and took the colours from the oranges in the photo, also the tag on the photo and the sentiment were coloured to match colours in the main photo.

Really enjoyed doing this and will be using my Cameo to make more embellishments for future layouts .

if you are new to the Silhouette Cameo do check out these courses.

Jessica Sprague

They walk you through in baby steps everything you would want to know about designing in silhouette studio.

Kerri gives you a lot of freebies to play with also

Blue flight

 My mother in laws Birthday is tomorrow and here is the card that i have made for her.

It was all cut on my Silhouette Cameo, using a few files from the silhouette store and Birds designs ( A link to birds blog  is in my side bar), All the white card is Core-dinations , the blue was printed onto crafter`s companion light white card and the pattern is a download from pink petticoats, I used the for the mat and also to cut out my flowers.

To finish it all off I used some pale blue seam binding, punched two butterfly from my favourite Martha Stewart Punch, just could not do without this punch a must have in your collection

A close up of the sentiment , another of birds designs for the mat, the sentiment is from TLC ( link to blog in my side bar) sorry its a bit blurry , a new camera, still trying to get the hang of it, not very forgiving if you shake a little while snapping the photo

Butterfly Birthday

 This beautiful card was cut on my Silhouette Cameo using a file from Tina Fitch that I slightly adjusted for my needs

 I used pink Centura and white Core`dinations card available from Crafter`s Companion

 After cutting I ran each side of the card through my bigshot with a cuttlebug embossing folder

This is how the inside of the card looks

Perrie`s Name Plate

Managed to have a play today with Ellie May aka my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine.
I have made a wall Name plate to go in our new granddaughter Perrie`s nursery

 The pink papers are from pink petticoats and have been printed out onto thick 300gsm card.

this was then cut on my Cameo, I designed the file using Alphas from Tina Fitch designs 

This small card below is for my sister in law ready for her birthday next week

Again I have designed it all in studio, cut out using 300gsm card and mirri card.

 The top layer I ran through my Swiss dots embossing folder, then finished with a bunch of flowers

Butterflies

 Had a nice long play with Ellis-May (My Silhouette Cameo ) yesterday evening, Bought a few new files from the Silhouette store

 All these cute roses were cut from one of Birds Files She does some stunning designs and shares them free on her Blog.

I have added a bit of shading onto the edges and sprinkled Glamour dust over them

 The butterfly is also from the Silhouette store, also sprinkled with Glamour dust and three blue gems just to give it a bit of bling

The sentiment is one I have had in my stash for ages, I had a large sheet of then , the colour was a perfect match for this project.

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Challenges

Card crafter`s circle- Pastels

Card making mamas- Girly

Prairies fairy- Anything

Peachy clean stamps- anything goes

Totally paper crafts- things with wings

Crafty ribbon -Things with wings

Digi doodles- paper lace

Paper play- things with wings

Flutter By Wednesday- Must include a butterfly

Inky impressions- Make own embellishments 

Just keep creating- anything goes

Little darlings- Pastels

Anything goes challenge- anything goes

Sassy Cheryl- anything goes

A little double side step card

 Just had to have a play with Humphrey this morning.

The image is from Crafter`s companion Humphrey's Corner Cd.

The Card is Cut on Ellis-May (My Cameo) the card shape I designed myself in Silhouette Studio. 

 It is free to download HERE

I used card from the Core`dinations Contemporary Christmas pack for my base and the backing papers are also from the same CD

The roses were also cut on Eliss-May using a free file from silhouette online store

I have entered this card into

Crafter companion challenges-Four legged friends

Anything goes Challenge_ Anything goes of course

Jacksons digital Expressions- Anything goes

Sassy Cheryl- anything goes

Craft your passion- shaped cards

Make it Monday- Anything goes

Mother day Card

 So happy with this card, It is cut on my Silhouette Cameo using a cut file from the talented artist Tina Fitch

Blog link HERE

Store HERE

So all I had to do was load Ellis-May and let her cut away happily as I watched

 Just love the detail of the lace work on this card.

I had a cricut for years but it was never  able to cut this fine detail.

So happy with the Cameo

Just need to make a pretty box now to put it in

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Stamp n Doodle Challenge

my blog hop winner drawn at random by my son is

Sandra HMar 6, 2012 10:30 AM

Beautiful card Wendy, gorgeous image and beautiful papers too:)

please get in touch with your email Sandra you can leave it in a comment , I have comment moderation on so it will be only for my eyes and I will send you the image I have used on my card

 Here is this weeks DT card for Stamp n Doodle Challenge blog

Again I have used the lovely Irish dance image.

Our them this week is

St Patrick`s Day or green and gold

 The card shape was cut out on my Cameo.

I had a play in Design studio and  designed the cut file for this card myself, No more measuring and scoring just press cut on Ellis- May for future cards

The shamrock was made by me using felt, I followed a tutorial that one of out DT members did.

I will post a link When the tutorial goes online
TUTORIAL 

Here is my second cover for the cameo.

This one i have sent to my friend Kraft Karen to cover Bliss.

Both our new cameos arrived on the same day.

She got her cover in the post as a surprise this morning, I though she needed a little something nice to cheer her up a bit

 Close up of the side panels 

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