Another Swing Card

Since I have my file for the swing card I designed saved in Silhouette Studio, it was very easy to make another one.  The patterned papers I used are free digital ones the I picked up from jessicasprague.com, when they had their five year anniversary celebration a little while back.  I love how they all coordinate, and I was able to use them with the print and cut feature in Studio.

For this tag, I decided to use clear cardstock instead of vellum.  I used the My Creative Time Fly Away with Me Dies to cut out the hot air balloon on white cardstock.  Then I stamped the balloon image from the Fly Away with Me Stamp Set onto three different patterned papers that I had printed from Studio and cut out the pieces I needed to paper piece the balloon.  The sentiment and the banner die cut are from the Fly Away with Me Sentiments stamp set.

Since I was using clear cardstock, I needed everything to line up perfectly on the back of the tag.  The hot air balloon die is not completely symmetrical, so I used the back side of the die cut this time.  It didn't line up perfectly, but once I paper pieced the basket part, you couldn't really tell.  The sentiment I used on this side is from My Creative Time's Many Greetings stamp set.

Products used for this card:

Silhouette Cameo Bazzill White Cardstock PTI Sweet Blush Cardstock MCT Fly Away With Me Dies MCT Fly Away With Me MCT Fly Away With Me Sentiments MCT Many Greetings Stamp Set PTI True Black Ink PTI Rustic Cream Button Twine

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Wild Card 2 House Card with Video

Some friends of mine just bought their first house, so I wanted to make them a fun house shaped card.  I found this one on the Cricut Wild Card 2 cartridge.  The handbooks says not to cut it smaller than 4 1/2", so I made an A7 size card (5 x 7).

The sweet sentiment is from the My Creative Time Home Sewn stamp set.  I heat embossed it with white embossing powder.

For further details, including how I used my Gypsy for this card, watch the video above.

Products used for this card:

Cricut Wild Card 2 PTI Rustic White Cardstock PTI Lemon Tart Cardstock PTI Dark Chocolate Cardstock PTI Aqua Mist Cardstock PTI Library Ledger Paper PTI Background Basics: Farm & Barn MCT Home Sewn Stamp Set PTI Dark Chocolate Ink VersaMark Ink White Filigree Embossing Powder

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Tag Swing Card

The other day Kristina Werner had a swing card on her blog that was really cool.  I've never tried making one of these before.  She used a Sizzix die for hers, but I thought maybe I could design my own in Silhouette Studio.  It took a long while, but I finally figured it out!

Instead of a circle, like the die she used, I decided to put a tag shape in the middle of mine.  I really liked Kristina's use of embossed vellum, so I did that too, using the Papertrey Ink Crackled Mini Stamp Set.  I also used the Cricut Life is a Beach cartridge to cut a 1 1/4" anchor.

My sentiment is from My Creative Time's Wow!  So Many Candles stamp set, my "go to" set for birthday cards.

This picture shows the back of the tag.  When I cut my anchor, I used my Gypsy to flip the image horizontally and cut it again so that I could match it up on the back of the tag.

The nice thing about designing this in the Silhouette is that I now have the file to use again!

Products used for this card:

Silhouette Cameo Cricut Life is a Beach PTI Men of Life Patterned Paper PTI Smokey Shadow Cardstock PTI Vellum Cardstock PTI Crackled Mini Stamp Set MCT Wow So Many Candles Stamp Set PTI True Black Ink VersaMark Ink White Filigree Embossing Powder PTI Pure Poppy Baker's Twine

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Floral Birthday Card

This is another card I made for the Papertrey Ink Stamp-a-faire.  The collection was already closed when I made it, but the colors really appealed to me, so I thought I would give it a go.

The challenge called for the PTI Natural Beauties stamp set.  I don't have that one, so I pulled out the only two floral sets that I do have:  Wildflower Garden and Botanical Silhouettes, which was a reward stamp set from a couple of years ago.  I used all of the suggested colors and had fun just stamping.

The sentiment, from Wildflower Garden, is stamped on a strip of vellum that has 1/8" ScorTape hiding behind the score marks.  I used StazOn ink (I think I need to practice this technique a bit).  To see Nichole Heady's original card, click here.

Products used for this card:

PTI Raspberry Fizz Cardstock PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock PTI Vellum Cardstock PTI Wildflower Garden Stamp Set StazOn Jet Black Ink PTI Raspberry Fizz Ink PTI Hibiscus Burst Ink PTI Terracotta Tile Cardstock PTI Simply Chartreuse Ink PTI Orange Zest Ink

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