With Sympathy

Hi Friends,

The sun is shining this morning...makes me so happy.

Here's a sympathy card using Silhouette Studio. I wrote the wording with a gel pen using the machine. I really like that feature. This is a card you could use for any occasion just by changing out
the sentiment.

Lots going on today...will share in a few days.

 

Enjoy

 

Yvonne

Building Block Card

Hi There,

Is it spring yet? I've included some pictures of what our yard looked like yesterday morning....

In the meantime here is the card for today. This is referred to a Building Block Card. Directions can be found on Splitcoast Stampers. I did use the directions from Splitcoast and created a cut file for my Silhouette. If you would like a copy please leave a comment or e-mail me directly. Either way I will need to know your e-mail address. :)

The cake image is from the Silhouette library. I colored filled it on the

computer then used the print and cut feature on the Silhouette.

The font was aerial. I can cut any font I can download to my computer.

This tree is normally tall and upright. Tuesday morning I awoke to freezing rain. None of the ice melted off the trees until late afternoon. About noon I had to venture out and everywhere it

looked like a Winter Wonderland. It was actually quite pretty.

A close up of the ice on the above tree!

The palm tree should not have icicles!

The palm fronds are usually pointing up. This year we have been hit with a lot

of frost and hard frosts. Hoping it's over soon.

Stay warm today.

I'm going to craft a little more. A pop up box card is in my future.

 

Yvonne

Tiki Party

Good Day!

I made this card for my neighbor. I was looking for something fun. The tiki head was an image I downloaded from the internet, traced and cut using the silhouette. The drink was a cricut cut form Life's a Beach cartridge.

The background I printed on my printer. I've learned to use a glossy cardstock and the print is much nicer. The stamp is from Just-Rite and the scallop is a SU punch. 

To go along with the card I bought an orchid plant...guess I didn't show how pretty

it was. lol

The dragonfly was purchased from the silhouette library as were all the vinyl cuts.

This machine cuts vinyl great. Intricate designs are not a problem. My only problem is I want to vinyl everything.

I did have a label image but I was able to draw a oval to match the inside of the label for the blue vinyl. I am using the designer edition software and that allows me more creativity. Probably way more than I'll ever need. The swirly font was pretty cute too.

Well I just couldn't leave this side without anything so I duplicated the dragonfly and then I had a font that has a little flower on each letter. Perfect...and in the centre of each flower I added a black pearl.

 

Had a productive day yesterday in my craftroom and I also visited with a friend where

we exchanged craft ideas. I've got a cool one coming up for you.

 

DH is in Calgary right now...coming home today but boy have they been in the deep freeze. Saturday's forecast was -30C for high and -46C for low. That's cold.

Leave a comment and let me know where your from and how warm or cold you are!

 

If you're still in winter temperatures stay warm and craft....it just makes it more bearable.

 

Enjoy

Yvonne

Valentine Catch Up!

Hi There,

Life has been keeping me so busy. I made lots of Valentine projects but just didn't get them posted.
Today I'm going to share them all at once.  All the projects were made with my Silhouette. I still have all of my cricut machines. Can't part with any of my toys...never know when I might need it.

I have projects that I have for my daughters wedding but can't share them until after the big day.

 Lacey's Card!

 I hung a few of these from the ceiling and then made a bunch smaller to hang on the little evergreen tree.

 Received this little tree at Christmas and it was decorated with snowflakes. Decided to remove those
and decorate for Valentines Day.

 That pretty floral background is actually material. It cut great with my machine.

 

Glad I got those up even if they are late.

 

Yvonne

Valentine Subway Art

Good Day!

Well for a weather update...still rainy and cold. Yuck.

I did make it to the gym yesterday...aiming for a repeat performance today. The last six months I've been neglectful in exercising.

Today's share is what is termed subway art. I've been making lots of these to match each season or holiday. The word art file is from Silhouette Studio.

I go to the local craft store...whoever has the white canvases on sale. Last time I bought seven in a package and I think that worked out to about $2.00 per canvas. They are 16 x 20.

Painted it a pretty pink...trying to use all my tole paints that have been neglected as well.

Now I have a confession to make. For Christmas I got a new cutting machine...the Cameo Silhouette.
Does it cut nice....For anybody out there who is a quilter (Pam) it cuts material as well....

The wording is cut out of red vinyl. The machine can cut very intricate details perfectly. I'm truly impressed. You can also do your own designing and patterns on it. Anyway you can see how narrow the boxes are around some of the words and there was no problem with the cutting!

My house is so decorated for Valentines Day! First year for me to really decorate it. Last year I did make a Valentine's Day wreath for the front door.

 

Challenges Entered

Creative Cutting Challenge

 

Do you decorate?

 

Happy Crafting!

Yvonne

Countdown to Kisses!

Hello!

Did you think I had fallen off the face of the earth. It has been forever since I blogged. I've thought about it many times but I couldn't seem to get around to uploading my pictures from my camera!

I am in the middle of helping my daughter plan her wedding for May/2014...it's coming soon.

I did spend a few days in New Brunswick in January visiting my Grandsons and their parents. So much fun. I have some scrapbooking to do.

Speaking of Grandsons, I made each of the boys a Valentine's Day advent of sorts. I had seen this idea on the internet.

We cut a 12 x 12 piece of MDF board and drilled 14 holes in it. The hersey kisses don't poke all the way through but the hole is drilled all the way through. The lettering is done with vinyl and on the bottom of each Hershey kiss is a number attached with a glue dot.

I have lots more Valentine Day projects so I will try and keep uploading them in a timely fashion.

Have a great week.

Yvonne

City Chase Part 2

Morning,

Second set of City Chase Pages and another four challenges we did.

 

 

 

 

Soccer Ball - Sports Mania 4.5"

Duck in Canoe - Camping Critters 4.5
                         - Inks used: Tim Holtz - Wild Honey, Evergreen Bough, Frayed Burlap,
                                                                 Pumice Stone
Rugby - George & Basic Shapes 2.5" x 4" (sized with CCR)
Font - Go Canada 1" Letterspacing 2
Pennants - Art Philosophy 1.25"
In Sync - Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake .4"
Signs and Circles for Journalling - George & Basic Shapes
                                                      - signs 2" & 1.5", circles - 4.5" & 2.75"

Have a Good Monday. Fall is officially here.

 

Yvonne

Hello You

Hi Again,

I've had some questions about what I've been doing? Well there's been some wedding planning on the go. Kristen will be getting married next May in Orlando. Her and I took a trip there a couple of weeks ago and officially have a wedding venue and have rented a house for all of us. You have no idea how many houses there are to rent by the week. I was trying to pick something close to Disney, close to the grooms family and close to the venue. After hours of searching on the internet making myself crazy checking distances to all the locations via mapblast I gave my head a slap and said, "Just pick one. It's not the end of the world if somebody has to drive an extra 10 minutes!" And that really was all the difference it was going to make.  Currently looking at caterers. Only thing there we need to stay away from is mushrooms. Groom gets really sick if there's mushrooms. Working through it...one step at a time!

I did a little travelling over the summer as well checking out those states that are close to Texas. Maybe one day I'll actually get around to scrapbooking those.

Today's share is using all Stampin' Up products. Stampin' Up does have some wonderful embossing powder colors.  The flower was embossed and then cut out using SU dies. Stampin' Up has changed a lot over the years to keep up with the current market trends. They have lots of dies that co-ordinate with stamp sets.

I made this card at a card class. I myself have not invested in more dies or stamps. I have quite enough but I do enjoy playing with new stuff once in a while.

That's all I've got today.

Yvonne

City Chase Part 1

Hi There,

Well it's been a really long time since I blogged. Lots of stuff on the go and I've even had projects to post but just needed to edit them. That's the part I have trouble getting done. I want them to magically go from my camera disk to  my blog.

So I finished scrapbooking this years City Chase. Lots of cricut cuts. The journaling tells the story. I made cricut cuts for some of the events we didn't get pictures for.

All pattern paper is from Making Memories called "Chloe's Closet". I must admit I'm getting tired of that paper pack. I bought it at Michaels 5 or 6 years ago. 18 patterns 36 sheets. I think it keeps multiplying.

As I did the pages I wrote down which cartridges I used, sizing and any other special cuts/techniques I used. (See end of post for info).

Gotta love all the bling I added to the letters and the existing flowers. See that time...only two minutes to spare in crossing that finish line!

Corresponding page...more bling. I liked the arch. Was able to manipulate the size and shape using the Cricut Craftroom.

We were pulling a bus but didn't get a picture of the bus.

Vellum windows and glossy accents for the light on the bus.

 

Sponged the kangaroo for added texture. Used the markers in the Cricut to outline and add more definition.

 

City Chase - CTMH - Artistic 1.3"

2013 - CTMH - Art Philosophy (layer) 1.25"

Journaling Tag - Elegant Edges
Banner - Art Philosophy 1.25"
Bus - Recess - 5.25"
                      - Tim Holtz Distress Ink
                      - Wild Honey
Kangaroo - Animal Kingdom 5"
                 - Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Frayed Burlap
                 - sponges
                 - Cricut markers
                 - black pearls
Black micron pen for stitching

There are four more pages of the Chase and then I just finished a new page of Korben. I think it was probably a record for time spent on page. Everything just fell into place. Doesn't happen often.

 

I'd say "See you tomorrow" but you just never know what is going to interrupt my computer time, but I'll try to stop back and post again soon.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Yvonne

Hello There!

Hi Crafters,

Just a quick stop to share this card I made at a Stampin' Up class last month. This lady does a lot of tone on tone but makes it pop by using dimensionals between the layers. So two layers of blue, dimensionals between.

Years ago I used to have a phone that looked just like that. Who remembers the days when you never owed your own phone you rented it. In the late 70's I rented one just like this in cream for my living room. I thought it was cool. lol I do remember it was difficult to hold a newborn and talk on the phone at the same time....that handle did not fit well into the crook of you neck.

Been busy scrapbooking the City Chase photos. Will have them finished soon to share.

Have a wonderful warm week-end. We're experiencing somewhere around 100F (38C). Hotter if you take the humidity index into consideration.

 

Yvonne

Butterfly Theme

Hello There!

Here's my butterfly theme post for you. A friend is moving away to teach overseas and we had a little send off for her.

The base of the card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 folded. Butterfly image cut at 2.5" and then glittered. There are dimensions between the green background and the navy blue background. Pearls on the butterflies and the half fans at top of card.

Pattern paper cut using Imagine and All Wrapped Up.

Butterfly bookmark cut at 5.5" and laminated. Butterfly on gift bag cut from Home Accents at 6".

The Hersey Kiss butterflies cut from Stampin' Up double-sided pattern paper. No glueing needed for assembley. Directions can be found at Qbees Quest. Really easy to make.

 

Yvonne

Machines Used:
Expression 2, Cricut Imagine

Cartridges Used:
Sophie - card (Feature key card 2)
Sophie - bookmark (Feature key bookmark)
All Wrapped Up. Green cardstock and pattern paper.
Home Accents - Butterfly on gift bag

Other Supplies:
pearls, Stampin' Up designer paper, white gift bag, glitter, dimensionals, laminator, Hersey Kisses

Yee-Haw

HI There,

Just another quick card using the stamp fro Heartfelt Creations. Yee-Haw cut from Old West cricut cartridge.

Playing along today on a challenge over at "The Outlawz" . The challenge is "anything goes" or Christmas. You must use some sort of alcohol marker for coloring. In this case I used my copics.

Don't miss tomorrow. I'm posting an entire butterfly theme. Gift bag, card, bookmark and treats!

Yvonne

Baby Boy

Morning,

I had a new Great Nephew born in May and I've been neglectful on my Auntie duties. In my defense I have had other things on my plate.

Regardless I finally sat down and whipped up this cute card. The image is from Nursery Tails Imagine cartridge. In order to make it into a card I used CCR and used two images of the same shape but flipped one of them and then welded them together.  I raised up the bottle cap, leaf and animals for added dimension. Super cute and Super quick.

Card went into the mail Friday!

Sun is shining this morning. Temperatures have been cooler than usual and we've been getting lots of rain. Must run...got things to accomplish.

 

Have a GREAT Monday!

 

Yvonne

Howdy

Howdy Partners!

The stamp is another Heartfelt Creation.  I did not purchase the co-ordinating die.

Pattern paper from DCWV called "The Guy Stack". It has some great papers in it.

The "Howdy" cut from "Old West" cartridge at .75". I exchanged out the cutting blade for a cricut marker. The settings for using the marker are on the side of each pen in case you forget!
So....
1. Load pen
2. Load paper
3. Check your cut settings
4. Press cut
5. DON'T unload paper
6. Change from pen back to blade housing being careful not to move the housing when changing.
7. Change settings for cutting.
8. Press cut again on your machine.
9. Before you unload the paper make sure it cut all the way through if not hit cut again.

Brown twill ribbon from the dollar store. Metal accessories - Stampin' Up.

Image colored with copics. Reminder - Colors can be blended and you can color over one color with another colored marker and it doesn't color transfer back to your marker.

Tim Holtz distress inks to shade background on vanilla cardstock.

Star punch from dollar store.

 

Enjoy your Sunday.

 

Yvonne

Wishing You Happiness

Hi There,

I've been away for a few days again. Went to Memphis and yes I did make a stop at Graceland. I enjoyed Elvis's music but going to Graceland wasn't on my bucket list however, when I found the opportunity was there for the taking I decided I should really have a look. I enjoyed the tour that man really knew about bling!

This stamp is from Heartfelt Creations. The sentiment is separate but from this company as well. I did not purchase the corresponding die to cut out parts of the rose and layer. There are quite a few stamps that incorporate the rose therefore if you had all the stamps and die it would be great.

The background paper, the print and the brown is actually fabric that is adhesive backed. It is meant for scrapbooking and cards. It's really very pretty.

The image is colored with copic markers. I tore around the image and then used Tim Holtz Distress Inks to blend it all together. Pink ribbon from Stampin' Up. Bows and pearls from my stash. The image raised up with dimensionals.

I have lots of other projects to share with you in the coming days. Stay tuned.

 

Yvonne

Pawprints On Our Hearts!

Happy July 4th! Just celebrating a quiet day...getting a little scrapbooking done.

This is officially my first doggy scrapbook page. Kristen and Joel adopted a rescue puppy a couple of weeks ago and she is a sweetie. When I went to Toronto to visit they already had her and she knows how to suck up. She liked the toy I bought. lol Patches, the cat is slowly adjusting and letting Lacey know who really is queen of the domain.

The octagons cut from George & Basic shapes at 1". Each piece of embossed with a heart folder separately so they would all have exactly the same placement of design. All cream colored paper distressed with Stampin' Up ink - River Rock.

Font - Letter Envy at .8"

Hearts - George & Basic Shapes 1.5"

Paw Prints - Meow 1.5"

Lace died with River Rock ink.

Lacey has certainly found herself a wonderful home.

Yvonne



Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day!

Wish I was there to celebrate with all of you!

I know...I'm wearing out this cartridge! Another project completed with Wild Card 2. All three cards I completed in one afternoon with that cartridge. Remember inking or chalking your cricut cuts adds more dimension to them. These were all inked.

I spent Friday and Saturday at a Creating Keepsakes convention. I took a couple of classes. Two of them were scrapbook classes featuring Disney layouts. I've got a ahead start on my scrapbooking for next year. The layouts are pretty cute but there were no techniques to learn or anything. It was all precut and all you did was assemble.

I also took a card class from Heartfelt Creations. First I'll say I really like there product. However, I wasn't so thrilled with their cards for the workshop. One I'll throw away cause I just think it looks tacky. The other two are okay. That's just my opinion.

Hope everyone has a great day and I hope to be back soon with more projects.

Yvonne