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Cross Window Card – The Cutting Cafe Design Team Project

21 Mar
Cross Window Card

Cross Window Card

For our projects this week, we could choose from any files at The Cutting Cafe.  There is sure to be a large variety for our Design Team post this time.  Make sure you stop by the blog and take a look.  Leave a comment because we love reading them and it will automatically put you in a drawing to win three files on our next post date (we post on the 7th and 21st of each month).

For my project, I actually used four different files:

The Cross Shaped Card Set, Easter Mini Words Printable Stamp Set, Easter Banners Colored Set Printable Stamps, and Easter Inside and Out Greetings Printable Stamps.

Cross Window Card Front
I really like how it turned out.  I used a gradient paper in yellow and orange that reminds me of a sunrise and Easter Sunrise services at church.  I added three sizes of individual pearls randomly all over the card which gives it an elegant touch.

For the inside, I cut a second card out and put them back to back with velum for the cross in between.   I cut the sentiments and placed them so they would not show through the vellum cross.

Cross Window Card Inside
Here is a close up of the flower cluster…

Cross Window Card Flower Cluster
To find out how I made this and the products used please watch my video below.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Various Cards

18 Mar

I have been making cards as usual and thought I would share some of them…Dad Birthday Card

Dad Birthday Card Inside

Happy Valentine's Birthday Card

Happy Valentine's Birthday Card Inside

With Deepest Sympathy Card

 

With Deepest Sympathy Card Inside

Cupcake Birthday Card

Cupcake Birthday Card Inside

Michal 2nd Birthday Card

Michal 2nd Birthday Card Inside

You Are Seriously Awesome Card

And here is a video featuring some of the cards…

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Monthly Friendship Swap – February

11 Mar
February Friendship Swap Items - Round Boxes, Dress Form Screen Card, Round 3 x 3 note cards, box envelopes, and bag of goodies.

February Friendship Swap Items – Round Boxes, Dress Form Screen Card, Round 3 x 3 note cards, box envelopes, and bag of goodies.

Some of my friends Tmika, Sheryl, Shanta, and I decided to do a monthly swap.  This will help one keep in the crafting world as she has very little time, and it will help the rest of us use some of our products and maybe even try something different.  Each month one of us gets to choose what the swap will be.  The idea is to keep it small so that it won’t cost a lot to mail.

February was Tmika’s month to choose.  We were to make a card that the others can use, five 3 x 3 cards and envelopes, and include goodies worth $2.  The style was to be shabby chic.  So I made round cards, something I have not done before.

Set of 3 x 3 Cards

Set of 3 x 3 Cards

Each card has a different little sentiment on it…thanks, thank you, sorry, hugs, and love you.  Here is a close up view of one…

Close up of 3 x 3 Round Card

Close up of 3 x 3 Round Card

The dress form screen card is one that I made for a design team project for The Cutting Cafe a few weeks ago…

Dress Form Screen Card

Dress Form Screen Card

You can find more detail on it from my February 21st post.  Then, I made a round box to hold the cards.  I used the Round Box Template, also from The Cutting Cafe.

Round boxes to hold cards

Round boxes to hold cards

Round Box Top

Round Box Top

Once I receive my swaps from the ladies, I will share those.  In the meantime, here is a video to give you more details on what I made.  Thanks for stopping by and feel free to subscribe to my YouTube Channel if you have not already done so.

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Lucky to Know You Card and Spool Box

7 Mar
Lucky to Know You Card and Spool Box

Lucky to Know You Card and Spool Box

It is design team post time at The Cutting Cafe!  In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, our projects had to be green but we could choose from any of the files we wanted to use.  Make sure you stop by the blog as there will be a lot of variety!  Plus leave a comment while you are there.  Each post, Regina, the owner, randomly pulls a name from the comments from the previous post.  That person gets three files of their choice!  Now that is not bad at all for leaving a comment!

I picked two files this time.  I needed a gift so I used the Ribbon Spool Set which has a spool box in the set among other things.  I also picked a new file, Lucky to Know You Overlay Set which is a card and has the overlay with it.

I added teardrop pearl strands, single flat back pearls, flowers, and a die cut word.  I also added pearl bling on a roll  to the top of the sides of the box.

Spool Box

Spool Box

I also lined the inside of the box.

I also lined the inside of the box.

I also made a skinny spools to wrap lace around.  I am putting them and other goodies in the box.

Spools of Lace that go inside the box for a gift along with other goodies.

Spools of Lace that go inside the box for a gift along with other goodies.

Here is the card…

Lucky to Know You Card

Lucky to Know You Card

Thank you for stopping by.  I have a video for you to enjoy showing my pieces in more detail…

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YouTube Favor Box/Bag Swap

4 Mar
Princess Carriage Favor Box

Princess Carriage Favor Box

I participate in a swap hosted by Live Love Scrap who is Bona on YouTube.  We were to make favor box/bag kits that featured lace, embellishments, and a sentiment.  We made one to show what it looks like, then packaged all the materials in a kit for our swap partners to put together themselves.

I found this cute carriage file at the Silhouette Online Store and knew that is what I wanted to make.

Princess Carriage Favor Box Angled View
I added lace and pearl trims to the top, and used bling flowers for three of the wheels.  On the 4th wheel, I used a stamp that I embossed and fussy cut.  The silver heart is dangling slightly inside the cut out heart.

Princess Carriage Favor Box Back

I added little bows on the sides under the heart cutouts…

Princess Carriage Favor Box Side
On the top I added a rose and some iridescent pink pearls along with a silver thanks sentiment…

Princess Carriage Favor Box Top
Of course for a swap, you need great packaging.  I used another Silhouette file to make these cute bags with a princess crown belly band…

Princess Carriage Favor Box Swap Packaging Front

 

Princess Carriage Favor Box Swap Packaging Back

Princess Carriage Favor Box Swap Packaging Back

This was a fun swap.  Thanks for stopping by and of course, here is my video…

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Dress Form Screen Card – The Cutting Cafe Design Team Project

21 Feb
Dress Form Screen Card

Dress Form Screen Card

It is time for another design team project for The Cutting Cafe!  This time we could choose from the Dress Shaped Card, Dress Shaped Card 2, or Fun with Dress Forms which I used.  I love this file as I am a sewer and I love all things dress forms!  I decided to make a screen card.  These type screen are used as room dividers and you often find them in dressing rooms in fancy stores.  I thought a replica of a screen with dress forms was a cute idea.

I decided to use velum for the screen and in the two middle panels, I encased the dress from between two pieces of velum.  On the end panels I put the dress forms on the sides.  Here is a view looking down at it…

Dress Form Screen Card Top View

I used pearl bling on the front of the card along with some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Alicia’s Glitz and More.  The pearl spray is a piece I have had in my stash my over 20 years.  I am trying to use what I have!

Dress Form Screen Card First Panel

The other panels have a gold dazzle sticker at the top and a white one at the bottom for just a touch of decoration.

Dress Form Screen Card Middle Panel

Dress Form Screen Card Last Panel

Be sure to stop by The Cutting Cafe Blog as we do design team posts on the 7th and 21st of each month.  There is always lots of inspiration!  Also, if you leave a comment, you will be in a drawing to win three free files as Regina, the owner, randomly pulls a name from the previous post’s comments.  Plus we love reading your comments!

Thanks for stopping by and of course I have a video for you before you go…

Upon request I also did a video tutorial on how to make this card…

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Valentine’s Day Cards, Treat Boxes, and YT Hop Challenge Projects

16 Feb
Cards and treat boxes

Cards and treat boxes

I hope that everyone had a great Valentine’s Day.  I just wanted to show the cards and treat boxes I made this weekend.  Above are a treat box from the Silhouette Store, a Skinny Tube Box from a file from The Cutting Cafe, and three cards I made for my god children and my hubby.  Here is another treat box I made and filled with chocolate for another young lady in my life…

Heart Top Box

Next, Betty who is scrappassion01 on YouTube hosted a hop called What’s Love Got to do With It.  To win prizes in the grand prize drawings you had to create seven things such as altered hearts, stick pins, altered dominos, etc.  Below are photos of what I created to enter the challenge drawing…

CWA Challenge Items

Blinged out Sunglasses and Heart Flower

Embellishments for CWA Challenge
Here is a close up of the blinged out sunglasses I gave to my goddaughter…

Blinged Out Kid's Sunglasses
Thanks for stopping by and here are my videos on these projects…

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Sweet Kisses Tube Boxes and Hershey Kiss Window Cards – The Cutting Cafe Design Team Project

7 Feb
Sweet Kisses Boxes, Hershey Kiss Window Cards, and Hershey Kiss Bottoms

Sweet Kisses Boxes, Hershey Kiss Window Cards, and Hershey Kiss Bottoms

It’s time for another design team project for The Cutting Cafe!  We post our projects on The Cutting Cafe Blog on the 7th and 21st of each month.  Make sure you stop over to see all the projects.  If you leave a comment, you will be entered into a drawing held on the next post.  The winner gets three free files of their choice!  Plus we love reading the comments!

Now on to my projects.  This time we were able to choose any file we wanted to use from the large collection of Valentine themed files.  I actually chose four different files to work with.  I made little treats and cards for staff.  First I used the Hershey Kiss Window Card file along with the Lots of Kisses Printable Set for the sentiment.  I made two different cards, one more pink based…

Hershey Kisses Cutout Card 1
and one more red based…

Hershey Kisses Cutout Card 2

Hershey Kisses Cutout Card 

The sentiments are designed to look like the paper strip that hangs out of the kisses.  But I also used the Happy Valentines Day version of it on the inside under my stamped sentiment…

Hershey Kisses Cutout Card 1 Inside

Hershey Kisses Cutout Card Inside

Next I made treat holders using the Sweet Kisses Tube Box file…

Sweet Kisses Tube Boxes

Sweet Kisses Tube Boxes

Sweet Kisses Tube Boxes view 2
Those hearts on the inside of my card were the cutouts from the box and the card and I used another sentiment on the front of the boxes, and I randomly added little dots of Stickles on the front of the boxes for a bit of added bling…

Sweet Kisses Tube Boxes Sentiment Closeup
Here are a few more close up shots of the tops…

Sweet Kisses Tube Boxes Top Embellishment

Sweet Kisses Tube Boxes Top Embellishment

Sweet Kisses Tube Boxes Top
Lastly I attached bottoms to the kisses which are inside the boxes using the Hershey Kiss Thoughts of You Bottoms…

Hershey Kisses Bottoms

Hershey Kisses Bottoms

Thanks so much for stopping by!  As usual, I have a video for you before you leave…

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My First Folio and Matching Box

2 Feb

I finally got around to making my first folio and a matching box.  I used a Paper Phenomenon/Kathy Orta tutorial called Gift Card Box Folio.  It was fairly easy to make.  Measuring and cutting the mats took the most time. I used cream cardstock for the base and a few photo mats.  There is no chipboard in this at all. It is all paper.

And speaking of paper, I used the Painted Posies paper stack by Craftwell and did more mixing of patterns than I normally do, but I like the way it turned out.

Warning…I have photo overload and have added captions to all the photos so you can tell what I am showing.  At the end is my YouTube video.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Folio Box Front

Folio Box Front

Back of folio box

Back of folio box

Side view of folio box

Side view of folio box

Folio box opened without folio in it

Folio box opened without folio in it

Box opened with folio inside

Box opened with folio inside

Front cover of folio

Front cover of folio

First flap opened

First flap opened

Full view of the first section of folio opened

Full view of the first section of folio opened

Here is the first flap of the second section

Here is the first flap of the second section

Two swing out photo mat flaps

Two swing out photo mat flaps

Folio right flap opened

Folio right flap opened

Next page of the right side opened

Next page of the right side opened

Folio pages

Folio pages

Here is a close up of the left page of the final section

Here is a close up of the left page of the final section

Here is the final section which is the center of the folio when all the flaps have opened out

Here is the final section which is the center of the folio when all the flaps have opened out

View looking down on opened folio. There are many flips and flaps

View looking down on opened folio. There are many flips and flaps

Back of Folio

Back of Folio

Here is the front of the folio without the cards in the inside pockets. It has a cleaner look and is an option

Here is the front of the folio without the cards in the inside pockets. It has a cleaner look and is an option

And finally here is the video…

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A Slideshow of Cards and Post-It Note Holders I Recently Made

28 Jan

Hello!  Here is a slideshow of a few cards and some Post It Note holders that I made recently.  I did a video of the note holders but deleted it by mistake.  I make a lot of cards and thought a slide show would work this time.  Thanks for stopping by and watching!

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