Just A Note Shaker Cards using Print & Cut

Once I got a little taste of the print and cut shaker cards I couldn't stop.  I found  a few other images in the Silhouette store that I thought would fit with this type of card.  This one is just a simple note card.  Love the way it turned out!

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Just a Note - Instagram Inspired Cards

Are you as nutty about Instagram as I am?  It's one of the few social media sites that I really get into.  I love being able to follow people visually.  That said, there are quite a few cute instagram shapes in the Silhouette store.  I was playing around with them this morning, seeing what interesting patterns I could come up with.  I used the sketch feature on these cards, and added a simple "Just a Note" to finish them off.

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Note Cards featuring DCWV's "Dots" Matstack

Again, long time no post.  Ah, this is a really busy season for me.  IEP season, camp registration, spring is about to be sprung.  So I'll be here off and on for the next few months.  I have a great little card set to show you today.  I used one of DCWV's new matstacks to make the entire set.  Fun, fun, fun.

 

Paper:  DCWV's Matstack "Dots"
Spellbinders dies
Embossing folders:  ProvoCraft, Lifestyle Crafts
Silhouette:  Paper Flower
Queen & Co:  Glass Flower center
Stamps:  Hero Arts and Papertrey Ink

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The Sky Is The Limit

I know many of you have spotted one of the latest trends - using old style Polaroid pictures and/or frames on cards and scrapbook pages.  I actually like this trend, and my fellow Cameo Spotlight DT member Christina Heeren inspired me to finally go there with her really cute Polaroid style cards that she designed and posted on her blog earlier this week.   I played around a bit this morning and came up with this really cute note card set.  This week's Casual Friday Challenge is to create a card based on something you see when you look in the sky.  Given the rain we've had for the last several days, all I can think about are clouds so that's what I used.   Here are the cards:

The Polaroid frame is one that I found in the Silhouette store, although I have to say after I downloaded it I thought - why the heck did I pay for that?  It's a square inside of a rectangle.  Note to self, I know you don't like designing shapes for the most part, but really, you can't done this with your eyes closed.  /rant  Then I welded some clouds to the frame and did an internal offset for each of the clouds for the top cloud layer.  A few words at the bottom with a print and cut label and Walla!  I was considering, for a brief time, to pull out my sewing machine to sew the label onto the frame.  I thought that would be really cute.  But I'm in the middle of a purge here, this room is a disaster and I didn't feel like lugging out that machine plus re-threading it twice.  Call these my rainy lazy day cards.  I opted to use my Tiny Attacher instead!

Recipe:

Paper:  My Mind's Eye - Fun Day, Canvas Corp kraft paper, Bazzil smooth white cardstock; Coordinations Gemstones

Silhouette:  All shapes, print & cut sentiment label

Staples:  Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

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A Cheerful Hello Note Card Set

Today I want to share another note card set that I actually made a few weeks ago.  I made them, and then promptly lost them.  Is that possible?  Apparently.  I scoured my entire craft room for them totally flustered because I knew I had put them somewhere.  Turns out that I stuck them in the middle of one of my paper stack piles.  I do this from time to time to flatten cards down.  The only reason I found them is because I was getting ready to put another card in the same spot for the same reason.  Brandy thought that was absolutely hysterical and she's kind of right. Anyway, here they are.  They were scheduled to be part of my son's end of the school year teacher gifts but due to their disappearance that just didn't happen.  I am going to keep them on hand for another occasion.  And yes, I know exactly where they are now.

The dress form pattern is one that I found in the Silhouette store.  I have rarely met a dress form image or pattern that I haven't liked!  The flowers are from my stash.  I did a little inking and called these babies done.  They were really quick and easy to put together thanks to my Cameo.

Recipe:

Paper:  Dress form pattern (print & cut from Silhouette)

Silhouette:  digital paper, shapes, and sentiment

Flowers:  My stash

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Take What You Need Take No. 2

Not terribly long ago I created this card inspired by a picture I saw on Pinterest.  I am still head over heels in love with the concept so I created some quick and easy note cards with this same idea.  I again used my favorite word cloud generator - Tagxedo, and I print and cut the mat using my Cameo.

  

Years ago I purchased a few pre-made A2 card box sets from DCWV.   In one of my cabinets sat this lovely set of cards.  I'm not sure why I didn't put them to use before now, but I thought they would make a great card base and they do.  This particular set is from the Natural Stack box of cards.

Paper:  DCWV Natural Stack, Natural Stack Box of Cards
Tagxedo:  Word Cloud
Silhouette:  Print & cut word cloud layer and tag
Brads:  My Stash

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Thank You Card Box Set

Yes, another one!  I'm not sure why, but I'm in a card making mood lately.  I saw this card posted by JJ Bolton for this week's CAS-ual challenge and I sat there wondering how she did it.  Isn't it adorable?Thankfully she provided a tutorial on her blog and it seems so absolutely simple once explained.  But, I don't want to buy any more stamps when I have so many wonderful images I can print and cut so I decided to figure out how to achieve the same effect using my Silhouette Cameo.  Turns out it's fairly simple!  Here is my scrap-lifted Thank You card and the matching box I made to hold this set of cards.

The front of the box

The back of the box 

 

Okay, so here's how you can do this in the Silhouette Studio software.  Design your image on a layer making sure that none of the image's lines on the inside of the card layer will cut.  Then open up the text box, pick a font and type out your sentiment.  You can see here that I designed the image and then duplicated it.  I put the sentiment where I wanted that and duplicated that image as well.  I was able to print out 2 of these per 12 x 12 sheet on my wide format printer.  

Here I've opened the cut style window so you can see exactly what will cut.  The sentiment is going to cut out (after it is printed) and I can take those individual pieces and adhere them on the full image that print and cuts below.  

I made a set of five cards and yes, it does take a while to get pop dots on everything and line them up correctly, but the end result is so worth it.  Thanks so much to JJ for the inspiration and the tutorial on how to do this!

Recipe:

Paper:  Bazzil smooth cardstock; digital paper - Cherry Limeade (Design House Digital)

Silhouette:  All images including thank you card box, THANKS sentiment

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Celebrate Today Note Card Box Set & CAS-ual Friday Challenge No. 50

I told you I didn't abandon my paper! I finished this cute little note card box set up this morning.  It started with again, these poppies that I have fallen in love with from the Silhouette store.  I wanted to do something a little different so I printed the design on velum and then cut them out using my Cameo.  I wanted the design to be fairly clean so I didn't do much embellishing.  Just a small ribbon and a small sentiment.  I really am feeling the clean & simple vibe these days!  In fact, this week's CAS-ual challenge is to create a clean and simple card using flowers.  I think this qualifies!  The paper is from My Mind's Eye and has a cool and sophisticated look to it.   The stamps are all from Papertrey Ink.

The Note Cards

 

The Note Card box

 

Recipe:

Paper:  My Mind's Eye "Lush", Kraft Paper, Stampin' Up cream cardstock, and Bazzil cardstock
Silhouette:  Print & Cut image background of Poppies, all shapes
Spellbinders:  Labels 14
Stamps:  Papertrey Ink Mega Mixed Messages & Mixed Messages
Ribbon:  My stash

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Imagine The Possibilities & Other Note Card Sets

One of my favorite crafting sites to visit is Inking Idaho.  For those of you who aren't familiar with her - Becky is a fabulous Stampin' Up demonstrator who runs an awesome blog.  There is a link to her blog on the left side of my blog for those who are interested.  Becky always comes up with the most creative, professional looking cards that I have ever seen.  I love her style - her projects are always clean, sophisticated, and never over embellished.  Last year I came across this blog entry from Becky that showed some of the best looking simple note cards I have ever seen.  And since I happened to own the set she used for her sentiment I decided that I could do it to!!  I experimented a little and this is what I came up with.  

All of the stamps are a mish mash from Papertrey Ink and Stampin' Up.  The Imagine the Possibilities stamp is a Stampin' Up stamp and is a part of one of my favorite sets - which I can't remember the name of right now!  Figures.  Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy seeing these.  It's an easy and quick way to make up some really quick but good looking cards.  Thanks to Becky for the inspiration and thanks to everyone else for stopping by!!