Birthday Card Made on World Card Making Day

Hello!

Life keeps me hopping, like I'm sure it does you. For me the new twist is I just started a part time job working in an elementary school kitchen. Yep, I've become "the lunch lady." :) This past week was my first week of working, but there have been a lot of hoops for me to jump through to get to actually working. That has kept me busy "behind the scenes." Prior to that, I was busily working on going through the tons of boxes we have had stored in the shed  out back by our garage. Most of the boxes contained teacher supplies from when I taught elementary school. I have no desire to head back to the classroom in that capacity, that stuff needed to go. I've taken quite a few trips to the Goodwill recently. Thank goodness it's only about a 5 minute drive from my house. :)

All that to say, that's why I've not been posting on the blog. I'm hoping that once I get the hang of this working thing (I've been a sahm for the past 13 years, so it's an adjustment for sure), I'm hoping to get back to more consistent creating, and then posting. I've been doing some creative stuff, but nothing that's share-able just yet. Fingers crossed that I will have something finished soon.

We had a birthday party to go to yesterday for my friend's son. I came across this card and thought it would be neat for this friend. Amy was eager to help with the card-making, too. Yay!

Amy says, you'd better watch out!

I showed her how to paper piece and how to mask. Although, it turned out the masking wasn't necessary since we paper pieced. 

Here's the card without the gift card we added.

Here's how it looked all put together. 

Amy stamped everything. I cut the file and added the twine/floss. 

We used this file from the Silhouette shop. I had to follow the tutorial to remember how to manipulate files with the Cameo. 

The stamp set is Lawn Fawn's So Much To Say.

The paper is Echo Park's boy set from a few years ago. 

We sure had fun putting this together! How neat that it was made on WCMD, too!

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Hope you have a great day. 

Jeanne

I Got A New Toy!

Happy New Year! I certainly didn't mean to be quiet for a month. We enjoyed our Christmas and quietly ushered in the New Year. I decided to treat myself to a pretty big splurge and ordered myself a Silhouette Cameo and the Designer Edition of the Studio program! It arrived earlier this month. I had hoped to have been able to play with it more than I have up to now, but such is life. Today I decided it was high time to play. I took some pictures and thought you might like to see what I've been up to.

Actually, I didn't make this card today. I made a day or so after the Cameo arrived. When I downloaded files into the Designer Studio program, this showed up. I don't remember selecting it. But it could have been a freebie of the week or something. In any case, I thought it looked like a neat card, so I cut it out. I am totally impressed by how well it handles smaller and more intricate cuts(like the arrow and the Love You letters).

In checking out files that came with the Cameo in my library, I noticed the control panel file. So, today, I thought it would be fun to cut it out with some pattern paper. This is Doodlebug, one of the Valentine pads. I think it would be fun to change the paper from time to time. Easy peasy.

Before today I had never cut any vinyl. I had some vinyl in my stash with the intentions of trying it out on my Cricut, but felt a little intimidated by the thought that I would mess it up. I came across a you tube video on How to Cut Vinyl with the Cameo on Pinterest and decided to give it a go with a freebie of the day file I got from Miss Kate's Cuttables here (while it's no longer free, 50 cents is a great deal, I think).

Here's what I did with it!

This is an 8x8 frame I picked up at Hobby Lobby during the holidays. I had intended to use it for a Christmas themed project, but never got to it. Since vinyl isn't permanent I decided to put it on the glass. I trimmed a 6x6 piece of Doodlebug paper and adhered it to an 8x8 piece of CTMH glitter cardstock. 

I realize it's not centered. I was just mainly playing around to see if I could actually do this. It wasn't too terribly difficult. I had some transfer stuff (not sure what it is called), which I think you would definitely need to get the vinyl onto the glass. One part got ripped because I didn't know for sure how firm a hand I needed and I was a little too firm on that part. But like I said, this was a learning project for me. Again, I'm completely impressed at how well the machine cuts. 

Yep, this is all I got done, which may not seem like a lot for the amount of time I spent on playing. I was fiddling around with a couple of files and because I'm not sure just yet what I am doing, couldn't get them to work the way I wanted them do. I learned some things in that process. I also watched a few videos to learn some techniques. I just ran out of time to try them.

I've been working on some other yarn projects and I even am getting back into doing counted cross stitch! I'm just about done with the design I started on Christmas Day.

Here's a peek:

So, while I haven't been posting here, I have been doing some creating. I hope to get some things completed and share soon.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I hope you have a great weekend.

*Ü*

Jeanne