Mary Engelbreit Easel Birthday Card

Updated January 12, 2015 to let my readers know that My Scrap Chick is no longer selling the Mary Engelbreit SVG files. I don't know of any shops at this time that are carrying them. :( If you come across this post and find another store selling the files, please let me know and I will update this post. 

A good friend of mine is a fan of Mary Engelbreit and for many years I would look for fun ME gift items to give to her. Several months ago, one of the SVG companies I get newsletters from, My Scrap Chick, started selling Mary Engelbreit SVG files. I knew immediately I wanted to make the Ann Estelle file for my friend for her birthday. I just sent it off to her and thought you might like to see how it turned out. I used my Silhouette Cameo and the Designer Edition Studio program.  Feel free to click on the photos to enlarge them if you want a closer look.

The file I purchased had  bonus files included to make the easel card, chunky envelope and liner. The envelope is 6x6 in size, which gives you an idea of the size of the card. It also included printable tags. I just had to dig through my stash to find the colors of cardstock I wanted to use(mostly Close to My Heart, but also some Recollections and American Crafts. 

I had a lot of fun putting this one together.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

I hope you have a great weekend.

*Ü* 

Jeanne

Picket Fence Card

Hi there,

I've been playing with my Cricut again (in my best sing-song voice). Hee, hee. Well, not just the Cricut, also the Make The Cut program and my Cricut (remember, MTC no longer supports the Cricut, but it still works for me). I heard about a sale at SVG Cuts the other day and remembered there was a file there that I really liked. So, I picked it up and was able to make this card:

The file is a premium collection called Chamomile Friendship Cards. If you click the link you will see that there is a teapot and also a lantern as part of this set. If you read the description, it says that not all the cuts will work on a 12 x 6 mat. That's what deterred me from buying the set at full price when I first saw it. I really liked the fence card, not just the teapot (which will fit on my size mat). 

But when I saw there was a sale, I looked at this file again. And thought...hmmmmm, I wonder if I can resize the pieces so that they will  fit my mat? And that's what I set out to do. 

It took some time, but it wasn't really all that hard to do. Thankfully. And I saved the resized pieces as its own file for when I make the card again.

Isn't that hat so sweet? I don't know, I just got warm fuzzies when I saw this project. You can also make the hat flat if you want.

What I like about these kits is that there is a pdf you can print out that comes with the file, with the sizes of cuts used in the samples as well as color guidelines. While those sizes didn't necessarily pertain to me this time for my project, I like that feature.

I mainly used papers from DCWV's Cotton Bloom stack, but the fence is from Green Tea. The flowers are solid cardstock in my stash. The little pearls are a new color (to me anyway). Michaels did a big reset of their papercrafting dept. and they brought in a bunch of new products from their house brand, Recollections. They had a sale recently where all the Recollection brand products were 40% off. Made it worth it to me to try them. One thing that's neat about these little pearls is that they are self adhesive, but each pearl has a little glue. They don't have a whole line of glue with the pearls stuck on. What that means is I didn't have to try to cut off glue from either side of the pearl. Whoo, hooo! And besides that, the color is awesome in my opinion. I ran the bottom part of the pot through the Cuttlebug, with a newish to me folder. It's the bigger sized one, I think 5x7 sized. I by passed it several times in the store thinking I didn't need it, since I have Swiss Dots. Well, one day I realized these dots are a bit bigger than the ones on Swiss Dots and I like that. I was going to use ribbon on the hat and sign, but when I opened my closet, I saw a strand of burlap hanging from a larger piece and thought it might add a neat texture.

Well, that's it from me today. Thanks for the lovely comments I've received on yesterday's card. I'm glad you liked it as much as I did. Thanks, too, for stopping by! I hope you are having a happy Wednesday!