ABC – it’s easy as 123 – you and me…..
I haven’t done a cutting file for a while so I thought I would do one. So I went simple or should I say ‘easy’. I haven’t use this file on a layout yet, but I have all of my son’s school pages to do at some point. So these will fill in nicely when I get around to it.
Included in the zip file: abc_123.zip
This month, I also helped a good friend with her wedding invitations.
This wedding is the blending of two families into one. So the children are doing the inviting to the ceremony. We printed the invitations ourselves (I have a color laser printer) and took the 11×17 sheets to Kinko’s to have them cut into pieces. There are 4 parts to the invitation – Invitation, Accommodations, Response Card and Map/Directions. I put a little bit of a twist on the invitation by designing a monogram medallion for the outside of the invitation.
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Everything was printed on pearlized paper – the printing was a little tricky. Sometimes that paper doesn’t take toner very well or consistently – this can drive a perfectionist crazy.
She added some rhinestones on the inside to give a little sparkle and also on the medallion, and the translucent ribbon to the outside.
I am happy to say that they are very happy with how they turned out and so am I.
While I was working in my craft room making the notecards, I ran across another weave boarder that I had cut out and never did anything with at the time. And I was on a roll, “so Christmas in July” was born.
This boarder is a simple diamond/triangle shape cut into red paper. I then scored all the folds and folded & weaved the boarder.
I took one piece of green cardstock and one piece of white cardstock and cut them to notecard size (8 1/2 x 5 1/2) and folded them into notecards.
White Notecard
Green Notecard
Then on both cards, I took a stamp (stampin up) and stamped Happy Holidays across the card in silver pigment ink. Notice how the stamped image goes off the edge of the face plate to appear to wrap the whole thing together?
Here’s a close up of the weave:
The art of scrapbooking is to seeing a second or third or more, use for something. Being a scrapbooker, after I drew the Lily for chapter 4, my mind started thinking ‘what else could I do with this file.”
Well sometime ago, I had purchased the adapter and pens to use on my cricut machine and being that I had the other machine too I got pens that fit that one also. It’s been about two years since I got this stuff and I have yet to use them. So putting 2 + 2 together – I thought “Why not? Let’s see how it works.”
So I loaded up the mini-sharpee pens into the holder for the KNK and sent it off to write/cut. Then I had to decide what to do with them…A group of local women are doing the 3-Day Breast Cancer walk here in Minnesota in August and they are having a Silent Auction this weekend to help raise the money ($2300/per walker).
On one of the cards, I stamped “hello”, just to give it a little something extra.
So there it is, I have used this same image for three things