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
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:
So, I went a little overboard with the stars & strips theme. I had done one of these weaves with just half-diamonds, but I love a challenge.
It might be a little hard to see this image – but if you look closely you will see a line of half stars. First I cut this on my cutter, then I score the cut part so that it will fold easily. Fold over this piece and gently place under the center part of the star next to it. StarWeaveBoarder
Confused? Here it is in action.
After I cut out the star bar weave, I stamped white stripes on the back of the paper.Here is the full boarder. This boarder is perfect for this page – the event that is being run is “Pole Weaving” .
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
I love to play with illustrator and shapes and see what develops. This can be cut in many different patters or simply like I have done on this layout. I am using it for some journaling/title words.
I’ve had these pictures for quite awhile of my nieces(Maddie & Marissa) fishing with their dad. As usual, I drew more things than I could use on my layout – I never know where they are going to end up once I get started. I ended up only using the title because I used some other fishing elements on the page. But I have given you all of the pieces that I had drawn.
Download fishingwithdad.zip
Included in the zip file:
On my layout, I used leaders (what attaches the fishing line to the hook) and actual fishing line as embellishments. I cut these out using my “Big Daddy” KNK machine using Make-the-cut software. This is the first time I’ve used this software with that machine and it worked great!!!!!
