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
Exercise #3: Make a drawing that includes each kind of line: actual, implied and imaginary.
I am all about multi-uses for things, so here I go again.
I have done a couple of these books before, so I made two styles this time. I am talking about Word Books – where the pages are cut into letters and when put together they make a word. Then you customize them by adding pictures and other things to tell a story.
These are tedious to draw, and even more tedious to put the background paper on, but when it’s all done they are so darling. I made two of these this week and gave them along with the notecards I posted earlier to the silent auction to help my friends raise the money they need to the 3-Day Breast Cancer walk in August.
This is my traditional wordbook. You have background papers on each page and then the actual letter in an accent color. You can embellish the letters also.
On the second book, I took a themed package of paper out of my wall of paper and it just happened to have enough coordinated colors/patterns to work for this book. After I had put the background paper I had laid it out on my work table and I loved how your eye completed the letters on the pages.
Now to my tie into Chapter 4 – Line…This book shows all three types of line:
Both of these books were cut using the same pattern: myFamilyWordBook
Included in the zip file are:
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:
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!!!!!
