Merry and Bright

As I was thinking about what kind of card I wanted to make for my Christmas cards this year, my mind was still on the glamour and glitz challenge. 

 So I whipped out my Lifestyle Crafts Letterpress equipment and using silver ink and silver rhinestones I played around until I found my christmas muse and it became merry and bright!

I love the debossed look of the dots from the letterpress plate on heavy weight, high cotton paper. I used my trusty silhouette cameo to make the sentiment and it's shadow and bada bling, bada boom the angels began to sing.

I will enter this card into the challenges for bling and texture.

A big thank you to Cissy for helping me find these challenges. Everyone must have a crafting girlfriend to share every craft idea that comes along!!!

simplylessismoore, allsortschallenge,  brownsugarchallenge, stampinfortheweekend

The Royal Arrival

I made this card for my cousin's daughter's newborn daughter Sophia aka my third cousin. I am on a right royal roll these days since my last card also had a royal motif.

 I got out my L Letterpress machine and letterpress plates and used hot pink ink to make the trellis background. The carriage is an SVG  I made in SCAL and cut on the Silhouette Cameo cutting machine using white paper and then inked with angel pink dye ink. I also used  Michael's silver glitter ribbon and ivory satin ribbon, pearl, rhinestones, and a fabric rose. The banner was designed in Photoshop using a banner brush and the font used was Some Weatz Swashes, it was then printed and fussy cut and elevated on foam dots.

 I must find some challenges for this card too.
http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/
http://www.paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/paper-pretties-monday-challenge.html
http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/2012/04/paper-sundaes-challenge-116-anything.html

Dressing Screen Card

I recently bought a Silhoutte Cameo cutting machine and wanted to make an intricate paper piece to give the machine a workout since it is suppose to be so good at cutting. Well untold hours later I produced this card but I had to use my SCAL 3 program because most of my cutting files are svgs and I can't import svgs to the Cameo without buying their 50 dollar Design Studio Edition. One of the issues I was having using scal and cutting with cameo was I had to make adjustments to my blade depth, pressure and speed since I didn't really know how this machine cut paper and cardstock. Changing the blade depth to match the type of paper used is really a pain in the neck because you don't just turn the dial like you do on the cricut, you have to take it out and use the little rachet thingy to turn to the number, I used the default options for speed and pressure but I think I need to work on these so I can get better cuts. I couldn't find the multi cut option on scal 3 like there was on scal 2, oy vey.

Cissy is also doing the same idea for a card and I can't wait to see what she comes up with. So without further ado

I am showing this card at
http://dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/04/159-fancy-fold-in-2-stamps.html