Hippity Hop Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the ...
 Hippity Hoppity Blog Hop

Here comes Peter Cottontail
Hoppin' down the bunny trail
Hippity hoppity, Easter's on its way!
Thanks for joining us for a fun hop full of Easter Bunny
inspired projects!!
Wishing you all a blessed Easter with your family and friends!!

You should have arrived from

 

Veronica- http://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com

 

 If you just happened upon this spectacular hop, Connie Can Crop is the first stop in this hop.

This is a one day blog hop, but you have until Sunday to finish hopping and leaving your comments for all of these amazing crafters.

We have an awesome sponsor for this month!

 

 

One lucky winner will get a $20 gift certificate to shop Paper Crafting World!

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What do you need to do to win? Easy... become a follower of each of the fabulous blogs in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects.

You will have until 10 pm Sunday to finish the hop and leave your comments.
Winners will be announced on Wednesday 4/12/17
at Connie Can Crop.
Be sure to follow everyone and leave a comment along the way!

 I found this card in the Silhouette store.

 

The card measures 6.25" x 5" tall and folds fairly flat for mailing.

  

 

 I used Kraft paper for the card base and some scraps of yellow, blue and white for the Easter egg, sentiment and layers under the egg. I added some blue jewels to the edges.

The, "happy Easter" is a Cricut cut from the Easter 2010 cartridge.

The card base measures 6.25" wide x 5.5" tall and folds flat for mailing.

Hop on over to
Sandy- http://simplycraftycreationsbysandys.blogspot.com/
 

Here's our amazing line up in case you get lost:
 

Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
Shannon H- http://shannonhdesigns.blogspot.com/
Christi- https://tranquility1905.blogspot.com/
Kim- http://katydidcards.com
Amanda- http://salnclts76.blogspot.com/
Angela- mermaidsnmonograms.blogspot.com
Veronica- http://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com
Sue- http://suek86401.blogspot.com/
Sandy- http://simplycraftycreationsbysandys.blogspot.com/
Rebecca- http://rebeccaanndesigns.com/
Lisa- http://lisaslittlerascals.blogspot.com/
Marji- http://fstampaholic.blogspot.com/
Alicia- http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/
Holli- http://sunflowerholli.blogspot.com
Miranda- http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/
Sarah- http://sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com/
 

Please stop by and check out this month's challenge over at Connie Can Crop

 

Reuse Reduce Recycle

due 11:59 P.M., Sunday, April 30th, 2017

Pacific Time

Passover

I have a friend who celebrates Passover so I made him a little card.

 

It isn't as nice as I wanted it to be but I couldn't help that, my Cameo went totally rogue on me and I don't have a flip card in any of my Cricut cartridges so I just did the best I could with the Cameo.

 

The card is a cut from the Silhouette store, the dove is from Cricut's, Beyond Birthday Cartridge. I added some bling to hopefully pretty up a little bit.

 

I sent tech support over at Silhouette an email and I'm wondering how long it will take them to get back to me.

 



 

Free Time Fun

June has arrived and all of my design team projects are wrapped up so I have had some free time to play with my toys.

Last summer I spent some time visiting my BFF in South Carolina and helped her out with a trade show in Columbus, OH she is the world famous decorative painter, Renee Mullins from Plum Purdy.

To make a long story short, she ended up giving me her brand new Cameo, I used a Lori Whitlock file from the Silhouette Store to create this shadow box.

 

About the same time I also won a facebook giveaway from Docrafts and I have been wanting to use the Docrafts toys to make this shadow box ever since then.

 

All of the papers on the inner boxes are from the Docrafts collection as are the cat images and if you can see my stamping so the little cat footprints.

 

This shadow box is far from perfect, I need to get some heavier paper and better glue before I make my next one. I live in the middle of nowhere on the way to nowhere, the closest place to buy craft supplies is Jo Ann's which is about 45 miles away. I hope to be able to stop in to find what I need to make another shadow box when we do our Sam's Club shopping this month.

 



 I will be entering this into the: DL Art June Linky Challenge.

Silhouette Showcase #37 - What NOT to do

My post is more of a, "What Not To Do/This Is What Happens When You Don't Follow Directions" than showing something off.

 

This box contains a card in a box for my granddaughter. I made the paper using my Silhouette, pen holders and a TomBow marker. I reread the directions because I hadn't used it for a while BUT!!! I didn't follow directions.

 

There is a very small cap on the bottom of the Silhouette pen holder which you are supposed to leave in place until you have your marker screwed into the holder. Well, smarty pants me decided that I could decide myself how far down the marker needed to be. 

And I ended up with these lovely lines running through my, "Happy Easter". Now I have to start all over again.

 





Challenge#1

Starts May 1, 2016

Ends May 31, 2016

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Sillhouete Challenges - Showcase #36

I received an Amazon gift card for Christmas and used it to buy some Silhouette Sketch Pens which I used to create this card. When you buy the pens you get a download card for I think it was 10 sketch pen images which are pre-chosen by Silhouette.

 

The umbrella was one of the free images. First I took out the Cameo blade and replaced it with one of the pens AND there is a setting in the software to tell it that you are using a pen instead of a blade. After drawing the umbrella I left the mat in the machine, took out the pen and replaced it with the blade and choosing the, "Cut Edge" option. It cut a bit more than I expected it to (it almost detached the center section of the umbrella) but I was able to work with it. I adhered the umbrella with foam pads.

 

Adding the sequins I ended up with an Arizona monsoon.

 

The sentiment is just one of the fonts on my computer. I used the same technique to first draw than cut the sentiment but the drawing part was cut by the blade but the letters were still useable so I used them.

 

 
This is the inside, printed on vellum. The flower was also one of the download images. I used the same font on the inside as I did on the outside.

 
Close ups of inside.

 

On the last one I had attempted to draw directly on the inside of the card. I didn't have the right colors for it to show up good enough that is why I went with the vellum instead.

Challenge#36

Starts April 1, 2016

Ends April 30, 2016

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Silhouette Challenges

I can't believe that this is already my 3rd post for Silhouette Challenges, where has the time gone?

I picked up this wood birdhouse at Jo Ann's a trip or two ago. Can you tell that I am in the mood for spring and that my favorite color is blue?
 
After applying 2 coats of Gesso I painted the roof and bottom in a light blue and the main part of the house in a dark blue. I added the white dots by using a stencil and a stylus.
 
The white on the roof was cut using my Cameo and a file from the Cameo store, it is cut out of white vinyl. I think that it made a quick, easy, cute roof.

Challenge#1

Starts March 1, 12016

Ends March. 31, 2016

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January Showcase #1

January - Showcase #1

Here is my first project for Silhouette Challenges

 

 The challenges are always Anything Goes.

I'm still learning about my Silhouette Cameo and I'm having fun doing it.

Did you know that you can make up your own designs and cut them with the Cameo?

I started out with my Rhodia Dot Pad and came up with this drawing.

 

As you can see it is a very simple drawing, after drawing it out I scanned the drawing and imported it into my Cameo software.

 

 

I did a copy and paste to make 5 flowers then I cut the 5 stems the same way.

 

I used the software's erase feature to remove the lines in my drawing on the stems.

 

Some circles for the flower centers and I was all set.

 

I had to cut an additional flower because I stated with 5 but ended up needing 6.

 

 

After looking it for a couple of days I decided that I needed to add a sun. I didn't take pictures of the process but I did stamp the sun onto a piece of the Rhodia Dot Pad, scanned it and took it into my Cameo software and cut it out.

 

All images were cut onto vinyl.

 

 







Challenge#1

Starts Jan. 1, 2016

Ends Jan. 31, 2016

Click HERE to link up!