Challenge Yourself!

I made this card for my younger sister and used a challenge on the Silhouette Plus forum to help me create my flower design.

The challenge was to create a 3D project (I’m counting this flower as 3D) by starting with a shape not originally intended for how it was used in the 3D project.

I took this “moroccan flower” shape from the Silhouette store (a basic free shape) and with a little manipulation turned it into a cut file with pop-up petals.

(I happily give credit to my card-making friend, Louise, because she gave me this pretty embossed green background and was using a similar flower on her cards to spark this idea.)

Just for fun, I added some sketchy accents to the flower and used my favorite Micron black pen in the Chomas Creations adjustable marker holder in my Cameo. I created the accents from the little spots of the “moroccan flower” shape and used the sketch feature of Silhouette Studio’s Designer Edition to turn the spots into scribbles.

And finally, I added a little glitter to the flower center with some Stickles glitter glue.  There’s also a little yellow flock around the outer petal edges, but that’s even harder to see than the glitter.

I hope you take the time to play and design in Studio to see what fun creations you can make from existing files!