Tag: Sparkle & Shine

Stippled Metal Art

Stippled Metal Art

  I’m still working my way through every feature the Silhouette Curio offers, and on the Silhouette America blog I’ve shared a tutorial for creating stippled metal art. In case you missed it, here’s the full tutorial:   Supplies and Tools needed for this project 

Carousel Card

Carousel Card

This is Silhouette’s free design of the week! A sweet baby girl carousel card. I’ve got more details and photos of this project over on the Silhouette America blog. Go grab this card kit for free before 1/26/16 and take a look at my tutorial 

Deep Cut Blade Tutorial

Deep Cut Blade Tutorial

Have you tried the Silhouette deep cut blade yet? Today I want to share with you how to use this special blade. I added a glitter foam balloon to this card for my little friend’s birthday, and I think she’s really going to like it. 

Fabric Ornament with PixScan

Fabric Ornament with PixScan

I’m here to show you another fun way to use your PixScan™ mat. I made a fabric ornament and wanted to cut my pieces from a certain part of a scrap of fabric. The PixScan™ mat allowed me to do exactly that. Read on to 

Joy of Christmas Etched Art

Joy of Christmas Etched Art

I tried my Silhouette Curio’s etching feature for this framed Christmas art, and I love it! Etching was super easy with my Curio, the stippling/etching tool, and Silhouette’s metal etching sheets. The etching sheets are 5″ x 7″ and I wanted it in this 8″ 

Hello Sunshine Curio Debossed Art

Hello Sunshine Curio Debossed Art

Hello Sunshine! I want to share with you this piece I made with my Silhouette Curio. Embossing/debossing is one of those tasks well suited to the Curio with its special platforms and foam mat. I chose to give mine a little more pizzazz with gold 

UV Fabric Inks Tutorial

UV Fabric Inks Tutorial

  Here’s the step-by-step tutorial I promised for making this shirt with Silhouette UV light-sensitive fabric inks and smooth heat transfer material. I used my Silhouette Curio, but you can do this project with a Portrait or CAMEO as well. Are you ready? You can 

You Are Amazing

You Are Amazing

Here’s a card I made for my wonderful mother-in-law, who helped me teach an “All Wrapped Up” class in our neighborhood this week. She poured her heart and soul into it from the moment I asked her to do it with me, and the class 

The Most Brilliant Color

The Most Brilliant Color

Have you heard? I’m back on the Silhouette Creative Design Team! (I enjoyed the 6-month break, but I missed it too much to stay away for a whole year.) Here’s my first project back on the team. I used my Silhouette Curio and Silhouette’s new 

3D Birthday Cake Card

3D Birthday Cake Card

I love these type of 3D cards in the Silhouette design store. They are pretty fast to cut with my CAMEO and to assemble. Most of the thought and planning (the slow part for me) is already done and included in the design. I made 

Girls Camp Pillow Treats | Glow

Girls Camp Pillow Treats | Glow

Here’s a fun idea for a Girls Camp pillow treat, a secret sister gift, or any little uplifting gift. I used my Silhouette CAMEO and white sticker paper to create a print & cut flag onto this glow stick bracelet. I made these last summer 

Numbered Grandchildren Shirts

Numbered Grandchildren Shirts

My mother-in-law had an excellent Mother’s Day this year. Her daughter got all of us moms together to make a photo album for Grandma with a two-page spread from each grandchild with his/her picture and what they love about her. The book was amazing, but 

Teen Birthday Card

Teen Birthday Card

  I made this card for a family friend who just turned 15. This was a really fast project with red and white adhesive cardstock and a few rhinestones. Look carefully and you can see I cut the numbers 1-14 out of white adhesive cardstock 

Mother’s Day Card

Mother’s Day Card

I have loved the recent trend in cards and scrapbook pages with watercolors. I decided to add a little watercolor to my Mother’s Day card this year. I just grabbed a few watercolor pencils in my mom’s favorite colors (nothing fancy–these are Crayola watercolor pencils), 

Butterfly Headband with Italian Crepe Paper

Butterfly Headband with Italian Crepe Paper

I’ve been playing with pink and gold 180 gram Italian crepe paper from Carte Fini, and it’s a lot of fun to work with! This is not your typical paper, nor even your typical lightweight crepe paper. I’ve seen a lot of beautiful floral arrangements 

You Make the Perfect Pear!

You Make the Perfect Pear!

I made this perfect pear card to celebrate our friends’ 25th anniversary. The white hearts, the label, and the pears are printed and/or cut on textured white adhesive cardstock with my printer and my CAMEO. I turned this pear design into a print & cut 

“Spring” Shamrock Arrangement

“Spring” Shamrock Arrangement

I’m spotlighting the free design of the week on the Silhouette America blog today with this cute shamrock arrangement.  I made my own springy stems with floral wire and used gold glitter heat transfer material for some accents. Here’s the post as it originally appeared 

You Put the Happily in My Ever After

You Put the Happily in My Ever After

I made this card for my hubby for Valentine’s Day this year and then forgot to share it! I love how this 5″ x 7″ card turned out. The phrase is from one of my favorite word-art designers, Kolette Hall, and you can find it 

Valentine Collection Boxes

Valentine Collection Boxes

I spent today helping my daughters make their valentine collection boxes for school this upcoming week.  Both girls knew exactly what they wanted, so I just helped them fill in the details with my Silhouette CAMEO. My older daughter (6th grade) wanted an aquarium to 

Baby Girl Onesies | Heat Transfer Tutorial

Baby Girl Onesies | Heat Transfer Tutorial

I have just fallen in love with heat transfer material all over again! Not because I was procrastinating, but because I have been so busy (ahem)…I waited until the day of a baby shower to start on my gift.  I got up early and went 

Print & Cut Fishy Valentines

Print & Cut Fishy Valentines

It’s been several consecutive years now that I’ve had to make between 75-90 valentines for my kids’ class parties, so we do simple. OK, it would be easier to just buy pre-made valentines, but where’s the fun in that? I would much rather put my 

Bird Cage Valentine’s Décor

Bird Cage Valentine’s Décor

I’m excited to share this project with you!  I made this little paper bird cage, hung some paper hearts inside, and covered it with tiny hand-shaped flowers.  It’s one of my favorite Silhouette projects.  Perfect for Valentine’s Day and for spring. I’d call this one 

Sketched Winter Card

Sketched Winter Card

Hello, Silhouette fans! I used this week’s free design to make a simple sketched winter card. We have several winter birthdays in our family, and I think this design is great for cards. I sketched the tree with its snowflakes and a sentiment on vellum, 

Silhouette Design Team Blog Hop {and Giveaway}

Silhouette Design Team Blog Hop {and Giveaway}

Welcome to my little stop along the blog hop with all the talented ladies of the Silhouette America design team.  I’m so glad you’re here!  I’m first in line, although officially it starts at the Silhouette America blog.  We don’t want you to miss a 

Sketched Cards with Silhouette Free Design

Sketched Cards with Silhouette Free Design

Hello, Silhouette friends! Let me share with you how I used this week’s free design on a couple of cards, in combination with metallic sketch pens and rhinestones for extra shimmer. This ribbon design has a lot of pieces to be placed, so I chose