tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60156219214489754112024-03-14T07:18:48.886+01:00Manualidades por mimamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.comBlogger483125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-31150869763953525652024-02-27T17:25:00.001+01:002024-02-27T17:25:37.278+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge 2024 # February<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am so happy that Helen has agreed to take on the running of this challenge. It has been the perfect inspiration for me to build my stash of cards throughout the year.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I admit I was not very prepared for this month as I have been busy laying with a new piece of equipment (see my previous post). But I do have a small recycling project completed.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A friend at church collects finished-with cards each new year, and re-mounts suitable images to sell very reasonably to raise funds for the church. She sent one to me this year that she knew I would like, and it was a simple stepper card front, with a Bethlehem scene at the back, and a stable scene on the front 'step'. I just knew it could be recycled again and I made it into two cards.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzniuTbbYMA20vH4hCv1XRFcJ8iMEovvzOLbrS10LdpwQImWycrSX0GWyUr5X1FtivMCoTAwN4V_JE4SEpAMfd45b9vBPfSxjYFohKsm6jKLHjm95KyfbJnovXzbztAKWGxsc8MF-ELdIsDVVyYALZ8Ahr8S0KvRye6HxH5OEWOCG-XUda-H6Pe3wKIA6A/s618/20240227_170728.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="618" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzniuTbbYMA20vH4hCv1XRFcJ8iMEovvzOLbrS10LdpwQImWycrSX0GWyUr5X1FtivMCoTAwN4V_JE4SEpAMfd45b9vBPfSxjYFohKsm6jKLHjm95KyfbJnovXzbztAKWGxsc8MF-ELdIsDVVyYALZ8Ahr8S0KvRye6HxH5OEWOCG-XUda-H6Pe3wKIA6A/w358-h290/20240227_170728.jpg" width="358" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the first I used the step cut to size to fit an A6 card, and glued some snowy sky paper behind it. Then I cut the phrase from black vinyl with my silhouette cameo machine.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtF_UHgSPCwQGJ9d8pZdU3Q5SXFZCmV_FiPqD0fRnDiOX4mcDcOgKhNU8AQxGLVN5arlnpvqX17h8Y-iPYr8TtJkwIrZDwNIdzmahlbK0XS8T4ble7ibIargr4cLkAE4OvGivLwIBRqQ0pfT-5TWyjKaMazc52DO0WfyLG23EhVhBoKjPaO89e9vlkBLLU/s632/20240227_170716.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="600" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtF_UHgSPCwQGJ9d8pZdU3Q5SXFZCmV_FiPqD0fRnDiOX4mcDcOgKhNU8AQxGLVN5arlnpvqX17h8Y-iPYr8TtJkwIrZDwNIdzmahlbK0XS8T4ble7ibIargr4cLkAE4OvGivLwIBRqQ0pfT-5TWyjKaMazc52DO0WfyLG23EhVhBoKjPaO89e9vlkBLLU/w336-h354/20240227_170716.jpg" width="336" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the second card I used the Bethlehem scene as the background on a square card and added silhouettes of shepherds and sheep to the front. These were images from my silhouette library, cut on my machine again from black vynil. I used a different font to cut the same phrase from gold metallic vinyl.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I shall link this up with <a href="https://rudolphdayschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/02/rudolph-days-february-challenge.html?sc=1708892203019#c7708196495435894991">Rudolph Days Challenge</a> at Helen's blog.</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-64894624851978352352024-02-27T17:05:00.000+01:002024-02-27T17:05:16.924+01:00We are never too old...<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> We are never too old to learn new skills. I have recently been 'give' a laser cutter on long-term loan. The owner, Steve Kirk, gave me several tutorials on his larger, more pwerful machine, at his home, along with several tips on using this one. He was also very patient with all my questions and mistakes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So it was time for me to try a project of my own and I knew just what I wanted to do. My youngest son, Ben, has just set himself up as a self-employed performer, plus music technician, with a company called "Totally Sound". </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">So I have made this wall plate for his studio.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwirJKS3yIMXLHKKIsgYVbyN2TzPTw2JczksNCwYtaRjrL4GxY9lN-ym48zpAGfEtf3PpyuOAsbrtYmxJx8lLvcDjxVuDUZ84MES4ViRq_ReVBlPg2CFRN5c2P8Z_08VLopFTQLHodPqqfmYQppC3B_pa-oJOUEtnqxfRIumaJvk2eHn4LwgDpmFPZFuRb/s2048/417513709_1134976411013791_2481950604258771562_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1509" data-original-width="2048" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwirJKS3yIMXLHKKIsgYVbyN2TzPTw2JczksNCwYtaRjrL4GxY9lN-ym48zpAGfEtf3PpyuOAsbrtYmxJx8lLvcDjxVuDUZ84MES4ViRq_ReVBlPg2CFRN5c2P8Z_08VLopFTQLHodPqqfmYQppC3B_pa-oJOUEtnqxfRIumaJvk2eHn4LwgDpmFPZFuRb/w377-h278/417513709_1134976411013791_2481950604258771562_n.jpg" width="377" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The base is 3mm birch plywood, cut out and painted black. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The treble clef, notes and script are cut from 1.5mm bass plywood. The clef has a light spray of varnish, and the rest are spray-painted in white. The script is a font called Zapfino which he has used on his business cards.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the picture I started with a coloured photo he has sent me. I used Gimp to turn it into a black and white sketch, and then I engraved it onto the base plate with the laser. I cut a mask from eclipse paper and held the 'window' part over the engraving and sprayed it lightly with varnish, and then covered the image with the mask while I painted the black background.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX2D7JnBQGotnDdf4K9VU4lU7hKEZ5puTPyXQZt_jZaI9Q1cqDHdXUWmlSoig9GNOGMFG1-w3Ej96Qf2Xmz4OlCilmdd1vQ1QNxq8cAX-_VilOBAWsBDhfZwsJPF43d7sPC_AMzqS6sEbIwLfMqA8xPbgy3I8TWCmRJ55WKztUvte2u8gV0qUX3Is62x8r/s1019/The%20process.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1019" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX2D7JnBQGotnDdf4K9VU4lU7hKEZ5puTPyXQZt_jZaI9Q1cqDHdXUWmlSoig9GNOGMFG1-w3Ej96Qf2Xmz4OlCilmdd1vQ1QNxq8cAX-_VilOBAWsBDhfZwsJPF43d7sPC_AMzqS6sEbIwLfMqA8xPbgy3I8TWCmRJ55WKztUvte2u8gV0qUX3Is62x8r/w379-h167/The%20process.jpg" width="379" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I then mounted the pieces with acrylic glue, and black sticky foam tabs behind the script.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I live in Spain, I <i> </i>wrapped this in several layers of bubble wrap to post it to UK last Friday, and I was amazed to hear today that it has arrived already. And most importantly, Ben loves it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is fun to have a new 'toy' to play with.</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-11544648740907421042024-01-25T11:53:00.002+01:002024-01-26T10:30:41.500+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge 2024 # January<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is time to start thinking about making cards for next Christmas now. I know some poeple find that idea just too much, but I find it really useful when Christmas comes around and there is so much to do, but my cards are all done. So here goes for this year.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am not off to a very good start, as a broken humerous/shoulder at the end of November has made most crafting very difficult. Added to that I have had an ulcer on my right hand for well over two years, that just doesn't want to heal. After many tests the hospital decided to take a biopsy from it two weeks ago, and within a few days, the site was again infected! So I am on strong antibiotics and have a thick bandage on my hand, so although my arm is healing, albeit slowly, I am again unable to handle pens, scissors etc with any precision. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzvlBLSBT3fPC8yMYc27eF0dNIiP4xczu5zWUv8204Qqk0l2BRtFMNeOTws1D9a9CP0K-jkW5fPV0lFg8l7JfUgpUxG7UARNvrH5cpmMILVW0Q-EHWjr9QZsQSqKJ_Ta612tvhfi-Z1NR1GhrgNX4TewuudvUuuTzb6-YDKSL4_0NUWc-uR3KRQ1S-dgb/s1227/20240124_151711.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="600" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzvlBLSBT3fPC8yMYc27eF0dNIiP4xczu5zWUv8204Qqk0l2BRtFMNeOTws1D9a9CP0K-jkW5fPV0lFg8l7JfUgpUxG7UARNvrH5cpmMILVW0Q-EHWjr9QZsQSqKJ_Ta612tvhfi-Z1NR1GhrgNX4TewuudvUuuTzb6-YDKSL4_0NUWc-uR3KRQ1S-dgb/w212-h434/20240124_151711.jpg" width="212" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So for this months cards I settled on two very simple recycled ones: one from a card I received this year, and one from an even older one. I cut the images with a circle die and the bauble from a metal die bought from a well-known Chinese site, so I don't know its name. Square dies cut the backgrounds and frame, and my snow embossing folder added interest to the white background. I needed two hands to turn the rollers on my Big Shot, but determination won in the end. Perhaps it is time to invest in an electric one? The main image slipped lower than I had intended on the first one, but I will hang on to it in case I need 'just one more card' next year. Hopefully by next month, I will have both hands and arms back in full action.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So this will be linked with the <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2024/01/jan-2024-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph day Challenge</a> over on Scrappy Mo's blog. Why not make an early start on your cards, and come and join us.</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-73663101212459095182023-11-26T11:31:00.001+01:002023-11-26T11:31:26.818+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge #November 2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> A very quick one from me today as I have broken my right arm (Yes I am right-handed), so I am typing this with my left hand and that is not easy for me. Fortunately I had these cards made ready for today.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhktdRc86V8y7kkM1stwXocJAX211q-nOS4mdYjrI-g0sd5ZupbYZkiCCiHEQLkxJWfNElC-Smrg1gKLkDLSgcW79hsRfZEtuZ6HXaKnBHNuVD4mltBo_sOmccPtU5BwC6bbQf2YejAiwm8DwmfdH7G4Rfsk_R4eeKiRmhkHp151uN2dfgPTm5Hte6Q9s4/s743/20231110_161153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="500" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhktdRc86V8y7kkM1stwXocJAX211q-nOS4mdYjrI-g0sd5ZupbYZkiCCiHEQLkxJWfNElC-Smrg1gKLkDLSgcW79hsRfZEtuZ6HXaKnBHNuVD4mltBo_sOmccPtU5BwC6bbQf2YejAiwm8DwmfdH7G4Rfsk_R4eeKiRmhkHp151uN2dfgPTm5Hte6Q9s4/w249-h370/20231110_161153.jpg" width="249" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The file is one purchased from Etsy. It was intended to make a 3Dwooden one, but I flattened it, cut it from metallic vinyl and transferred it onto a base card.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I worked quite well so I cut out five more from other colour metallic vinyls and transferred them to complimentary coloured cardstock.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV4cXcquXKzxCnaasnVyK5vQ2mc9ebw3Z6I4WWBdvqhyQE7AgpLoZfrRMdJ1pA0d0NiaTrsYa3AHV-hrs6AS3xdikvCG53k59DlxjGxXFmLRYnFA6SofRSCcK5EYZQTHTV8rFhjBh-y2D0WvgHLEOzeJ4vJ_zFVC3mJyOjGiL3hhhrrDEC3CSgj0qkmgvt/s720/20231110_161245.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="720" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV4cXcquXKzxCnaasnVyK5vQ2mc9ebw3Z6I4WWBdvqhyQE7AgpLoZfrRMdJ1pA0d0NiaTrsYa3AHV-hrs6AS3xdikvCG53k59DlxjGxXFmLRYnFA6SofRSCcK5EYZQTHTV8rFhjBh-y2D0WvgHLEOzeJ4vJ_zFVC3mJyOjGiL3hhhrrDEC3CSgj0qkmgvt/w366-h279/20231110_161245.jpg" width="366" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A useful set of six cards, but that's me done for today so I will link up with <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/11/november-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph Day challenge</a> over on Scrappy Mo's blog. Please forgive me if I only manage a limited number of comments, but I will visit you all.</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-24652184148462880192023-10-26T15:42:00.001+01:002023-10-26T15:42:18.145+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge#october 2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I am fairly well ahead with my Christmas cards this year I had time to play around a bit and I do enjoy editing files and rearranging them on the computer to find different ways to use them. I came up with a set of ten cards on a theme of "Sentiments in Arabesque window". I bought a bundle of these sentiments some time ago, so I uploaded them into my silhouette cameo software. Then I spent some time designing a base card with the arabesque window, and resized my chosen sentiments to fit in it. Next I sorted through my larger snippets of Christmas papers and found ten pieces I could use, cutting each one to fit inside a 15cm square white card base, and cutting the window and star from each one.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO2b0gMsSXCJVTQr-4HK54wQCQ4JesVNFPkpNn7B1H8ASQzmTf3AtE6bJOuYQdRamUTnexXAgqeYEQfvMThlw0AQ9n048rGT2Fu179cbNNG5SLVYjJv1vNtONKEZe4bi3ib_AYEYkkwoUUrZVtX3St0rFnem3-2StHeICuauXNa_yq5AMS0wdnEqKTJ2iz/s7414/20231025_151046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7414" data-original-width="7225" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO2b0gMsSXCJVTQr-4HK54wQCQ4JesVNFPkpNn7B1H8ASQzmTf3AtE6bJOuYQdRamUTnexXAgqeYEQfvMThlw0AQ9n048rGT2Fu179cbNNG5SLVYjJv1vNtONKEZe4bi3ib_AYEYkkwoUUrZVtX3St0rFnem3-2StHeICuauXNa_yq5AMS0wdnEqKTJ2iz/w343-h352/20231025_151046.jpg" width="343" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I glued a small snippet of gold paper behind the stars, and then found pieces that I could use behind each window. Once these were in place I decided which embellishments would go with the papers and resized them in the software, and using the 'Print and Cut feature' I printed them on basic photo paper to deepen the colours and give them some shine, and cut them out. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I decided which sentiment would suit which set of 'extras' and cut them from vinyl so they were more simple to glue inside the windows. I arrange the embellishments around them and glued them in place, adding a little glitter glue to some. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I ended up with ten cards, four doubles, and two individual ones, and lots of files in my library to use again should I need them.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIQjs85t9FaFGRhZM9zZC4bcBYOls0arRmrfFRzNywnwc-DwlBCQ_s0kRzWQspeqvgVqGbD9Z3SSuDzhHZrI9_rBjt3Zx3lRaa-1brR9QYdIlGTfHQmfBc1Rf3iOj61AKJBSXv3HTnkXsja1MWRq9JO0MVvA8AsJvua14L3T8-MAskut3SxxMmLhUzUq_/s723/20231025_151601.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="723" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIQjs85t9FaFGRhZM9zZC4bcBYOls0arRmrfFRzNywnwc-DwlBCQ_s0kRzWQspeqvgVqGbD9Z3SSuDzhHZrI9_rBjt3Zx3lRaa-1brR9QYdIlGTfHQmfBc1Rf3iOj61AKJBSXv3HTnkXsja1MWRq9JO0MVvA8AsJvua14L3T8-MAskut3SxxMmLhUzUq_/w423-h292/20231025_151601.jpg" width="423" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Poinsettias from Carnation crafts.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Crib and sheep from Jan Mahew's digital shop.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Arabesque Christmas ornaments - sorry I can't find where I bought them from.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Doves and nativity silhouettes, old files from my Cameo library - source unknown.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I will link these with <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-rudolph-days.html">Rudolph day Challenge#October </a></span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-30318280139360478222023-09-25T23:06:00.002+01:002023-09-25T23:06:50.595+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge # September 2023<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A quick and easy card this month that I made using an element from the scrapbook kit Into the Woods by Cornelia Designs. It is unusual for an element to be a complete picture, but I liked this one so I resized it and printed out a couple of copies.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLpv-pIC1avPOwgNqbCCSaQnnnyfKraCGVNcm6WvlQCUVWRHfmaLTicZriEGvqQ-hZtpR_gOi8yKCQdbQ42R7YAhE02IdKSxOT09S42VEOxDLaQiMbgk6Sqa6_uHGOUBQnK-bI7ZZCii9fRB7IF3VXVAysPGTrgNCDcypkogma0ZVRRzpm20GDRQmFhJd/s650/20230801_160649.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="650" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLpv-pIC1avPOwgNqbCCSaQnnnyfKraCGVNcm6WvlQCUVWRHfmaLTicZriEGvqQ-hZtpR_gOi8yKCQdbQ42R7YAhE02IdKSxOT09S42VEOxDLaQiMbgk6Sqa6_uHGOUBQnK-bI7ZZCii9fRB7IF3VXVAysPGTrgNCDcypkogma0ZVRRzpm20GDRQmFhJd/w356-h356/20230801_160649.jpg" width="356" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then I used the inner section of a die frame set to cut a window in a plain white 15cm square card. I placed the image behind the window using thin foam strips.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The holly frame was a file in the library on my Silhouette cameo, bought from the silhouette store many years ago. It was a fiddle to add but I used transfer tape so it did not distort too much. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then I added red perfect pearls for the berries, and a gold peel-off sentiment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A second card was made in exactly the same way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So now I will link this up with Rudolph Day Challenge over at <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/09/september-rudolph-days-challenge.html?m=1">Scraps of Life by Scrappy Mo.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p><br /></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-12058345767412899782023-08-25T08:00:00.002+01:002023-08-25T10:04:48.076+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge #August 2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another scheduled post as I shall be in UK on tis date, and far away from my PC. (I don't trust my skills fiddling around on a smart phone!).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For this set of cards I wanted to try out a technique called 3D stained Glass window cards. I found loads of images for stained glass windows, but struggled to find any Christmas ones. Eventually I settled on this lovely poinsettia which was one from a set of images for making Christmas coasters.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2YYj0Vj0AvYlfFbjPXuZZn8xNQ0Qcvdhr8pXUtJ6-wmcX2fFSGAeQLoRiepywfjmvXQG9vy9BZhdN0c7fYqtc7mr1z5Fr8IJs9uPAzr2rTAABWmBLSyloLku2KIZjWok7vnxMSKlO5SIYZVvV8KblqVVz0DRDHSeS_fGOutJly26TotjARbKpv_3jSOT/s666/20230714_183006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2YYj0Vj0AvYlfFbjPXuZZn8xNQ0Qcvdhr8pXUtJ6-wmcX2fFSGAeQLoRiepywfjmvXQG9vy9BZhdN0c7fYqtc7mr1z5Fr8IJs9uPAzr2rTAABWmBLSyloLku2KIZjWok7vnxMSKlO5SIYZVvV8KblqVVz0DRDHSeS_fGOutJly26TotjARbKpv_3jSOT/s320/20230714_183006.jpg" width="288" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I enlarged it to the size I wanted for my card and in the Silhouette software I made a cutting fil e for it. Then I made a second square a bit smaller for the first internal frame. Making another even smaller square I centred it over the original image and cut out where they intersected, giving me the next layer. Then I repeated this again for the second frame and smallest centre image.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I printed the three images on good quality photographic paper to bring out the colours and give a nice glossy finish, and used the Print & Cut feature on my cameo to cut them out. Then I cut the base card and two frame squares from black card, and used 1mm foam pads to lift each layer slightly over the one below. (I managed a small tear on the centre image, when pulling it off the sticky cutting mat, so I hid it under a gold peel off, Spanish Christmas greeting).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The card was a bit darker than I would have chosen but the only alternative Chrstmas ones I could find were a set of 'Old Father Christmas' roundals. (Or Old man Winter if you prefer). So I made another set of frames and concentric images as for the square one and made these two cards.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjMcC--unbrZf0n6puSxbfTtVDpbWFYCPKRSZ8oT28Ww6b7XJrxv11sNojAXdqjrN4AAEnwxEd94Xtk89bsFF5pBW_dBns9MVh4EC5u0n6Km8J-RBIafTM-P-reb0CkCCGT4oFZ2IcGy0-zAvKnxktNMfchcSTvZ0IJV2RZ0wIGpcnSrA_Zy6GO_rf1SE/s2500/20230714_183029_inPixio.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="2392" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjMcC--unbrZf0n6puSxbfTtVDpbWFYCPKRSZ8oT28Ww6b7XJrxv11sNojAXdqjrN4AAEnwxEd94Xtk89bsFF5pBW_dBns9MVh4EC5u0n6Km8J-RBIafTM-P-reb0CkCCGT4oFZ2IcGy0-zAvKnxktNMfchcSTvZ0IJV2RZ0wIGpcnSrA_Zy6GO_rf1SE/w337-h352/20230714_183029_inPixio.png" width="337" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeudJIHfUOjukPT78P7iE4SdhjavfM6t99Vfhz9ZeWVSyfNE8MjnOX3JNkJS4Nc8o6TtMWEz12m81FR4FHnMavwaJnsU7ypmIsLZTLLQWBaWu3GNdSrlYQUwKFgvTwGjEHiqmXEbLP8l4doxB-RhSYvYyVMqTwiEWNnkzJBzFxQJs7LILoP8WIFHrx2HD0/s2063/20230714_183049.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1949" data-original-width="2063" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeudJIHfUOjukPT78P7iE4SdhjavfM6t99Vfhz9ZeWVSyfNE8MjnOX3JNkJS4Nc8o6TtMWEz12m81FR4FHnMavwaJnsU7ypmIsLZTLLQWBaWu3GNdSrlYQUwKFgvTwGjEHiqmXEbLP8l4doxB-RhSYvYyVMqTwiEWNnkzJBzFxQJs7LILoP8WIFHrx2HD0/w344-h325/20230714_183049.jpg" width="344" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I overlapped two base circles by a small amount and added a score line where they crossed, to give me a joined base card. And knowing what a nuisance circular cards can be, I also sliced a very thin piece off the bottom of the card so that it would stand up.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I expect there will be more Christmas images available later in the year as this is a popular technique right now, so I may try a few more then. Now the files are in my software library, it would be very easy to just use a different image.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So this is another set to add to my stash. I will schedule it to post on Rudolph day challenge#August on <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/?m=1">Scrappy Mo's blog</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-74112894781666114032023-07-25T08:00:00.002+01:002023-07-25T13:21:20.054+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge #July 2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Because I am preparing for a longish holiday, I am writing this early and scheduling it to publish, so that I don't miss the date like I almost did last month!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This time I have made a layered card showing a simple nativity scene. This was a cutting file I purchased from one of the Facebook groups I belong to, and it was designed as a shadow box.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRijw3e77_PjSbxFnOWxE1fk1aiZAzxkSbd-uI9-wBPetGr4e8TEn0MuQHCiOpAEr1VKw0A_V7PvucU4gpr7vONn452lKxzBCC1mTTu51S3gmmYYBSz6tUtvGaXCUiPc6biUuPVgiVtAMbVY-Z9CXDFLDxKkAD0CHZwqNzeFYVxwpye00qkQC6K3RrXNf/s667/20230612_101732.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="623" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRijw3e77_PjSbxFnOWxE1fk1aiZAzxkSbd-uI9-wBPetGr4e8TEn0MuQHCiOpAEr1VKw0A_V7PvucU4gpr7vONn452lKxzBCC1mTTu51S3gmmYYBSz6tUtvGaXCUiPc6biUuPVgiVtAMbVY-Z9CXDFLDxKkAD0CHZwqNzeFYVxwpye00qkQC6K3RrXNf/w349-h373/20230612_101732.jpg" width="349" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When making a shadow box, each layer is cut to the full size and placed in order inside a deep shadow box frame. But I wanted to flatten it for a card, and this would have been very bulky as there are ten layers as well as the base card. So I spent some time in my Silhouette software, deciding which ares were needed from each layer and cutting them down so that my eventual stacked card would not be too thick for posting.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having made the first card fairly successfully, I made use of the files I had prepared and cut another three sets. They didn't take too long to assemble so now I have another set of four cards to add to my stash.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The yellow script should have been cut out of the blue top layer to show the yellow layer underneath, but I had trouble cutting these small letters, so instead I cut the blue layer complete and cut the script from yellow vinyl, which always cuts beautifully. And the effect is the same, just neater.<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpH-4XM-_Mtp7jomDMxrqv28S5sYvCSNN-x-hHTbNPlXQ_fO9l4n6Sni9RgDXvAYBXclzMpI4Br-b3fsAs_HlWkkkGVwq_cTDqmMiNRmHnJ00rXHrTkTPMwojdq1ZUfMyN0DeuM7gl8yeLPGyE7CSwxQrRjEBIHV-eselGpxa63jhk0vGGTBeJQWSxkTG/s623/20230612_101727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="623" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpH-4XM-_Mtp7jomDMxrqv28S5sYvCSNN-x-hHTbNPlXQ_fO9l4n6Sni9RgDXvAYBXclzMpI4Br-b3fsAs_HlWkkkGVwq_cTDqmMiNRmHnJ00rXHrTkTPMwojdq1ZUfMyN0DeuM7gl8yeLPGyE7CSwxQrRjEBIHV-eselGpxa63jhk0vGGTBeJQWSxkTG/w363-h303/20230612_101727.jpg" width="363" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I will be linking this up to the <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/07/july-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph day Challenge on Scraps of life by Scrappy Mo.</a></span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-80143017815719550672023-06-29T16:19:00.002+01:002023-06-29T16:19:18.518+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge# June 2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Wow I made these cards a few weeks ago and have been so busy with other projects that I forgot to publish them! But I see I have one day left so here goes. (I haven't missed a month yet so it would be a shame to miss one now).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I did something a bit different this time. Because of problems and expense of postage I usually send a 'family card' to each of my sons and their families. But as I am going over to UK for all of August and I am taking my Christmas cards with me, some to leave along with some birthday cards to the relevant houses, and some for my sister to post when the time comes, I decided to make individual ones for the 'little people' this year. So here is a set of fun cards I made using my silhouette machine.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKY98K08O4dEV8_XvU37TXVrWck3SrI7mJt0sDZlLB10jPZG2ChjKxVvRlgFF-zdMmDOuG6e4gl8Y4BQO0xFaJfS1zh2uFAmJNJe8FYEx4hekCQqzU9P0GaMcvexg4O_puvmtJGEjMcNa42V9LDapxotX1RYSWV8y2TVZYUjyCNmoJlPs7fiFrNhykeJB9/s737/20230526_131029.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="600" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKY98K08O4dEV8_XvU37TXVrWck3SrI7mJt0sDZlLB10jPZG2ChjKxVvRlgFF-zdMmDOuG6e4gl8Y4BQO0xFaJfS1zh2uFAmJNJe8FYEx4hekCQqzU9P0GaMcvexg4O_puvmtJGEjMcNa42V9LDapxotX1RYSWV8y2TVZYUjyCNmoJlPs7fiFrNhykeJB9/w320-h392/20230526_131029.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The files were bought from the Silhouette store, so I just had to decide on colours for each layer, cut them all out and do some serious paper piecing to assemble them all.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think they are quite fun so I hope the young ones will enjoy them.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now I will link with the <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/06/june-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph Day Challenge</a> for June and hopefully I will not be so laye with my July cards.</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-9372586859288592092023-05-25T09:07:00.002+01:002023-05-25T09:07:22.498+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge # May 2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am trying a few different techniques to make cards this year as my hands have not allowed me to do much stamping and colouring, so this month I had a go at casing a card I received last Christmas. I liked it but it didn't lend itself to recycling as the only option would have been to just cut out the whole card front and put it on a new card base - not what I do. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGIWVlgYj1YMbbFNAKz1nvArm6zF033iaJZrBAFcRl7ytoPh9y6bY6IO0toVj56MZqCvn9tW4eyO768XMeMsIIHRJ136s3B9Xc28ZkjeHjHFGpgtLVTUgoYCb1QUUT24J3_vspdZ6aOK1ngjVBrb3BOr_oGv4GFRX5mXBgePwtCxoumbRP21SiH2tHdA/s946/20230523_173443.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="946" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGIWVlgYj1YMbbFNAKz1nvArm6zF033iaJZrBAFcRl7ytoPh9y6bY6IO0toVj56MZqCvn9tW4eyO768XMeMsIIHRJ136s3B9Xc28ZkjeHjHFGpgtLVTUgoYCb1QUUT24J3_vspdZ6aOK1ngjVBrb3BOr_oGv4GFRX5mXBgePwtCxoumbRP21SiH2tHdA/w438-h208/20230523_173443.jpg" width="438" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So instead I used Photoshop to download one of my 'go-to' backing papers and typed the word Peace on to it in upper case letters. Then I isolated each letter and adjusted its size to add interest.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Next I searched though the hundreds, (possibly over a thousand) scrapbook kits that I have on my computer, trying to find a Christmas one that had pictures of the nativity characters that weren't cartoon ones. It turned out I had very little choice but eventually settled on these ones.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I sliced the group of three kings to give one single one that I moved behind the letter 'P' and two that I placed in front of it. I similarly split the two shepherds to put one in each layer, and resized the Mary-Joseph-baby trio to fit nicely into the letter 'C'. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I then spent ages searching for an angel that was seated and looking down and managed to find one in free clip-art. So I resized her to sit on top of the A.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When I was happy with the composition, I cropped it to fit on a DL card and printed it. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then I ungrouped the layers and removed the three front layer elements to print separately, and finally removed the back layer leaving only the script. I was able to trace this, and cut it from some gold textured paper in my silhouette, also cutting a simple star from my library.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After many years of using my silhouette cameo machine, I have now learned to successfully use the print and cut feature, (I have had very mixed results up to now but I think I have finally cracked it!), so I took my three printed foreground characters, traced them in the silhouette software and sent them to cut out. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then it was a case of gluing the background picture to a DL base card, adding the gold letters and star, and then decoupaging the two kings, the shepherd and the angel with a little silicone glue to give them some dimension.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All this was a bit time consuming but once I was happy with how it came together, I made three more identical ones very quickly, and would be able to make more just as easily if I need them.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxarMGVLUM-ywtKBKpc42rAksf7muTxEBt14v6_gtHeRDY7GhPJHIGAKBSm3XA0CQ_zmppsJ4JCcMNrNDxo3WOgIaXWqbzDAtNdwCsBy4uAbDgQd2JXLms6-KDdIkgAKG6fGRbsyqOtOnOrMpnnUk37GlwY8uEO8YLJUOzGfxYqFdLAEJiC747LqADw/s676/20230523_173521.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxarMGVLUM-ywtKBKpc42rAksf7muTxEBt14v6_gtHeRDY7GhPJHIGAKBSm3XA0CQ_zmppsJ4JCcMNrNDxo3WOgIaXWqbzDAtNdwCsBy4uAbDgQd2JXLms6-KDdIkgAKG6fGRbsyqOtOnOrMpnnUk37GlwY8uEO8YLJUOzGfxYqFdLAEJiC747LqADw/s320/20230523_173521.jpg" width="284" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I know there is more detail here than some of you need to see, but I know some folk like to see how a card is made so hopefully I have answered all your questions.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now it is time to link up to the <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/05/may-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph day Challenge</a> at Scraps of life by Scrappy Mo.</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-63319518026601692762023-04-25T09:32:00.025+01:002023-04-26T14:12:46.964+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge # April 2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A while back I bought a simple cutting die from a well-known Chinese outlet, so this month I gave it its first trial. This is the card I made.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFzDqnewyK4Uyfx5cFnO2clebiDRxcN96J_PpN7-39gcX5nHVsd5kztZJ0lpgPUH8boPKo920-txAg8Ps4c0o4ANbVz2dfyvGQgo1CQpcVwtfANPQPpZchWYDAihiN5L9bsFbDxtzUJHeHIROr14lCrdZ6YRtbagBF5XLD_V4_9M9VIHdxG4S6tWMJSQ/s444/Alternative%203_F.Alan%202022_inPixio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="444" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFzDqnewyK4Uyfx5cFnO2clebiDRxcN96J_PpN7-39gcX5nHVsd5kztZJ0lpgPUH8boPKo920-txAg8Ps4c0o4ANbVz2dfyvGQgo1CQpcVwtfANPQPpZchWYDAihiN5L9bsFbDxtzUJHeHIROr14lCrdZ6YRtbagBF5XLD_V4_9M9VIHdxG4S6tWMJSQ/w418-h294/Alternative%203_F.Alan%202022_inPixio.jpg" width="418" /></a></span></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I liked the simplicity of the image so I decided to find other ways for using it. In the end I made six cards, all similar yet all different. For some I used the die cut-outs, and for others I used the negative space on a contrasting mat. It was a good way to use up a few snippets of paper, and I raided my stash for sentiments, ribbons etc. I made a collage of the six cards to show how versatile the little die is.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixYNe0l3SS8GDz_AB99xCflwXHcT_xsMbMienTmhAtMHWvtlfs35TD86WtyMdiKviytkDvfYElljXEI8eNPD87mmoOLo-jJUev2quWCA74OFC9g1J0YFKIA2LyVdW0TsTgd2wlrbKwtCGGKPIHKR6QgHFBS_IROKOWN6rpeUYcVojZC1pqRZeX2I9nSw/s800/kimeric_seaside_pp%20(13)%20copy%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="800" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixYNe0l3SS8GDz_AB99xCflwXHcT_xsMbMienTmhAtMHWvtlfs35TD86WtyMdiKviytkDvfYElljXEI8eNPD87mmoOLo-jJUev2quWCA74OFC9g1J0YFKIA2LyVdW0TsTgd2wlrbKwtCGGKPIHKR6QgHFBS_IROKOWN6rpeUYcVojZC1pqRZeX2I9nSw/w466-h379/kimeric_seaside_pp%20(13)%20copy%202.jpg" width="466" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So now I will link this up to <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-rudolph-days-challengefinally.html">Rudolph Day Challenge #April</a> over at Scrappy Mo's blog. See you there?</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-54893102472455796482023-03-25T10:38:00.004+01:002023-03-25T10:40:23.638+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge #March2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This month I tried something a bit different for me, as I wanted some 'almost' one layer cards for ease of posting, which is getting to be a bit of a nightmare internationally.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don't see a lot of digistamps that I like but there is one designer I return to over and over and her name is Jan Mahew. So I chose three of her stamps, which are fun and relatively easy to colour, and printed them at A5 size. Then I used my copic markers to colour them. I printed them again and cut out the main characters as a mask so I could dust a little distress ink around them and take the bright white off the backgrounds, and then scanned them into my computer. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKexm6N2BdU5QjingbosbJgAyI5ic1KLqvi7acaw74flbBUSNzXgBdrCYZeV7SYxFGfjqVr-SUCByq8xniFog3JBP9PQtFurSOsTFsSwcXHwtKPSy1eXZsgOcicDp4TK-nT4Z4boqsp0Z1HXuVRWxMeBam-2Pe6H10K9L6kMZdmaKXsCegoALdYkD6yA/s699/20230325_093702.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="699" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKexm6N2BdU5QjingbosbJgAyI5ic1KLqvi7acaw74flbBUSNzXgBdrCYZeV7SYxFGfjqVr-SUCByq8xniFog3JBP9PQtFurSOsTFsSwcXHwtKPSy1eXZsgOcicDp4TK-nT4Z4boqsp0Z1HXuVRWxMeBam-2Pe6H10K9L6kMZdmaKXsCegoALdYkD6yA/s320/20230325_093702.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHeZawddaZ0Gm_AG1Fi2CxvLIMwvBI8JUbuzajvk_KCi6_yXBsStdQQpXOwM_8KUlt9gRH-VT5LaG_rJlUnlbxN3BnM4_wymFJt5_7gFTER1wY6lao1MLgW6IcenX3zlwE3a7g4l5UrPatEHm_sDkpWt4EjzyT2liAg4-20WDWNEcLQUEbcX_hH9akXw/s699/20230325_093628.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="699" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHeZawddaZ0Gm_AG1Fi2CxvLIMwvBI8JUbuzajvk_KCi6_yXBsStdQQpXOwM_8KUlt9gRH-VT5LaG_rJlUnlbxN3BnM4_wymFJt5_7gFTER1wY6lao1MLgW6IcenX3zlwE3a7g4l5UrPatEHm_sDkpWt4EjzyT2liAg4-20WDWNEcLQUEbcX_hH9akXw/s320/20230325_093628.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjKN4cCuUPw5Sdd6tDVWIkjqbINoWQDYnWlYbZ-5Ms2WyAd49IBIbcEmyPpDJiHiJJikU1LGSZ_no3P0vIPkHSQ1R1ieBOAj80cRCnielutn51LP7ffbDX-D44gPpMMWgdp1G-aF6Eal-DrT9imWbJmj4rjHxHIXaYGOChZ3hSqEsIaQLPWtK0ib5Rw/s686/20230325_093619.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="686" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjKN4cCuUPw5Sdd6tDVWIkjqbINoWQDYnWlYbZ-5Ms2WyAd49IBIbcEmyPpDJiHiJJikU1LGSZ_no3P0vIPkHSQ1R1ieBOAj80cRCnielutn51LP7ffbDX-D44gPpMMWgdp1G-aF6Eal-DrT9imWbJmj4rjHxHIXaYGOChZ3hSqEsIaQLPWtK0ib5Rw/s320/20230325_093619.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In photoshop I opened a backing paper from my library and added a mask, (bought from a scrapbook site but I am not sure which one). I imported one of my coloured images and clipped it to the mask and flattened it to save as a jpeg. I did this for all three images choosing different backing papers for each one and then I printed them out three times each.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Finally I cut each one to fit a standard card base and just added a stamped sentiment, some glitter glue and a few peel-off snowflakes. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheTnQPX8vADsTJN0C5dSGg2UZqolcUZMnN9Mj3AumEKsYTGDVweXztI_U1OHtK2XxcIBwlmGpzC7F_vkM09G9Lki_FqkEmhOa9YQeekYNS7b8mIqrFiMbGX0fgO_QaGI_axRZELzVbCTOexDXO_8gZXaPflS4DMpg-CCHsbRnCxltCRvTHieGcggwE8g/s702/20230325_093436.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="702" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheTnQPX8vADsTJN0C5dSGg2UZqolcUZMnN9Mj3AumEKsYTGDVweXztI_U1OHtK2XxcIBwlmGpzC7F_vkM09G9Lki_FqkEmhOa9YQeekYNS7b8mIqrFiMbGX0fgO_QaGI_axRZELzVbCTOexDXO_8gZXaPflS4DMpg-CCHsbRnCxltCRvTHieGcggwE8g/w374-h266/20230325_093436.jpg" width="374" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJ3ko6N6Wtn_-0y7HGqMQE6ZnsD3Rjw4oJ7DdtIjzAmMtZp4shMJGvhm3uCz6t-K9reMipyaWlOIKHejEphOzOxk95Mly0lynGHmAbZ-NcqI-K9b_cnZKQRQ8KEpp5Fm5mnDSqG8KcW_Nee_Ub4gG3j4GsYo5x6yoDFQNSQeIjZ-XJyxmWCDohH9ZCw/s728/20230325_093446.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="728" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJ3ko6N6Wtn_-0y7HGqMQE6ZnsD3Rjw4oJ7DdtIjzAmMtZp4shMJGvhm3uCz6t-K9reMipyaWlOIKHejEphOzOxk95Mly0lynGHmAbZ-NcqI-K9b_cnZKQRQ8KEpp5Fm5mnDSqG8KcW_Nee_Ub4gG3j4GsYo5x6yoDFQNSQeIjZ-XJyxmWCDohH9ZCw/w373-h257/20230325_093446.jpg" width="373" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5m409Nt5kuwyfH5SHpcIUfELRqEvC1ZYod0A-mloT1-NsM_5LbUZS9dh1CFYOd5OuYDFxZ9ghdU1AiMkdXzbBoIrVrcP4ywkXmMPVsQwL5K1W_c_dVnTfoimJQoMlNjoDbfLSy47SW3WTHnUAi1nR2bypLKmJDzj2E5bSt5Pl7u8qUUaSmXUb6mFgg/s3123/20230325_093457.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2182" data-original-width="3123" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5m409Nt5kuwyfH5SHpcIUfELRqEvC1ZYod0A-mloT1-NsM_5LbUZS9dh1CFYOd5OuYDFxZ9ghdU1AiMkdXzbBoIrVrcP4ywkXmMPVsQwL5K1W_c_dVnTfoimJQoMlNjoDbfLSy47SW3WTHnUAi1nR2bypLKmJDzj2E5bSt5Pl7u8qUUaSmXUb6mFgg/w377-h264/20230325_093457.jpg" width="377" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As these are now stored on my computer I could print off more if I needed them.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTAoVyV2c-7Iy8RDIdQekUtcsop9s3nb_SlBJf8EW53s9PezJxcDNW4mr0en-rXCfJalPPY1YRfHzjaaIqOIEM4vZXkE836Drvr8saMGy8HSaPonLakHaP9RFU9BrZql4USF3tKxtP2ORt2VZoSzqZT3rRqG3nv6bgPhKQYLhqVA27KNkNCEC9iBe8w/s728/20230325_093553.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="728" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTAoVyV2c-7Iy8RDIdQekUtcsop9s3nb_SlBJf8EW53s9PezJxcDNW4mr0en-rXCfJalPPY1YRfHzjaaIqOIEM4vZXkE836Drvr8saMGy8HSaPonLakHaP9RFU9BrZql4USF3tKxtP2ORt2VZoSzqZT3rRqG3nv6bgPhKQYLhqVA27KNkNCEC9iBe8w/w373-h326/20230325_093553.jpg" width="373" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also realised I still have the original three coloured images and although they are bigger than my final print outs, I think I could use them without a backing paper, and just add a simple frame, and I will have three more cards. I don't like to waste anything so I will see what I can do.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am linking these to the Rudolph day Challenge over at <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/03/march-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Scraps of Life with Scrappy Mo.</a></span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-91557860167661742622023-02-25T16:10:00.001+01:002023-02-25T16:10:07.465+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge 2023# February<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Usually my February entry is a card made from a recycled one I received. This year I had very few suitable salvaged pieces, but I did keep two lovely images of robins, and these are the cards I made.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9cqY-RHriERyI6NlCACUmK9-rZtHCcM3WcW6idv0YtxapLNgtWBVHO10_2kGjTDz3zkMhUpW4LF-LTh14VTIphq-S9012DoqtEqDxVQXxv3RTN9t8GT6jGK7mA-4557N9vjodof9V4ovfpIHAh6yjxMrRfiSLzpNNlncigJ-ay8iqFt0WGSPnNBPTg/s830/Robin%20cards..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="830" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9cqY-RHriERyI6NlCACUmK9-rZtHCcM3WcW6idv0YtxapLNgtWBVHO10_2kGjTDz3zkMhUpW4LF-LTh14VTIphq-S9012DoqtEqDxVQXxv3RTN9t8GT6jGK7mA-4557N9vjodof9V4ovfpIHAh6yjxMrRfiSLzpNNlncigJ-ay8iqFt0WGSPnNBPTg/w496-h358/Robin%20cards..jpg" width="496" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For the one on the left I used a new doiley die from China trimmed to suit my need, and some digital background paper from my files.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The one on the right has a new die cut frame and a recycled card base that was complete with the gold corners.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I sorted out the mess on my desk I found a few previously cut pieces, as well as some older cards kept from previous years, so I sorted them out and tried to make a card from each one, or a from a combination of them. When I recycle cards I always make sure mine look very different from the original, and always add some form of my own crafting. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was pleased to use up so many pieces, and ended up with a set of nine cards. (2 above plus 7 below). You should be able to click on this picture to enlarge it and see them better. </span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I used too many dies, stamps and papers to list but if you would like to know what any of them are, please ask.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47JQSFtuPHiSgy7_rKRR6GEfUXDm5dM1XXram4x9A2ulTW8atZBXgnyOcaBwmmZcOri2U1Ll4iAFSrCqWeF26X3ake7cW1vf-Gp9D474hbXAHcG5EjmR-wSK5sTK2-_TM9fsucrt8MB-Sfwe8h1LaU1HEf3z67J7vqSi1fI3uFFPmmaL2-snYtbNAGw/s1100/recycled%20cards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1100" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47JQSFtuPHiSgy7_rKRR6GEfUXDm5dM1XXram4x9A2ulTW8atZBXgnyOcaBwmmZcOri2U1Ll4iAFSrCqWeF26X3ake7cW1vf-Gp9D474hbXAHcG5EjmR-wSK5sTK2-_TM9fsucrt8MB-Sfwe8h1LaU1HEf3z67J7vqSi1fI3uFFPmmaL2-snYtbNAGw/w578-h284/recycled%20cards.jpg" width="578" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now I will link them up with the Februaury Rudolph Day Challenge over at <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/02/february-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Scraps of Life by Scrappy Mo</a>, and see what everyone else has made.</span></div><br /><p></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-60095862432665149902023-01-25T10:13:00.003+01:002023-01-25T10:13:50.586+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge #January 2023<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have made a good start to my 2023 collection of cards. I often buy Christmas related items, stamps, dies, papers etc, too late to use them so at the start of a new year I look for things that have not been used. This month I have gone with a set of cutting files from DreamOnPrint. They were a bundle including a long advent calendar, several small ornaments and the one I chose to use which is a set of Cathedral Windows depicting parts of the nativity story. They were intended to be cut from lightweight wood or heavy card for a large wall display, but I decided to down-size them to fit on a DL card. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I used an odd piece off-white card for the base, and various snippets of brown and gold card for the elements.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYi8NZSG-hNjxV4lNVtSH5d_kyfzdgeJ2ebe9qoNIDuNfaT8okR9VNclely_obkMtMVaZdkAJIgVNx90a5J0awzsoJ5y_HKwEICK5vV94I_2uvvECpXWDQXWXJCTbzNqb6ldgp7rLVicq51SbUlcFdcJxfFzzmtLgkCT8C5ttq48cVjFEUM_ZP1p7krg/s853/20230111_153459.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="853" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYi8NZSG-hNjxV4lNVtSH5d_kyfzdgeJ2ebe9qoNIDuNfaT8okR9VNclely_obkMtMVaZdkAJIgVNx90a5J0awzsoJ5y_HKwEICK5vV94I_2uvvECpXWDQXWXJCTbzNqb6ldgp7rLVicq51SbUlcFdcJxfFzzmtLgkCT8C5ttq48cVjFEUM_ZP1p7krg/w458-h242/20230111_153459.jpg" width="458" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I liked the result so I made five more using some 300g bright white card for the bases, and a mixture of oddments for the rest of the layers. I did make sure to use the same colour pieces for the three windows on each card. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Many years ago, maybe twenty years, I bought my first cutting machine, a Craft Robo, at a craft show at NEC Birmingham, and because it was at a show, I was given a whole range of paper and card and some cutting files to start me off. Among the paper was a lot of thinnish gold paper that may have been plastic, because it was textured but it had no fibres, and therefore it cut beautifully. I have used it for odd things over the years and for these cards I used up all the last little pieces, just managing to cut all the window frames, trees and stable scenes, one at a time. The grid on the cutting mat makes it possible to put these scraps in just the right place to match the position of the image in the software. I am sad it has all gone, but at least I made good use of every little piece.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To finish my cards I stamped a simple sentiment at the top using a very old Inkylicious stamp.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">And now I have a set of six cards to start off my collection.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJA9iWhKy6jvhSf0bTTWUXEkrC6ynD_MgBM8TCgGB94CA5ZtVTf_c2rbl3xawAhASyo599x_xdwevXlmzMK8J7JPITuzqZ3TsUL0PqlRSXSuYxkf3Stilkrz1MVy-2mq2X4DEMtYyKQDAzJnh5D7Hpr1Yep1kdGLru0h-DkqKqciW99PnruwyOjYNzFw/s734/20230111_153604.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="734" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJA9iWhKy6jvhSf0bTTWUXEkrC6ynD_MgBM8TCgGB94CA5ZtVTf_c2rbl3xawAhASyo599x_xdwevXlmzMK8J7JPITuzqZ3TsUL0PqlRSXSuYxkf3Stilkrz1MVy-2mq2X4DEMtYyKQDAzJnh5D7Hpr1Yep1kdGLru0h-DkqKqciW99PnruwyOjYNzFw/w373-h330/20230111_153604.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now I shall link ip with <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2023/01/january-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph Day Challenge# January</a> and</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-446.html">The Snippets Playground</a></span></p><p><br /></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-70447892726482487342022-11-25T09:54:00.006+01:002022-11-25T09:56:45.118+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge# November 2022<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well my cards are mostly written and all the ones for UK and other countries have been posted, so this month I have made something a bit different. I used svg files bought from a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/XuyenCraft">designer on Etsy,</a> and uploaded them into my silhouette Cameo machine. It was in a good mood and cut everything very well, with none of the usual problems.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I chose this Nativity scene and as I had quite a bit in stock, I used some Vanilla American craft card. The style of sculpture is called slice-form, and it it consists of many layers of card, (about 32 layers in this one), which are interlocked using carefully placed slots. It is fiddly to do, and annoying sometimes when as you put one piece in place, another pops out again. But it gradually stabilises as the shape is completed. Mine had a small LED light base , purchased from Amazon, placed underneath it. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghaScnSPFQ4FtLm9pVGc9k_82VRWPhTz3qXUOG6PXQDybg8rrf88CgX_QqXq5IlUomk2FagFwdvfS0v-LRmWBtHs4C1czS6bKmV6Gz2Cg957JriTVv0UvtJTgnK2cqLJNFzPy8RKRy46DnrlGjR7jpB0q5yc-D1gOvi2Ur5wusDU_79Ikxkg5Mm7ubsA/s667/20221123_150246.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="544" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghaScnSPFQ4FtLm9pVGc9k_82VRWPhTz3qXUOG6PXQDybg8rrf88CgX_QqXq5IlUomk2FagFwdvfS0v-LRmWBtHs4C1czS6bKmV6Gz2Cg957JriTVv0UvtJTgnK2cqLJNFzPy8RKRy46DnrlGjR7jpB0q5yc-D1gOvi2Ur5wusDU_79Ikxkg5Mm7ubsA/w303-h371/20221123_150246.jpg" width="303" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is the view from the top, so you can see how the layers fit together.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPalgcbOnlS8FIL001J-QBJ-zT31aUcXXMHXnZVb5GMLenODFAzusXAN9x2Lkmd3TjgQE6Cl-l1uu88SWdcitzHeoU0QpunqbtgttzNP6-6jLp7Wd3fLj3fo0xo50QUlNuBUDLQjk1env-sQRBQG2TV5LoEoCXife1pJcH5o9mgYJbapi1vnWwH7CkGA/s574/20221124_153135.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="574" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPalgcbOnlS8FIL001J-QBJ-zT31aUcXXMHXnZVb5GMLenODFAzusXAN9x2Lkmd3TjgQE6Cl-l1uu88SWdcitzHeoU0QpunqbtgttzNP6-6jLp7Wd3fLj3fo0xo50QUlNuBUDLQjk1env-sQRBQG2TV5LoEoCXife1pJcH5o9mgYJbapi1vnWwH7CkGA/w360-h314/20221124_153135.jpg" width="360" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was quite pleased with the result, but once I understood how it worked, I wanted to have another go, so I asked my husband Chris to chose another design, and he chose this one. I bought a pad of white 216gm card for this, and as it is a sphere without any construction for a base under it, the light shines though better, and I actually like this one the best. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVVwgbz6J25XJvzPOL2Daf9rUjpwvFFIXmCZUI1wIySrwUd1uMgPZDrHSIDZb7RdZ2gh5bXfzQ0iqZJBVMPGgaiY3Rz6kWCw6Uc4BDDjO7pwoa8tJKywG-9vSVSvs5VkswSKrAX3CVseFBiq1jT72qDfQop7McaJeUjpBfQB970WSIMLpSxN7pHDQymw/s699/20221123_150308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="650" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVVwgbz6J25XJvzPOL2Daf9rUjpwvFFIXmCZUI1wIySrwUd1uMgPZDrHSIDZb7RdZ2gh5bXfzQ0iqZJBVMPGgaiY3Rz6kWCw6Uc4BDDjO7pwoa8tJKywG-9vSVSvs5VkswSKrAX3CVseFBiq1jT72qDfQop7McaJeUjpBfQB970WSIMLpSxN7pHDQymw/w360-h387/20221123_150308.jpg" width="360" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Although not a card, these do fold flat to go in a large envelope so could be posted, and it also makes it easy to store for another year.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IRZDRdLgxQVzEslCz2Jk2WNXnmoFFWEFlTMBLDxmfII1E_vYdJy-UxcA2o5Ku1X97jtGmNqtCCgNS9rRFFXQyqdxpndkS3KGDEivkoOURSF-Y0Jg6NknIMr_4-RWIQkJvTFSAifS3F2obiInffsFPhZjbT3z1nvuBYggnEsMXtW_B61zMp3WUhBOUA/s708/20221124_152633.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="708" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IRZDRdLgxQVzEslCz2Jk2WNXnmoFFWEFlTMBLDxmfII1E_vYdJy-UxcA2o5Ku1X97jtGmNqtCCgNS9rRFFXQyqdxpndkS3KGDEivkoOURSF-Y0Jg6NknIMr_4-RWIQkJvTFSAifS3F2obiInffsFPhZjbT3z1nvuBYggnEsMXtW_B61zMp3WUhBOUA/w375-h265/20221124_152633.jpg" width="375" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am linking this with Rudolph Day Challenge over at<a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/11/november-rudolph-days-challenge.html"> Scrappy Mo's,</a> and also with </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/abc-christmas-challenge-w-andor-x.html">ABC Cristmas Challenge </a># W is for white.</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-33848617186644060222022-10-25T11:14:00.006+01:002022-10-25T11:15:56.362+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge# October 2022.<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are my cards for Rudolph Day this month. I have been sorting through my files and came across this cut file from Dreaming Tree and decided it deserved a turn to be used. I am wary because it has several layers and I have to watch the weight of my cards for posting to UK, but I do hand deliver some locally so I decided to go ahead. Each card has three layers on the front plus three for the banner, and inside there are four layers plus the star. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmPE8bI455iQm1kGYkQlAaqI2fEldJnWQNvFda6CuMf-grXQSbMgbBpjhiGqrpKR1o1tPFS4IF8YS67EGSRaJDaS4_pJQNaIbbIJEX56tSWNBpMhpIEFEHQKQjXurJIDxyRiOqDLsDh_5ZiUH7A3ItL8cPdCtlCZr5U38iYiyjQqnl3WO3IlP9x1y5g/s832/Joy_Dreaming%20tree..jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="832" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmPE8bI455iQm1kGYkQlAaqI2fEldJnWQNvFda6CuMf-grXQSbMgbBpjhiGqrpKR1o1tPFS4IF8YS67EGSRaJDaS4_pJQNaIbbIJEX56tSWNBpMhpIEFEHQKQjXurJIDxyRiOqDLsDh_5ZiUH7A3ItL8cPdCtlCZr5U38iYiyjQqnl3WO3IlP9x1y5g/w463-h335/Joy_Dreaming%20tree..jpg" width="463" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As with all the Dreaming Tree files I have bought, it cut well on my Silhouette Cameo machine and went together easily - they do have a good assembly video on their site if you need it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I used three shades of plain card for the base cards, white and cream pearliosed paper and two types of mirri card and managed to make six cards in three colourways.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Inside the card there is a fancy panel to write on and the cameo image seen through the 'window' on the front.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9IQPiLWVTei_vcs4mYrqzbvdMcO3_XixJvBzcCc4hVNGTwCG3YUxX_wktzwjz0bK5V_LiKOlKtEb7Misu6kcxFh2MI69ELsNckz2mdCl0IA6WyBBRy4wYS-1VxS3xm-4V-sOiAvGMqAD4wOAeQ2ibyaSFBxhqgbAj8M4NpG7-o29JKa2-wi2G4MkDg/s641/20221025_115224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9IQPiLWVTei_vcs4mYrqzbvdMcO3_XixJvBzcCc4hVNGTwCG3YUxX_wktzwjz0bK5V_LiKOlKtEb7Misu6kcxFh2MI69ELsNckz2mdCl0IA6WyBBRy4wYS-1VxS3xm-4V-sOiAvGMqAD4wOAeQ2ibyaSFBxhqgbAj8M4NpG7-o29JKa2-wi2G4MkDg/s320/20221025_115224.jpg" width="225" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am entering this in <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/10/october-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph Day# October 2022 </a>over on Scrappy mo's blog, and</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/10/abc-christmas-challenge-u-andor-v.html"> ABC Christmas Challenge</a> which this month is U for an Unusual colour. I hope my green card qualifies.</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-70484046492608269542022-09-25T11:12:00.002+01:002022-09-25T11:12:58.288+01:00Rudolph Day 2022# September<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> A couple of months ago Sue used some images and dies from a company called Carnation Crafts. I have not visited this site for years and had forgotten how much I liked them - though some of their designs may be a bit 'fussy' for some folks. They sell a large range of dies, and for most of them you can also download a printed image to cut. Unfortunately the company is based in UK so I am wary of ordering from them in case I get caught for high import duties. But I did buy just a couple. </span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But the last time I visited their site I found they now have a 'digital market' section where you can buy a selection of their designs as SVGs which can be used on most electronic cutters, including my Silhouette cameo. Unlike many cutting files, which only give the outline and inner windows of a piece, these have the option to cut the detail which are just lines, but do enhance the finished image. So yes, I did treat myself to a few, and here are the cards I made to try them out. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBCbqLY84nuv36foxe2s-PXVsKD3OLYjOYlNAl1tV5RRs7EQXTzbhsnk6g8IeatYF2IxIRkS3m7SN0VwfQCRCzGoW-dczm1H8qoRZRpTsrYrxCJZex9c09IP1GOL_fGaRSn7db1sF_cTZCfVKf2S5D-N-JXh-qKjRP3LhQazIcape_seEv3vOylZEyw/s667/20220923_110232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="667" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBCbqLY84nuv36foxe2s-PXVsKD3OLYjOYlNAl1tV5RRs7EQXTzbhsnk6g8IeatYF2IxIRkS3m7SN0VwfQCRCzGoW-dczm1H8qoRZRpTsrYrxCJZex9c09IP1GOL_fGaRSn7db1sF_cTZCfVKf2S5D-N-JXh-qKjRP3LhQazIcape_seEv3vOylZEyw/w364-h355/20220923_110232.jpg" width="364" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">These are using the robin family. An advantage of a cutting machine over dies is that you can choose what size the image is, so my first card uses a large robin which has three decoupaged layers. I used some torn paper effect circles to cut the window frame, and torn paper square fames from the silhouette store. The branch is a part of the cutting file for the robin.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The paper is an oddment from a pad and I no longer know its name, and the surround is embossed with my snow fall folder. I don't know the make and am not sure it is still available, but I use mine a lot.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I finished the card with random drops of glitter glue, and a peel-off sticker. (I have straightened it since I took this photo!).</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For my second card I again cut images from the robin family set. The brown lines you can see on the robins are tiny cut lines which make their feathers so much more realistic.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKbZk-BWDIo5dSKAZkZ22RNhSG_wycblbNQLuAqcLwqCn_zYyhq_M3t2WO6v4R6bVtcG3tGgKEnjYBeA8AMW0jJ-0nnRwWzMs28iEBwozdHrIyJRTJMkP-OlhqEq5ZldYHz9q-i5k1XliYQ2yVc4hhiofdtYuca0dd5vXwhaqgGGSL1wgmiVm8h_UrAg/s750/20220923_110202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="750" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKbZk-BWDIo5dSKAZkZ22RNhSG_wycblbNQLuAqcLwqCn_zYyhq_M3t2WO6v4R6bVtcG3tGgKEnjYBeA8AMW0jJ-0nnRwWzMs28iEBwozdHrIyJRTJMkP-OlhqEq5ZldYHz9q-i5k1XliYQ2yVc4hhiofdtYuca0dd5vXwhaqgGGSL1wgmiVm8h_UrAg/w406-h281/20220923_110202.jpg" width="406" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The white frames are another set from the same company, and I used the silhouette software to make a matching base card and mat. The sentiment was a file in my silhouette library. I again added a small amount of glitter glue and some snowflakes from silver holographic vinyl. They have picked up some blue in the photo but really they are fairly white.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I can see me using these print and cut files more in the future, and I already have several designs to try.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For now I will link up with <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/09/sept-rudolph-days-challenge.html">September Rudolph Day Challenge</a> over at scraps of life with Scrapy Mo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-35607960506677391642022-08-25T08:39:00.000+01:002022-08-25T08:39:19.433+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge 2022 # August<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well here we are again, and as I have had various family groups visiting me for the past six weeks I had to think of a quick card for today.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Quite a while ago I ordered a Penny Black stamp that I saw on Amazon without realising it was coming from America. They said they would send it when it became available, and it should arrive before 10th October! To my surprise it turned up last week. I couldn't even remember what was in the little envelope until I opened it. Anyway it was this sweet group of children singing carols. The stamp was called 'Choir kids'.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgngvOhltoY9UN_e4ARxwpeol3KRD900Oe8U_NQoU-wNmlQxWOCHGdcOM7Xv-XuzEXp1h-6ktL1ucCiLAUPwCNLaJFVyAojZlnjkBmmuybdN1awW_SwGtjdNF_D6TxjQrbRJF5TgzD9TfWqlr7eYwKAkKNfI0SvLlyUZOesx4tS7kqCv0HSo495jNNKMA/s763/20220822_155325.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="500" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgngvOhltoY9UN_e4ARxwpeol3KRD900Oe8U_NQoU-wNmlQxWOCHGdcOM7Xv-XuzEXp1h-6ktL1ucCiLAUPwCNLaJFVyAojZlnjkBmmuybdN1awW_SwGtjdNF_D6TxjQrbRJF5TgzD9TfWqlr7eYwKAkKNfI0SvLlyUZOesx4tS7kqCv0HSo495jNNKMA/w265-h404/20220822_155325.jpg" width="265" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I stamped it on a scrap of white paper, added a little colour with copic markers, and loosely cut around it..</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I made a 17 x 11.5 cm base card in deep red, (a standard European size). Then I found a set of vintage Christmas music papers that I think came with a large bundle I bought from Creative fabrica, but I am not sure. I didn't recognise all the songs on the papers but I thought Joy to the World was quite fitting for this image.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The frame is from Carnation Crafts, as a print and die cut set. As it is a die I cannot resize it, and it was a little too big really. I didn't want to hide the title at the top so I cut a slit across the paper, and a matching one at the lower edge, and tucked the two ends of the frame behind it. Then I mounted the image on top, and a relatively quick and easy card was done.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Next month when all my visitors have left, I shall try to do a run of cards again, as I think I am rather behind with my collection this year. But every one helps. So if you feel like starting on your Christmas cards, do join us for some inspiration, and link one up at <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph Day Challenge for August,</a> on Scraps of Life by Scrappy Mo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am also linking with the <a href="https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/08/peace-on-earth-challenge-22.html">Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #22</a>, where - 'Anything goes as long as it is for Christmas.'</span></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-61090798397915791792022-07-26T09:02:00.012+01:002022-07-26T09:24:08.188+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge 2022 # July<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I recently saw a post on one of the Silhouette pages I follow on Facebook, where a lady named Sabine Harris, showed a card she had designed, and she generously shared the cutting file for the template. I like it, and it is very versatile as the circles could have flowers or butterflies etc for a birthday card, a sentiment on each one, or of course Christmas images and BP. So I went for this option to try it out.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOWV7hqCtOhsjMu0vHpnr8AYj9eaf91YPoIFsxREziTGlxUzAFQ2s-wGca0KiqtE2DsyJKpU2RPitWBzp6gDe6g4hllyTv-D5b2i1SAf3l-gG-wQkm6AKT1Y0QdoRcewtatAG9qNahUqcL8qZmYI49z5Rrl0YQqFxAgE-VaiZNJ9tAMC0kXkTVcRgdA/s701/20220720_173732.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="701" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOWV7hqCtOhsjMu0vHpnr8AYj9eaf91YPoIFsxREziTGlxUzAFQ2s-wGca0KiqtE2DsyJKpU2RPitWBzp6gDe6g4hllyTv-D5b2i1SAf3l-gG-wQkm6AKT1Y0QdoRcewtatAG9qNahUqcL8qZmYI49z5Rrl0YQqFxAgE-VaiZNJ9tAMC0kXkTVcRgdA/w404-h288/20220720_173732.jpg" width="404" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I chose three fun images from the Silhouette store. They were each layered cutting files but as I wanted to use them quite small, I kept them as a one-layer complete image each, and used the print and cut option on my Cameo. I used some plain red paper snippets to cut the mats for each circle. Then I found solid green lightweight card snippets to cut the inner circles and some of the outer pieces, and chose a backing paper to cut the rest. To give some contrast I used plain white card for the centre circle background. (I think the BP was some offcuts from a magazine giveaway).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I glued all the pieces in place and added perfect pearls in white for the fur trim on the hats, and gold and yellow glitter glue for the stars on the centre wreath and the lights on the third image. I also cut one small piece of holly from the BP to add interest to the dark green lower panel. I haven't decided whether or not to add a sentiment to the upper panel as only half of it will show when the card is closed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The card folds up over itself to give a small 8½ x 17cm card. Fortunately the designer added a file to cut a matching envelope.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZP7OrSWMZpd5KqZJcQZbQ-6pa0OUNjYar-gfIte6x2DrBgVoFhDwAAH8ioIkxp-6tWJrQEWnROKcqC3BwoiW3HYJx_oPtAn507U9uyY4z1IgpBElCm-BH1hbfCPJBINOM42MQZEHZOB33yioHHNGH3P-T-4SfrxX0tOOW_UE3-5KgHdB6Wiv4a9A8jQ/s701/20220725_124600%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="361" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZP7OrSWMZpd5KqZJcQZbQ-6pa0OUNjYar-gfIte6x2DrBgVoFhDwAAH8ioIkxp-6tWJrQEWnROKcqC3BwoiW3HYJx_oPtAn507U9uyY4z1IgpBElCm-BH1hbfCPJBINOM42MQZEHZOB33yioHHNGH3P-T-4SfrxX0tOOW_UE3-5KgHdB6Wiv4a9A8jQ/w195-h379/20220725_124600%20(2).jpg" width="195" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaPmkDKApTjA9H8KZO9bA91ldcr3kIKAaCiVS0-3fVnTYHD8v4vryg43ljalKufayABxPENSk8DfKvJ5Mv7EF-L9UVg_m8aFEuqIVYI6N7PGsTvno60Z4xCO4lnqMOMoEf4641JYs3Kxqgmtg9Ra-QU3Hvu5fPIfbYDZvA2i5EaSd3CnUUwHVDNdGpBg/s622/20220720_173801.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="622" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaPmkDKApTjA9H8KZO9bA91ldcr3kIKAaCiVS0-3fVnTYHD8v4vryg43ljalKufayABxPENSk8DfKvJ5Mv7EF-L9UVg_m8aFEuqIVYI6N7PGsTvno60Z4xCO4lnqMOMoEf4641JYs3Kxqgmtg9Ra-QU3Hvu5fPIfbYDZvA2i5EaSd3CnUUwHVDNdGpBg/w371-h298/20220720_173801.jpg" width="371" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have since enlarged the file to make a card that will fit nicely into a standard slimline envelope.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I will link this with<a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-rudolph-days-challenge.html"> Rudolph Day# July over on Scraps of Life with Scrappy Mo</a>, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Also in the <a href="https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2022/07/challenge-433-christmas-in-july.html">Snippets Playground</a> where the theme is anything Christmas related,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And <a href="https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/07/mttcc-39-theme-is-cutesy-christmas.html">My Time to Craft Christmas</a> have the theme "Cutesy Christmas" so I am linking there too.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-53862890795189470472022-06-24T10:28:00.063+01:002022-06-25T10:11:06.044+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge # June 2022<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Recently I saw a card I liked on a Facebook page. The lady who posted it had made a design for her Cricut machine. This is similar to my Silhouette Cameo but I think the software is much more restrictive. Anyway I cannot use Cricut files in my Silhouette, so I looked up the link where she said she had found the original design. This was by a designer called Iced Images, and the card design is called Z-fold pop-up block card. She does not design for a machine but measures and cuts everything by hand. Her video tutorial was good, so although she was working in inches, which I left behind many moons ago, I followed her step by step and made a birthday card that I was quite pleased with. (Unable to show it yet).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But I realised that it would be a lot easier if I cut it all in cms on my machine, so I set about making my own file for Silhouette, changing the dimensions of each piece slightly to fit my usual base card (17 x 11.5cms). I used this to make a second birthday card and was very happy with the results, so I now have a file in my library that I can use at any time. And I used for my Christmas designs this time.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For my first card today I chose a sheet of scrapbook paper from my extensive collection on the computer, and down sized it to give the effect I wanted.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The santa was made from some clipart pictures merged together, resized and cut from glossy black vinyl.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I cut the background twice so I could continue it across the front and side panels. I chose some navy card snippets for the mats, and finished it off with a silver peel-off sentiment and some randomly placed stars.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxTkazXEUbjFPHdoYTC9PiTUclk-Llk1GtPacXcjpLACiQ4PiNhCjoFumAzFtvi5PeNOwj8tbwYXMZBMtk-mFeJ7GOFXVS96bEEY4l5WtEsXYsuoI7R8wfZY_GulwGFGSyoZgQDw7BFcPWPSFPkV9VLl5GVE9hCHyzXs9eG8_8cMDpFh4EIS2VW-K8sg/s826/IMG_20220622_102308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="826" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxTkazXEUbjFPHdoYTC9PiTUclk-Llk1GtPacXcjpLACiQ4PiNhCjoFumAzFtvi5PeNOwj8tbwYXMZBMtk-mFeJ7GOFXVS96bEEY4l5WtEsXYsuoI7R8wfZY_GulwGFGSyoZgQDw7BFcPWPSFPkV9VLl5GVE9hCHyzXs9eG8_8cMDpFh4EIS2VW-K8sg/w435-h269/IMG_20220622_102308.jpg" width="435" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I then decided to have a second go while I was on a roll and this time I used some dark red card for the mats, red patterned paper from a magazine, and a pale pink sheet from a give-away. It has probably been in my files for years.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All the panel designs were cut using files from my Cameo library, mostly bought from the Silhouette store, using green and red vinyl.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhohlkyCpisZcz5PF4Nyo2rrkbgtPD_3ZDPm9YyHr6PECabfdXyAdFkXQhn0hKHg5yuelZ09AB9h3adNhiwhPVchmr9LYWDWEpE0u7ZPBZsI6gdVZib0abF08kcJqL_2Y8xmtz7u_Vn5sQTZAicE9PSSIAzalBKMm6YN0e4iCcGxNa8JSqwek8bVuonhw/s826/IMG_20220622_102105.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="826" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhohlkyCpisZcz5PF4Nyo2rrkbgtPD_3ZDPm9YyHr6PECabfdXyAdFkXQhn0hKHg5yuelZ09AB9h3adNhiwhPVchmr9LYWDWEpE0u7ZPBZsI6gdVZib0abF08kcJqL_2Y8xmtz7u_Vn5sQTZAicE9PSSIAzalBKMm6YN0e4iCcGxNa8JSqwek8bVuonhw/w381-h231/IMG_20220622_102105.jpg" width="381" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So I will be linking these up to The <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-rudolph-days-challenge.html">June Rudolph Day Challenge </a>at Scraps of life by scrappy mo.</span></div><p></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-68765508980806968212022-05-26T09:31:00.003+01:002022-05-26T09:31:39.539+01:00Rudolp Day Challenge#May 2022<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here in S.Spain we have jumped from Winter straight into Summer. Apart from an unprecedented amount of rain during April, Spring didn't really happen. So now it is very hot and not the weather to inspire the making of Christmas cards. However I am no sewing expert, and being frustrated trying to make well fitting cushion covers for new outside furniture all week, I decided to take a day off and see what I could come up with. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Too hot and sticky to do much with pens or glue, I settled on some png files I recently downloaded from a site called pngwing.com. They are designed to create the illusion of torn paper.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have at last discovered the trick to 'Print and cut' on my silhouette machine, which involves setting up an image in the silhouette software with registration marks to assist the machine to find the image later for cutting. You then print it, and put the printed image back into the machine which will then cut it out.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So I successfully cut two of the torn paper strips. Then I brought two nativity images into the software and resized them to fit behind the space. I printed them out, mounted the frame over them, and then mounted the complete design onto small A6 size base cards from my stash, and here they are.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_bDNgOINs1DsEqMhaeujwRtPj7fKMRGbJn8waTgc1OJtJYC35slYZCQ9Qr0LYAo0IbiQXu9cI8SLDQV_bPPG17lU7EA8l6YwJH_ndyppFZ45E4bJvlykVsLyDZMAd4IG1pYWO8ftD_1JCo8VWdsSULn5zfJlZwO88ZHNxvjrSyMzu8FnI0fUPWkscg/s696/IMG_20220523_175510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="696" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_bDNgOINs1DsEqMhaeujwRtPj7fKMRGbJn8waTgc1OJtJYC35slYZCQ9Qr0LYAo0IbiQXu9cI8SLDQV_bPPG17lU7EA8l6YwJH_ndyppFZ45E4bJvlykVsLyDZMAd4IG1pYWO8ftD_1JCo8VWdsSULn5zfJlZwO88ZHNxvjrSyMzu8FnI0fUPWkscg/w385-h277/IMG_20220523_175510.jpg" width="385" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlh9OyvYTJ1b1aZ26ws-hqKGOi4P1Mon5e3JgvV0xHK00izq2XNZRTyICHVahSjt3_JRNIot9MjoJtqll_22Ft96nTULTE6rPrRZBZ78Y9D94Um0ZbrZIZHQhW61zbyv1UwLpMpkz3cZpQ8T3bp02Hy1BhEGSlbopabD1Tms36VH4cCgqdNJt6fQzxzg/s632/IMG_20220523_175521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="632" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlh9OyvYTJ1b1aZ26ws-hqKGOi4P1Mon5e3JgvV0xHK00izq2XNZRTyICHVahSjt3_JRNIot9MjoJtqll_22Ft96nTULTE6rPrRZBZ78Y9D94Um0ZbrZIZHQhW61zbyv1UwLpMpkz3cZpQ8T3bp02Hy1BhEGSlbopabD1Tms36VH4cCgqdNJt6fQzxzg/w379-h300/IMG_20220523_175521.jpg" width="379" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A stamped sentiment (very old Chocolate Baroque stamp) on one, and a peel off on the other finished them off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Flushed with success at the print and cut, I then tried a second file from the same company, this time one that looks like a torn hole in the paper. Using the same method as above, and an image from a card I received last year, I made this 15cm square card.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2WdM4iIY2UwZjqgoUyEwg7kMcIUmF5xx54IXfg6eqYcUa6NN2dMLFpFQbolutI0_P1MXACj1neSSC4BmxQklqjaz0puVeQzGL-o7Ho4NP3tQ1kCcA08_DmuFAJqKbD134EoyKI5cMiQulD9CFg7jK51W_jB-pY96mI2oVkKO43TE-ZXTmeDyYINDdBA/s657/IMG_20220523_175532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="657" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2WdM4iIY2UwZjqgoUyEwg7kMcIUmF5xx54IXfg6eqYcUa6NN2dMLFpFQbolutI0_P1MXACj1neSSC4BmxQklqjaz0puVeQzGL-o7Ho4NP3tQ1kCcA08_DmuFAJqKbD134EoyKI5cMiQulD9CFg7jK51W_jB-pY96mI2oVkKO43TE-ZXTmeDyYINDdBA/w359-h356/IMG_20220523_175532.jpg" width="359" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Again I finished it off with a gold peel-off sentiment and some randomly placed stars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So now I am off to link up with the <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/05/may-rudolph-days-challenge_25.html">Rudolph Day Challenge for May</a>, over at scraps of life with Scrappy Mo.</div><br /></div><br /></span><p></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-35048204546743695092022-04-25T08:30:00.003+01:002022-04-25T09:19:48.392+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge #April 2022<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My cards are made, so I am writing this almost a month early, because next month I will be visiting family in UK. I go next Friday (29th March), for five weeks. Although I will have wifi access most places I go, I am so used to posting on my PC and my fat fingers are not nimble enough to write a good post on my phone. So I will schedule this for 25th April, and then I will just have to link it up on the day.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have spent quite a bit of time lately, looking at cards on the internet and taking inspiration from them. A lady on my Silhouette Cameo group, recently posted a cutting file to make this three diamond edge card. But when I took a proper look I decided I could do it just as easily with my large paper cutter so that is what I did. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the first one I used a snippet of paper I found in my box. I thought it was from an old Joanna Sheen CD and eventually I found it so I was able to enlarge one motif a little for the central topper, and cut two for the side diamonds. I cut a cream base card. It was a bit of a fiddle to make sure I had the three diamonds correctly positioned. I used gold peel-offs on the diamonds and gold glitter glue around the topper star.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6TxyyvTRXg_ZuCSuYY-_kPBCWAewDWTdZcs1rJYuuqS4E3ZPS6kzjNIF7GO15zN3YLUPuNRJqZTRbNb7BpPOV-1NucM6FH7H71KumUAt_BbVXBMWf1aciQrztDL9lo4KFMbfsCupuE_JJ-EfgpXQB0EBOIOCKNJwEU6369ZeMJCJNbmvgi3FRkpABLA/s553/IMG_20220315_145243.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="553" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6TxyyvTRXg_ZuCSuYY-_kPBCWAewDWTdZcs1rJYuuqS4E3ZPS6kzjNIF7GO15zN3YLUPuNRJqZTRbNb7BpPOV-1NucM6FH7H71KumUAt_BbVXBMWf1aciQrztDL9lo4KFMbfsCupuE_JJ-EfgpXQB0EBOIOCKNJwEU6369ZeMJCJNbmvgi3FRkpABLA/w352-h350/IMG_20220315_145243.jpg" width="352" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I found a lot of suitable paper offcuts so I had another go, this time using a stamped image for the topper, coloured with copic markers. I used an ivory base card, two toning DPs, and added red perfect pearls to the stamped berries, and red gems on the diamonds.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHmt2Tc8F4C_XedWj6qDHg-CpB3q6fFnxLX-A1eStL1FyhsHpN1XwerZrzOvrQ4iv4zDFbDXA6e0VwJKk-V-dIPPa4WvxOd19yFw2eyFPRg1tQhfksrSb921kMVJgDfoIt1vWWH07mZT7_IhhMDNQGVPmyJUERqrw3z_BsitJpIFzbsvvNn4ZhAGzeQ/s553/IMG_20220315_145235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="553" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHmt2Tc8F4C_XedWj6qDHg-CpB3q6fFnxLX-A1eStL1FyhsHpN1XwerZrzOvrQ4iv4zDFbDXA6e0VwJKk-V-dIPPa4WvxOd19yFw2eyFPRg1tQhfksrSb921kMVJgDfoIt1vWWH07mZT7_IhhMDNQGVPmyJUERqrw3z_BsitJpIFzbsvvNn4ZhAGzeQ/w375-h373/IMG_20220315_145235.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then I found a topper of a robin that I made a while ago, using an image from a card I received. It was a good size for this card so I made one more. This time I made the base card from dark red, and added an ivory mat with some snippets of holly paper. I die-cut a sentiment from the red card for the centre diamond and highlighted all the berries with glitter glue.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi23p-4x2sqMIcsnjOSMdKyrjBP9fpaNifXfPbIGl2FQlthBgaK6eNI1br2XZRbOLp_6bSRoltv06JgAMlTovfrXRGly6GPMyBkjqnhf1Cca9PJ0fKyKTmgmypTAhqc6mX-cmoeZK-THINDSX-DZCl9CUDqXRcuBa4gSK6gvcn7k1n5QT6ukHGa3rzkvw/s553/IMG_20220315_145337.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="553" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi23p-4x2sqMIcsnjOSMdKyrjBP9fpaNifXfPbIGl2FQlthBgaK6eNI1br2XZRbOLp_6bSRoltv06JgAMlTovfrXRGly6GPMyBkjqnhf1Cca9PJ0fKyKTmgmypTAhqc6mX-cmoeZK-THINDSX-DZCl9CUDqXRcuBa4gSK6gvcn7k1n5QT6ukHGa3rzkvw/w370-h355/IMG_20220315_145337.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So there we have it, another set of three useful cards added to my box. So I will link this up with Rudolph Day Challenge #April over at https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-rudolph-days-challenge.html.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sorry I cannot link properly as I am using a new tablet that I have not learned the ins and outs of yet.</span></div><p></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-6619313913543254892022-03-25T12:37:00.001+01:002022-03-25T12:37:27.018+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge # March 2022<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rudolph nearly caught me out this month as I had not prepared my post, but I have made some cards so here they are. Two cards using the same idea, but very different elements.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I happened to see a card I liked on the net with a braided spine, so I investigated how it was made and it used the old idea of lattice cuts. I did some of these maybe twenty years ago, I think using a stencil for the cuts. They were cut, folded and tucked in, to form a flat ornamental strip along the edge of a card. But for these cards, the cuts were made centrally along the spin of the card, folded and tucked, and then folded in half to make the card with a braided spine.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of course, my hands not being very nimble these days, I try to do most of my card cutting with my Silhouette Cameo machine, but it took me a long time to make a cutting file that just cut slits. (Normally it would cut along both sides of my lines to make wider slits and I didn't want that). But after a lot of fiddling around I finally had my file, so now of course, I can use it whenever I want to, and it is just effective for cards for different occasions.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For my first card I used blue printed card from Lilds which was white on the back. Then I added some embossed pearl blue card, and used a Memory box die to cut the teardrop nativity scene from gold mirri-card, and cutting it a second time from blue paper to infill the design. I finished it with a die-cut sentiment in gold and some peel-off star strings.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRrudCVpLHL_4g5zfSKslrBfIij-Zf6Grsu4yo-N1myggU0K1oEgXu9tvhBzl0EABLDzyUsfmecnVMoUY4xd6TQFy495jnwjoje4jJZZfJejMHC2hB6gXEUApyPVCavb12_v_Jm7SVlAEREUTjRuvtxo7ZKIJDFmq0kVeZr_g_Z39dFeTzntVvOM-qRw/s677/IMG_20220315_145108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="500" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRrudCVpLHL_4g5zfSKslrBfIij-Zf6Grsu4yo-N1myggU0K1oEgXu9tvhBzl0EABLDzyUsfmecnVMoUY4xd6TQFy495jnwjoje4jJZZfJejMHC2hB6gXEUApyPVCavb12_v_Jm7SVlAEREUTjRuvtxo7ZKIJDFmq0kVeZr_g_Z39dFeTzntVvOM-qRw/w310-h420/IMG_20220315_145108.jpg" width="310" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For my second card I chose a very different theme, this time using some more Lidls card with snowmen and pine trees printed on it, a panel of bokeh paper and my absolutely favourite snowman stamp (Fun stamps). I cut him out with a frame die that was bought with a winter scene stamp by Flourishes. I added some colour to his hat and scarf and white perfect pearls to the pom-pom. As I like a bit of sparkle on Christmas cards I used glitter glue to highlight the snow and added a silver sentiment and a few silver snowflakes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSNSHOv1WinhwSWbf5dxMMdQd5r8ESNNA9L24D2yt7Mdv9CQBAl8rsesKtO8sTBndGzXMn3zeAYTQXEEYh6if67v78-gIrfSGhv_Bx1CJ5W_HC_My1WTQ2NnnX1IO-rB853rw5va8GGDt_IJgLD4LGJirDYw_oyHJHrNn_qYxLZsJh7La1DI0thmrQGg/s691/IMG_20220315_145434.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="500" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSNSHOv1WinhwSWbf5dxMMdQd5r8ESNNA9L24D2yt7Mdv9CQBAl8rsesKtO8sTBndGzXMn3zeAYTQXEEYh6if67v78-gIrfSGhv_Bx1CJ5W_HC_My1WTQ2NnnX1IO-rB853rw5va8GGDt_IJgLD4LGJirDYw_oyHJHrNn_qYxLZsJh7La1DI0thmrQGg/w283-h391/IMG_20220315_145434.jpg" width="283" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think my efforts in the Silhouete software paid off, and I can see this file has the potential to make many more cards. So these two will now be linked up to the <a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-rudolph-days-challenge.html">Rudolph day Challenge for March </a>over on Scrappy Mo's blog.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-61371628884131044232022-02-25T10:36:00.004+01:002022-02-25T10:39:22.796+01:00Rudolph Day Challenge # February 2022<p style="text-align: justify;">I mentioned last week that not many of the cards I received this Christmas really inspired me to make any, but I had one that I liked and I decided to make my own version of it. This is the front of the card I received.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnZiVif5CjiUQulgJc0eskcWG2MopgQOrs-z6uHUei2aYbFrmWyUuokBIbcF5EqewcYbRreB7KGLGwBDVs33ClTXOeSCOxVvPlp7TByh4hiWRlHW7KvEfVnnuIozWRnKqKLdhQXCgJ7Wjpm-GzieXyhABPtHoDw65fQ6d9aDasA51DCzn42cmou1pdTw=s500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnZiVif5CjiUQulgJc0eskcWG2MopgQOrs-z6uHUei2aYbFrmWyUuokBIbcF5EqewcYbRreB7KGLGwBDVs33ClTXOeSCOxVvPlp7TByh4hiWRlHW7KvEfVnnuIozWRnKqKLdhQXCgJ7Wjpm-GzieXyhABPtHoDw65fQ6d9aDasA51DCzn42cmou1pdTw=w140-h140" width="140" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And this is the one I made.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYWHpR0eH5zBIaO7ytsxNZK13gnNSyf0Ek7uX5rkqF6-_ECxsxyIH6BFBFPPmPdp6GPDaVEsbi1ZVTBk-mIQeu0xtQa4CCjG5NUO1tu8fUuXJruWg_nNuGiV6H7pend1Mg7Gi6h2D6rV04HySvDG3fMPJmvbHrh7IPLrM0yhj_3F2A6gtqVBt520xTzQ=s650" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="650" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYWHpR0eH5zBIaO7ytsxNZK13gnNSyf0Ek7uX5rkqF6-_ECxsxyIH6BFBFPPmPdp6GPDaVEsbi1ZVTBk-mIQeu0xtQa4CCjG5NUO1tu8fUuXJruWg_nNuGiV6H7pend1Mg7Gi6h2D6rV04HySvDG3fMPJmvbHrh7IPLrM0yhj_3F2A6gtqVBt520xTzQ=w350-h350" width="350" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I started by scanning the card into my computer and making a cutting file for the town skyline, adding some different, more solid palm trees, and welding it to an oval aperture so I could cut the window out. Then I positioned this over a base card and cut it out. I did this five times but with the first one I made a mistake. I had added a dashed line for the central fold and forgot that when I made my image into a compound path in the cutter software, it turns it into a solid line so it cut my card in half. Not wanting to waste the side with the image on, I just cut it again on the other side and when they were assembled I glued them onto a plain navy base card, so I ended up with six cards instead of five. That might not make a lot of sense to anyone who has never used a plotter-cutter machine, but I am very used to using my Silhouette cameo for most of my cards, so I knew how to save the situation).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Next I cut snippets of yellow paper to go behind all the windows.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">For the sky I found a paper from an old scrapbook kit and downsized it to fit six onto an A4 sheet of paper.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjFOvGe83k80u4OrWXxd8-918d2fsRHTilp0M6kP6FPpch-IGZQpcUkgQJMqNmONkc7RLjMauExi7f02zotvs79oyahhG3g-o0bbF4ohRyjjODSD6y2giCjuIPTvXIjmJbStP5NjBD6JWVomsgcj4xdnNRFucRHDmUGB1_ja3VgaicrPNfSanQuELwbQ=s667" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="481" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjFOvGe83k80u4OrWXxd8-918d2fsRHTilp0M6kP6FPpch-IGZQpcUkgQJMqNmONkc7RLjMauExi7f02zotvs79oyahhG3g-o0bbF4ohRyjjODSD6y2giCjuIPTvXIjmJbStP5NjBD6JWVomsgcj4xdnNRFucRHDmUGB1_ja3VgaicrPNfSanQuELwbQ=s320" width="231" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I glued one behind each opening in my cards.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the original card the script and the figures were printed in silver, but I used black glossy vinyl which cuts so well in my Cameo machine. I generated the script using Passions Conflict font, which is quite fancy but just 'solid' enough to cut out, as long as it is not too small. I have several sets of the Mary, Joseph and donkey in my Cameo library so they were easy to make. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And because I like a bit of sparkle on Christmas cards, I added just a touch of glitter glue to the larger stars. You can't see it in the photos but it is there. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And thereI have it. Another set of six cards for my stash. I am off to a good start this year.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3_mAeZLVVe-veStrIfkDm4vrTbRTX_QFy7cVnQTWiGyCHJvMnLDU2zUjGg-BL85FVPdltHUzDIcPQePR3ePxj6RuXH0o_QPEYpCEmbC-QnLPcasHyERvhgapGY2h7MQ7TDrpP0JlegJhgwrjtOX7hZBxKHyXaWtdebozYA9Acwfg2BDK5ocCFwrb4HQ=s667" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="667" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3_mAeZLVVe-veStrIfkDm4vrTbRTX_QFy7cVnQTWiGyCHJvMnLDU2zUjGg-BL85FVPdltHUzDIcPQePR3ePxj6RuXH0o_QPEYpCEmbC-QnLPcasHyERvhgapGY2h7MQ7TDrpP0JlegJhgwrjtOX7hZBxKHyXaWtdebozYA9Acwfg2BDK5ocCFwrb4HQ=w379-h284" width="379" /></a></div><p></p><p>So I am linking up with<a href="https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2022/02/february-rudolph-days-challenge.html"> Rudolph Day # February </a> and</p><p><a href="https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/02/peace-on-earth-challenge-10.html">Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge#10</a> </p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015621921448975411.post-56293557618986475102022-02-23T16:37:00.004+01:002022-02-23T16:42:35.562+01:00Happy Twosday<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well yesterday (Tuesday) was fairly significant as its date could be written 22.02.2022 which is a palindrome i.e.it reads the same forwards and backwards, and if it is written in squarer digital numbers it is also an ambigram which means it reads the same upside down!</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">However it was a more significant day in our family as it was our youngest son's 35th birthday. (Pity it wasn't his 22nd!) So I made him a 'Happy Twosday' card. </span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;">He happens to be a fairly talented musician, especially singing with his piano, so that is what his card featured. This is the front of it which was inspired by several cards I have seen online.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEic34kPJUdt3tKis_SUMKJ3Qkz73-S_VOpw6I-NC_gGvxcGaW4FKuTWzisA-Y1PDgxbm3JKPe-Wdq2teOP-2_9iz0ai-XFzN5USJfEHDT5xJyhdrCGQNTpnYSNUxYpenBDH30CgdScVTL4nldXM2P58q8Sxe1c2w8ZqN6Zx0UDtO_JmHmrPh3cIT5MCsw=s661" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="661" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEic34kPJUdt3tKis_SUMKJ3Qkz73-S_VOpw6I-NC_gGvxcGaW4FKuTWzisA-Y1PDgxbm3JKPe-Wdq2teOP-2_9iz0ai-XFzN5USJfEHDT5xJyhdrCGQNTpnYSNUxYpenBDH30CgdScVTL4nldXM2P58q8Sxe1c2w8ZqN6Zx0UDtO_JmHmrPh3cIT5MCsw=w386-h292" width="386" /></a></div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All the script was made using a font called Passions Conflict. I made it in my Silhouette Cameo software and cut it from glossy vinyl. The music was a cut file purchased from the Silhouette store, and the piano keys were sized and cut in the software. The flowers were die-cut from a tiny plate of different flowers that I bought years ago but have never used. I think it may be by Presscut but I am not sure. (Now I am about to use it again for another card so perhaps it wasn't a bad buy after all).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The inside was inspired by a random Youtube video I found by someone whose YT channel is called I am a Bird. They showed a plain pop-up grand piano and a line drawing of the layout and which lines to cut or fold. It was free to use so I copied it and uploaded it into the Cameo software, where I was able to turn it into a cutting file. Although the original was cut by hand, I would have struggled to do that well, but in the Cameo it cut with no problem. Once put together I felt it was too plain, so I then went into the design page again on the cameo and made slightly smaller cut outs of all the front facing pieces and cut them from the nearest paper I had to a wood-effect. I drew a tiny keyboard and added that, and then searched the internet for the inside of a grand piano. I used the best one I could find and reshaped and re-sized it to fit in my piano. Then I hand cut a strip of toning patterned paper to cover the stool.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgY1QX5cL464gH8VhAP6hW_rJwMGDvq5pju_RumHwsWGsNlzLzW64IF5-9fxh_QFSSiLqv1_Xm1SqMXKxKdVYlFXInCI-Q4WxVwuK5GkSaEcKGT2OA9mso2_0iIOKUdffQkTzzGzZlvb_Yo6cQdC93Z6xKem1LbgVXNNGaFJyYwWQ8CLFBuSdWApNIpyg=s661" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="661" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgY1QX5cL464gH8VhAP6hW_rJwMGDvq5pju_RumHwsWGsNlzLzW64IF5-9fxh_QFSSiLqv1_Xm1SqMXKxKdVYlFXInCI-Q4WxVwuK5GkSaEcKGT2OA9mso2_0iIOKUdffQkTzzGzZlvb_Yo6cQdC93Z6xKem1LbgVXNNGaFJyYwWQ8CLFBuSdWApNIpyg=w378-h343" width="378" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I added some music notes cut from vinyl on the machine, and some diecut flowers, and also added the Happy Tuesday Ben and numbers cut from vinyl using the same font. I have a huge folder of vinyl off cuts which I usually use with the cameo, not dies, but it worked well so it was a good way to use some of them up.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He was very pleased with it and made this little video to put on facebook which he is happy for me to add here, but I haven't been able to make blogger accept it!.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am linking this to <a href="https://mynbus.blogspot.com/2022/02/nbus-challenge-35.html">Darnell's NEBUS Challenge </a>#35 (the flower dies had never been used),</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/02/week-664-i-love.html">The Allsorts Challenge #64</a>, I love..playing with designs in my cameo software.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2022/02/challenge-422.html">And the Snippets Playground Challenge#422</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p>mamapez5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882819450456050281noreply@blogger.com12