Beautiful Rose Vinyl Card

As you know if you visit here often, I’m rather obsessed with vinyl for making cards.  I love the flexibility of it and how you can make very precise cuts - even teeny tiny … if you are don’t mind working slowly and carefully.  I enjoy being able to scale the graphics to sizes that fit any project I choose. 

I wanted to make my Mother in Law a card to celebrate a milestone birthday so I went looking for a perfect image.  I found a lovely coloring page image at THIS site. 

Coloring page images make terrific cuts if the lines are solid.  This image had everything I liked.  I did not provide the actual image here because I don’t know if it’s copyrighted, however you might trace it yourself.  If you are new to the Silhouette Designer Edition Software you might watch the following video which will explain to you about the different types of tracing images and how you can trace.

 

Great video which explains which images trace better than others and how to do this!

Here is how my card turned out:

Supplies:

Textured Cardstock

Designer Paper - Recollections

Vinyl - black

Arches Watercolor Paper - 140 lb

Watercolor Pencils & Aqua Brush

Modge Podge

Glitter

Stamp - whatever theme you wish

Twine

Methods:

For the Modge Podge/Glitter step you can visit THIS previous post.

For the Vinyl shape - I simply traced the rose and transferred it to my watercolour paper. 

I hope this has been helpful to you and you create some lovely cards using vinyl.

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Soda Pop Can Card - a highly experimental project…

I get all these crazy ideas.  Well, probably we all do, but I kind of take them and run.  Take for instance this crazy card I made:

 

Seriously, I’d go to sleep at night thinking about this card idea.  I’ve been on a bit of a brain binge on ideas to recycle, re-use, up cycle… whatever you want to call it. I discovered I could easily cut a Soda/Pop Can/Tin (some differences in what you call it if you are from Canada or elsewhere) into sections and I’ve used the other bits in a myriad of projects but I was hankering to use that top for something profound. 

 

 

I left a little length (about 3/4 inch) on the top and cut little slashes all around so that I could then  lay the pieces flat and use them as an anchor behind the card face. (I had to hammer them nice and flat)  Yes, I invested quite a bit of time designing and cutting the face hole so the can JUST fit in snug.  Then I glued it in positon and stuck it to a cardstock 1/4 fold card base. 

Then it was the fonts, I used some black vinyl and made the tedious teeny-tiny letters and then the glitzy FIZZ letters cut out of glittery cardstock which I stuck on then drew in a shadow using a black sharpie.

 

Then I had to make the “glass, and the “Pop” itself.  The glass was made from some Glossy Accents …

The pop is some glittery Modge Podge my sister Nina left with me.  That stuff has been used for quite a few highly experimental and exciting projects since.

What’s the most unusual item you’ve used in a project?  Was it a success or fail?  I spent a great deal of time on this card, but I think even for the fun factor it was totaly worth it.

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Crop Stop Challenge #82

I’m having a ball trying out some new challenges, just hunting them up via Google.  Today I thought I’d give Crop Stop a whirl. 

Crop Stop Challenge #82

Use any three colors from the image below:

And so, I made:

Supplies:
Designer Paper - Young and Active in the Backyard by Ronni Mccray

Stamps - Studio G “Hello” and trim
                Inkadinkadoo for the flower and stem

Inks - Versafine and Studio G

Paint for leaves - Niji Pearlescent watercolors

Embossing powder

I struggled with this card, I must admit and was a bit thrown off that the red ink looks so much darker on the blossom than on the Hello sign but I think it works!  I really like the pearlescent watercolors - I’ll definitely be playing with these in the future.  I was told they do “magic” on black…