Everything is S'more fun with you! Camping Card

Happy Wednesday Crafters,

I'm super blessed to be a Guest Designer again for Sunny Day Crafting.

Today Starts their C is for Camping Challenge.

I used three different files from KaDoodle Bug Designs to create my card.  

Here's a picture of my Silhouette Design Studio Screen showing you how I put the images to print and then cut them out. 

For the Sky I used the new Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink pads.

I've been watching YouTube Videos to learn how to use them better but I'm still learning and will continue to watch to learn new techniques. 

Here is my finished card.  

Didn't want to take away from the scene so I just used the sentiment I put on the inside. 

Here's a close up of those cute camping skunks.

Close up of the tent. 

Cut the pieces out on this one because I wanted the tent to be red not blue as it would've been if I used the jpg of the tent. 

Here's the the sentiment I chose to put on the inside of this card. 

Card Recipe:

• KaDoodle Bug Designs Wilderness Trail
• Used the Mountain and Tree from this file

• Took the bottom of the mountain from the SVG File.  Filled it with the color of the printed mountain, stretched it to make it wider so I could use it as the dirt for the campground.   After I printed it out, I used the Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Vintage photo to give it some texture.  Put some of the ink on a craft mat, sprayed with water and then dragged it through the ink on the craft mat. 

• KaDoodle Bug Designs Roasting S'mores Skunks
• Used the Skunks and Fire from this file

• Fire accented with Wink of Stella Brush Clear Glitter Pen

• Ka Doodle Bug Designs S'more Love
• Used the Tent from this file

• Stakes colored over with Office Max Silver Metallic Marker

• Sentiment from Scrappy Moms Stamps Great Outdoors stamp set.
• White Gelly Roll Pen 
• Sky made with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Faded Jeans, Worn Lipstick & Wilted Violet inks

I enjoyed seeing everyone's creations for last weeks B is for Beach Challenge and I'm looking forward to seeing what you create for the C is for Camping Challenge that starts today.  Click HERE to go to the Sunny Day Crafting blog to link up your project. 

Thanks for Stopping by.

Happy Crafting!

TTFN,

Debby 

Coffee Skunk Thanks a Latte Card

Happy Wednesday Crafty Friends,

Today I'm sharing with you a project I made with the cute KaDoodle Bug Designs Coffee Skunk file. Which by the way is available for free for a short period of time.  

KaDoodle Bug Designs is a Super Sponsor of the Coffee Loving Card Makers 2017 Summer Bloghop and I'll be entering this card on their blog.  

For today's card I chose to use the jpg from the Coffee Skunk file so I could quickly print and cut instead of the svg and putting together the pieces.    

I love that the KBD files have the jpg and svg files so you can use either one depending on what you want to do.  

I decided to create my own pattern paper using the sun from the KaDoodle Bug Designs Coffee Skunk file to tie into the sun on the coffee mug and the larger sun I stamped my sentiment on.  

Because I was using the print and cut feature in my Silhouette Design Software I grabbed the sun from the Coffee Skunk svg file and then I filled it with a gradient color.  After I got the yellow and orange how I wanted it, I reduced the sun and copied them in a row.  I group the row and copied and placed them where I wanted them.  I also made them hang over the edges of the blue rectangles so they would look like a random pattern when it was cut out.   

Here is a picture of what my screen looked like and on the right is the color window and the gradient panel to show you how I used this to fill in my sun. 

Here is another print shot showing you my cut lines. 

Here is my completed card.  

Used a couple of the coffee bean trios and a coffee bean paper piece from another coffee project to make a coffee bean bow on the upper right hand side of my card.    

Use the larger sun to stamp my sentiment from Jaded Blossom Stamps.  

Here's a close up.   

Don't know if you can see it but I printed and cut out a second Coffee Skunk and then fussy cut the skunk and beans away from the cup and then glued them on top of that area on the complete Coffee Skunk to give it some dimension.  Also used Gelly Roll pens to add some accents to the printed image to give him some dimension.    The I used pop dots to put him on my card and added a pop dot to another trio of coffee beans and added it to the bottom.  

Card Recipe:

• KaDoodle Bug Designs Coffee Skunk file.

• Card design is Mojo Monday 450 that I got for free from Scrappy Dew~Michelle My Belle Creations

• Sentiment from Jaded Blossom Coffee Candies stamp set 

This card will be entered in the Coffee Loving Card Makers 2017 Summer Bloghop and on their Instagram page using #summer2017clh

Hope you like my card and me showing you how I created my pattern paper.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Crafting!

TTFN,

Debby 

Die Cutting Diva's Guest Designer for their Must Include a Flower Challenge - Scent-sational Birthday Card

Hello Crafters

(For the 5/19/15 Scrappy Moms Stamps TTC Animal Challenge click here.) 

I'm ecstatic that I get to be the Guest Designer for Die Cuttin' Diva's "Must Include a Flower Challenge" that starts today.

For this challenge I chose to use the adorable skunk from the KaDoodle Bug Designs Cutie KaToodles - Flower Skunk  file because she's surround by pretty flowers and thought it would make a scent-sational birthday card. 

I love paper piecing but with working full time I sometimes don't have time to cut and put the little pieces together, which is why I love it when KaDoodle Bug Designs files have jpgs as part of their file options.   

I pulled the KaToodle Skunk jpg into my Silhouette Studio Designer Software, trace it, crop it to remove the white area around it, and then offset it to get a little white border around the image.   Once I got that done, I printed it and then put it through my Silhouette Cameo to cut it out.    Of course my image has to have a shadow behind it to help it pop form the pattern paper behind it so I use the offset option again to create it.  

Below are pictures of the final project. 

It's an easel card :)

Of course I had to put her on an action wobble.

Pulled the top back so you could see it the skunk and sentiment together.

Close up of the sentiments I used.

Card Recipe:

• Sentiments from Scrappy Moms Stamps Hooray for Birthdays and Furry Friends stamp sets. 
• Image is from KaDoodle Bug Designs Cutie KaToodles - Flower Skunk  file
• Used Gelly Roll pens to add some accents. 
• Scallop Easel Card from the Silhouette Store Design #43211
• Bling from my stash. 
• Digital paper that I think but not 100% sure is from Prettygrafik.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog.   I hope you enjoyed the card I made for the Die Cuttin' Diva's challenge.  You can join their challenge by clicking here. 
I love reading all your sweet comments.
Happy Crafting! TTFN Debby