Arrrr Happy Birthday Matey - Pirate Card

 

Good Morning and Happy Thursday!

Today I want to share another first for me since I got my Silhouette Cameo.

This is my first side step card.  I had such a blast creating this for one of my besties little boys 5th birthday.  His party was a Pirate theme so naturally I had to create a special Pirate card just for him.

 

I love how easy it is to find so many cute images on the Silhouette store.

 My absolute most favorite feature is that I can personalize the card with any font I have available on my computer.  Seriously...the skies the limit! 

I don't remember what font I used here, but I welded Happy Birthday Matey. 

I know this is nothing new to veteran Silhouette users, but I still can't get over the freedom that comes with this machine!  I used my close second favorite feature of Print & Cut.  The stripe pattern was found on the Silhouette Online Store as well.  I love that I can scale and rotate the pattern so I can use the same pattern on the base of my card and on the ships signaling flags.

 

I am also amazed at how it cuts even the littlest things like the coins and lock on the treasure chest. 

This took a lot of patience to get those little cuts adhered to the card, but the results were so worth it.

I had to laugh at myself because as I was almost done gluing down the coins and completing my card I thought to myself I should've made this bigger so it could be displayed as a decoration on the table.  I am definitely going to keep this in mind next time I want to create some party décor.




Here are some close up shots and a side view of the card

I used the following items from the Silhouette Online Store:

Base Card: #39773 Side Step Card by Lori Whitlock

 Pirate Ship: #39088 d.j.'s pirate ship by Sweet Elsie

Waves: #42518 whale with waves by Silhouette (I got this as a freebie)

Pirate: #44753 pirate boy by Stinkin Cute Paper Piercings

Treasure Chest/Parrot:  #44759 parrot and treasure chest by Stinkin Cute Paper Piercings

 

I hope you enjoyed my card today!

I am going to be linking this to a couple challenges and linky parties:

 

Challenges:

Silhouette Blog - New project using any shape/s you've downloaded from the Silhouette Online Store

Silhouette Challenges - Challenge 5 "Welding Letter"

 

Linky Parties:

Sarah Hamer Designs - Link Up Tuesday

Homespun Elegance - Blog Roll Link Up Party

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Happy Monday crafters,

I hope you had a fabulous weekend and possibly joined us for My Cricut Craft Rooms 100 Cricut Cartridge blog hop...there was a ton of fabulous projects made by my DT sisters!

Today is My Imagine-ation Monday at My Cricut Craft Room...I hope to inspire you to use your Imagine today.  For this card I used Hey Diddle Diddle and for my card I used only one piece of 12x12 white paper and a 4x4 scrap of white paper...isn't that amazing! :)

 Cricut Cuts:

I made a two sided piece of paper by printing one pattern using the Print Only Setting on one side and flipped the sheet and changed the Setting to Print & Cut. 

I then flood filled the 5:7 rectangle on the stock images that come on the Imagine (cut at 8.1). 

I then selected the Butterfly cut from Create A Critter <Shift> button 41, cut at 2.5 and flood filled with various patterns also from Hey Diddle Diddle.

Once my rectangle was cut with the double sided paper I attached that piece back to my mat and cut the card base which can be found on Art Philosophy using Card Feature <Shift> button 35, cut at 5.5.

Here is the side view of my card...to add dimension to my butterfly I adhered the inside edges of the wings and lifted the outer sides up.  To finish off my card I heat embossed my sentiment which is  from My Creative Time's Many Greetings and I also used her Circle Stitch Die around the sentiment.  I also did some doodle stitching around the butterfly to give her that finishing look.

The inside of the card...I used some pearl accents as the butterfly bodies and added some dots to outline the butterfly cut from the front of the card.

I am super happy with this card!

I hope you enjoyed my card today.

Please go to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com to see what other wonderful projects

were made on this Imagine-ation Monday!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jen