Silhouette Cameo Blog Hop

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This blog hop is all about loving your Silhouette Cameo and along with this post, there are many tutorials and projects to look at on my blog. But first today's post is all about creating fancy shaped cards. This is one of my favorite easy-peasy things to do with my Cameo. 

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First up is this rose shaped card I made with rose_sketch_2_C00370_17986 from the Silhouette Library.

I have my new Chomas Creations Pen Holder so I sketched this rose with my Cameo. 

Here's how I created this card!

1. Open the Rose file in Silhouette Studio and ungroup it. Click on the edge of image and a selection box will appear, next in the lower left corner click to ungroup. it's the one on the right. Now you are going to drag a square around the sketch rose and regroup only that part (the ungroup sign on the left) leaving the outline separate. Now you can move the two part independently.  

2.Next you are going to size the two parts (rose and the outline). Drag a selection box around BOTH images and after you have the selection box, grab one of the corner anchors and pull or push until you have the size you want, mine is 10.9 x 4.7 (approximately). 

2. Next you need 3 rose shape outlines for this design, two for the card base and one to cut out the rose after it has been sketched. For the base you are going to right click on the outline and duplicate it, select the duplicate outline and right click it again the flip it vertically. Draw a box around both and go Object  > Align > Align Center, next use you arrow key to move the duplicate that you flipped up until the two slightly overlap, this is where the card will fold in half, so make sure you have enough overlap to hold the two parts together. 

It's important to move the duplicate up so that the base will be the front of the card and will have the sketched rose on the front of the card. 

3. place the 3rd outline around the rose sketch. Now you can move the welded card off the mat area in to the grey potion of the screen. Now you have the rose with the outline, delete the outline and use your pen to sketch the design. (Optional: I used an embossing pen, because I'm going to use black glitter embossing powder on the outline) **Do Not remove the cutting mat after your sketch is done!!** 

4. Use the back arrow key to bring back your outline around your sketch. Remove the pen and put you blade back in. Delete the rose sketch this time and cut.

5. Push the rose and outline off the mat area of the screen and cut the welded card base. If you want more more of the base to show you can resize it a bit to make it bigger. ** the card will open right to left or top to bottom depending on what direction you want to rose to go. (Mine opens right to left).

**Optional steps **6. After you sketch and cut the rose, coat the sketch with embossing powder, I used black sparkle from Ranger. Heat to melt the powder and let cool. Next I sprayed it with Glimmer Mist and allowed the color to pool and create a water color effect. if you want, you can use a brush with glimmer mist to go back in and create more shadows. Let it dry, I place it under a heavy book so it flattens out a bit. 

7. Add glue to the back of the flower and add leaves, I used Prima "Splender Moss" leaves Item  #553593 but you can cut them on the silhouette too. Glue the flower and leaves to the base of the card, make sure you line it up correctly.

8. The last step is to cut a piece of paper the same shape as the card to use as a liner. This is optional you can always write directly on the card base.

Well that's it blog hoppers  I hope you enjoy making making fancy shaped cards. Before you go I have one more fancy shaped card to share with you, if you want to make this one follow all the same steps with this card shape!

lips_kiss_C20091118220202_20509 by Lori Whitlock
I fell in love with this fun design by my favorite designer Lori Whitlock. On this card I painted the lips with Luminarte Twinkling H2O's courageous rose and dried it with the heat gun, next I cover the lips the embossing ink and super fine clear embossing powder by Ranger and heated it. This lips are shimmer and glossy. I matted them on light pink paper and created the card base following the above steps and lined the inside with pink paper and inside I have a special surprise...

A Kiss ticket mounted on a wobbler. I made the ticket by scanning, recoloring, printing and cutting a stamp. For a tutorial on printing and cutting please check the index on the top on the page.

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