Canada Day, Eh?

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a Canada Day scrapbook layout featuring the Oh Canada dingbat font designed by Suzanne Cannon and available in the Silhouette Design Store.

If you're not familiar with dingbat fonts, they are similar to other fonts except that shapes and symbols take the place of what would normally be letters.  You download the font, double click and select install, and your computer adds it to your font library.  This Oh Canada font features 26 Canadian icons to print or cut - here are some of them.  Absolutely perfect for Canada Day, and of course you can make them any size or colour that you want.  

After installing the font, I cut the title Canada eh? and a handful of other shapes out with my Silhouette Cameo.  I am particularly enamored with the moose.  Such a beautiful silhouette!  With the variety of Canada themed dingbats available in this font, you really don't need any other embellishment.  Just pick your favourites, cut them out and use them to adorn your Canada themed photographs.  Happy Canada Day!!  Hope you all get out and enjoy it.

P.S.  I had saved my volunteer badge and lanyard from last year, so I added that memorabilia as well.

   

Coffee or Tea Dingbat Font- Coffee and Friends are the perfect blend.

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here on vacation this week, so I made two cards last week, using the same files and 

New Stamps

to show you the versatility you get with each purchase from

Quietfire Design 
and
Suzanne's Silhouette Store

The shaped card is created from the
Coffee or Tea? Dingbat Font

On the mat

Install the font and you get 26 designs to cut, sketch, whatever !

Design mat

Hints:

• Make several copies of each image so if you mess up modifying  you have another one handy
• use text to mark images you want to save, identify. 
• Set the text in the image to "no cut" right away so you don't forget!
• Have fun, mix and match, modify and see what happens! It's only on the screen.
• Cut out dummies with copy paper to make models to see if you like it before using the good paper and vinyl.

New Stamps

But first coffee

Lots of new files and stamps yet to share, so please come back often!

More inspiration to be found at Quietfire Creations-keep your eyes peeled for upcoming designer challenges!

Comments and Questions Welcomed

Home On The Range - Heart Of Country Font - You Are The Best

Yogi here today, and since it's almost Father's Day, thought I'd make a nice western card for a guy...

The font "Heart Of Country" works great in emails, Word, Excel etc. I used it in my SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot)

I'm using sentiment stamps on the floor from Quietfire Design  ("I Don't Tell You Often Enough" 5pce set);

These are the electronic cut files I'm using from Suzanne available on Silhouette. Click image to 
purchase. 

Opened SCAL software and the Home On The Range file. Ungrouped, removed some of the items keeping the hat page and the horse page, the square and the hat and leaving all at the size opened. Click on images to enlarge.

Positioned the horse page and hat page. Butted up the edges to meet at the middle. Used the square and enlarged it to hide the opening of the hat page (see 1st pic above). Grouped and then selected it all. Welded (see 2nd pic above).

Selected the "Heart of Country" font and typed each letter for "DAD" separately. Twisted and repositioned them to overlap. Grouped them, resized to a total of 2"wide, and welded together.

Cut away the horse from the easel structure, score and fold to create the easel.

Cut a horse page, color as desired and adhere to front of card. I colored direct to paper with Distress mini pads "Black Soot" for the horse, leaving the tail and feet white. "Tea Dye" for the ground area. I left the frame on the horse page white.

The Hat page, colored the frame with some brown and embossed with Emerald Creek Baked Texture "Dirty Sand" embossing powder. Colored the hat on the hat page with "Antique Linen" and the single hat with "Brushed Corduroy". Adhered to hat page, then onto front of card.

Colored the DAD with "Faded Jeans" and clear embossed. Adhered diagonally across frame edge.
On the floor: Stamped the sentiment using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed.
Adhered square gems as my stopper. 

 

Coffee or Tea? Dingbat Font- I don't need an inspirational quote I need coffee/Tea and Thee

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here ROFL!
New stamps, new cutting files and
****FONTS****
Suzanne has a big Elizabeth Craft Design release too.
What's New
with  inspiration
ECD blog here.

The shaped card is created from the
Coffee or Tea? Dingbat Font

On the mat

Install the font and you get 26 designs to cut, sketch, whatever !

Design mat

Hints:

• Make several copies of each image so if you mess up modifying  you have another one handy
• use text to mark images you want to save, identify. 
• Set the text in the image to "no cut" right away so you don't forget!
• Have fun, mix and match, modify and see what happens! It's only on the screen.
• Cut out dummies with copy paper to make models to see if you like it before using the good paper and vinyl.

New Stamps

But first coffee

Tea and Thee

The inside features the mug stains and splats

This quote cracks me up each time I read it!

I hope you will find time to try some of them.

I have a bunch more to show you, so please check back soon!

Comments and Questions Welcomed

Butterfly Dragonfly Gift Card Box- You can do anything

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here with a gift card box suitable for any occation.
This box is going to graduate.
I hope they take the sentiment to heart.

On the mat

Butterfly Dragonfly Gift Card Box

The box is one piece and folds up easily.

Butterly and dragonfly panels slip in, and are interchangeable with many other designs in

Suzanne's Silhouette Store
The square is a simple pocket to hold the gift card on the back.
Just for you is a print and cut label your an place anywhere.

I used the cut out window and a new stamp to create my pocket.

You can do Anything

Today is the 9th Anniversary of WOYWW.
Folks all over the world share what is on the work desks.
I look forward to the ATC swap every year.
Please join us!
WOYWW 9th

Comments and Questions Welcomed

Spring Flowers Dingbat Font Iris - Thank You - Give Thanks

Yogi here today and Suzanne came out with a Spring Flower Dingbat font which I love...

The font works great in emails, Word, Excel etc. I used it in my SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot) software.

I'm using a quote stamp on the inside from Quietfire Design ("Give Thanks" 2pce set);

These are the electronic cut files I'm using from Suzanne available on Silhouette. Click image to purchase. 

    

Opened SCAL software, activated the font key and typed the letter "k". resizing it to approx 6.25"h.

Used a basic rectangle shape and increased it to 7"h x 8"w. Placed the iris overlapping the right edge and having an overall width of 10". Copied and pasted a 2nd Iris for later. Grouped the 1st Iris with the rectangle and then welded them together.
If you are using a 12 x 12 cardstock everything can go on one page as the image. I used an 8.5 x 11" white cardstock so had to add a page with my other details.

Cut the card/Iris. Scored and folded to make it a 5 x 7" card. Embossed the tile background (Elizabeth Craft Designs "Trendy Tiles") only on the front of the card.

Electronically cut that 2nd Iris and the Thank You which I had sized to approx 4"w from white cardstock. Inked the word with some Distress "Dusty Concord" and embossed with Emerald Creek "Mardi Gras" embossing powder. Has a nice glittery sheen to it. Colored the Iris with a few shades of green both direct to paper and sponging to give variations in the colors. The flower I inked with "Mustard Seed" near the base of the flower and then with the Concord on the rest of the flower.

Adhered the flower and the word to the front of the card.

On the inside:

Stamped the quote using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed. 

Hyacinth and Lily of the Valley Spring Flower Lantern

Hi Y'all!

Robyn here today with May flowers brought on by April showers

Showers of cutting that is!!

These files are one only one piece, and make a big impression as a hostess gift, table center piece,

and they fold flat for  mailing!
There are several more in the spring flower series in
Suzanne's Silhouette Store

Lily of the Valley Spring Flower Lantern

 On the Mat

On the Mat

Hyacinth Spring Flower Lantern

Dress them up or down, these lanterns will bring spring into any home!

Comments and Questions Welcomed.