Autumn Harvest Cutting Files!

 
I'm just popping in briefly to share my latest cutting files in the Silhouette Design Store!  My Mom loved bearded wheat.  I remember it filled a vase every year in the fall. I think she developed that love during the several years we lived on the prairies.  It was certainly more beautiful than tumbleweed, although as a pre-teen, I had a certain fascination with tumbleweed!

 

In addition to these brand new files above, here are a few of the more recent Autumn files.  They're all available on the Silhouette Design Store!

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!  Happy cutting!
<3 my Silhouette Cameo!
Suzanne
 

Last Minute Halloween Creations!

OOOoooooooooo!  It's Halloween!  And there is still time to create fun and special little things!

Available on the Silhouette Online Store today are two more of our Halloween rings!  These are so quick and easy to make.  There are only 3 pieces to each ring and you really just need Glue Dots to hold them together.

And here are two little treat dishes.  Be careful!  You won't be able to just walk by without sampling a treat!

To those of you who saw my candy photo on Instagram and Facebook..... See?  I really did buy these for staging photographs.  And now I'll eat them.

If we're really "good", we'll have candy left over, so we'll swing into Autumn with another treat dish.  Bet you just can't have one!

 

Happy cutting!

Suzanne

Halloween Rings!

Have you seen those plastic spider rings?  I used to have a few which I would bring out every Halloween.  Something triggered that memory and I thought, well why not try making some of my own rings.  Although I didn't do a spider (I thought all those legs might be a tiny bit too flimsy!), I did a bat, a ghost and a black cat (thank you to Tiger for providing the handsome profile).  They've been available on the Silhouette store for a few hours now.

 

I don't know, these things just crack me up....!  I hope they give you a smile, too!

 

 

Click here to go to the Silhouette Store!

 

 

And continuing in the silly fun theme, you can see the Halloween rings in action on Instagram!

 

Meet the brand new #quietfire Halloween rings! They're available right now in the Silhouette Design Store! @silhouette.inc #silhouettecameo #halloween #ring #digitalcutfiles Happy Haunting!

A video posted by Suzanne Cannon (@quietfiredesign) on Oct 24, 2016 at 12:00pm PDT

Coffee & Friends Bendi Card - Sit Right Here By Me

Yogi here today with one of my favorite beverages... BIG GRIN - I LOVE coffee - and what could be better than just drinking coffee... but drinking it with friends.

Click on any card image to enlarge. Enjoy

This is what the cutting file looks like

And I'm using parts of a couple quote stamps from Suzanne ("Garden Bench Collection" 4pce set);  ("Find Yourself a Cup...")

Now here's what I did:
I opened the Silhouette file in Studio and resized it to 16.509 wide, which is way wider than my cardstock, so most of the right tab hung off my paper. I cut it from a deep brown textured cardstock. I then flipped it horizontally and hung everything off the mat except for the "friend" tab. I then spliced the two parts together creating a 6" w card base.

Now this is where it becomes a little tricky. I'm not that savvy when it comes to Studio software, but I need to use it to get the score lines since they don't seem to show up properly in my SCAL software - sigh!!. But now I wanted a shadow layer for the words, So opened the file in SCAL, Sized it the same as in Studio and pushed everything off the mat except the word part, cut from a cream toned cardstock, trimmed the border down and adhered to the back of my word.

 
Cut all the various other elements from the cream toned cardstock, including a smaller coffee bean and smaller heart. Sponged and direct to paper with Distress "Spun Sugar" for the cup and the smaller heart. Inked the steam with Versamark and embossed with Emerald Creek "Soft Fallen Snow".

Stamped the "Sit Right Here...", masking the rest of the stamp, inking with Distress "Picket Fence" and embossing with white embossing powder.

 
Stamped and inked the "Now Tell Me..." as above on a separate piece of the brown textured cardstock. Die cut with Elizabeth Craft Designs "Stitched Rectangles", moving the die to get the size I needed.

Adhered a pink satin ribbon to both tabs. Then adhered the "Now Tell Me..." piece using 3D foam tape.
 

Tied a multi looped fork bow from a pink variegated Sari ribbon and adhered close to the slot using a glue gun. 

 

Quietfire Halloween Digital Designs Collection

Since it's that time of year, I thought I'd take the opportunity to share the Quietfire digital cutting Halloween designs!  All of these are on the Silhouette Online Store.  To see them all together and clickable for further inspection, Click Here! Then type in Halloween in the search box:

 

 

 

Several of them are on the Quietfire Site as svg files.  Click on each caption to go to the Quietfire site! 

    



Trick or Treat

Bat Spray Card

Coffin Card

Kitty With Halloween Moon

I'm pretty sure there will be some new designs before Halloween 2016 rolls around, so stay tuned!  Happy Haunting!

Suzanne



Halloween Bendi Card - Wicked Collection

Suzanne came out with this fabulous Bendi  Hallowen card available on the Silhouette onLine store and had to make it. BIG GRIN.

The Halloween Wicked stamps I used are from a huge sheet of Halloween stamps. Suzanne only has a couple sets left and then they'll be GONE...

I opened the Silhouette file in Studio and resized it to fit my 11"w black cardstock. Cut the moon from white cardstock.

Edged various elements using either Liquid Pearls "Avocado" on the trees; "Platinum" on the moon; Viva Pearl Pen "Silver Chrome" on the cross and gravestones; gold metallic gel pen on the bird and added red glitter on the eyes.

Stamped the quotes using Distress Picket Fence and embossed with detail white embossing powder.

Folded on the score lines and inserted the tabs into the slots to create the Bendi form.

Un-tab tolay flat to mail - mention some assembly required...

This week on the Silhouette Design Store

Sometimes we need to share larger photos than you see on the Silhouette Design Store and this is one of those times!  This week you can actually get some pointed pen lettering in the modern calligraphy style with your boxes!

This tag box is made with gorgeous Maja Designs paper!

I've added to the Doily Card collection with these two seasonal designs which are perfect for sending a little hello to friends!

Happy cutting!
Suzanne

Knitted Star

Hi Y'all, Robyn here, just not feeling the holidays on a sunny, dry 80F. day!

Faux Stitched cards are all the rage, and Suzanne does not disappoint giving us a series of 

Faux Knitted Cards, that can we used for multiple occasions!

All designs available in the Silhouette Store

Knitted Star

On the Mat

 My work mat.

I added a offset to the star.

The innermost star is cotton fabric treated with Terial Magic. 

You cut it on the mat just like paper. It is machine stitched to the offset, just for fun.

The card base is bordered with Deco Arts Metallic Luster- Rose Gold- one of my fav new (to me) products.

Rubbed onto almost any surface you get a gleaming metallic look.

The Knitted Series

Knitted Deer Box

Knitted Holiday Lantern

Knitted Tree

Knitted Snowflake Deer Card

Knitted Mitten

These would all make great ornaments and gift tags too!

Comments and Questions warmly welcomed!

Relax & Smile - Autumn Is A Second

Yogi here today with a fall card using the newest script words available on the Silhouette onLine store and a couple other files.... Loving all the new script words Suzanne is coming out with. They're just gorgeous. BIG GRIN

Click on any of the silhouette pics to purchase.

    

  
 I opened the Silhouette files in Sure Cuts A Lot software. I left the "Relax" & "Smile" the size they were, adding a shadow layer at 1.0 larger and a 2nd shadow layer at 2.0 from white cardstock. While still on the mat, painted with acrylic daubers - the top word in "Spiced Marmalade", the 1st shadow layer in "Peeled Paint" and left the 2nd shadow layer white. Removed from mat and inked the top word with Versafine and embossed with Emerald Creek "Thanksgiving" embossing powder. Adhered the 3 layers together.

Cut the ampersand from white cardstock, painted with "Mustard Seed", inked with versamark and embossed with yellow embossing powder. Painted the shadow layer with the peeled paint. Adhered the 2 layers together.

Cut the leaves from white cardstock, sponged with Distress "Mustard Seed" all over than here and there with various other colors ("Fossilized Amber", "Carved Pumpkin", "Lucky Clover", "Forest Moss", "Worn Lipstick"). Scored vein lines on the backside of each leaf, then hit the high points direct to paper with the forest moss.

Side folded my mango toned cardstock.

Cut a piece of translucent vellum and embossed using Crafts Too "Feathers" embossing folder. Trimmed down to 1/8" smaller than my card front. Adhered with ATG tape.

Adhered all my electronic cut pieces, adding a piece of gold/gold Sari ribbon diagonally under the "smile" word.

As a final touch added an amber pearl for the dot on the smile...

On the inside: Stamped the quote using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed. Colored the leaf with a yellow colored pencil.

Adhered some leftover leaves

    

Welcome Home Floral Birdhouse Decoration



 

It's Suzanne here today with a cute little gift idea.  I picked up this birdhouse hook at Michaels last time I was there.  For a change, I actually had a plan for it when I bought it!

The digital cutting file is available over at Silhouette today.

Here's how I did it!

1. Open the brand new Silhouette cutting file and reduce the size to 3.5 inches.
2. Place a piece of Teal Matte Vinyl right on the cutting mat and cut it with a blade depth of 2 (do a test cut on your own machine!) and it worked just fine! 
3. Weed out the counterspaces and excess vinyl and apply Premium Transfer Paper over the design and burnish. 
4. Transfer the design to the birdhouse and burnish in place.
5. Create a 3/4 inch circle on a blank file in the Silhouette software and cut from Faux Leather Paper. Shade the circle with a pencil and adhere to birdhouse.
6. Select mulberry flowers and adhere as shown.

Supplies:

Suzanne Cannon's Welcome Home Digital Cutting File

Silhouette Cameo

Silhouette Teal Matte Vinyl

Silhouette Premium Transfer Paper

Silhouette Faux Leather Paper - natural

Birdhouse Hook

Mulberry flowers

Glue Dots

Sweet!

Thanks for stopping by to have a look!

Suzanne

Butterfly Tunnel Card - May the Wings - Follow Your Dreams - HB

 Loving this newest file from Suzanne - Butterfly Tunnel Card... This is what the file looks like :

I'm also using a few quote/sentiment stamps  from Quietfire Design: ("Butterfly Circle - May the Wings" 5pce set); ("Follow Your Dreams"); ("Happy Birthday Plain and Simple" 7pce set)

Please note: opening the files in the Silhouette Studio software is best. Opening in other software like SCAL or ECAL etc, may change some of the score/cut lines.

For this card I opened it in Studio software. I used my selection tool to select the whole file and clicked ungroup ONCE. Careful if you click more than once, your score lines may move... Lesson learned.

I moved the various elements off my mat to cut each portion of the card from cream toned cardstock. It takes a minimum of 3 pieces of 8.5 x 11" cardstock. More if you want more butterflies BIG GRIN... The card when closed is 5.25"w x 7"h
I also cut one of the butterflies from thin cardstock to create a stencil/mask which I placed over the butterfly frames to ink only the butterfly using a corresponding color to the embossing powder I would use. Distress "Wild Honey" with Emerald Creek Hot Stuff "Thanksgiving" embossing powder; and "Cracked Pistachio" with "Verdigris" embossing powder. Make sure you clean the areas of excess embossing powder from the body and surrounding areas. After heat setting used a brown Zig marker for the body.
I also cut 2 blackout layer butterflies. Use the Trace feature, select the butterfly, and click on the "Trace Outer Edge" - cut.

I inked them with the opposite pad, glued them to the back of the butterfly, then sprinkled with the embossing powder and heat set.

Inked the birthday stamp using the honey all over and hitting here and there with pistachio, clear embossed, repeated around the whole border. Looks like some of my stamping had a bit too much ink... C'est la vie. - a distressed look ROFL.

Stamped the quote "Follow Your Dreams..." using Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed. Then adhered the edges of each butterfly frame to the edge of the card.

 
PS Finish the front of your card prior to assembling the inside unless you're adhering a separate layer to the front like I did.

I sponged the front edges with the honey and then some "Dried Marigold".

Cut another piece of cream cardstock about 1/4" smaller all around. Stamped the quote and circle with the black and clear embossed, sponged the edges with the honey and marigold. Adhered to card front.

Inked the butterfly with the pistachio and embossed with the verdigris.  Colored the body and adhered to card front by the body only, lifting the wings.

Applied Quickie Glue to the alternate small butterflies at the top of the card and applied glitter Stampendous "Light Copper" and Stickles dry glitter "Eucalyptus"

Final touch added a bunch of beige toned rain drop flowers and some white pearl flowers.