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Greetings Silhouette Friends

I have missed you and I am happy to be back sharing a new creation this week using Silhouette Chipboard and Silhouette Adhesive Foil.

I chose to the 3D cloud 

I cut it out in chipboard

and cut some sparkly blue glitter paper

On one side of the chipboard I used silver paste

and created a swirly affect

I used the foil to cut lots of sparkly silver stars and matched it with some sparkly thread

After taping the thread to a work surface, I attached the stars to the front and the back, so easy to do with the adhesive foil

I  simply attached the thread to the non silver side of the chipboard and glued the sparkly paper on top

I love how sparkly and pretty this mobile looks and it is already hanging up in our house!

I hope this post has inspired you to use cutfiles in different ways whilst experimenting with chipboard and foil.

Look forward to seeing you all soon

Ruth
xxx

Nutcracker vinyl Christmas Bauble

Hi everyone, its beginning to feel a lot like Christmas here at the Craft Studio and I was so excited to see this design by a fantastic designer who I love! Samantha at SAS Creative has made a series of these beautiful papercut designs based on the classic story of the Nutcracker and I just couldn't resist making this for you this week.

Materials

• A blank flat shaped bauble - these are widely available on the high-street.
• Adhesive silver foil
• White cardstock
• Blue cardstock
• Light wood effect vinyl
• Dark wood effect vinyl
• Blue vinyl
• Silhouette cutting machine
• Nutcracker bauble design number 275855

Step One

The first step is to open the design in Silhouette Studio. When you open the file all of the layers will be together in the order you need to assemble them in when you make the bauble. Before you ungroup the file you will need to resize the file so that it is the right size to fit into your bauble. To do this measure the diameter of your bauble, then go to the 'transform' menu on the right hand side of the screen then open the 'scale' bar. Make sure that 'ratio' is locked by clicking on the padlock symbol. Then change the size of the design to the same as the diameter of your bauble. Silhouette Studio use inches as a default to make sure you measure your bauble in inches! This will resize all of the layers so that they are the correct size for your bauble. Once you have done this you can ungroup the file and then separate out the layers so you can cut them. Make sure that you do not change the size of any of the layers after this point or they may not fit together properly. 

Step two

Now that you have the bauble the right size you will need to cut each layer out. In this design there are seven layers. I took the top layer as the first layer and cut them out of the materials as listed below:

1. Silver foil
2. White card
3. Silver foil
4. Blue card
5. Blue vinyl
6. Dark wood vinyl
7. Light wood vinyl

I used the wood vinyl cutting settings in Silhouette Studio to cut the vinyl and the cardstock settings for the cardstock. This design has a lot of really beautiful detail and my instinct was to cut it all out of paper or cardstock, but as I needed the design to be cut out at quite a small scale because of the size of my bauble I had to look at other materials. Vinyl and the silver foil are perfect for this type of project as you can get a much more intricate design cut on a much smaller scale that you can get in paper. Because of this I used the vinyl and foil to cut the really complicated layers and the card for the simpler layers. The silver foil was really good for this as it was also very strong and cut very cleanly. 

Step three

Once I had cut all of the layers out I layered them starting from the bottom and working upwards. As the vinyl and silver foil are self adhesive I stuck the finished project onto a piece of white card stock and cut round the bauble by using a pair of scissors this was just to give the design some more strength to keep it stable inside the bauble. I then placed the design inside the bauble. 

Layered back pieces for bauble

Layered silver foil pieces on the bauble

Finished layers with white card backing ready to go into the bauble

   

Thank you for reading my blog post. If you enjoyed it or have any questions please leave me a comment below. 

Helen :)

 

   

You Are So Loved - Every Day - Daily Deals and Weekly Steals

Hello, hello - Karen here with a page I made using one of the Weekly Steals that are available from the Silhouette Design store and I apologise for the bad light photographs.  If you are not aware of these every day there are Daily Deals, Weekly Steals and Last Chance designs which are reduced in price.

I chose this design, which is a weekly steal and decided to supersize it for the title of my scrapbook page and it was only 26p!

I used the one with the label across the 'y' and added You Are So Loved using a sketch pen and Sister's Sketch font.  I then added an offset and changed the internal lines to blue so that all the blue lines would be sketch pen.

I cut this out and set aside whilst I made the rest of my page.

For this I used this sketch border which I repeated around my page.

I then added some journaling using Sisters Sketch font

Once this had been drawn with a silver sketch pen all that was left to do was to add the title and a photo.

This was a very simple layout but very effective using just silver and white.

Over the next few days The Silhouette Design Store is giving away a free design as part of their Black Friday deals.

This is the first one and I would recommend that you look each day to see what others are available.

Silhouette UK | Win A Silhouette Portrait 2

Silhouette UK | Win A Silhouette Portrait 2

- Hello Silhouette UK Blog Followers -

 If you live in the North East of the UK, you may have seen our advert over the weekend for our Silhouette Portrait® 2 Digital Cutting Tool, featuring the lovely Sally from @gettingstuffdoneinheels.

The Silhouette Portrait® 2 is an amazing little machine which enables you to cut, draw and print pretty much anything you like, from gift cards, wall art, clothing and more – it’s the perfect Christmas present!

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We also have some very exciting news! We are giving away a Silhouette Portrait® 2 to FIVE lucky winners! To enter all you need to do is…

1. Head over to Instagram and follow Sally at @gettingstuffdoneinheels and us at @silhouette_uk

2. Find the competition image on our feed

3. Leave a comment under the image saying why you’d love to win using the hashtag #silhouettewithsally

4. Enter as many times as you like!

5. Winners (YES FIVE MACHINES UP FOR GRABS!) will be announced just after the competition closes on 14th December (winners must confirm their address by 17/12/18 in order to claim their prize)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE and keep your eyes peeled for our advert running for the next 4 weeks on Sky!

Sunday's with Steph - Christmas Memory Baubles

Hello Crafters and welcome to this weeks blog post,

I was asked this week by a dear friend of mine to make a Christmas decoration in memory of her dear sweet Gramps that she lost earlier this year.

It was quick and easy to make and I'm sure will adorn her Christmas tree with pride.

So I bought this script https://www.silhouettedesignstore.com/designs/131366?search=grassy+meadow+bold&sortby=relevance&submitted_search=true  and typed out Gramps.

The beauty with our adhesive vinyl is the you do not have to use a mat whilst cutting - I love it!!  I chose to cut it onto this brushed metallic vinyl https://www.graphtecgb.shop/product/silhouette-brushed-metallic-vinyl/  and used the Silhouette transfer tape https://www.graphtecgb.shop/product/silhouette-transfer-tape/ to pick it up direct from the vinyl before sticking it to the bauble.

The last thing I done was remove the top and push in a few white feathers into the bauble from the saying "Feathers appear when angels are near"

I hope you have enjoyed my blog post this week.  If you decide to make anything similar please tag me on Instagram on either stephanielouise123 or sundayswithsteph.

Until next week, happy crafting

Steph  xx

If you Love Me Let Me Sleep Layout | Niki Rowland

Hey there, Niki here today with this layout about my little baby. I love to document the things my children do and regularlyy look to the Silhouette Design Store for fun ways to document these things. This phrase 'if you love me let me sleep' was great for documenting his sleeping.

It didn't work for me in the original format as I wanted a horizontal design. So I ungrouped the design so the words could be moved around and re-arranged.

I then put some of the words at the top of my layout and then 'let me sleep' at the bottom of the layout. The word 'Sleep' I super-sized. I then sent it to cut but I didn't want to cut the word 'sleep' so in cut settings I simply highlighted the work and selected 'no cut'. This means that the rest of the design cut but not the word 'sleep'

I then wanted to cut the word 'sleep' out of patterned paper so I ran it through my silhouette again, this time selecting 'no cut' for the top words and 'cut' for the word 'sleep'.

I then back filled the letters cut into the white cardstock background and added the words cut from patterned paper. I popped them up on foam pads.

I used a mixture of Maggie Holmes Willow Lane ad Amy Tangerine Shine On for this layout.

 

I hope you enjoyed my layout - try re-arranging some of your cut files to make them work for you!

Happy scrapping xx

 

 Designs Used: If you Love me Let me Sleep: Design ID 199285

Design of the Week - Autumn Word Art - 13th November 2018

Hello, Karen here with my Wednesday DOTW post and this week it's a word art design.

This design could be used for so many different things - home decor, clothing, a card or as I have for the title of a scrapbook page.

I decided that I didn't want any reference to Fall on my page so ungrouped the words and removed 'FALL' and I (heart) Fall.  I then decided to dispence with 'late nights' because to me autumn signifies dark evenings and early nights!

To make the remaining words fit around my design I rearranged them, adding some to the bottom left of my photo and then cut the design from adhesive backed cardstock.  This makes the job of backfilling so much easier when the card is already sticky.

Next I used this file, added an offset and then used three different coloured sketch pens to draw it.

My final, Silhouette, addition to this scrapbook page was to cut two banners of leaves from this design, which I reduced in size.

I then found some stickers and leaves that I had used on a previous page here which went perfectly with all the other elements on this page. 

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