As I may be applying to be a designer/blogger for Silhouette Cameo SC) for a year, I thought I would do a quick post of some of the pieces that are my favourite "makes" with my Sil. This house was a complete copy of one made by Torie Jayne. I thought it was simply the most beautiful thing I had seen, and that I could not improve upon it. The advent house came from Panduro hobby and arrived with several drawers broken in transit, however they kindly sent me another - which also had broken in transit - so with a bit of glue I had two houses to decorate. It too me 2 years to get around to it, using papers by Tilda, which are to die for I reckon. I gave this to my daughter for her November birthday and I hope it will become an heirloom!
Using the Pixscan mat for my SC was invaluable as I could get all the front pieces cut out centrally on many of the paper pieces for the drawers, which also had round holes cut in them for the drawer handles. The SC made it all a breeze, and a most enjoyable project.
Below, you can see a card I designed from the photo of a house my friend was moving to. The SC software makes it easy to draw simple shapes for windows, doors etc, and both, me and my friend were well pleased with the result!
Box cards were all the rage for some time, so I made one for the arrival of our first grandchild.
The onesie, and the rocking horse shapes I designed for myself on the SC. Templates are available now for the box card, but I designed my own.
The friend of a friend was being given the honour of being made a Lord Lieutenant of Scotland, so with a little research, I came up with this simple, but effective card for him. A Lord Lieutenant is the Queen's personal representative within a country.
Having seen a lovely birthday card in a certain High street store, I thought, "Now there is a good idea" and I designed this card. SC users will recognise some of the background patterns used. It took quite a while to design, just to get the colours right, and the different levels of letters right, by which I mean some were printed, some pieces were cut and stuck on flat, some letters were cut out with paper stuck behind, and then some letters were raised on sticky pads. Letters which were to be printed could be a thin font, but for cut out letters the font had to be chunkier, so there was a lot to think about!
This card features a drawing I did on my Ipad using the app Paper53. My little chickens have now been used on a multitude of projects! I am dotty about spots which is one of the reasons I started my little shop for customised paper items at PaperspotUK.
Finally, I used to do a of silk painting and have a lot of scrap material lying around, so this was an effective way to use some pieces up to make a one-of-a-kind card.
Well there we go. Not sure if what I do will be good enough to join a design team, but I love my Silhouette Cameo so much, I can't help but use it every day for something or other! If I am not accepted I will simply have to continue making cards for friends and family :)
Happy crafting!
Hilary
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