Silhouette Glass Etching

I have been on a crafting Hiatus its ridiculous, just haven't had any time to do any crafting.

I like to dip my hand into many crafts, and I have noticed lately a lot of people are into glittering wine glasses.  Now don't get me wrong, they look so pretty, but personally, its not for me, if I was to use it I think I would stick a tea-light in it.  I don't know, the idea of drinking wine with glitter touching my mouth doesn't appeal to me.

However, the idea did get me thinking to try an alternative glitter glass.

So I ordered the silhouette etching kit from amazon, the company I got it from is based in America and it was the cheapest I could find, if you are planning on ordering, do shop about :)

In the kit you get;

3 sheets of stencil vinyl

Etching cream

10 free etching designs

ideas booklet

It is very simple to use, the hardest part for me was thinking of a design, I decided to make my own wine glass 'Cat's Sippy Cup'

I had glittered the glass first, however, it will be easier I think in future to glitter last.  I measured up my glass face, and cut the phrase out in the cameo, adhered the vinyl to the glass...you really need to make sure that you have a good excess around the design.  Make sure there are no air bubbles in the vinyl then apply the cream.  Leave on for 30 seconds, scrape the excess cream back into the tub (hence why you need excess vinyl!) then rinse off and voila, done.

The possibilities are endless with this kit, and this is definitely my favourite kit so far :) 

I nearly had an issue, my mojo nearly disappeared....I hate it when the mojo just crashes.

It is my sister in laws birthday, and I had just bought a dress form rubber stamp which I thought would work perfectly for her card.

I sat looking at the stamp, and the blank card for near on 20 mins, and nothing was coming to my head...So I embossed the side of the card and the rest all suddenly started to fall into place :)

Embossing folder from the Sizzix Frames and borders set

Dress Form Papermania

Happy Birthday stamp, buttons, flower and ribbon from hobby craft

Patterned Paper Papermania

Dress coloured with Sky Blue, Azure and Cobalt Promarkers,

Belt Cool Grey 3, 2, 1, cobalt blue and blender.

Glossy Accents on bodice flowers

Tim Holtz stickles in Rock Candy on the belt.

Cameo With Carley Challenge

The wonderful, funny, pretty and a wardrobe to die for Carley Duff from Creata and Create and Craft TV, has a fresh new group over on Facebook.

Carly has now been on Create and Craft (Sky 671 UK) a couple of times demonstrating the Silhouette Cameo and the Portrait.  And she gives its a nice fresh approach to the Silhouette beginner, and a refresher to those of us more experienced with the machine, for those of you that have the machine, you are constantly learning new techniques whatever your level.

Anyway, as I said, Carley has a little group over at Facebook called......'Cameo with Carley' and its a great group giving friendly advice, suggestions and for sharing our makes, and it doesn't matter what level you are at.

What I like about the group is it gives you a monthly challenge, which you can also find at the Cameo With Carley Blog I have just started to join in challenges again, it kind of pushes me to think out of the box a bit.  This months challenge is Birds/Nature and you just need to create something containing either birds or nature.

Now I don't do birds, the scare me :/ so I decided to use my favourite insect and it won't be long before they come fluttering into my back garden...Butterflies :)

I cut the large butterfly on my cameo  on Kraft card,

on the card itself, I stencilled where the butterfly is.

I then attached left over scraps off ribbon and attached the card back on top

using the same butterfly, resized and cut out smaller butterflies and attached with 3D foam

Scrap Card, stamped 'Thinking off you' and embossed

Natural Twine from Garden Centre

Card and Kraft card from HobbyCraft

Jump on over to the blog for the challenge details, and, if you are a cameo/portrait user, hop on over to the Facebook group :) 

See you next time and Keeeeeeep Crafting :) 

Round 2 with the Silhouette Rubber Stamp Kit

I decided to give the Silhouette Stamping Starter Set a go again, after failing miserably with my last go on it.

I decided instead of trying to cut a sentiment, I would try some element stamping.

I had a brand new blade and I decided to try and use that on the material, the one I use on my cardstock is still in pretty good condition.

I cut a balloons stamp that comes with the kit (you are provided a download card) and I also cut a herringbone background pattern from the SIL store.

The result with the new blade was much better

I would then say that you need to keep a blade that will be designated for cutting the rubber material, it is quite hard on the blade, so I also suggest having a couple spare..I always have spare blades anyway, but I predict that cutting a few stamps is going to be harsh on the blade and will cause it to blunted more rapidly than you are used to. 

The blocks provided in the kit are quite nice, I haven't yet used the ink that comes with it though.

All in all, I have to admit that this is quite a nifty wee addition to the Silhouette family and I can see a lot of potential to designing your own rubber stamps.

Happy Wednesday!!

Its been so windy here today, I was a bit frightened to leave the house as I am waiting (not so patiently) for my new copics to arrive, I took my dog out for a quick walk, then plonked down at the craft table to craft and wait.  Alas he didn't come and have a horrible feeling they will be delivered tomorrow when I am out all day!

I decided to strip back to basics and craft a very simplistic card..I have not done that in a long time, but its true what they say, less is more :)

Embossing folder - Sizzix Border swirls

Flower stamp, leaves and swirl - Woodware Stamps Jacqueline Ross Flower Frame Set

Flower and buttons from HobbyCraft

'Thanks for everything' stamp, I think its Papermania 

I do love the simplicity of this card, I tend to layer and layer and colour images and essentially try and get as much stuff on the card as possible, but this was a nice change.  Ironically it was one of the most time consuming cards I have done in a long time! 

Confetti Kisses and Silhouette Stamping Kit

Last week our house got hit with the sickies, wasn't nice at all, first my son, then my daughter, then me, never have I been so ill in all my life!

Which was super annoying because the day before, this little beauty arrived 

Silhouette Stamping Starter Kit

And I wasn't going to get the chance to play with it :( 

Today though I am much better and decided to get creative, I made a card and I wanted to make a sentiment with the kit....I have to say I am not a huge stamper, I love digital images which I like to take into the silhouette cameo and resize to suit and also cut around it either in a pretty flourishy cut or a straight forward offset cut.

Anyway, I hated this...I tried twice to cut a font, first it wouldn't cut through properly even at the setting it suggests,  and the 2nd time I made the font slightly bigger and welded it together so it would cut a single sentiment....nope it was too teeny and fiddly and I lost my patience with it! 

As I said I am not a huge stamper...I thought getting this kit would be ideal for stamping personalised invitations, but maybe I just need to keep practising to get it right, however I hate wasting material.  You do get 10 free designs to download with the kit,  which are pretty decent actually, maybe I will try cut one of those out to allow the kit to redeem itself :/ 

I did however eventually make a card, and found a sentiment that would work with the card :)

Image - Confetti Kisses, Saturated Canary

Colours used on image;

skin (Copics) E00, E33, E51, E53 E93

Everything else Promarkers

Lips - Antique Pink and Baby Pink

Eyes, Sky Blue, Azure

Hair - Raw Sienna, Mustard & Tulip Yellow

T-shirt and Socks and Hearts  - Red, Poppy & Crimson

Skirt - Cinnamon, Tan & Putty

Shoes - Cool Grey 4, Cool Grey 3, Cool Grey 2 and Blender

I added Glossy Accents to the hearts to make them Pop

Flourish, from Cameo Store ID #3650, inked and embossed

Found a stamp I already had (and forgot about), stamped in clear Versamark and embossed in gold

Heart Stem - That Craft Place

Ribbons, Paper and Gems from HobbyCraft

I might give my Stamping Kit another try before I end up tossing it into the depths of the Craft Corner.

We have sick bugs in the house :( My little boy, who is 8, went to bed last night complaining of a headache, we switched his light of, snuggled him in and hoped that a good sleep would sort him.

3 hours later, we discovered that we would be up every hour with him, so he has a day at home today.  I thought I would take advantage of a stay at home day by crafting.  I coloured in an Saturated Canary image, Confetti Kisses trying to Sepia tones, have never done it before but I do love how it looks on images I have seen using this method, however, I think I need a few practices though.

The Promarker Colours I used were

Almond, Putty

Tan, Cinnamon and Burnt Sienna

I did pull out some card stock to start to try and lay up a card, but my eyes were closing so thought I would just move myself onto the couch watch my Box Set of 24 and maybe get a kip, the wee man is sleeping upstairs just now, just hope that he is back to normal soon, I hate seeing him so ill. 

I also am going to share my Mixed Media project I did the other day.  I have never used this method before but I have so many crafty friends that do do it and have been encouraging me to give it a go, and this was my result.

Image is Alice & White Rabbit digi stamp from Make It Crafty

Flower is Lori Whitlock 3D Flower 6 for Silhouette Cameo

CogWheel Stamp from Ditzie Designs for That Craft Place

Chipboard Clock from HobbyCraft

Ribbons from ThatCraftPlace and HobbyCraft

Netting was used to wrap flowers that were given to me (I never throw away anything!!)

Texture added using various acrylic paints, with paint brushes and bubble wrap

All added onto a canvas also from Hobbycraft

I am going to try and get a quick nap now, hopefully will be more with it later and try finishing of that card :)