January 2012 – Page 3

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get whale soon

Hi There!

My other half sprung it on me at the last minute “Oh, I need a card today”, what are they like, huh? Well I got my card done in a couple of hours which is break neck speed for me considering I had to draw the digi too. I’m hoping I will be able to speed up a bit more in the future too, I’m sure I spend too much time ‘worrying’ and not enough time ‘doing’. My photo isn’t as clear as I’d like as it’s been a very grey day here so I’m going to try my new craft light (a Crimbo pressie from one of my Brothers) next time and see how that gets on.

I used this weeks Deconstructed Sketch for my layout, I love Jen’s Sketches but I’m likely to come back to this one again, I really like it. I coloured my little Whale with Copics then cut the wave border from this page and added my sentiment which was simply typed onto some textured card. The final touch was to add some shine to the water spray with a sakura glaze pen.

Here is your digi:

(click on the image to expand before saving to your computer)

January 14, 2012 by Bird

Free Digital Cutting Files

I heart u

Hello!

It’s a flying visit from me tonight.

I have a super quick shaped card cut file for you today incorporating the swirly heart from my last post. You get the card shape in the file, the matting layers for in front of the ‘I’ and ‘U’ and also the heart matting layer for behind the swirly heart pattern. I cut the heart matting layer from white vellum so the heart still has some transparency and finished each swirl with a white pearl, easy peasy!

Here is your cut file – formats included are ai, dxf, gsd, pdf, studio & svg:

(click on the link below the image to download)

I Heart U Card Digital Cutting File by Bird

back soon :)

January 13, 2012January 13, 2012 by Bird

Free Digital Cutting Files

Swirly Hearts

Hiyah!

It feels like I haven’t spoken to you all since last year ;)

I’m not one for new years resolutions as such but I do have a few things I hope to achieve this year craft/blog wise. I haven’t used my copics any where near as much as I would have liked so far so I look forward to playing around with those some more this year also I am aware that my posts have been rather cut file heavy of late as I’ve really been enjoying creating them in Illustrator but I plan to take some time for making some new digis too. I would also like to learn some more about Photoshop to make more interesting and layered/distressed looking papers, I’ve also got a couple of other things I hope to do this year that will take quite some time out of my schedule so I’ll have to see how far I get.

Ok, so what do I have for you today? I have 3 Valentine/Love themed cut files for you, I made a little heart filled with swirls and 2 matching borders so you have one border to use vertically and one border for using horizontally.

I used the Deconstructed Sketch for my card layout, I used 2 of the hearts as my embellishments which I gave the faux metal treatment by adding lots of layers of my fave silver embossing powder from Stampendous until I was happy with the effect then backed with some satin silver card. I attached the swirly heart border to the 1 inch pink ribbon with some pink gem brads to add some interest. I added some Flourishes to my hearts as per the sketch and sprinkled my chipboard letters with some clear glitter.

While I was waiting for the glue to dry on my chipboard letters I thought I’d whip up a quick tag. I used one of my Tag 1 shapes from this page along with rosette strips from this page. I cut one of the rosette strips in pink and a second in cream then stuck them together slightly staggered to create a cream edge before scoring and folding.