Month: October 2013

Free Digital Cutting Files

Spider Web Pennant

Good Evening!

I have another Halloween project for you today, this time it’s a Spider Web Banner complete with little sparkly spiders. Perfect for any Halloween parties that you may be holding or simply to decorate your home for the spooky season.

I cut my Spider Web Pennants from some black card and threaded them with some black ribbon, I got 3 pennants from one piece of a4 card and they are actually a reasonable size (approx 7.5 inches tall) so you don’t need to use a ton of card stock for these:

Spider Web Pennants 1

To make my sparkly spiders, I cut some narrow strips of black card for the legs and ran a sakura glaze pen over them to add some shine then popped one of the 12mm black sparkles on for the body:

Spider Web Pennants 2

Here’s your Free Cut File – Formats include ai, dxf, gsd, mtc, pdf, studio & svg:
(click on the link below the image to download)

Spider Web Pennant by Bird

Spider Web Pennant Digital Cutting File by Bird

by Bird
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Haunted House Card

Good Evening!

Oh it felt good to get back to some crafting today after what turned out to be a very long week (or so) of ‘stocking’ the shop. I’m very relieved to have it all set up and running now so things can go back to normal…until my next secret project that is! – insert halloween style laughter here –

Aaaanyway what do I have for you today? I have a Haunted House card complete with vellum layer and extra front panel if you’d like to re-create the stained glass effect card I made today :)

Pic 1. I cut my card base from plain black card, I cut the vellum layer from some white vellum then cut my front panel from some awesome varnish detailed paper from Kaisercraft’s 75 cents paper pad:

Haunted House Card 1

Pic 2. I glued my vellum piece onto the front of the card base with a glue pen:

Haunted House Card 2

Pic 3. I scribbled some Copics (I reckon any markers would be fine for this) over the windows, door and road areas:

Haunted House Card 3

Pic 4. All of my messy colouring was hidden away once I glued the front panel onto my card, sandwiching the vellum between the panel and the card base:

Haunted House Card 5

Pic 5. This is how the inside of the card looks, just as neat and tidy as the front!:

Haunted House Card 6

Pic 6: The finished card:

Haunted House Card 7

Here’s your Free Cut File – Formats include ai, dxf, gsd, mtc, pdf, studio & svg:
(click on the link below the image to download)

Haunted House Card by Bird

Haunted House Card Digital Cutting File by Bird

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An experiment!

Hi Guys!

Some of you may have seen that I hinted at something in my last post that I have been working on behind the scenes, well, I can now share what it is!

I used to list crafting items that I had bought in bulk etc on the well known online auction site ebay. Up until September 4th it meant having to pay listing prices as well as commission on the sell price but since that date ebay now also take a commission on the postage costs too, basically charging 3 times for 1 item. This means that the sell price for each item would have to be increased to cover ebay’s charges.

My idea is to see if attaching an online store to my blog could work, it means that I can pass the savings I make from not paying ebay’s charges and commissions onto the purchaser. I have tried my best to keep the prices reasonable and the postage too. Ideally I would like to expand on what I have in the store so far but it may depend on how it goes.

I would like to stress that this will not effect my digital freebies, you won’t start seeing them appear on the shop for sale ;) I have said in the past that digital items will always be free on my site and I intend to keep to that :)

Clicky here for my little shop! :)

by Bird