Christmas Tree boughs & 'JOY' flag (free Silhouette cutting files & svgs)

Been having a tricksy time getting decent photos, but I wanted to share these cut files made

from a doodle of tree boughs with you (in case anyone still has time for last minute crafting!)

Edited to add: Oops! The vertical card is actually uploaded & linked now... :-)

For the card on the left I did this stuff: 

1) Cut the Horizontal A2 Tree bough file out of white cardstock.

2) Heat embossed Hero Arts Flower Dot Pattern stamp in white.

3) Inked using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on a foam applicator.

4) Layed it over silver gilded paper and added embroidery knots.

5) Pierced a frame around & added hand-stitches in white thread.

For the card on the right I did this stuff: 

1) Cut the Vertical A2 Tree bough file out of white cs & saved all the pieces.

2) Inked up the remnants with Crushed Olive & Mowed Lawn Distress Inks.

3) Coloured the stems of each branch with a brown grey Copic marker - W-7

4) Cut a panel to fit under the white piece; inked it with the same green inks.

5) Glued it all together with the boughs on top (glue on the center stems only.)

6) Punched little snowflakes (using a Martha Stewart Snowflake edge punch)

7) Glued them on with sequins; pierced and stitched a border in white thread.

8) Stamped a Hero Arts sentiment in white on black cardstock, on silver leaf.

Download Christmas tree boughs (vertical A2 card size)

as a cutting file for Silhouette Studio here.

Click the image or the link, then FILE, then DOWNLOAD

Download Christmas tree boughs 
(vertical A2 card size) SVG file here.

Click the image or the link, then FILE, then DOWNLOAD

 

Download the free ' JOY' sentiment flag
 as a Silhouette .studio cutting file here.

Click the image or the link, then FILE, then DOWNLOAD

Download the free ' JOY' sentiment flag SVG cut file here.

Click the image or the link, then FILE, then DOWNLOAD

Download Christmas tree boughs (horizontal A2 card size)

as a cutting file for Silhouette Studio here.

Click the image or the link, then FILE, then DOWNLOAD

Download the free Christmas tree bough SVG cut file here.

Click the image or the link, then FILE, then DOWNLOAD

And here's a paper saver (for 4 A2 cards per sheet) It's only in .studio for now, since I'm actually

not sure how to get the spacing right for SVG but if you'd like the svg, please just let me know.

Download Christmas tree boughs (vertical A2 card size)

4 per sheet as a cutting file for Silhouette Studio here.

Click the image or the link, then FILE, then DOWNLOAD

This digital work is offered up for free, but mainly for personal use or handmade sale items only.

Please do not use these to make digital papers or kits for sale, nor mass produced items.
If you have any questions, please be sure to read my terms of use here. Thanks!

May this Christmas be filled with blessings and
loads of love and laughter for You & Yours! ox

Happy Merry Christmas - free cut files & ombre papers

Just a couple of script font greetings for the Silhouette (and in .svg) today. (Must admit, I've been just a tad obsessed with making designs where the centers of the letters stay put once everything is cut and pulled up. It's sort of satisfying when that happens, no?) :-D

I figured that these sayings could be used for the front of a text-focused card design

or maybe even on the inside of the card for something a little out of the ordinary...?

Download the Merry Happy Christmas

 in an svg file format here.

A note about downloading SVG files.

In order to get a true svg (and not a png file) you should be sure to do it this way.

For those whose browser is Mozilla Firefox, click the
arrow in the top left-hand corner of google documents:

For those of you whose browser is Internet Explorer, 

first click the file tab then select download at the bottom:

 

Download the Merry Happy Christmas

 as a Silhouette .studio cut file here.

And I thought I'd share the printable ombre papers for those of you who 

don't have a cutting machine, but still want something new to play with:

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Please Note! click images to enlarge before saving :-)

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12.5"square Blue Raspberry Ombre stripe paper:

(also available on flickr here)

Letter size (8.5x11")

(also available on flickr here)

Letter size mix Lime & Blue Raspberry:

(also available on flickr here)

Letter size (8.5x11") lime ombre:

(also available on flickr here)

12.5"square Lime Ombre stripe paper:

(also available on flickr here)

  How to save these single papers directly from my blog:

PC users in Firefox/Chrome: Click on the paper you want & it will open a new window, 
then right click on the image & choose "save link as" 

PC users in Explorer: Click on the paper you want & it will open a new window, 
then right click on the image & choose "save target as"
 .

Mac users: Please visit the flickr links for each paper, then right click select 'all sizes'
& click on "download the original size of this photo"

 

This digital work is offered up for free, but mainly for personal use or handmade sale items only.

Please do not use these to make digital papers or kits for sale, nor mass produced items.
If you have any questions, please be sure to read my terms of use here. Thanks!

Hope Christmas isn't sneaking 

up on you too quickly! ;-)

P.S. If you would like to make your own stencil font from any style font, there's a video tutorial here by Margaret Wilburn using the rectangle tool. The 'knife tool' video she mentions is here.

Gilded Paper tutorial on Splitcoaststampers :)

So... there's this little tutorial I did over at Splitcoaststampers this week: 

it's for a really easy foil leafing technique that I'm calling Gilded Paper. :)

Have you ever gilded anything with silver or gold leaf? 

I've done a few things for around the house, like a recipe box & a knife block. But when it comes to card making I was reluctant to use that liquid sizing adhesive that comes with leafing kits. I didn't want the paper to warp. So... to get some shimmer without any goopiness I thought 'why not use some sticker paper instead?'

Turns out that the Silhouette printable sticker paper is perfect for silver leafing with much less mess, and it leaves you with a nice papery backing on your silver piece that is really easy to adhere to your cards & other projects. They also have a clear sticker paper; I've never tried it but it sounds interesting (Of course, you could use any sticker paper, label paper, or any sticker at all, instead.)

For this box, I made a gold foil tag with an Impression Obsession snowflake die (cut out of thin white paper and stuck onto the sticky tag before adding foil) just to make it that much easier.

I added some snowflake flowers (so easy!) just punch a snowflake shape (these are Martha Stewart snowflake punches.) Then, pierce a hole in the center & then add a floral wire & something to embellish the center (I used a rolled up metallic pipecleaner bit glued on). Then add some leaves.

Edited to add: oops wrong graph paper! Here's the one the lid was actually wrapped in.
That's what I get for having too many graph papers on flickr. lol

The lid is wrapped in this free printable Graph paper:

 
(It's also here on flickr)

I left this one anyhow...
it's lighter with more bold white grid superimposed on it: 

(The letter size is also here on Flickr
 & 12.5" square here as well.)

This box got a super simple embossed tag using this Cuttlebug Provocraft Snowflakes folder 

And a metallic pipe cleaner snowflake embellishment that was easy to shape by twisting & bending the pipe cleaners into shape. Then I layered on a punched vellum snowflake & mother of pearl button.

The box top is wrapped in this free printable Quatrefoil paper:

(The letter size is also here on Flickr)

For this box, I added a die cut tag that says 'Ho Ho Ho' It was cut on the Silhouette Cameo. 

And the clear beaded snowflake embellishment is one that I made by cutting a circle from clear plastic packaging, piercing hole with a paper piercer (using a pencil sketch as a guide) then stitching on white seed beads using white thread and a fine needle.

The box top is wrapped in this free printable Snow Crystals paper:

(The letter size is also here on Flickr
 & 12.5" square here as well.)

How to save these single papers directly from my blog:

PC users in Firefox/Chrome: Click on the paper you want & it will open a new window, 
then right click on the image & choose "save link as" 

PC users in Explorer: Click on the paper you want & it will open a new window, 
then right click on the image & choose "save target as"
 .

Mac users: Please visit the flickr links for each paper, then right click select 'all sizes'
& click on "download the original size of this photo"

 

You can also find the full set of Christmas papers, here
(there are three sets that I shared last year)...
 

This digital work is offered up for free, but mainly for personal use or handmade sale items only.

Please do not use these to make digital papers or kits for sale, nor mass produced items.
If you have any questions, please be sure to read my terms of use here. Thanks!

Here's to shimmery happy craftiness! ox