I Feel the Love - April

It's time for another I Feel the Love Project card. I've missed a couple months and did last month's at the last minute, so I thought I would get this month's done right away. Emily is a girl after my own heart with her love of cats so I decided to use my Chewie stamp. I had a completed, colored one pinned on my inspiration board in my craft room for months and decided this was the perfect project for it. Since Emily's favorite colors are pink and purple, I stuck with those colors. I found this pink leopard ribbon in my drawer and decided it was perfect. I used sketch # 55 from Sketch and Stash for a template. The ribbon slide and paw print inside it are both out of the Silhouette Design Studio store. I needed something for the background though. It's been a while since I used an embossing folder so I drug out my stash. I narrowed it down to two: the cheetah print and a swirly one that I like a lot. I actually did both backgrounds so I could see if cheetah ribbon on cheetah background would be too much. Seeing it in person convinced it was fine. After that, the card went together in a snap.

So break out your supplies and join us in sending cards to put a smile on Emily's face.

My second cut...

Also did not go so well due to human error, but boy was I excited with what I learned. I knew I was not going to be happy with just cutting out what Silhouette has available in their library. Sure they have a lot of fun looking designs and I know I'll enjoy using those, but since I have had Sure Cuts a Lot with my Cricut for a long time now, I've gotten used to being able to cut out whatever I can dream of (as long as it wasn't a perfect circle - Cricut just could not cut that). Lately, that's mostly been cutting out around stamps of the stamp sets I have so I don't have to fussy cut anymore. I have almost all of them scanned into my computer, which is nice for organization and knowing what I have, but also meant that they were handy to play with. I opened up my favorite stamp set (Meow Meow from Recollections) and found my favorite stamp: the one that looks like Chewie. I erased all the other stamps, traced the outline of Chewie, then printed it and cut it with the Cameo. Only problem: I somehow ended up with a stray cut line that decapitated the paper Chewie. Oops... You can see the extra cut just above the collar where I taped it together: On my second try, it came out much better. I colored it a little with my colored pencils and added a little rhinestone and now it's perfect for... well for something. I'll figure out what later, but boy am I loving this new machine.