The Cutting Cafe - Hybrid Birthday Card

Hello everyone,

I have been a bit behind in blogging lately and have not been crafting as much as I would like... I spent the Independence Day weekend cleaning my crafting space, moving around furniture and beginning the supply sort. The Supply Purge is about to begin in earnest stay tuned for great deals and give-aways! I have a major challenge that when I craft one seemingly simple card my craft space is a disastor afterwards... My goal was to use supplies and put them away as I go... I have to constantly remind myself to do this or the pile of supplies, paper scraps, gluedots, glitter and markers is crazy. I am open to any tips on working smarter so you don't have to work so hard picking everything up after a craft making session.

I feel like the space is finally working better for me now and I thought I would use a really cute digital set called the "Birthday Fun Set" from Regina at The Cutting Cafe.

As I mentioned the images and sentiment are from the Cutting Cafe. The card layout uses the Mojo Monday design for this week.

This is technically a Hybrid Card because I used Adobe Illustrator to digitally colour the images and re-size them to be mini postage stamp size. They are super easy to colour with Copics too but I wanted to play with the images in Illustrator.

Supplies: PDF images from the Cutting Cafe, Adobe Illustrator, white card base from Neenah, decorative scissors from Provo Craft, Martha Stewart red and white tissue paper, brown cardstock from Recollections, red cardstock from American Craft. Scallop cut with Silhouette and oval cut with the Colluzle, and brown satin ribbon from the stash.

Mojo Monday Design

Sample of the Cutting Cafe images.

Just Bee-Cause Card and Video - The Cutting Cafe

Here is a new video for the Cutting Cafe I am using a really cute set called "Bug Sentiments" that includes a number of cute sayings set up to use your circle cutters. I discovered I already owned a number of stamps that fit this set perfectly! I made Mr. Bee's body and antennae fuzzy!



I am using a set of stamps from Sizzix.com, Copic Markers, Spica Glitter Pens, white gel pen and yellow Bic Pens. The highlight is the Fun Flock with the Quickie Glue Pen. I resized the images in Adobe Illustrator. They come as PDF files and you can print them bigger or smaller out of Acrobat but I wanted a bit more control to fit my punches and the area that the stamped image would be placed.

Enjoy and stop by the cutting cafe. -- No bug themed stamps in your stash you say, don't let that stop you -- there is a coordinating set of printable images called "Cute Critters" and I have included the link.

Click the image below to enlarge the graphic.

Mother's Day Card - Cutting Cafe Files - Two Part Video

Here is a new two-part video -- part one demonstrates the colouring techniques that I used to create the card. The diecuts are from the Cutting Cafe. Part two shows the card you the actual card assembly. This video was filmed in "real time" as I was creating. So you can observe the creative process -- also known as having an idea but no specific plan.

I cut the green background image, the flower pot and rim with Adobe Illustrator and my Silhouette Digital Cutting Machine. The sentiments are also part of the files from the Cutting Cafe.

Thanks for watching!
Terrie





Here is a link to the cutting file for the flower pot, sentiment and paper flowers to cut yourself.

The Cutting Cafe - Graduation Card Video - Updated Post

Cutting Cafe graduation card. My niece graduates from high school in May. I live quite a distance away and could not remember her high school colors. (She is attending the rival high school, mine were Cardinal Red and Gold... the little things you remember.)

Here is a video of the card creation



I used the Cutting Cafe Happy Graduation background and took the PDF file into Adobe Illustrator CS3 and changed the text color to purple. I also used the grad hat pdf file for the mortar board. The rubber stamp is from Hero Arts. The scallop and oval are cut from Silhouette files.

The card fits with the Mojo Monday challenge.

Silly Bunny...

Hi everyone,

Happy Easter and Happy Spring.

I made my first video for the Cutting Cafe and got so caught up the excitement of my first video, I forgot about Jing's five minute video screen shot limit.

Silly bunny, I forgot to show you how to convert a PDF into a png and then a png into a jpg to cut on your Silhouette.

OK, I know it sounds like a bunch of steps, but it really is easy. (All of you feed families and can follow a recipe.) So think of the video attached as a recipe for substituing one ingredient for another -- the cookies taste just as good and no one is the wiser.

The video is a real time video so you see it really does take less than 5 minutes!

Enjoy.

Cutting Cafe Bunny - Buffet Table Card

Happy Easter and Happy Spring!

Having grown up in the midwest I think spring has always been my most favorite time of the year. Did you grow up where sometimes the Easter bunny left your eggs in the house because he knew you would have had to hunt for eggs in winter coats and snow? Spring said to me it was time for the flowers to bloom, the snow was finally gone, and chocolate bunnies and robin's eggs (malted milk ones) abounded.

I am all about the little details when I host a party so I took some inspiration from the bunny.

I have been experimenting with the files from The Cutting Cafe.

I often make these type of cards for work potluck parties. We all know people with food allergies or eating restrictions, and having a potluck card that your guests can write a bit about what dish they brought is a great way for everyone to know just -- "what is in that?"

I ask them to include peanuts, shellfish and what sort of meat (if any). I live in Southern California so sometimes we even put the chili heat index. :)

Not doing a potluck, make your next dinner party table extra special with place cards. We all have tons of scrapbook paper and popdots so why not really show off your crafting talents.

For the buffet card I brought this bunny into the Silhouette software, scaled him down, and cut him out. I then added him, with popdots/foam adhesive, to a Quickutz diecut of a place card. I used the Quickutz cookiecutter die (cc-shape-1-038) with my Cuttlebug. The cotton tail is a smaller piece of a cotton ball rolled and glued in place. I added some glitter atyou Spica pen to his collar.

The place card bunny is decked out in Martha Stewart bows from Big Lots that have been in my crafting stash since last summer. I had a great plan to use them at the baby shower but it just didn't really work out - so why not use them here?

Here are photos and the video is coming soon showing how to import and size the files into the Silhouette cutting software.

Have fun!

Terrie

New Supplies to my stash:

• Bunny Shaped Card file - The Cutting Cafe $1.50 -- Click on the link to see the really cute card and order using Paypal. No shipping charges.

My First Design Team!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all well. I am very excited to announce that I was selected to be part of the video design team for The Cutting Cafe! The Cutting Cafe is the creation of Regina Easter. Visit her on-line store and find an inspirational site where you can purchase digital stamp art to size, print and color as you like plus a bunch of cutting files.

If you follow my blog, you know I am a Silhouette crafter. I plan to demo how you can take Regina's files and set them up to cut them on your Silhouette. I will also use lots of supplies and other tools too -- love the Cuttlebug and Stickles and ribbon.

How does a digital file store work?
You order the files on line from her site, use PayPal to process the transaction, you get the files delivered to your email box. Download the files to your computer and print them out.

I tried it myself before being selected for the team. The images are adorable and the rates per set are very affordable. I think that you will find the art is super inspiring!

I will be video demonstrating how I got the files to convert and cut* on the Silhouette.
Geek Speak: The cutting files are saved in a WPC and/or PDF format. More details about how to make them work on the Silhouette to come.

Here are links to visit my other design team members and a couple have posted videos already!

Joanne Trinidad Thompson
YouTube Channel: paperdrama

Christina Thomas
YouTube Channel: chris416ward

Janie M. McKissick
YouTube Channel: TypicalScrapbooker

Kimberly Feathers
YouTube Channel: Kimsnest

Terrie Eichholz
YouTube Channel: Paperologist

I am very excited to be part of such a great design team. Enjoy the videos and I look forward to your comments and suggestions! Let me know what you think of the files and if there is any project you would like to see demonstrated.

Terrie

*PS: The files are designed to be printed as a PDF so you can always hand cut too!
No digital machine required.