Perfect Sentiment Challenge #32 A Banner Birthday

My third challenge as a Perfect Sentiment Challenge guest designer is today.

Have a Banner Birthday...... Oh, my!!! How super fun is this challenge?!

The Challenge: create a card with a birthday sentiment

The Twist: use a banner on your creation

I don't have banners handy, so I had to grab SCAL and my Cricut to get started.



I made a banner and a shadow with the basic shapes in SCAL. Unfortunately, I had to cut the hot air balloons out by hand (boo hoo.... hahaha!), but they were pretty simple cuts. I love the CAS style, and I think this card qualifies for that pretty well.

Card Recipe :

stamps - Air Flair, Rooster Sunrise (sentiment)
paper - parchment, blue, white
ink - blue, green, orange, black, brown
accessories - Cricut, SCAL, pearls, ribbon, pop dots


I hope you'll join us with this challenge - we all need birthday cards, right?? :) Head over to Perfect Sentiments Challenge and post your link. I can't wait to see what you have to show us!


Have a wonderful Wednesday and a great, big, beautiful tomorrow!!


~*Shell*~

Free File Friday

The other day, I wanted a 'shadow' layer for the cute flowers that I buy at Hobby Lobby (by Flora Doodles). So, I took a picture, tweaked it a bit, and imported it into SCAL. Would you like to play with it, too??


Here ya go -














This cut makes the perfect layer to go under those flowers. Of course, it doesn't even need the Flora Doodles to go with them.


So, what can you do with this file?? Please show me! I'd love to see what you come up with.

Have a fantastic Friday and a great, big, beautiful tomorrow!


~*Shell*~

Free File Friday

Wanna a new file to play with? Okie doke.


Here's a lily pad for you today.











What can you do with this great little lily pad? Here's my card.

This adorable frog was from a stamp of the month set at CDS a while back. The lily pad was welded together to make a shaped card and layers of the lily pad were added for dimension.










The flowers were from Flora Doodles (purchased at Hobby Lobby). They come in many colors, but I love the white because I can custom color them to match using my Copics. There are 80 of them in a pack for only $3.99. The card base, layers, and scalloped circle were all cut using SCAL and the Cricut. The image circle was punched using a 1.5" circle punch.




Stamps - Frogs (CDS)
Paper - GP- white, SU - green, gray
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics (YR15, C1, G94, G99, B00), Basic Brown (SU)
Accessories/Tools - SCAL, Cricut, lily pad file, ribbon (SU), flowers (Flora Doodles), pop dots, sponge



Special update on Sunday. Don't miss it!!


Have a fantastic Friday and a great, big, beautiful tomorrow.

~*Shell*~

Tooty Fruity Tuesday - Welding

Welding in SCAL


What is "welding"?
Welding is the act of putting 2 or more images together to be cut as one piece. Cuts that would normally be made where the pieces are joined are not made.

Non- welded images -








Welded images -











Why would I want to weld?
Sometimes, we are trying to create a particular shape, and we can weld shapes together to achieve this task - a card, a card border, double hearts, etc.

In other cases, welding can make the shapes easier to handle - words, for example, are easier to place and deal with if the letters are welded together.

Often, we want to embellish a shape, and we use welding to assist with that - adding a flower shape to a word or letter, for example.

Welding adds another level of versatility to our die-cut crafting.


How do I weld in SCAL?



1 - Choose 2 shapes to weld. I chose a rectangle (5.5" x 4.25") and a heart the same size. These will be joined to create a card.




2 - Make sure the box 'weld' is checked for both images - as shown in the *green* circle below.



3 - Move the pictures together until they touch at the place(s) that you'd like them to join.




4 - Click "Preview." Where the images join, the image lines should be 'grayed' out. If you are joining images and there are NO grayed out lines, make sure you've followed the instructions above exactly.



5 - Cut. Your images are joined and should cut as one piece.

You can do the same with letters - make each letter it's own shape and click "weld" for each one. this method allows you to join the letters at the places you'd like to be joined and skewed the way you'd like - if you don't want them straight.

The images placed to be cut ....

The images welded in the preview ....



Welding is SO much fun and can help you make such fun shaped cards. I hope you find this helpful. If you have any questions, please let me know! :)



Have a wonderful Tuesday and a great, big, beautiful tomorrow.


~*Shell*~