Thinking of You

My very fabulous and great good friend and colleague is undergoing treatment for Melanoma. I desperately hope for a good outcome for her! She's such an inspiration to me with her quiet grace, dignity and faith. This one's for her:







Now, hop on over to MySheriCrafts blog and post your "thinking of you" creation for a chance to win!

Supplies:
Both Sentiment and Loopy border from Bird's Cards
Nestabilities Scalloped Square, Circle and Petite Scalloped Circle
JustRite Stampers: 1 3/16" Tiny Words Borders & Centers Set
Colorbox black inkpad
Pebbles Ink Chalk Shimmer
Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder
White cardstock
Pop Dot adhesive, ATG adhesive

Instructions:

1. Trim cardstock to 10" x 5". Score at 5" and fold to create card.
2. Cut one 4.5" x 4.5" white cardstock and emboss with Swiss dots folder. Adhere to base card.
3. Cut Loopy border 4.25" square. Adhere to base with pop dots.
4. Print sentiment on cardstock. Cut with square nestabilities. Adhere to Loopy border with pop dots. Colour Cala Lily with Pebbles chalk.
5. Stamp interior sentiment with JustRite stampers. Cut with circle nestie. Cut coordinating petite scalloped nestie. Chalk edges. Adhere together and to interior of card.
6. Enjoy!

Ma Petite Artiste

Here's Hannah at 2 1/2 painting. Love the picture she made me, so I mimicked it with cuts!



(My Little Artist)

Supplies:

Paper: red, green, light green, brown, blue and yellow cardstock; DCWV Animal Crackers
Create a Critter (frog and dragonfly) and Everyday Paper Dolls (grassy reeds) cricut cartridges
Nestabilities scalloped oval
Cuttlebug Spots and Dots embossing folder
Stickers: Sandylion Alphabet-Vintage Mix (Ma), Making Memories brad alphabet (petite), Making Memories Shimmer Holiday red (Artiste)
Making Memories Antique brass 1/8" brads
EK Success punches: Large dotted scallop and swiss cheese corner

Label Instructions:

Emboss a 4" x 5" rectangle using Spots and Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder. Cut a large oval using nestabilities, then emboss the edge using the nestie. This will flatten out the entire label, and your stickers will adhere well. Sand the circles lightly for more emphasis. Ink edges, then apply title. Done!

Nesties Font

I've added a direct download box for my Nesties Font, so if for some reason you didn't get it before, please feel free to download directly. Please link to my blog if you use it -- I would love to see it in action!

New Tutorial! Creating tags with printing!

For the journalling on my latest layout, I wanted to hide it behind the main picture. It was also a pretty long story, so I needed to type this one out rather than write by hand -- my solution: use my nestie look-a-like font and printer! It looked so good, I decided to make a new tutorial! Hope you enjoy! For this video and tag I used SCAL2, but it would be the same idea if you were a DS user.

My Nesties look a like font in action!

So like any little kid, when I've got a new toy I've got to give it a good test run. Here's my latest layout:



There's a bunch of things going on in this layout, and my hope is that it's not too busy! The paper is mostly DCWV Farmer's Market. Font for title is 2Peas Mr Giggles.



Next page has flourish cuts from Cricut Gypsy Wanderings and Home Accents. The main scalloped circle is from my Nesties look-a-like font, as is the tag. The flowers were precut little embellies I picked up somewhere a while ago :-)



An upclose of the circle cut: it's actually the big scalloped circle, with a regular circle inside. Then I sewed a simple chain stitch in DMC ivory pearl cotton #8 on my trusty sewing machine. The tag is embossed and journalled in white. I like the effect!



Thanks for visiting! I hope you'll leave me a comment!

Nestabilities Look-a-Like Font!

April 24, 2010 Update: I`ve added a direct downlink box for nesties lookalike font. Here it is:



I've spent a good week on this one: a set of Nestabilities look-a-likes. These are based on most of the nesties basic shapes and labels, although I might have missed some. At first I was creating SVGs, then I found a most awesome blog with tutorial on how to create fonts with inkscape. Well, if you've seen my blog, you know I'm a technophile who really loves inkscape (now that I've gotten the hang of it!). So this was the perfect opportunity. Here's the result:



and a cut sample:





Side by side with a real Nestie (nestie cut is white)



This TTF dingbat font has 6 cirlces, 4 flower, 5 ovals, 2 octogons, 2 paisleys, 4 regular rectangles, 2 long rectangles, 4 squares and 14 labels. Interspersed and to keep the font organized, there's a cute ladybug ding too!




When you use this file, you'll need to save the font on your computer then install the font -- the fastest way is to find the file and right click on it, select "install". It will then appear in fonts in your cutting software. I would highly suggest you keep the proportions when working with the dings, especially the scallops! Here's a tag I made with the look-a-like rounded rectangle:



To request this file, I'm doing something I don't do: I'm making you comment if you want it! LOL. Anyone who wants the file is welcome to it, but I'm asking you to leave me a comment with a way to email you the file. Further, if you ask for and receive the file, please do not distribute it in any way, but direct people to my blog instead. My other cuts are fun and I like making them, but this one is special to me :-)

Finally, if you find you like the shapes, I encourage you to buy the nesties. I have a half dozen sets that I just love, and the embossing is so pretty! Also, make sure you grab my button, and if you make anything with this ttf, I'd love to see it! Thanks for the visit!