One More Graphic Freebie

One of our daughters is getting married in Hawaii. I wanted to make her a special wedding card for the occasion. This little Hula Dancer girls grass skirt moves side to side. A home- made wobble is placed behind the skirt to give this action. If you would like to try this out, please feel free to download the .png file and make your own homemade wobble.

Here is a link to a tutorial on how to make the wobbles. I made a tut but it was terrible. I made it with my webcam and it was hard to stay centered and I didn't like looking at myself...lol.

Tutorial for a homemade wobble

Here is a pic of the unfinished wedding card I made for our daughter.. I wish I had a video to show you how cute it looks when her grass skirt wiggles back and forth.

Here is where you can download this little hula dancer girl I want to share with all of you.

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Have fun everyone and happy crafting. Remember to check out the Silhouette Plus Group forum for more inspiration and ideas shared by our talented members.

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A Pixie to Play wiht the Glow Worm

My daughter loves fairies, wood knomes, and pixies. Today, I've been doing nothing but sitting by the phone waiting for some news. It is sort of dull just waiting so, I drew up this little pixie too.It is also yours; if you want it.

You can download the higher resolution image by cliking on the link below the little pixie. I just learned a couple of days ago that all of the files I shared will not always be on FileSwap. If you share something that hasn't been downloaded in a while they are deleted.I'm sorry but, I don't know how long the shares here will be available.

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Summer Time and Glow Worms

Oh how I loved to catch these in a mayo jar. My mom would poke some holes in the lid and off we would go in search of the magical glow worm ( aka fire flies, lightening bugs).

These days, our little grandson delights in this activity. The mayo jars are plastic now so no more punching holes in mayo jars. Thank goodness for bug catchers.

The weekends bring to our porch lots and lot of glow worms. After we admire their little golden glow, then we set them free to light the night.

If you would like to have this little guy you may click on the download link below the picture to grab catch you own little glow worm. Drawing  little things like this and sharing them is good for the soul. I hope you can use this glowing little guy.

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A Couple of Graphics to Share

My daughters baby is due this Friday...wooohoo!! I've been drwaing up some graphics. I've shared these with the Silhouette Plus Group and wanted to share them here on my blog too. These make cute Print and Cuts. These are all high resolution .png images. I hope you can use them and enjoy having them. xoxo

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Cutting Pretty Frames

One of the members from our group shared a link to this cute craft. I could hardly wait to make one so; I made two.

The frame with the silhouette of the little girl blowing bubble was an image I found on the internet and made a cutting file. The fron part of the frame is three layers glued together. The image for the front of the frame was only cut out once. The other layers I cut out on black card stock and glued them together. The white portion of the frame was cut out in a cirlce and the acetate frame (looks like glass and really can't be seen in the photo) was cut by hand. I cut is slightly larger to adhere behind the frame.

The tiny intricate silhouette of the gril blowing bubbles ha dimension. I cut tiny pieces of foam tape and place it behind the second shape. This was a chore...lol. The back side of the frame is also made with multiple layers of black cardstock to give this frame some durability. I'm not sure if the embellishments show up in the picture but it is embellished with rhinestones.

The baby frame is basically made the same way. The baby in the buggy has 3 layers. Each layer is backed with foam tape. It is embellished with little delicate pink flowers and of course my favorite rhinestones.

One of the ladies asked where I found the frilly scallop shape. I love this scallop shape and thought it would be a nice versatile Silhouette cutting file to share here. I usually share these on the Silhouette Plus group but my blog is getting lonely...lol.  If you need it in a different format pleas leave me your email and I will emailit ot you.

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Finished Carousel that Moves

Happy as can be. These are the only words I can express to finally have this cutting file done. It was one little change at at ime but Woohoo!! it works and it moves. It moves manually but by gummy it moves. Now, I 'm trying to think of a cheap, easy, inexpensive way to make it move more automated. Making it where it can be wound up would be a nice touch. Any ideas? :-)

The worse part is to come. I need to write some written instructions. Aarrrgh!....I hat making written instructions.

After I took this pic. I decided to embellsih it with some pretty rainbow colored rhinestones. It looks great but I got too lazy to photograph it again. Maybe, I'll get this done later.

Our grand children are here and immediately wanted to play with it. I gave them the prototypes and let them play away. This one I want to hang around for a bit....lol

Exploration with More 3D Cutting Files

Making these 3D cutting files is really getting to be addicting. Something pops into my head and the next thing I know is the Silhouette Studio software is opened and some kind of designing starts to turn the cogs in my brain. Not a lot of cogs....lol.

This is one I'm working on now. It is the first one I've put together with the file the way it is. A little more perfecting and it will be shared in the In With A Buzz forum on the Silhouette Plus Group forum.

Carousels are something that brings out every child. I've always loved carousels. The carousel horses were made with Beccy's digi file she so freely and generously shares on her blog. I took Beccy's digis into Photoshop, colored them. and saved it as a .png file. Her carousel horse inspried me to make this cutting file.

If you've never visited Beccy's Place you have to go and drop in on her. It will be worth the trip.

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