I have a confession to make its the Saturday before mothers day and I have had such a busy week I haven't made any mothers day gifts yet! If you know me personally you will know I have just launched a new facebook page called Create Personalized Gifts which I work on making a range of products and putting together designs and I absolutely love it. Its very different to my business Said Lucy as its personalized photo gifts but that's taken most of my time this week so I'm sat at my desk in my jammies at 7.15 in the morning on my silhouette curio making some presents! The cardMy mother in law likes elephants so it had to be an elephant card. the file above cuts a complete card. But I didn't want a complete card I just wanted the elephant. Now in the software you can use the tools to remove him but I just the machine cut him out then I cut the rest by hand as it was very simple. Next I used the bellissima letter stamps from do crafts to add the word mum to a die cut banner using sizzix dies. Then I used a tonic die and stamp set to make a have a wonderful day sentiment. I did both these using a linen texture paper from sizzix. Lastly I added lots of dots using dovecraft 3d pearl effects. A slate coaster You can etch into slate using the curio but due to slates uneven texture its a little bit hit and miss but I wanted to give it a try for my mother in law. I picked a tribal elephant file by Studio Ilustrado. I sized the file to fit within my coaster and taped the coaster to the curio mat and sent it to cut. With the curio it only has so much pressure it can put into an object. Sadly the cut was to fine to really show up well. My mother in law is partially sighted so I'm sure she wouldn't have seen it. I decided to take a sharpie and do my best over the pattern. You can still see the etched line and its far from perfect but its the thought that counts. A coat of varnish to seal the design and its ready to box up.
I've still got another present to make but I will share that with you next week. What ever you are up to this weekend I hope you have a lovely one. Xxxx
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