I used my Silhouette Portrait to cut some designs I made for this layout: the title "Hopeful", the black leaves, and the white flourish border on the right side of the page. I used the black sketch pen with my Silhouette Portrait to write the caption at the bottom.
I use Silhouette Studio to design and cut almost all of my pieces that may resemble chipboard. For example, I designed the black "chipboard" leaves in Silhouette Studio. Before cutting, I duplicate each leaf one time so that I can make them a bit stiffer by gluing the two together after cutting and coloring them. They're made with 140 lb. watercolor paper and cut on my Silhouette Portrait. I usually color all of my pieces the color I want before I glue them together. The reason is that when I glue them together before painting them, particular paints or mists have trouble adhering to some glue that may have come out onto the front of the paper. In this example, I used Ranger's Distress Paint in "Black Soot" to color the leaves.
Before I made the video for this layout, I already had some flowers prepared. All 3 sizes of small roses are Wild Orchid Crafts flowers in
white. To make the pink roses, I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Color
Shot in "Cosmopolitan Pink".
As for the purple flowers on the page, I first misted them with Ranger's Perfect Pearls Mist in
"Grape Fizz" then, while wet, I used Prima's color bloom spray in
"Pressed Petal". After all of the flowers were dry, I added some Liquitex
acrylic gesso over the raised surfaces. The larger
purple flower is a Prima flower and the larger white flower is a KaiserCraft bloom.
"Hopeful" Layout Video Tutorial
You can see the dimension in these angles.
At the bottom is the small caption, "you never know what tomorrow may bring".
Anyhow, I hope you enjoy the tutorial! Any feedback would be appreciated. Have a lovely day, and thank you for visiting!
You did perfect Jess! There is no right or wrong way. It's what works for you <3
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Thank you so much Paula! :-) and I agree with you.
DeleteWow! Was going through Scrapbook.com for ideas and loved what you have done. I have a Cameo and never thought of using it for chipboard pieces. What a great idea! What number do you suggest for cutting out watercolor paper?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the compliment :-) to answer your question, for 140 pound watercolor paper, I put my blade setting to 7. Depending on your type of watercolor paper, check to see if there is a rougher side on one side and smooth on the other. When you put your paper on the mat, make sure to put the smooth side up. Also, depending on how intricate the design is, I suggest to set the cut speed to one. Yes, that is really slow, but I have not had great results myself with higher speeds. Also, I use a double cut for my setting. In the software, you can even set up your user defined paper! This way you can select it anytime you use the paper.
DeleteBeautiful layout Jessica! And congrats on starting up your blog! I'm now a proud follower : ). Looking forward to more of your wonderful work, Lisa : )
ReplyDeleteThank you Lisa! If you have a chance to watch part of the video, I think about 1 minute and 40 seconds into the video, my cat Crimson decided she wanted to be part of it :-) lol so I let her be in on it too.
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