A Practical Easel

Here's an easel that can be attached to the back of a picture or card holder, etc. Since I just finished some business card holders I wanted to use them on a counter instead of a bulletin board.

The light lines are the fold lines. After you fold it you can glue down the long narrow edge to your item. The easel can be folded flat when not in use. File is here.







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Another business card holder...

Another craft edge (sure cuts a lot) forum member, Amy, designed this wonderful card holder to use on bulletin boards...I'm making an easel to allow it to stand on a counter or table. Adding some texture with the Cuttlebug Embossing folders gives it even more pop! Thanks Amy for a great design! Her blog link to download this file is here!

I have a another business card holder here





On this one, I cut the file a little too large so after I resized I cut the black inset so I could slip my card in the slits. On my file, I select 'Keep Proportions' and set the file for about 8.1" for height.

Business Card Holder

This was a simple holder I came up with...it's handy, too, because you can take it apart and flatten it if you need to or the feet could be bent against the back if you need a card holder for a cork board. We've made others in the past to hang cards on community cork boards...I may design another holder to accommodate a push pin...hmmm, I'll have to think about that.

As you can see it's a basic design but pay attention to where you need to fold.



You will need to bend the feet gently to fit them in the slits in the back.
I set the size in scal at W:7.500 H:4.00
Business Card Holder file here.

Geeky Girl - she's baaacck!

Here are instructions for piecing her together...I think it is the easiest way to me.




This fun image has become the mascot of sorts for the forum Papyrus Jungle. You'll find her lurking about over there...after all it is all about her! It's a place for learning more about scal, inkscape, photoshop, illustrator, etc...

She's shown up in other ways and places, too...


In scal in the preference box I set the Style menu on Blackout for the main body...whatever color you want her to be. You can use scraps of other colors for the hair and dress, shoes and belt since the blackout mode doesn't affect those elements.


Then I move the image to the bottom of the mat and just cut the regular image in black and put over the solid skin-toned piece and insert the dress and shoes. The belt band can go over the dress or not (optional).




File in Silhouettes.

Another Onsie design or two...

I don't know what happens to me when fall comes but I go through these creative surges so I was working on another onsie design in Inkscape and here we go! These were done using the K&Company Specialty Paper by Brenda Walton.




I used this gorgeous heavier 2-sided paper and place the elements accordingly. On this design, I matched the collars up instead of having a drop collar like the first one with the bib design on the front. I also added some little flowers.

I also added an additional longer zigzag element for the back just for fun!


Also, you'll notice on the fronts you can change the look by shifting the zigzag design on the front to create a diamond shape, too. You may want to slightly trim the ends of that element after you decide how you want to use it. I love the two-side papers because you can get complementary colors without a lot of work!
The scg and scut files are in the Baby Bootie and Onsie link with the other design.

These are all the elements...After importing svg, I select "Keep Proportions" and set it at 11.4" for maximum size. (The dark purple element has been reversed to use the opposite side so it won't look quite right if you overlay it without reversing paper.)






With this design I added extra collars and ties that can be left off the virtual mat and easily accessed if you want to cut them in other colors.

Embrace your inner geek!

I saw a similar image sometime back when a crafter had used it for a card. I thought it was great! She has cracked me up ever since and she's popped up on several forum posts I've made. Will post the svg file soon if you want it! I've simplified my version but you're welcome to do your own! More about her and file link here!


I never know where she'll show up next!

More onsies...

I finally had a chance to cut more onsies...I want to do other designs but this is a great basic design and nice opportunity for a variety of embossing options. There is a link in my Sept onsie post with a link to some great favor boxes done by another crafter...it will give you some great ideas! These boxes were done with the DCWV Spring Stack printed paper.

The back would give an opportunity to print out baby stats if this was used after the baby was born...sometimes they don't give us a choice!

Link is here and is on sidebar, too, under Baby Bootie and Onsie Favor Box.

In these pics you can see I just flip-flopped my colors for the accents and use some different embossing designs with the Cuttlebug. However, the one design is so tight and small it makes the paper a little fragile so I took a second onsie and lined the inside with a pretty patterned paper and that gave it some structure and strength.