Freebie: Sticky Notepad SVG

Are you always looking for a piece of paper to scribble something down? Then you will know how handy it is to have sticky notes around. I have sticky notes next to my laptop, in my diary, in the classroom and some random places. One thing you should know about me is that I love, love, love beautiful stationery!

FREE SVG: Sticky Notepad

I’m not by nature an organised person and admin is sometimes a nightmare for me. To have beautiful stationary just help me to use it in a productive way. It is fun to write notes and scribble on sticky notes if it looks pretty already.

I made this design for a sticky notepad using my Cameo Silhouette.

Materials:

❤ Scrapbook paper

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❤ Glue

❤ Rhinestone

❤ Silhouette Cameo

DOWNLOAD the cut file – it’s free!

This is another sticky note pad I made. The design is by artist Lori Whitlock . This cute cover 50 sticky note holder.studio file is available on Silhouette Design Store.

Hope you enjoy the free file and scribbling down notes!

If you have any problems with any of the files that I included in the ZIP file, please let me know.

Freebie: Matchbox Cover SVG

Today I'm sharing a free download for a matchbox cover!

I made and design these covers for  matchboxes using my Silhouette Cameo.

Free SVG | PNG | DVX file 

Let me do it step by step:

 ❤ DOWNLOAD the cut file - it's free!
 ❤ I used plain cardstock for cutting, but any beautiful paper will work.
 ❤ Cover your matchbox with the paper.
 ❤ Have some fun and decorate it with some embellishments, washi tape and buttons.
 ❤ I made it into a fridge magnet by sticking a magnet strip on the back of the matchbox.

Matchbox: Fridge Magnet

Hope you enjoy the free file!
If you have any problems with any of the files that I included in the ZIP file, please let me know.

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for your purchased designs/cut files 

I'm one of those people who will always look for a way to make things a little bit easier. Especially when you work with your Cameo Silhouette. 

Maybe you bought a beautiful, but more complicated design from Silhouette Store or purchased a design from somewhere else. 

The problem for me was that in my Library of  there is just a small thumbnail picture of the design and I want it bigger for reference!

The following card I made for one of my colleagues at work, she was expecting a little miracle. We all thought it will be a boy. Suprise! a lovely little baby girl, named Natasha. That's why the card was made with blue shades of paper and not pink.

Mouse Card

This sweet mouse card  by Daniela Moscone Design ID #112864 I purchased from Silhouette Design Store. There was a few small pieces that hat to be stuck together and everything must go to the right place.

I open up the design in Silhouette Design Store to view the picture and did a screenprint.
I open up Paint and copy and paste the picture of the card.

Copy and paste into Paint

From there I did some more planning. What colour is going where and what paper to use.
I just used the freehand drawing en text tool.

Planning of card

I can save the picture to look back at when I start setting out the different papers to cut. And this is really helpful putting all the delicate pieces at the correct place. Maybe this will take you a minute or two, but in the end it is really helpful.

If you do have a easier and more user friendly way to do this, I hope to hear from you. 

DIY paperclips

Like so many other people, especially those I follow on Instagram are big time into planning.

My Filofax aren't as awesome as most, but I'm trying. Maybe in the future I will share a page or two.

I always see the most beautiful paperclips. Most of mine I bought,  but I decided to try and make my own.

DIY Paperclips for my planner

Now the materials are very simple:
❤ Bright big paperclips
❤ Embellishments
❤ Glue gun

I'm lucky enough to have a Cameo Silhouette to make my own embellishments. I decide on some animals to make. Got the cutest designs from Silhouette Design Store.  You can use any embellishments that you have or make it  yourself.

Cute Animal Embellishments

After cutting and assembling the embellishments I got out my glue gun. This I used to stick the embellishments onto the paperclips.

I went a little overboard,  because this was so much fun to make. I decide to make some nice packaging and give it to some friends.

Cat and dog embellishments

Hope you like it as much as I do!
You are welcome to share your DIY paperclips and ideas with me.

DIY UPCYCLING TINS

I'm so happy and excited about my new classroom. I'm a Afrikaans Second Language teacher at a primary school in Middelburg, South Africa.

The year started out with me teaching in a tent under a tree. This alone was an experience. From mud, rain,wind blowing me and the learners away, very hot and sweaty conditions and even a scorpion one day in the tent. This is Africa for you!

Six months down the road and we have a new school building, I have a classroom made of brick and that is  brand new.  

The fun and creative part of teaching can start now!

This means I can start decorating my classroom. Yeah! Happy times!

Some of the few things I made is stationary organisers for everything that the learners leave behind in class.

Upcycling Stationary Organiser

I made use of all the stuff that I had around in my house. I reuse some empty tins and a Pringle container. The rest of the materials were washi tape, brown paper, twine, beautiful ribbon and vinyl.

I made labels from black vinyl and a cutoff piece of vinyl that you use for lining your cabinets. 

Cutting is very easy if you do have a cutting machine. I used my Silhouette Cameo for this purpose. But you can make labels from paper, stickers or anything that comes to mind.

Materials used to upcycle tins

I covered the Pringle container with brown paper.  The tuna tin I just made use of washi tape and twine to cover it. The other organisers for the pens and pencils I use washi tape and ribbon.

Like always I have to make use of my glue gun. Most things I stick together using it. What is a crafter without a glue gun!

Starting out I thought I'm going use more embellishments and decorations. Simplicity got the upper hand. I didn't go overboard. Sometimes you just need to know when to stop.

This reuse and decorating of tins went so much quicker that I thought. I'm happy with the end results and think this will make my classroom just that little  bit more personal.

DIY Stationary Organisers

Look out for future posts for ideas and decoration of my classroom. 

How to keep your sanity while weeding vinyl decals.

I think all of us had our hands in our hair some or other time when weeding vinyl. Surely I had! 

There is a little trick you can do in  Silhouette Studio V4 to make life or weeding for that matter just so much easier.

It is as simple as adding weeding lines and weeding boxes. This will take you a few minutes to do, but I promise you that it makes it in the end so easy and hassle free.

How to keep your sanity while weeding vinyl

Let's start! You ready?

Open up your Silhouette Studio V4

Keep the Shift key in and draw a horizontal line. By keeping in the Shift key it will keep the line straight.

Keep in the Shift key

Draw a straight line

Open the Replica Window and choose the second button (the one looking like a flower with a +)
Choose the amount of copies you need.
You will see there is a button with two arrows to custom the position.
I choose X=0 and Y=1 inch.
Select the line - click on "Replica"

Replica

Open your design in front of the lines. You can right click on your design > Bring to Front.

Bring to front

I draw a box around my design. This is my weeding box.
Adjust the lines that it fits into the weeding box. Space your lines by thinking of what will be the easiest to weed. Use your arrow key when you do the adjusting.

Adjust weeding lines and weeding box

Select all the lines you want to cut.
Right click > Make Compound Path
Make sure you select/highlight your designs and the lines.

Open Modify Window > Subtract All

Substract

By doing this you divide the vinyl in smaller parts to weed. No more worries of big pieces of vinyl that gets in the way and stick to each other when you weed.

Hope this was helpful.

DIY Fridge Magnets

The idea of making fridge magnets of clothespins are all over Pinterest . Looking at them all inspired me to try and make my own fridge magnets.

DIY Clothespins Magnets

Most materials I had at home. What I love about this DIY and craft is that it won't cost you an arm and a leg. Materials  I used was:

• Bamboo clothespins that I bought from Crazy Store.
•  Washi tape (a girl can never have enough washi tape!)
•  Dala Gel medium ( I didn't had Modge Podge, but you can use it)
• Small round magnets
• Glue gun
• Embellishments

Materials for DIY clothespins Magnets

I used four different washi tapes and secure it with gel medium. With my craft knife I just to clean up the small pieces that went over the edge of the clothespin. I put one more layer of gel medium on top of the washi tape. 

You can use any embellishments that you have. I made my own using my Silhouette Cameo and some shapes from the Silhouette Design Store. Rounding of the embellishments with some buttons and rhinestones.

Embellishments

Time to use my glue gun!
Glue the embellishments and small magnets on the clothespins.

Glue the magnets and embellishments

And like everything else the final part is the packaging. My Cameo Silhouette came in very handy and I used the sketch pen. Finally just to brighten up the packaging some twine.

I love making it and will definitely make some more for gifts!

Eish! The struggle of heat transfer vinyl.

Eish! A South African word that is used to express surprise, annoyance, pain, etc.
Now that is how I felt using heat transfer vinyl (HTV)!

The materials I used was blue HTV vinyl, weeding tool (this is my lifesaver!), denim pencil case, and my favourite the Silhouette Cameo.

Materials Used

It all started out easy doing a design on my laptop, using the Silhouette Cameo program and using  a design from Silhouette Design Store. (kitty cats.studio and design by Sophie Gallo)

 Now the main thing to remember is to mirror your image before you cut it on your Silhouette Machine.

Remember: Mirror your image!

HTV is different from your normal vinyl and that is the reason almost don't see the cutting lines. The first time I thought that my machine didn't cut and went into a panic state. But don't fear, if you look closely and in good light you will see the cutting lines.

Where is the cutting lines?

Now the next step is the weeding. You will need some patience and make sure you weed everything.  Not always easy, because I did struggle to see what should stay and what should go.

Weeding = Patience

Then came the big struggle... the ironing! Well, easier said than done. I just bought a new iron, nothing fancy. The iron let me down! First not enough heat and then it just doesn't wanted to warm up at all. Frustration and some cursing followed. The HTV just wasn't sticking and all the little parts moved around. Somehow the "u" got lost and the cat's tail folded in. Back to my Cameo Silhouette and cutting.

Last resort was to ask my neighbour to borrow her dry iron. And there was the magic -finally everything stuck!

The simple technique for HTV took so much longer. Didn't go as smooth as I planned. But what a great learning curve. I'm definitely more prepared what to expect with my next HTV project. 

All and all I'm happy with my pencil case for school ❤ Keeping all my stationery together for teaching. 

Would love to hear of your experiences with HTV.

HUGS AND KISSES - Scrapbook page

Hugs and Kisses
12 x 12 Scrapbook page

 Love is still in the air and I think it is just the time to celebrate by making a special page of the one I love. ❤

                                      And it is long weekend and no better time to do it!

Layout and design

  This is the part I enjoyed the most!

Getting out my Silhouette Cameo machine and start with the planning and design. 

Black, white and red inspiration

Black, white and red inspiration for scrapbook page. Keep it to the classic colour pallette.  What more do a girl need to get started to create, play and have fun 

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