Danielle Calabro

I have been away for a while working on a new crafting adventure. A few months ago I invested in a Silhouette Cameo and I absolutely love this machine, I have discovered a love of making cards for friends and family and this machine has helped a lot. Learning the software has been challenging and I am sure I still have a lot to learn but getting there. I will be starting a new blog for the cards and other crafts and with possibly selling them once I have got a name and more ideas drawn out. Eventually I would like to start using HTV (heat transfer vinyl) but I will have to wait to get a heat press. In the mean time here is what I have been working on Created for my dad for Father's Day Crested for my husband for Fathers Day Created for my husband for his birthday Created for my Father-in-law for Fathers day  These are just a few of the card I have created over the last month and I look forward to doing many more. I love how much more personal these cards are i...

I am calling this my successful fail, this was my first attempt at using a couple of new tools. It was a fail because it did not turn out how I would have liked but successful because I learned some valuable lessons in the process. Lesson #1: The Pen holder for the Silhouette Cameo: I took a chance on this tool, I was not sure if it would work in the new machine, all the videos on you tube had shown the older machine. After using the Sketch pens made for the machine, which I am not a big fan of because my last card I made the ink skipped. I wanted to make sure the ink would not skip again so I figured I would test out a couple of pens in the holder. What I found was the shape of the pen makes a difference. I love my micron pens but I find they did not fit as well as the Copic multiliners, the Copic pens are fatter near the tip so it was a snug fit and did not slip. The Micron are thinner near the tip and it slipped from the holder. Here is the test sheet I did with a few different ...

I know as a woman that tough times are just that, tough times. You can either let them take over you or you can fight through them. Me, I would rather fight through them. We have a young lady at another branch (my 9-5 job), that has fallen on some tough times and I know that sometimes its nice to see that people do still care. I do not know her personally but I know the feeling, I am sure all of us do. I thought it would be nice to give her a card but not just any card, one that was just for her, apparently she loves high heels. This also pushed me to figure out how the hell do I get my artwork to cut out on cards. This is what I started with, sketched out and traced with pen: Easy enough, so here is the tough part, how do I get it to cut so it doesn't just leave an outline of a high heel in the middle of the card? I started first thing in the morning but with life I had to stop a couple of times, take the kids to the park, get lunch and do some grocery shopping. Once we g...

A couple of weeks ago I had a friend invite me to the "Stamp and Scrapbook" expo. At first I said no because I don't really do much with stamps or scrapbooking but after thinking about I figured I could take the kids and get them out of the house. My daughter loves to make little things out of paper so I figured it would give her some ideas. Well, I was kind of right, I found this little beauty at the expo and I absolute love it. This is a Silhouette Cameo cutter, the little blue box you see sitting in front of it was a sheet of watercolor paper that I had done a background on and could figure out what to do with it so I threw it on the cutting mat to see if this machine would cut it and as you can see, it did a fine job. the flowers are a stamp that I received in a mystery box at the expo. Since then I have been going to town cutting vinyl and the possibilities are almost endless, here are a few things I have done with the machine:  This is a box I m...