Anyone who has been following my blog, Instagram and Facebook posts knows I have been having a lot of fun creating cards with my print and cut watercolor designs lately along with my printable backgrounds, svg clipping masks and now birthday banners.
Some of the sentiment banners in the photos are my initial simpler iteration before creating designs for the Silhouette Store but I couldn’t resist including them because the cards are so darn pretty. I can’t tell you how much fun I have cutting these gorgeous floral designs to have on hand in a stash I can go through to make quick cards.
I just love the vibrant colour these designs can achieve with a lovely gloss photo paper. Keep reading to find out more about the products used in these designs and don’t forget to look for the card base template FREEBIE I use to make these square cards with!
For the backgrounds I have been using a technique in Silhouette Studio of using SVG files as a clipping mask. I have a quick tutorial here on how to do it. Elly Mae of Silhouette Secrets has a more in depth tutorial, and has done a live youtube video on the technique which you can watch on replay. It is a super fun technique which really creates some gorgeous grungy textured shapes on the card bases. I like to make mine just fit the edges of the card and sometimes have it continue over the fold depending on the shape of the clipping mask.
I have created a selection of SVG Clipping Masks which are available in the Silhouette Design store. Or you can use the PNG versions of the clipping masks which I have on Etsy, Design Bundles and Creative Market in other software like Adobe Photoshop. I will be continuing to add more SVG clipping masks to the Silhouette Design Store so make sure you keep checking for new ones! If you do a search for clipping masks they should all come up quick and easy to find.
I have a print and cut file ready for my card shape ready to go then add the filled clipping mask and print and cut the card base using the clipping technique in the tutorial. You may find it easier to do the filled clipping mask first, size to approximately the right size and then add the card base over the top as the clipping mask files can be slow files to use in Silhouette Studio due to all that grungy goodness. Then you won’t need to do as much resizing to tweak.
Unfortunately some photo papers have logo’s on the back and I am currently searching for a good quality gloss photo paper brand that doesn’t. If you know of some nice thick gloss photo paper brands available in Australia that don’t have a logo, please do let me know! The last set I bought has logos so I have been creating some simple card inserts so you can’t see them. When I find a brand I like I will keep buying it and use up the logo paper on the watercolor print and cut designs I adhere to the front with foam squares to give the 3D effect.
The Doodled Happy Birthday Banner Sentiment Print and Cuts are featured on several of these cards. This set comes as fully configured print and cut sheet so that all you have to do is print and cut the design on your cutting machine which gives you a very handy selection of Happy Birthday Sentiments to use for your Cards and Scrapbook Layouts. I have been LOVING having these on hand to make quick cards together with a selection of embellishments ready for creating gorgeous cards for friends and family. If you would like the banners without the sentiments so you can create bespoke titles or sentiments for cardmaking, scrapbooking or other paper crafting you might like the Blank Doodled Banner Sentiment Print and Cut designs.
If you’d like to try these beautiful card designs keep reading to find out which designs I have used on each card and don’t miss the FREEBIE at the end of the article!
I love the bright and cheerful colours in this card and I am loving using these single flowers as a focus on cards so the cards in this article will have a single flower with a seperate leaves sprig. I will be doing another article soon with a slightly different look so stay tuned.
This card features a Floral Art Grunge SVG Clipping Mask Border/Frame.
I clipped the Magenta Orange Yellow Abstract Grunge Monoprint Background to the clipping mask for the card base using the tutorial listed previously.
I then copied over the card base freebie included at the end of this article and print and cut the combined images as a print and cut design cut and scored by line as per the card base line colours.
I then print and cut the Red Watercolor Flower and Watercolor Leaves Sprig as well as the sheet of Doodled Happy Birthday Banner Sentiments and selected the one pictured.
Once these items were cut I attached them to the card base with adhesive foam squares and some pretty rhinestone adhesive bling as well!
This card isn’t in the first image but I thought it was worth including since it is the same style.
I used the exact same process as listed above to create this card and the following cards just with different supplies as follows.
I created a quick bespoke Happy Birthday Banner for this one to keep it nice and simple. I did a few extras to use for other cards with varying fonts as well.
For this one I used the Grunge Urban Drips Clipping Mask and Violet and Blue Grunge Painted Monoprint Printable Background to create the card base using the freebie included at the end of this blog post.
I used the Blue/Grey Watercolor Flower Print and Cut with the Lined Watercolor Leaves Print and Cut and attached with adhesive foam squares and added bling!
For this one I used a Floral Art SVG Clipping Mask to get the gorgeous floral filigree framing edges with the Peach, Blue and Navy Abstract Grunge Monoprint Background for the base card along with the card base freebie featured at the end of the article.
I also used the print and cut sheet of Doodled Happy Birthday Banner Sentiments and selected the one pictured.
The feature flower is the Soft Pink Abstract Watercolor Flower Print and Cut and I also used the Lined Watercolor Leaves Print and Cut.
For this one I used the Grunge Urban Drips Clipping Mask and Teal and Blue Girly Grunge Daisies Monoprint Background to create the design on the base with the card base freebie.
I used a bespoke banner for this card which I did a few of before I created the doodled ones for the Design Store.
I used the Blue and Yellow Abstract Watercolor Flower Print and Cut and the Lined Watercolor Leaves Print and Cut as well as some Rhinestone Bling!
For this card base cut using the freebie at the end of this article I used the Decorative Grunge SVG Clipping Mask with the Magenta & Blue Grunge Monoprint Background.
I used a bespoke sentiment for this card and the Blue Violet Abstract Flower Print and Cut and Lined Watercolor Leaves Print and Cut.
Once again I assembled by adhering the flower leaves and sentiment with adhesive foam squares and added some coordinating rhinestone bling.
With this card I used one of the Blank Doodled Banners Print and Cut designs and added the Happy 50th Birthday sentiment to it before cutting as this card was for a family member who was turning 50! I love that I can use these banners to create bespoke sentiments on the gorgeous doodled banner.
Once again I used the Grunge Urban Drips Clipping Mask which seems to be a favourite of mine! To add the gorgeous painterly colour to the clipping mask I used the Pink, Blue and Wine Abstract Monoprint Background and clipped it to the clipping mask to provide the grungy framed effect.
Then I added the Magenta and Pink Abstract Watercolor Flower Print and Cut and Watercolor Leaves Sprig Print and Cut and then again added some coordinating Rhinestone Bling.
And we are now getting down to my favourite cards. There is something about the colours in this one and the next one that absolutely love. They are just so striking. I intend to experiment more with vibrant colour combinations to provide striking results!
I used the Grunge Urban Drips Clipping Mask again along with the Pink, Blue and Wine Abstract Monoprint Background but this time with the different flower in a deeper tone it provides a more striking effect.
The flower is the Magenta and Violet Abstract Watercolor Flower Print and Cut which I complimented with the Watercolor Leaves Sprig Print and Cut and added some bling and a bespoke sentiment. As you can see even with similar designs you can get quite different looks by changing just one or two elements.
Now we come to my favourite. I just LOVE the vibrant colours in this one. They are bound to please anyone who receives this card because they are so darn pretty.
For this card base cut using the freebie at the end of this article I used the Decorative Grunge SVG Clipping Mask with the Fuscia, Peach and Teal Abstract Grunge Monoprint Background to create the gorgeous grungy framed border.
I also used the print and cut sheet of Doodled Happy Birthday Banner Sentiments and selected the one pictured.
The flower is the Red and Blue Abstract Watercolor Flower Print and Cut design together with the Lined Watercolor Leaves Print and Cut.
Each element was once again attached to the card base with adhesive foam squares to give the 3D effect and then I added some gorgeous coordinating rhinestone bling!
Now don’t miss the card base freebie. I have set it to fit on a 8.5×11″ print and cut page but if you are wish to work bigger it resizes easily to a 5×5″ card (or larger!) by making the dimensions 5×10″. I have set the score line to purple so it is easy to select it to cut and score by line. The cut line is in red. I have left it as transparent fill so that it doesn’t matter if your clipping mask is in front of or behind the cut lines. This SVG will work in any software although as it was created in Silhouette Studio you may need to adjust color fills and cut/stroke paths to suit your own software needs. Click here to download the FREEBIE! You will need to unzip the file before use.
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