Who doesn’t love a Fairy Penguin?

Fairy Penguins are undeniably adorable, and if you haven’t heard of them, they are a small penguin species native to Australia. Inspired by their whimsical name, I painted a watercolor Fairy Penguin and added whimsical fairy wings, a fairy crown, and a wand to create a beautiful watercolor print and cut Fairy Penguin. To complement this charming design, I created a birthday sentiment with the perfect pun, making it an ideal addition to your crafting projects.

These delightful print and cut designs are versatile and perfect for cardmaking, scrapbooking, art journaling, and more. You can find the store links for the sentiment and Fairy Penguin below, along with links for the SVG Clipping Mask and Printable Background used to create the card in the image. Whether you’re a seasoned crafter or just starting, these designs will add a touch of magic to your creations. Explore the enchanting world of Fairy Penguins and let your creativity soar with these beautiful crafting elements. Happy crafting!

Each of these elements are available in the Silhouette Design Store.

Want to know how to do the grungy framing on the background? Check out the tutorial!

Don’t miss the FREE Card Base Template below.

Have a Fairy Happy Birthday Fairy Penguin Card created with SVG Clipping Mask and Printable Watercolor Background by Clikchic Designs
Square Card Base Template Freebie

Click here to download the card base FREEBIE! You will need to unzip the file before use. It is a simple but super useful file to have on hand to have a head start on your square card bases. It is also super easy to resize to suit your needs.

Use these Beautiful Watercolor Sunflowers for Fall Themed Crafting

Discover the charm of fall with this exquisite collection of Watercolor SVG Print and Cut Sunflowers and Leaves. Designed for all your autumn-themed crafting needs, these beautiful designs bring warmth and cheer to any project. Whether you’re into cardmaking, scrapbooking, or art journaling, these sunflowers and leaves add a touch of elegance and seasonal flair. Each piece is meticulously painted to capture the vibrant colors and intricate details of fall foliage, making them a delightful addition to your crafting supplies.

Enhance your creative projects with these stunning watercolor designs and let your imagination run wild. Visit the Silhouette Design Store today to explore these lovely additions and bring the beauty of fall into your crafting. Don’t miss out on these perfect elements to elevate your autumn crafts. Check them out via the links listed below and start creating your fall masterpieces.

Wish Dog Lovers a Paw-esome Birthday with This Adorable Design

Do you know a dog lover who would love a Border Collie themed Birthday card? I have created a beautiful watercolor painting of our Border Collie and turned it into a print and cut design for your crafting pleasure. It is so darn cute it needed a cute pun to go with it, so I created a furry friend pun for a themed Birthday sentiment “Have a Paw-esome Birthday“.

I created this card using this tutorial to create the grungy framing of the background using the Dotted Mess Grunge Clipping Mask and Fuschia, Teal and Peach Abstract Grunge Monoprint Printable Background. You can snag the free SVG card base cutting file I use to create the print and cut design for printing. Don’t miss it at the end of this post. It is a simple design but saves time to have it as a go to starting point for your card making.

To decorate the card I cut the Watercolor Border Collie Dog Print and Cut design and the Have a Paw-esome Birthday Sentiment both available at The Silhouette Design Store and adhered them to the card using adhesive foam squares to give the 3D appearance I then added adhesive dew drops and diamontes for some additional bling and colour. Don’t miss the Instagram Reel of my design process.

These gorgeous designs aren’t just useful for card making, they are also fabulous for scrapbooking, art journaling and more!

Have a Paw-esome Birthday Card Featuring Watercolor Border Collie, SVG Clipping Mask, printable Background and adorable pun Birthday sentiment by Clikchic Designs

Check out the process video on Instagram.

 Click here to download the card base FREEBIE! You will need to unzip the file before use. It is a simple but super useful file to have on hand to have a head start on your square card bases. It is also super easy to resize to suit your needs.

Square Card Base Template Freebie

Sometimes You Just Need To Congratulate Someone Who Has Done Something Great!

I have had three family members recently participate in varying roles in the Musical Production of the Sound of Music at a local High School. Two nieces had major roles and my sister in law who teaches at the school was the director. To say we were blown away by the stellar efforts of all three was an understatement. So of course I wanted to create some cards for them to tell them so and congratulate them on their hard work and achievements with the production.

Congratulations Cards Created with Congratulations Doodled Banner, SVG Clipping Masks and Printable Backgrounds on Card Base and Print and Cut Floral Bouquets by Clikchic Designs

I just love the vibrant colours coupled with the grungy goodness and gorgeous watercolor bouquets on these cards. I’d like to think they would brighten the day of any recipient who received them.

All three cards are created with the Congratulations Doodled Curved Banner Sentiment Print and Cut Design. If you prefer the banner without a sentiment so you can create a bespoke sentiment or title there is also the Blank Doodled Curved Banner Print and Cut design.

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. I use a card base template, for which I have created a freebie to make creating these cards easy! Check out this article for the FREEBIE!

Purple and yellow are complimentary colours so I wanted purple featured in the background to make this gorgeous Bouquet really POP. So I chose this Violet and Blue Grunge Monoprint Background to clip to the Decorative Grunge SVG Clipping Mask I used to create the framed effect on this card base using the tutorial mentioned above.

Aren’t sunflowers such a warm and friendly flower? I love them and I chose a gorgeous Sunflower Watercolour Bouquet Print and Cut design as the feature for this card. I adhered the sentiment banner and bouquet with adhesive foam squares and added some adhesive rhinestones and dew drop beads to finish off the card.

Congratulations Cards Created with Congratulations Doodled Banner, SVG Clipping Masks and Printable Backgrounds on Card Base and Print and Cut Floral Bouquets by Clikchic Designs
Congratulations Cards Created with Congratulations Doodled Banner, SVG Clipping Masks and Printable Backgrounds on Card Base and Print and Cut Floral Bouquets by Clikchic Designs

For the recipient of this card I knew her favourite colour was purple, and that she also likes pink so I thought it would be a lovely background which would also coordinate well with the bouquet feature.

I chose the Grunge Urban Drips SVG Clipping Mask for this card and the Purple and Magenta Abstract Watercolor Background is what I clipped to the mask to create the gorgeous grungy framed edge.

I used the Spring Mothers Day Watercolor Flower Bouquet Print and Cut for this card, and as you can see it works for much more than just Mothers Day. I just happened to paint this bouquet around Mothers Day and thought it would work beautifully for Mothers Day Cards!

Once I printed and cut the card base I adhered the sentiment banner and bouquet with adhesive foam squares and added some rhinestone bling and dew drop beads to finish it off!

Finally for this card I wanted to feature classic roses and chose the Pink and Violet Grunge Monoprint Background together with the Floral Art SVG Clipping Mask to create the gorgeous grungy floral frame effect.

The Roses are one of my favourite bouquet designs called Red and Pink Watercolor Roses Bouquet for Valentines or Mothers Day Print and Cut. Again, not just for Mothers Day or Valentines!

I just love the combination of the Red and Pink Roses with the Violet and Pink grungy background on this card. I find the combination beautifully striking and vibrant.

Once I adhered the sentiment banner and bouquet with adhesive foam squares and added some adhesive rhinestones and dew drop beads to finish this beautiful card.

Congratulations Cards Created with Congratulations Doodled Banner, SVG Clipping Masks and Printable Backgrounds on Card Base and Print and Cut Floral Bouquets by Clikchic Designs

If you haven’t already done so don’t forget the grab the card base template freebie from this article! It isn’t a complex design but it is ready to go!

I Have So Much Fun Crafting with Stylish Birthday Banners and Beautiful Watercolor Florals

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.

SVG Clipping Masks by Clikchic Designs available at the Silhouette Design Store.

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.

Happy Birthday Banner Sentiment Label Print and Cuts by Clikchic 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!

Happy Birthday Cards Created With Floral Print and Cut Designs, SVG Clipping Masks and Birthday Banners by Clikchic Designs

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!

Happy Birthday Cards Created With Floral Print and Cut Designs, SVG Clipping Masks and Birthday Banners by Clikchic Designs
Happy Birthday Cards Created With Floral Print and Cut Designs, SVG Clipping Masks and Birthday Banners by Clikchic Designs

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!

Happy Birthday Cards Created With Floral Print and Cut Designs, SVG Clipping Masks and Birthday Banners by Clikchic Designs
Happy Birthday Cards Created With Floral Print and Cut Designs, SVG Clipping Masks and Birthday Banners by Clikchic Designs

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.

Happy Birthday Cards Created With Floral Print and Cut Designs, SVG Clipping Masks and Birthday Banners by Clikchic Designs
Happy Birthday Cards Created With Floral Print and Cut Designs, SVG Clipping Masks and Birthday Banners by Clikchic Designs

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.

Happy Birthday Cards Created With Floral Print and Cut Designs, SVG Clipping Masks and Birthday Banners by Clikchic Designs

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.

Square Card Base Template Freebie

Ready to Print and Cut Happy Birthday Sentiment Labels

Creating cards and scrapbooking just got easier with our ready-to-go Happy Birthday Sentiments! These beautiful sentiments feature a charming doodled grunge border, perfect for adding a touch of personality to your projects. Whether you’re crafting a birthday card or designing a scrapbook page, these sentiments will save you time and effort. For those who prefer to customize their designs, we also offer blank labels, allowing you to choose your own font and create personalized sentiments. This flexibility ensures that your creations are unique and tailored to your style. Our Sentiment Print and Cut labels come in various shapes, including oval, providing even more options for your crafting needs. Explore our collection and find the perfect sentiments to enhance your projects. Links to each design are provided below, and you can easily browse other products by viewing the collection underneath each linked product. Elevate your card making and scrapbooking with these versatile and stylish sentiment labels today! Scroll on to see the cards I created with the Braketed Happy Birthday Sentiments below!

See the designs used in these cards below.

Designs used in the Cards I created with the Doodled Grunge Bracketed Happy Birthday Sentiment Print and Cut Labels are as follows. I used this tutorial to create the SVG Framed effect on the printed card base.

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