Looking to add bold, expressive colour to your next creative project? These vibrant Watercolor Art Journal Backgrounds by Clikchic Designs are the perfect blend of abstract texture and painterly charm. With layered brushwork, rich colour palettes, and hand-painted details, they’re ideal for junk journaling, digital scrapbooking, card making, and mixed media art.
Each background is a high-resolution printable and designed to fill cuttable shapes in Silhouette Studio® for stunning print & cut designs. Whether you prefer warm reds and pinks or cool purples and blues, you’ll find the perfect match among these eight unique backgrounds.
Give your crafts that expressive, hand-painted touch with Clikchic Designs. Whether you’re designing cards, ephemera, or digital pages, these backgrounds are sure to spark your creativity.
If you love making handmade cards and invitations, you know how important presentation is. The Square Envelope SVG Cutting File by Clikchic Designs makes it quick and easy to create elegant envelopes that perfectly coordinate with your cards—adding a beautiful, professional finish without the extra effort.
Exclusively on the Silhouette Design Store, you’ll find a versatile square envelope file ready to be resized for any project. With just a quick scale adjustment in Silhouette Studio, you can create envelopes to match a variety of square card sizes.
To help you get the sizing just right, use this handy guide to resize your envelope design:
5 Inch Card – Resize to 8.721 inches wide
5.25 Inch Card – Resize to 9.128 inches wide
5.5 Inch Card – Resize to 9.529 inches wide
5.75 Inch Card – Resize to 9.976 inches wide
6 Inch Card – Resize to 10.406 inches wide
6.25 Inch Card – Resize to 10.793 inches wide
6.5 Inch Card – Resize to 11.190 inches wide
Want to skip the resizing and get all seven sizes instantly? Grab the full multi-size set from:
To make it even easier, a step-by-step video tutorial is available showing just how simple it is to assemble your envelope once it’s cut. The folding and gluing process is fast and beginner-friendly—making this an ideal project for any paper crafter.
Quick to cut, simple to assemble, and stunning in presentation—this envelope file makes it easy to elevate your cardmaking with coordinated envelopes for every occasion.
Here are the alternate envelope sizes available in my stores:
Create a heartfelt handmade card this Mother’s Day using your Silhouette cutting machine. This tutorial combines a beautiful watercolor floral background with a bold sentiment for a layered design full of colour and charm. It’s a simple but elegant way to show your love and appreciation.
Don’t miss the Instagram reel showing the process at the end of this tutorial.
Optional Envelope cutting file to create coordinating envelope – Download here
Step-by-Step Instructions:
1. Create the Card Front In Silhouette Studio, draw a rectangle sized 10.2″ x 5.2″ and fill it with the watercolor floral background. To fill a shape with a pattern in Silhouette Studio, select the shape, open the Fill Panel, click the Pattern Fill tab, and choose your desired pattern from the available options or import your own. The slightly larger rectangle acts as a bleed, ensuring the background prints edge-to-edge.
2. Add the Card Template Paste the 10″ x 5″ card template over the background and centre it. This template includes cut and score lines to form your card base.
3. Enable Print & Cut Settings Turn on Print & Cut with registration marks enabled. Print the design on photo paper or white cardstock using your home printer.
4. Cut by Line in Silhouette Studio When sending your printed design to your cutting machine, make sure to cut by line colour. Turn off cutting for the larger background rectangle—this is only used for bleed and should not be cut. Ensure only the template border and score lines are active in your cut settings.
5. Fold the Card Once cut, fold along the score line to form your card base.
6. Import the Sentiment Open the Best Mum Ever or Best Mom Ever sentiment SVG in Silhouette Studio.
7. Cut the Sentiment Cut the sentiment from white cardstock or any colour of your choice.
8. Create and Cut an Offset Use the Offset tool set to 0.085″ to create a border for your sentiment. Adjust the offset shape as needed using the Edit Points tool, especially if you’d like to remove small inner cut areas based on your preference.
9. Assemble the Sentiment Glue the sentiment onto the sentiment border (offset layer) and let it dry.
10. Finish the Card Add adhesive foam tape to the back of the assembled sentiment and adhere it to the front of your card for dimension and impact.
Your Finished Project
A beautiful, professional-looking handmade card full of layered texture and vibrant colour—ready to make any Mum or Mom feel extra special this Mother’s Day.
Looking for the perfect envelope to match your card? Make it extra special with my Square Envelope Cutting File—ideal for creating a beautifully coordinated finish!
Scroll on to see the video of the card making process.
One of the common issues for new Silhouette Studio users and no doubt for users of other cutting file software is that by default most of the time, svg files will open in your default browser and the icon will be the icon of your default browser. For example, for Chrome Users, it will be a Chrome icon and Edge users it will be an Edge icon. That doesn’t mean however that the file cannot be opened in other software, just that if you double click on the file it will open in your browser rather than your cutting file software.
From any software, you can open any file that the program recognises from the software itself. In silhouette studio, for example you go to the File menud and choose Open or use the shortcut Ctrl + O. You don’t need to change defaults to be able to do this.
But for many of us, who like to browse for files using the File Explorer, it is nice to have them open into Silhouette by default and it is easier to recognise the file by the Silhouette Icon rather than a browser icon.
In the following screenshot you can see what my svg file looks like before I changed it to defaut open in Silhouette Studio. Note that I have file extensions turned on as well so you can clearly see what file types are. I also use file naming conventions that include the file type in the file name so that people who don’t have file extensions turned on can still see the file type.
As you can see before I made the change, my svg icon has the Chrome icon by default. This means it will by default open in Chrome when you double click on it.
If you right click on the file a menu will come up with the option on it to “Open With”.
Click on “Open With” which will then give you a sub menu to choose from where you will have the option “Choose another app”.
Click on “Choose another app”.
Once you have done that a new window will come up with a list of program options. Yours will likely not have Silhouette Studio in it like mine does. Mine only does because I have set it as a default software previously. Therefore, you will need scroll down to click on the pink “More Apps” at the bottom of the list to give you more options.
Note: In older versions of windows (Windows 10 & previous) there will be a checkbox you need to check marked “Always use this app to open .svg files” before continuing.
Once you click on “More Apps” more apps will appear in the window and you will be able to scroll further down till you see “Look for another app on this PC”.
For Windows 11+
Scroll down and click on Choose an app on your PC,
Scroll down till you find the folder “Silhouette America” and double click on the folder to open it, then double click on “Silhouette Studio”. There you will find the app executive file named Silhouette Studio which may or may not have the .exe at the end of the file name.
Click on the open button. In Windows 11+ you need to select the Always button on the following screen. In Windows 10 and earlier having used the “Always use this app to open .svg files” checkbox negates this step.
This will simultaneously set svg files to always open in Silhouette Studio but also immediately open the file in Silhouette Studio.
As you can see now instead of having the Chrome icon on the .svg file it now has the Silhouette Studio Icon which means that the program Silhouette Studio will going forward open .svg files.
If you do not wish to do this process to ensure svg files always open in Silhouette Studio you can also simply click on the file menu in Silhouette Studio, select Open and browse to where your svg is saved on your computer, select the file and click open to open it in Silhouette Studio.
Many of you will be aware of the recent updates in the Sihouette Design Store. Unfortunately it did not go as planned and there have been some issues. Rest assured that the tech team at Silhouette is working hard to resolve the issues and while there is still work to be done, you can safely purchase from the Silhouette Design Store.
There have been some issues with Library Syncing between the Silhouette Studio Software and the Silhouette website but the team at Silhouette are working hard to resolve this issue. In the meantime if you need files purchased through Silhouette urgently you can download them directly from the Silhouette Design Store website to access your files. Silhouette Secrets has done a wonderfully informative video to aid users who need help with this. I would recomend watching it if you are unsure how to go about downloading files directly from the Silhouette Design Store.
Silhouette Store Contributing Artists have been all affected by the downtime caused by the website upgrade issues and I would recommend you visit the store and follow your favourite artists so that you can find your favourite designers more readily.
Unfortunately my Clikchic Designs store front has dropped off the list of contributing artists and as a result it is more difficult to find. To my lovely customers I must ask you to kindly take the time to visit my store link, and click on follow next to my logo so that my store appears in the list of contributing artists when you are logged in to the store and as a result you will more easily find my new designs! I am confident when the most urgent updates are complete my store will be re-added to the list, but if you click follow, in the interim you will more easily be able to find my store, and it will be conveniently there for you to easily find at any point going forward. Below are some screenshots on how to follow my store from the store front, or one of my products.
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