Cutting Fabric on the Silhouette Cameo

Hiya, This is just a brief post to show that it is possible to cut fabric with your Silhouette Cameo. This rose was cut using the standard ratchet blade on a regular cutting mat. The fabric has been pre-treated with Beacon Stiffen Stuff and allowed to dry thoroughly before cutting.

The rose cut file comes from Mom's Garden Gifts SVG Kit at SVG Cuts.

Craft, Hobby + Stitch International 2014 - part 1

If you aren't following the action at Craft Hobby + Stitch International trade show at Birmingham NEC you should! The Twitter feed is buzzing at @CrftHobbyStitch.

My contribution to the show has been to make a host of items using some of the vast range of Beacon Glues for Mark at Creative Products Distribution.

Now the show is underway I can share them with you.

You'll already have seen the hot air balloon made entirely with stiffened fabric using Beacon Stiffen Stuff.  I found another Beacon product, Fabri-Tac was perfect for sticking the stiffened pieces together, and I used this combination again to make this fabric rose.

You can see how beautifully the pieces cut on my digital cutter, as the stiffened sheets were perfectly flat and made full contact with the cutting mat.

 

 

 

I decided to test even smaller cuts, and made this little information card to go along with the balloon.

This final picture shows just how small that swag is (yes those are inches!).

I'll share more of my makes with you in part 2.

Design Credits:
Janet Packer (The Crafting Quine),
3D Balloon, 3D Tag base, Rose: SVG Cuts

CHA Makes - Anaheim 2014

What a great start to the New Year! 

For the first time ever I've had some of my crafty makes on show at a Trade Exhibition; the CHA 2014 Conference & Trade Show from January 10 – 14, 2014 in Anaheim, California. They were on display on the Beacon Adhesives booth by the UK distributors Creative Products Distribution. Yay!

Just 2 items were displayed: the telephone featured in my designer paper post and on my blog header and a hot air balloon made entirely from fabric, string and a LOT of Siffen Stuff.

Fabric Hot Air Balloon

I'll share in a later post  how to prepare and cut cotton fabric to use on your digital cutting machine to make this and other intricate fabric cuts without the need of an iron-on stabilizer.

Card Telephone