Welcome to July’s CCC monthly hop, if you’re on the right track then you’ve just arrived here from the lovely Tracey Schultz! The latest in a bunch of monthly hops intended to encourage you to use those supplies that we all have squirrelled away – no judgement here, we all do it! Each month we will have a different theme and this month is outdoors!! We will also have an optional, suggested supply to use and this month we have patterned paper!

Patterned paper is definitely something that I have squirrelled away, so this is an absolutely perfect shove in the direction of using it for me! I found the ‘outdoors’ theme a little bit tougher to be honest; I just aren’t an outdoor-sy type! The closest I get to being truly ‘in nature’ is when we go for family holidays in a caravan in Wales. So that was the idea I ran with!

I got 100 designs free from the Silhouette Store when I registered my machine, and one of them was the cut file to create this caravan! I opened it and split it down into each individual element, so that I could cut it from several different papers. I decided to use an older Dovecraft release called ‘Lost & Found’, which is all themed around outdoors & camping and just seemed the perfect choice for this card.

I’m still such a newbie with the Silhouette sofware, so I’m not going to attempt any tutorials for now, but I will for sure add some tips & hints once I have had some more practice.

Once I had all of the pieces, I assembled the van and used one of my Sketch pens to draw out the sentiment, adding a line to make it into a border style. I used the Offset feature to create a cut line around it and once it was finished I added it onto a piece of green ombre paper, then attaching the whole thing to a kraft card base.