Paper cutting

You may wonder: "Why hand-cut paper when you have a Silhouette SD?!"  Apparently, though, efficient cutting of textured, card stock on a Silhouette SD requires your tools/accessories to be fully functioning.  A sticky cutting pad that doesn't stick means that the cutting mechanism just moves the paper around and cuts... just not what it's supposed to.

Anywho, I couldn't put off this project an longer, certainly not long enough to wait for the shipment from silhouette.com (that I ordered today) to come in.  So, instead, I chose to just cut the paper by hand... the paper for my lamp... my beautiful lamp... the lamp you see below and that is available at my Etsy shop.

And with the light off...

My new Etsy shop!

Hello everyone!

To your left, you should see a few thumbnails of some items I just put up on my new Etsy shop!  Nothing there was made by me (at least not yet) but they're all unique and vintage items that I found while scavenging around flea markets, yard/garage/estate sales, and the like... which is one of my favorite weekend activities.

Please, take a look!  If you message me here about an item, I'll be sure to give you a discount! ;)

So maybe I said...

that when I found perfect paper for my lamp I would both add it AND refinish it.  And maybe I didn't refinish it...

So, I never found beautiful, perfect, wonderful printed vellum and regular scrapbooking paper is much too thick and dims the lamp's light way too much.  So, I mentally went through options and settled on finally busting out my Silhouette SD and cutting out a *snicker* silhouette for my lamp.  Choosing the paper was as simple as picking brown card stock over black (because I do want to refinish the lamp some day).  I spent most of today finding the perfect graphic.  Now, I originally wanted a grass or dandelion lower border only. But when I found this one, although I initially passed over it, it nagged at me and nagged at me.  I started working on this song lyric idea, but if I cut out text, I feared that I still would be blocking out too much light.  So, I used the border you see below.   Thank you Lori Whitlock over at the Silhouette Online Store.  I had a million ideas before I settled on this, and it was no small decision!  But now that it is up and I've turned it on, I can see why it nagged at me!  Look at the shape of the lamp itself!  haha, somewhere in my head, I was screaming "it's perfect!"

...the end :)