Fathers Day Card using Silhouette Curio

This is the card I made for my Dad this year for Fathers Day. This was my first attempt at using the etch feature with my Silhouette Curio. I already owned a Silhouette Cameo, and loved it, but when I found out that the Curio can emboss and etch, I just had to have it. I ordered mine through Amazon. They have ready made kits for whatever you want to do with it, but I found it cheaper at the time, to order what I wanted piece by piece. For the metal image of the word FATHER I used

Metal Etching Sheets, Embossing Mat, Fine Emboss Tool, and my Silhouette Curio. I typed FATHER into the Silhouette program and choose they Western script. They type of metal it is etched on is a thick aluminum. It was still thin enough to use scissors to cut down to size. I used different coordinating scraps of paper I had laying around for the background. The tools were an image I found on Google. I printed them up, colored them with Gel Pens, and then used a clear sealer on top of them, so they would be shiny. For the metal parts on the tools I also used a silver metallic gel pen. I had cut them out...it took some time...I secured everything together using double sided tape for the papers, and foam tape for the Metal saying and tools. My Dad seemed to really like it. As for me, it was a learning experience. I know a lot of people have made some amazing things with the etch, stipple, and emboss features of the Curio, but I'm not one of them. I am still learning. I haven't even tried etching metal sense I completed this card. I have some things I would like to try, but haven't yet. If I had to pick between the two machines I still like my Cameo more, but that may be because I've been using it longer, and know more of the in's and out's...or I did, until they updated and changed around their program, so now I'm learning it again... :-(

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Mad Hatter Spray Paint Art

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