{6.11.2013} oh danny boy…

i love babies…

Mainly the furry kind.  Human babies are OK too, but four legged creatures make my heart all a melty.   We have been waiting for this little face for 11 months…

This is my cousin’s new colt… Danny.  Gah, he is just too adorable for words.  I wish I could see him in person, but he lives half the country away.  This is his momma’s first foal and she did a good job don’tcha think.  Heehee.

I made my cousin quite a few announcements and sent them on their way {doh, I forgot to photograph those}.  But I also included this welcome baby card and gift too.

Oh.em.gee is right… danny is too adorable and that is the first thing I said when I saw his picture.  I found a horse shape for Photoshop online and created my own Silhouette file.  I don’t feel comfortable sharing another person’s creation (even though it was a freebie and I converted it to a new format) otherwise I would have happily shared the file. You can find the shape file here.  You could create your own if you’d like.

Creating your own Silhouette cutting file

This is what I do… first I open my image in Photoshop and fill it in perfectly solid black.  Then I remove all the white and crop the image.  Save the file as a .png and then open it in the Silhouette Studio Software.  Click on the Trace window which is a blue box and a yellow outline.  Click the ‘Select Trace Area’ and make sure you highlight the entire area.  Depending on the image, you will either want just the outer outline (like I used for the horse in my card) or the Trace button (which will do both the outline and inner lines (say you had a tire, it would cut the outline of the tire and the inner wheel).  Then I will save it to my library so I can use it over and over again.

After I cut the horse out, I popped him up on the card, placed some fun chevron paper behind and brought out my Paper Smooches Slang Gang stamp set.  LOVE this set.  It is full of words I say on an hourly basis.  LOVE it.  The inside says ‘seriously adorbs!’

This week’s challenge at Simon Says Stamp are masculine cards.  Danny is a boy, so this qualifies right?

I couldn’t think of the perfect gift to send Danny’s way, so I’m starting his treat fund!  I know it will be put to good use.  Ha.  I see lots of carrots and apples headed his way.

Hope your day is full of treats too!

other: thickers (American Crafts)