Hunger Games Card made with Silhouette Cameo

Last month I had an idea for a card for my little sister, Jasmine. Jasmine is a very lucky sister because she has me to introduce her to wonderful books like The Hunger Games. Using my Silhouette Cameo, I made her a little card to celebrate our love of the series and the first movie:

"May the odds be ever in your flavor"

 

Inside the flap, Katniss with an ice cream cone

Font: Hunger Games Font Download for free here

One thing I love about the Silhouette is that I can download any font I want and use it in the program. This font worked really well with my Silhouette.

To make the ice cream cone, I cut a triangle out of brown paper and a little scoop of ice cream out of pink. I eyeballed both.

I also made some fun cards for Mother's Day. It was really fun to play around with my Silhouette and use some of the free shapes Silhouette gives away every week!

Shapes used: Mother's Day Card Sketch, Peacock Feather Background
Paper used: Heidi Swapp's "Carefree" collection, purchased at Tuesday Morning.

I am really loving my Cameo for card making!

I was not compensated or asked to promoto Silhouette Cameo


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Hunger Games Nails

Late summer of 2010 I had just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (in preparation for HP7 coming out that fall) and needed a new book to read. Jaime suggested the Hunger Games. I had heard of the book and thought I'd give it a shot so my mom brought it home one day and I got to reading. And 2 days later I was done (work, sleep and eating got in the way of me reading it even faster!) and dying to read the next two books. By the next week I had finished the series and was a Hunger Games fan. Friday afternoon, after I was done with class my friend and I went to see the Hunger Games. We just about jumped out of seats the entire movie we were so excited. We laughed and cried and ate a ton of food and it was all worth it. But before all that excitement we painted our nails.

We first started by painting our nails black. This is a nice background for flames of course.
Next was tricky. We used a yellow gold for this step. Ok now what you have to do is remove the polish from the brush (you know the drill, just getting the excess off using the neck of the polish bottle) then dip the tip in the polish so you have a small amount on the brush. Starting at the tip of your nail, brush lightly up. You'll want to flick it up slightly so it creates a wispy look half way up your nail. This is going to be the tip of your flames.
Now add orange starting at the tip of the nail again. This time go about 2/3 up the yellow. We still want to see the yellow.

Now add red at the tip covering up about half or less of the orange. With the orange and the red you don't need to be as careful when creating the wispy look since we're going to cover it up with sparkles.
Finally, to really make your flames burn bright, add a yellow and orange clear sparkle nail polish. Be generous at the tip of the nail and thin it out towards the tip of the flames. Go a little above the flames to make it really shine like flames. My friend also added a layer of larger gold sparkles to look like the fire was popping. It looked pretty dang good! Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

PS I added an arrow to one nail using a straight pin. Simply paint on the pin some yellow gold and transfer a straight line carefully onto your nail. Then paint the tip of the pin with a small amount of yellow and apply the tip and end of the arrow. Now you're definitely ready to see Katniss and Peeta...and Gale :)