Halloween Record Album Notecard

Hello, I've been reorganizing my craft supplies, and boy do I have so much. There are so many stamps and dies that I haven't even used yet. A lot of these items were must-haves for me at the time so I thought, so I'm really going to try to cut back on stamps and dies and use my cutting machine. My biggest problem is watching YouTube videos of Design Team members making adorable projects with these stamps and dies. Like I just watched one of Concord and 9th's using their Greatest Hits Dies and I almost went to order it but instead, I looked in the Silhouette Design Store which I'm a member of, and sure enough, a couple came up. I ended up using the one from Lori Whitlock called Record Library Card.

I just wanted to use the record alone as the insert so I trimmed down the top of the cover and didn't use the piece that the record attaches to. Why I love some dies so much is the fact they add nice embossing features to them and I wanted the rings that go around the record so I offset a bunch of circles and used the cutting machine to score them on black-white core cardstock, I think my Cameo 4 did a good job.

Here is the record inside the holder, I used white cardstock on the back so I can use it as a notecard. The paper I used is one of Doodlebug Design's older collections Booville, twine is from Annies Paper Boutique Grape Limeade and the Monster Mash is a Miss Kate's Cuttables which I thought was perfect for this Halloween record album!

Polar Bear Hug Bendi Card

Hi there, today starts Lori Whitlock's 12 Days of Christmas, she will have a free SVG file from her online store every day from the 1-12th. Today's free file is the Polar Bear Hug Bendi Card. Also, today Only, Get 40% Off All files under the Cards Category at her SVG shop when you use the code CARDS40 at checkout.

Project was cutout on my Silhouette Cameo 4 and paper and stickers used are from Echo Park's Christmas Magic Collection.

Christmas in July - Tags

Hello All, I'm so happy to be back crafting again, I've cleared up my craft room and organized my supplies so I'm ready to make some fun projects again. Today is the last day of July and I wanted to get something done for Christmas in July and I always need a ton of tags for Christmas so that's what I made. These tags are from Lori Whitlock's shop, they are super simple to put together. 

 The tags I used are the Christmas Tag Snowman, Santa Claus, Polar Bear, and Penguin, so super cute for the kids.

Bunny Petal Box for Easter

I love to make these kinds of boxes they are super simple and so fast to put together you can get a bunch done in no time. This one is a Lori Whitlock cut file which you can get at the silhouette store here or at her store in SVG format here. I added the googly eyes and popped up the nose for a more 3d look and added a hoppy easter sentiment using a pen in my Silhouette Cameo 4.

Hexagon Pop Up Valentine's Day Card

I love the new Hexagon Pop Up cards for Lori Whitlock's shop, absolutely adorable and so easy to put together, just check out her videos on youtube.com. I made the Valentine Gnome one and changed up some of the hearts for stickers from Doodlebug Design's French Kiss Collection.

Valentine's A2 Box Card - Lori Whitlock Cut File

It's been a while since I've done any kind of crafting and I've truly missed it. Felt so good to spend some time working on a couple of things, forgot just how relaxing it is.

I'm determined to only use scrap pieces of paper until I can get this pile I've created down, it's amazing how much you can accumulate.

I used a cut file called A2 Box Card Mailbox Hearts from Lori Whitlock using my Silhouette Cameo 4. The patterned paper is from Doodlebug and used my alcohol markers to color white textured cardstock for the hearts.

Halloween Treat Box Luminary - Doodlebug Design Team Project

Making crafts for Halloween is one of my favorite things to do, it's right up there with Christmas, so I'm always so excited when Doodlebug comes out with their Halloween goodies. The new Pumpkin Party collection by Doodlebug Design has the cutest little Halloween characters and one of my favorites is the little spooky werewolf from the icon sticker sheet that I used on this luminary/treat box.

I like to give these little boxes filled with candies and a battery tea light to friends and family, this way they can use it as a little decor item also. I used the haunted house wide from Lori Whitlock's shop and changed it up a bit to fit my needs. For both the house and roof I used a 12 x 12 sheet of the spooky sweets cardstock. Most of the embellishments are from the pumpkin party icon sticker sheet but I did add two eye see you shaped sprinkles on the vellum in the window. For the candy bag  I used some Halloween twine and a tag from the chit chat pack.

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World Card Making Day 2018

I managed to get a couple of projects done today, but only one card. I used a card cut file from Lori Whitlock, patterned paper from Doodlebug and an older stamp sentiment. 

Acorn Shaped Card

Doodlebug's petite prints are probably my most favorite papers to use for my projects and I'm so thrilled they came out with more patterns. Here's a card I made using a mix of the old and new, the new ones are floral-graph and dot-stripe.

To create the shaped card I used files from Doodlebug's Flea Market collection from Lori Whitlock's shop. I use Silhouette Design Studio Business Edition to made it and export as an SVG to bring into Cricut Design Space so I can then cut it out on my Cricut Maker. Design Studio has so many more feature's to use than Design Space and to me, it's quicker and easier to manipulate files.

Get Well Soon Set - Doodlebug Design Team Project

Here's a little pick-me-up gift set for someone who isn't feeling very well. Doodlebug's So Much Pun collection has the perfect papers and embellishments for just about any project. With all the cheerful characters, anything you create with it will definitely put a smile on somebody's face.

The pill better paper is one of my favorites in the collection, the pretty blue background with all the colorful smiling pills is the perfect paper for any get well soon project.

The card is a cut file from Lori Whitlock's shop center step card snowman. I deleted the snowman piece and created a center layer which was cut out using the new swimming pool floral-graph petite prints from the floral-graph rainbow petite prints 6x6 paper pad. The get well soon banner is from the so much pun chit chat pack, band-aid from the so much pun icons sticker sheet and the pills and bottle from the pill better doodle-pops.

For the pill bottle, I used the tall circle box from Lori's shop, made it smaller and duplicated the top side piece and created the slots to make it look like a pill bottle top. I used a piece of the so much pun paper as the label and added the speech bubble from the so much pun chit chat pack, two pills and some swimming pool chunky twine.

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Sweet Summer Lemonade Gift Set - Doodlebug Design Team Project

Here's a fun gift set I created using Doodlebug Design's Sweet Summer paper collection and embellishments along with some of the svg files you can get at Lori Whitlock's shop or Silhouette Design Store.

Since lemonade is one of my favorite summer drinks I just had to make a box card using the lemonade stand svg file and a matching box using the lemon slice.

The box card was easily created by welding some of the pieces together to form the box. I like to do all my designing in silhouette studio business edition and saving as an svg so I can import it into cricut design space and cut it out on my Cricut Maker.

You can see the dimension in the photo above. There are two inside pieces for the pitcher and glass and a back panel for the speech bubble and tree. Embellishments used from mini icon sticker sheet, this & that stickers, fun fruit shape sprinkles, odds & ends and chit chat pack. Patterned paper used, coconut grove, catching a wave and happy hour 12 x 12 sheets.

The box was super simple I used the 3.5" circle box from Lori's shop, I cut it down a little because I wanted a thinner box, then sized the lemon slice to fit the top.

The box is embellished with a chit chat speech bubble, fun fruit shape sprinkle, flower from the odds & ends and summer assortment sprinkles. Cardstock used, sunshine textured and lemon gingham and to finish it some swimming pool twine.

Hope you enjoyed this gift set, have a wonderful day!

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Happy St. Patrick's Day - Doodlebug Design Team Project

Happy St. Patrick's Day! One of my favorite holidays, good food, and drinks with the company of my family and friends, telling old stories and creating new ones, so fun! Well, today I have this cute Irish wall decor project to share with you using some Doodlebug Design products.

To create the slats I used one of the side pieces of the wooden crate from Lori Whitlock's shop. These are perfect for any 3D sign, I resized one making sure the words and cut files would fit and then duplicated twice. I also made two smaller ones for the back which holds the three slats together.

To decorate I used some of the petite prints, grasshopper daisy-stripe, lily-white swiss dot and mandarin gingham-grid for the top layer of the slats. The letters used are from the Abigail limeade sticker set, I totally forgot to add the apostrophe but I've since added it. 🙂

All the cut files are from the Happy Go Lucky Bundle, you can get this bundle from Lori Whitlock's shop.

The rest of Doodlebug supplies used are - Tangerine Daisy Stripe - Limeade Gingham Grid - Marigold Textured Cardstock - Beetle Black Textured Cardstock - Lily White Textured Cardstock - Cupcake Textured Cardstock - Lily White Sprinkles

Hope you have a Healthy and Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Missing You - Lori Whitlock Lace Tree Card

Here's a quick and simple card using the lace 5 x 5 tree card cut file from Lori's shop. I think this is such a pretty cut design, I used a piece of burlap for a neutral look but a pop of color would look great also or even a white embossed background. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Handwritten Floral Greetings set and tags are from My Creative Time. The card was cut out on my Cricut Maker.

Lori Whitlock February 2018 Blog Hop

Hello there, thanks for joining us!

I put together a couple of the animal huggers for Valentine Day. These are so quick and easy to make, perfect for the kids to bring to school, you can add a little message on the back.

You can get today's freebie here.

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Unicorn Gable Box - Lori Whitlock Creative Team Project

Hello, I have a project to share using a Lori Whitlock cut file. You can find the cut file here at Lori's shop and here in the Silhouette store.

I cut the horn out on some silver and gold glitter paper and for the flowers and leaves, I used Doodlebug's daisy-stripe petite print paper. I added the nose and nostrils for a little different look.

Camera Treat Cup Card - Lori Whitlock Creative Team Project

Hello, I have a Lori Whitlock project tutorial to share with you today. I made this cute camera treat cup card using two files from Lori's shop, looks like a lot of steps but very simple to put together.

This was such a fun project to make and can be used for any card to add some yummy treats.

I started with the heart shaped box with window from Lori's shop, you can get it from the Silhouette Design Store here.

I ungrouped and deleted all except these three pieces.

Zooming in real close I aligned these two pieces along the score marks. I wanted one piece instead of two since the heart box will be sized smaller.

Selecting both I replicated and mirrored above and moved the two on the top  a couple of arrow clicks down. Depending on how wide you want the box you can move this as much as you want.

I selected all the pieces, welded and grouped them all together, I then grouped with the heart.

Next, I worked on the camera, I used the one from the travel icons set, you can get it here also from the Silhouette Design Store. I put it together on my mat and resized it to about 5.5". Two of the pieces I didn't use so I deleted them.

Now I took the heart box and resized both pieces together so the heart fits inside the circle. I made a duplicate of the heart and ungrouped to just use the bigger layer, this is what I used to make the heart cutout from the camera pieces.

I duplicated the whole camera and did a subtract all, I did this a couple of times deleting what pieces I had already made cutouts from.

As you can see, I ended up with all these pieces. the upper right piece is just a duplicate of the camera with the top cut off, that will go inside the card to hold the slider.

The slider is just a square and two rounded squares welded together. You just have to make sure it covers the heart opening and is smaller than the extra piece that goes inside.

I replicated and mirror left the camera bottom layer with the heart cutout, moved it one arrow click over and welded to create my card base. I did a release to get rid of the heart cutout on the left side which would be the back of the card.

Here's the box pieces cutout, I molded the side a little and used score tape which made it quick and easy to put together.

The pink and white layers should slide right over and glue to the bottom tabs, just make sure the tabs are going out and not in.

The inside piece for the slider just needs tape around three sides so the slider can move in and out.

As you can see I filled the cup with m&m's and pushed the slider in.

Here's a closer look at the card, it's a little front heavy so it doesn't stand very well with the candy inside but it's super cute. Paper used is Doodlebug's Cream & Sugar.