Lori Whitlock Blog Party, Hop & Giveaway!!

Hi Everyone welcome to our Creative Team blog hop

For helping us celebrate Lori's Blog Party this week I'll be giving away a Gift Card to Lori's Shop,

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Leave me a comment on this blog post to be eligible to win.

You should be arriving here from Lori's Blog, so make sure you start from the beginning and hop to the end so you don't miss out on other giveaways along the way, even a Cameo.

On to my Project...

The minute I saw this box and card I thought it would make a lovely gift set.  And I knew exactly what paper I wanted to use with it, Echo Park's Here and Now designed by Lori.

I also used two of the digital elements from the collection, I just love the chalkboard sentiments.

This 5 x 5 Decorative Box goes together beautifully, it's one of my favorite cutting files from Lori.  As soon as I glued it together I was like wow and it's a really nice size too.

I added one of the flowers from the 3D Flower Set 8, just used a couple more layers.

I really love this Banner Card with the addition of the 3D bow, it tied the whole project together for me.

Hope you enjoyed my project, next stop is Christine's blog, hop on over for some more fun!

Lori Whitlock

                              Brigit Mann  *****You Are Here*****

Christine Ousley

Corri Garza

Mendi Yoshikawa

Traci Penrod

Chrissiy Guido

Haley Ney

Christmas Tags with Cuties!

I'm so happy Mary from SVGCuts made the Christmas Cuties, I want to use them for my Christmas Tags.   And I'm starting early, here's a couple of print n cut ones I whipped up.

I love them, they're so cute and the pnc's are quick and easy, you can do a bunch in no time.  There's two pieces, the tag with the pattern paper and the top with the cuties on it.  The Trendy Twine's Christmas colors are awesome too, a must have for your Christmas projects.

The cut off technique I had seen at The Paper Retreat, I just loved how Melanie made her Christmas cards.

Remember The Magic, Trendy Twine Celebration!!

Hey everyone, today is the big release of Trendy Twine's 50th color Celebration, Yay!!

I just love this color combination...

and for Disney fans well just take a look!!

Our group theme is Disney of course, so make sure you hop on over to the Trendy Twine Blog and look at all the wonderful projects the Design Team made using the new Celebration!!

I made a Mickey card/invitation and some lollipop holders, perfect for a kids party.

See how the colors match Mickey perfectly, love it!!

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out all the pieces and the digital paper.  Mickey and the polaroid frame are from a kit by Frog Junkiee's Creative Creations and the digital paper is a freebie kit you can download here, which the sentiment is also from.  For the stars I used my epiphany tool with the star bubble caps.

I love these lollipop holders, I downloaded them from Okieladybug's Scrap N' More's blog, go take a look, she has so many wonderful projects and is very generous with her files!!

I just added the Mickey head from the freebie kit I posted above, a circle using the text to path in SSDE and finished them off with the wonderful

Celebration Trendy Twine.

This months Trendy Twine Challenge will be...

Disney Theme

The colors black, yellow, red and white

and Trendy Twine

Filling Cut Files With Digital Paper In SSDE

Hi everyone Brigit here with another SSDE Tutorial.  I love to fill my shapes with digital paper and then do a print n cut with my Silhouette Cameo.  It does such an awesome job cutting out the pattern filled shapes as you can see in the card below.

For this project I used one of the cards from the Christmas Card Set 2 and Lori's digital paper collection Sweet Life.  I only used the card and the two front layers, you can delete the other pieces.

If you need help with ungrouping and making compound paths check out my tutorial here.

I do not import my digital paper into SSDE, I have it all organized by designer in a folder on my computer.  You can see in the photo how I have the folder opened on the right-hand side next to my program.

I just dragged the pattern paper from the folder and dropped it into the shape.

Notice on the card the owl design is to the left and cutoff.

Select the card, go to the Fill Pattern and Advanced Options, click on the Pan Pattern, a circle with crosshairs will appear in the middle of the card, click on it and move the paper around.

I wanted my owl on the opposite side with the white swirls to the right so I clicked on the Horizontally under the Mirror Pattern.

I line up the card fronts so when panning I can see exactly where I'd like the owl to be.  I used the Scale Pattern and enlarged the paper to 110% so the edge of the paper wouldn't show.  The scale pattern is great to make your pattern paper designs larger or smaller I use it all the time.

Lori has a cute owl and tree cut file that matches this collection in the owls set, I used the eyedropper under the Fill Color and selected colors from the collection so everything would match or you can fill them also with the digital paper.  The sentiment is an element from the Sweet Life collection, to cut that out you need to first do a trace, that will be covered in another tutorial.

All my pieces fit on one 12" x 12" piece of cardstock, registration is checked under the Registration Marks and I make sure all my cuts are selected under the Cut Style.  Now I'm ready to do a print n cut.

Other Supplies Used

AC White Textured Cardstock

In the Navy Trendy Twine

Brads

Thanks for stopping by, I hope this tutorial has helped, Lori has such wonderful digital paper and elements at JessicaSprague.com, have fun!!

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