ARROW BRUSHES SET 1

layout by Haley Ney
products used: Arrow Brushes Set 1, Arrow Brushes Set 2, Lori Whitlock Fresh Air Collection, Lori Whitlock Masking Borders 1, Lori Whitlock Masking Borders 2,

ARROW BRUSHES SET 3

layout by Chrissy Guido
Products used- Arrow Brushes Set 3, Sweet Memories, Date and Time Brushes , Everyday Brushes, Anna Apsnes-Brush/masks #98

Layout by Chrissy Guido
Arrow Brushes Set 3, Date and Time Brushes, Life Templates Set 16, Sweet Memories, Life Cards-Mother’s Day

DATE AND TIME BRUSHES

layout by Kim Lund
products: Date and Time Brushes, Arrow Brushes Set 1, Life Templates Set 1, and Life Cards Mothers Day

And just incase you missed the excitement last week, there were 3 Life Templates released. I think they are beautiful. These templates will also be on sale this weekend for 25% off.

Silhouette Portrait Giveaway + Sale

May 23, 2013May 23, 2013

Are you ready for another GIVEAWAY, yes you read that right another Silhouette Portrait is up for grabs!

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The contest will run from May 23-27. The winner will be announced Tuesday, May 28. Good Luck to you all!

Did you know your Silhouette can cut fabric? Well, it can!! But, before you try sticking your fabric directly to your cutting mat, you need to back it with some interfacing. This month, Silhouette is offering an awesome deal on their fabric interfacing!

Silhouette offers two types of heat transfer fabric interfacing:
Heat Transfer Fabric Interfacing: SEWABLE. Silhouette sewable interfacing has a thinner adhesive that irons on to the fabric allowing you to cut patterns and designs with your Silhouette and then hand sew or machine sew the fabric.

Heat Transfer Fabric Interfacing: CLEAN CUT. Silhouette clean cut interfacing has a thicker adhesive that irons on to the fabric allowing you to cleanly cut designs with your Silhouette. Use this one when you’re not planning to sew the cut out shapes.

So, if you’ve been wanting to cut fabric with your Silhouette, these are the products you need. And, this is the week to get them on SALE! From May 23-31 you can grab any of these fabulous Silhouette Fabric Interfacing bundles for a great price:

1. $29.99 = $25 download card + a fabric blade + heat transfer fabric interfacing sewable + heat transfer fabric interfacing clean cut
2. $129 – includes everything in the first bundle + a Silhouette Portrait
3. $269 – includes everything in the first bundle + a Silhouette Cameo + a 12×24 cutting mat

If you have been waiting for the right deal, now is your chance.

Make sure to use this link www.silhouetteamerica.com/fabric and use the coupon code LORI to buy these bundles at the sale price.

Tutorial: Stitching with your Silhouette

May 23, 2013May 23, 2013

I love all the tutorials our Creative Team has been making! It’s fun to learn new things! Check out how easy it is to make faux stitching lines on your die cuts. Take it away Brigit…

I love stitching but sometimes I just don’t have the time to pull out my sewing machine so I’ll create it in Silhouette Studio and do a print & cut.

For this project I used Lori’s Bracket Shaped card and the pinwheel from the Layered Shapes along with Lori’s Patriotic Picnic digital collection, which I love!!

First place your card on the mat and ungroup, fill the top layer with your digital paper. Select all, go to Line Color and click none.

Select your top layer, go to the Offset Window, select Internal Offset and set your offset distance, I used .075.

Now the internal offset you just created should be selected, go to the Line Color and select the color you want for your stitching.

Next go to the Line Style Window, select your dash line and I like to change my line thickness to 1.25pt. Check the Print Lines of Selected Shapes box.

This is important, with the stitching still selected go to the Cut Style Window and choose No Cut, you only want the stitching to print and to cut around the top layer piece.

After that’s complete I like to group the top and stitched layers together.

Here’s a closer look, I used the same steps on the pinwheel, you only need to do one of each color and duplicate to make it easier. I added some stars to the blue to make it look like the American flag.

I loved the pinwheel so much I created a larger one on a barber straw and placed it in a glass jar. I added some Stars and Stripes Trendy Twine and a couple of flower elements from the Patriotic Picnic collection.

I hope this tutorial has helped and you get to make some faux stitching on your projects too!!

One Dollar Wednesday at Jessica Sprague

May 21, 2013May 21, 2013

One Dollar Wednesday at JessicaSprague.com!

Today only you can pick up a couple of digital kits for a steal…

TODAY for JUST $1 you can grab the popular: Life Card Templates 4×6 Set 1

LIFE CARD TEMPLATES 4×6 Set 1

And, you can snag the following awesome product for HALF OFF, which makes it $5… Basics Life Cards

BASICS LIFE CARDS

With these two sets on such an awesome SALE it’s the perfect time to try a Project Life style layout or album. Also, these Basics cards coordinate beautifully with Lori’s Honey Edition of Project Life. While you are at jessicasprague.com, be sure to check out the samples made with these kits at the bottom of each listing.

Giveaway, Freebie + New SVG Shapes

May 21, 2013May 21, 2013

Do you follow the paper collections Lori designs for Echo Park? They are so so cute. Each release I think is my favorite, then she comes out with a new one and my favorite changes. Recently “A Perfect Summer” was released and Lori is hosting a GIVEAWAY! Three lucky people will be winning this collection. Are you one of them?

If you haven’t had a chance to enter be sure and enter below for your opportunity to win one of these beautiful collections. Winners will be announced on Thursday. Enter by Wednesday at midnight.
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Also, TODAY ONLY, this ice cream cone SVG file is FREE. Just add coupon code: ICECREAM at checkout and the cost will be deducted from your purchase.