Silhouette Giveaway + $1 Wednesday at Jessica Sprague

August 20, 2013August 20, 2013

Have you seen the Silhouette sketch pens that work with the Cameo and Portrait? The sketch pens add so many creative possibilities to your machine.

I’ve designed 2 new fonts that you’ll find in the Silhouette Online Store this week. They are designed specifically to work with the Sketch Pens. What a great way to add a personal sentiment or message to a project. With these fonts you are able to type your desired wording and sketch it using your Cameo or Portrait. How fun is that?

I’ve also created a set of 3 very useful sentiments that you’ll find in the Silhouette Online Store this week. Simply sketch the words and then cut the flag shape around them to create labels for cards or layouts. I love how you can easily create a custom embellishments with sketch pens!

Today through August 29 Silhouette is offering some pretty amazing sketch pen deals to our readers! To get the following pricing be sure to shop here: www.silhouetteamerica.com/pens and use coupon code: LORI at checkout.

(1)    CAMEO plus sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a $25 gift card and a penholder for $269.99 ($88.96 off the retail price)
(2)    Portrait plus sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a $25 gift card and a penholder for $129.99 ($108.96 off the retail price)
(3)    Sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a penholder for $19.99 ($13.97 off the retail price)

Guess what?? We are giving away a Silhouette Portrait machine along with our current promo! Would you like to be our lucky winner? To enter use the form below. Good luck to you all. We will announce our winner on Monday, August 26.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

One Dollar Wednesday at JessicaSprague.com!

It’s Wednesday again and that means TODAY ONLY you can snag two digital kits for an amazing deal…
TODAY for JUST $1 you can grab this awesome set: School Frames and Borders

SCHOOL FRAMES AND BORDERS

And, you can get the following awesome product for HALF OFF, Office Oriented Findings 1

OFFICE ORIENTED FINDINGS 1

While you are at jessicasprague.com getting your kits, be sure to check out the samples made with each of these kits at the bottom of each listing.

New in Shop + Tuesday Freebie

August 20, 2013August 20, 2013

TODAY ONLY, the CANDY BOX: 4 CANDIES SVG file is FREE with purchase.

Before coupon code total should be $5.00 or higher. Just add coupon code: CANDY at checkout and the cost ($2.99) will be deducted from your purchase. That makes your order total only $2! What a great deal. This freebie is good until midnight tonight!

Here are some of Lori’s newest shapes added to the SVG shop and her Silhouette Portfolio! Thanks for stopping by… Lisa

Only a purchase in Lori’s SVG shop will qualify for the free cutting file.

Cascading Album by Traci and a Layout by Mendi

August 19, 2013August 19, 2013

Today we have 2 fabulous projects to share. Traci has created one of the Cascading Albums and Mendi has an adorable layout.

Happy Monday everyone!

I am glad to be back sharing another project with you today! If you know me, or have ever been to my blog, you know that I’m a huge fan of mini albums. They are my favorite project and I love the fact that Lori has so many wonderful options in her shop. So for today’s project, I used one of Lori’s Tiered albums with a bracket edge. I also used brand new papers and embellishments that Lori designed for Echo Park called Reflections. Oh my goodness what a fabulous collection!!

For the title of my album, I used Lori’s Family Memories phrase. This new paper collection is perfect for older family photos or more recent ones — I just love the colors!

I wanted to add a fold-up card piece to one of the album pages, so I cut out Lori’s Hinges to give the card more interest. Depending on the size you make your hinges, you can add brads to the holes, or use a little bling like I did 🙂

Finally, to add to the vintage feel of my album, I added a fancy frame. I just love how the frame looks with some gems added for sparkle!

I have posted additional photos of this album over on my blog today, so I hope you’ll stop by and check them out.

Thanks for letting me share with you!!

Traci

www.artsyalbums.com

Thanks Traci! Here is Mendi’s beautiful layout!

Mendi here today sharing a layout which uses Echo Park’s Here & Now collection (one of my favorite collections of Lori’s) and a number of her fun SVG cutting files.

To form my title block, I layered 5 different cutting files of Lori’s. I had some old (OLD) Autumn Leaves ticket stamps which I paired with Lori’s ticket shape. I also mixed things up a bit by removing the shadow from the “Spring Is Here” title and enlarging the word Spring and moving the words to two separate lines to fit on my label.

I created a second grouping to form the second point in my visual triangle using Lori’s layered flower, pennant and a matching sticker from the collection kit. I added a pearl brad and some foam tape for my flower to add a little interest.

Lori’s tabs with the date was just what I needed to finish my visual triangle (and remind me where to file this one away in the albums when I finally get around to it). 😉

To complete my layout I used the following cutting files designed by Lori:

Silhouette Tutorial Make Your Own Belly Band

August 15, 2013August 14, 2013

Thanks for stopping by today. I have a tutorial that I would like to share with you on how to take a shape and make it into a belly band. I used the 7 Shapes files so using this technique, you could have 7 different belly bands or decorative edged paper to decorate with.

This cute litte pencil cup and Post It Note Holder would make a great gift for friends, teachers, coworkers, or even look great on your own desk. I know that is where mine is going to stay. Even in a world filled with digital devices, I find myself reaching for a piece of paper and pencil all of the time.

Here is a close up of the belly band that I created from the label. I also decorated the outside of the Post It Note Holder so it looks pretty even without the belly band on it.

So to make the belly band for your own Post It note holder, just follow these few easy steps.

1. Open up on your mat, the 7 Shapes from the Lori Whitlock store. Ungroup them, and move away all but the bottom left shape.

2. Go to the Replicate panel and click Row of Four.

3. Click on the first one and nudge over to the second one until the edges are just overlapping. Do this for each shape.

4. To make sure that everything in lined up, select all, go to the Align panel, click Align Top, and then space Horizontally.

5. Now go to the Modify panel, keeping all of the pieces selected, and click Weld.

6. There will be a few of the middle pieces left. Select them all and delete.

7. This is what your welded shapes look like together.

8. Now we are going to make the belly band part. Draw a rectangle across the middle of the welded shape and make sure it extends about a half inch past both ends.

9. Select both pieces and weld them together.

10. Here are a couple more examples of belly bands that I created using the other shapes in the 7 Shapes file.

For my project, I had to manipulate the size of the belly band on both the pencil cup and the Post It Note Holder. On the Post It Note Holder, I stretched it to make it longer and push the top down to make it thinner. For the pencil cup, I copied and pasted a second one and overlapping them, I welded them together to make a longer piece.

I think it is fun to experiment with different shapes and see if I can make them into other things, like the belly bands. I also used the Birthday Cake Box to create the pencil cup. I only assembled the bottom so that it was open at the top. The pieces that I did use were skewed so that the cup was taller than the original cake box would have been.

I also used the label shape a second time and sized it to fit inside one on the belly band so that I had a mat for the Remember This sentiment. Stickers and paper from the Here and Now collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park make this a eye catching ensemble.

Lori Whitlock Supplies Used:

Sticky Note Holder 3 Holds up to 100 sheets of sticky notes

7 Shapes

Birthday Cake Box

Here & Now Paper and Sticker Collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park