Lori Whitlock

Silhouette Vinyl 25% OFF + a Portrait GIVEAWAY!

April 19, 2013April 19, 2013

How would you like to win a Silhouette Portrait?

Now is your chance! Silhouette is sponsoring a fabulous GIVEAWAY allowing us to give away a SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT cutting machine to one of you, our awesome followers! All you need to do is enter below. You can earn multiple entries by following us on Facebook, commenting below, tweeting about the giveaway, and signing up for the email updates. In the comments section tell me what shapes you’d like to see me create for the Silhouette Online Store. This giveaway is open to US customers only.

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Silhouette has recently lowered the price of their premium vinyl. And, now through April 26th you can get an additional 25% OFF. It’s time to stock up on VINYL! Also, my readers can get the following deals on bundles:

1 Silhouette Portrait™ + 1 roll of black vinyl, 1 roll of white vinyl, and 1 roll of transfer paper: $139.99
1 Silhouette CAMEO® + 1 roll of black vinyl, 1 roll of white vinyl, and 1 roll of transfer paper: $269.99
All premium vinyl bought outside of a machine bundle is 25% OFF with promotion code: LORI

It’s a great time to buy if you’re looking to get a machine.

To get the discounted pricing make sure you use this link: www.silhouetteamerica.com/april and make sure you USE CODE: LORI at checkout.

I had a chance to play with the vinyl this week. I recently purchased new clear containers for my pantry. I needed some labels. So, I thought the vinyl would do the trick. I designed some Pantry Labels and you can download them for FREE right HERE through the Monday. Then you’ll find them at the Silhouette Online Store after that. There’s just something about a nice organized pantry that makes you feel good, huh?

There are tons of fun applications for vinyl. And, it’s really easy to use. Here are the steps I followed to cut these labels:

1. Load the vinyl on the roll with no cutting mat into your machine. Adjust the rollers to the right width if you have a cameo.
2. Set the blade to 2.
3. Open the Pantry Label art.
4. Set the media to Vinyl.
5. Cut.
6. Remove the unwanted vinyl from around the art. Leave the labels and words on the paper. Throw the rest away. Use a hook to “weed” the unwanted bits from between the letters.
7. Apply transfer material to the front of the art. Use a scraper to make sure it’s stuck good.
8. Cut the labels apart at this point.
9. Remove the paper backing and apply the vinyl art to the plastic surface on your canisters. Use the scraper again to make sure it’s nice and smooth.
Note: Silhouette make a scraper and a hook tool that make this easier, but you could use tweezers and a spatula or something if you don’t have those tools.

Have a great weekend and good luck on winning the Portrait!!

New in Shop at Jessica Sprague and Our New Digital Creative Team

April 18, 2013April 19, 2013

This weekend at JessicaSprague Lori has an adorable new set of files. Throughout this weekend, you can grab these at 25% off the listed price.

This week Lori is launching Sweet Memories Elements, Sweet Memories Paper and the entire kit, the Sweet Memories Collection. These are so beautiful and a great way to add an eclectic vintage feel and design to your projects.

And finally, are you ready to meet our new digital creative team?

We had SO MANY applicants, it was so VERY hard to choose. Thank you, to ALL of you that applied. We were blown away by the amazing talent in our readers. I would have loved to add you all, but managing that would have been a full time job in itself and Lori needs my help in other ways too. PLEASE continue to share on her Facebook page as we love to see what you are creating and on occasion we are able to showcase our wonderful readers projects. Please tune in Monday for our Paper Creating Team.

First to introduce is the amazing and talented Kim Lund. She is the writer of Documented Life Now and so graciously is sharing her digital talents with us when she isn’t too busy being a mom or teaching an Autistic Preschool Class. In my book she has already earned angel status. I have an Autistic son and all of his teachers are truly angels in my life.

Her first creation, as a member of our team, is this adorable layout using the Sweet Memories Collection. So beautiful!

Her favorite layout using Lori’s products is this adorable Easter Project Life page.

Next, we would like to introduce the talented Haley Ney. She comes to us from Indiana where she works as an Ultrasound Tech and has a passion for photography, baking and digital scrapbooking. When she isn’t being showcased here, her projects can be seen at The Ney Life.

Her layout using the Sweet Memories Collection is so fresh and clean, makes me wish Spring was here now! Stunning Haley!

Her favorite project is this adorable Project Life layout using Lori’s Spring Celebrations Collection.

And finally, the third member of our digital creative team is the scrapbooking guru Chrissy Guido of New Jersey. I first ‘met’ Chrissy at Jessica Sprague, where she worked as a Creative Team member and made beautiful layouts with Lori’s products. Her blog, Scraponi Digi Pages houses all of her creative goodness.

I love the way she layered all of the borders and shapes on her layout. This is so beautiful!

Her favorite project is this Happy Birthday Layout using Lori’s Life Cards Birthday Girl Collection.

I find it funny/ironic that all 3 of them shared a Project Life style layout with us without knowing the others had picked the same style. I think many of us around here have been bitten by the Project Life bug.

Thank you again for all those who submitted and for these wonderful ladies that made projects with VERY little time. Lori and I (Lisa), are SO excited to have these talented ladies with us. Please leave them some love in the comments below and come back again Monday to meet our new Paper Creative Team.

Thanks for joining us, Lisa.

Magazine Holder by Corri

April 18, 2013April 18, 2013

Corri is here on the blog today sharing this beautiful magazine holder! Great job Corri!

With all the cards I make, I thought Lori’s Magazine Holder would help me organize some of them.

I wanted mine to be able to hold several heavy cards so I cut it twice out of kraft card stock and glued the two layers together before assembling.

I used the print and cut feature on my Cameo to print the “cards” label. The paper on my file is from the Echo Park – Sweet Girl Collection.

I was able to fit 6 fully embellished A2 cards in my file. This would be a great way to sort your cards for gift giving or would be a cute gift for a friend who loves sending out cards.