Friday $5 Bundle: Extreme Pop Up Cards

Did you catch our latest Friday Five Dollar Bundle? These five beautiful and charming cards are extreme pop-up cards, each filled with festive cheer. Inside, you’ll find a charming snow globe snowman, jolly Santa Claus, a whimsical snow globe reindeer, a snow globe Christmas tree atop a car, and a spooky haunted house. These cards fold flat for easy mailing in an A7 (5×7) envelope, making it simple to send some holiday magic to someone special. Don’t miss out as this deal is only available until Sunday at midnight. Check out our tutorial HERE to get started on creating these fantastic extreme pop-up cards!

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** Because Friday $5 Bundles are already heavily discounted they are not eligible for further discounts including monthly, seasonal and flash sales.

Have a great weekend!

Lori

Halloween Scene Decor

 

Welcome to my  Thursday Tutorial !

We are so close to Halloween and I’ve always wanted to make this Halloween Scene Decor file (Lori Whitlock Store or Silhouette Store)-so here it is. It’s actually very easy but it is a decor file so it is much bigger than normal creations.

 

Here it is all done! It’s over 18 inches long and very cool!

Here you can see the six panels. The bottom three panels are glued on top of the main panels.

You will cut 6 panels with different scenes. They are big–11.5 inches tall and a bit over 6.5 inches wide for each panel. Plan on using 6 pieces of black cardstock with extra left for other projects.  I used Michaels paper  65lb cardstock because it cuts details so well, but it wasn’t really strong enough for this stand up scene. My solution was to cut 3 extra panels for a bit more extra strength. I would suggest using heavier paper and all will be good!

You will glue the three full scene panels together. Two panels have a tab. Glue those together and then add the third panel. I would then glue the other three top panels to the main panels, making sure to line up the elements.

You can cut the top panels different colors but I stuck with all black for the panels and changing up the colors for the paper piecing. You can see all the pieces laying on the glued panels so you can see the placement .

Here you can see where all the pieces should be placed.  I did cut a purple spider for that third panel for a little more color balance. To isolate the spider I made a copy of that panel (in the Silhouette  software hit the Ctrl key and arrow key to make a copy of the selected piece you want) and then I used my knife tool and cut it out of the panel. A little extra trimming with my scissors  after it was cut and I was ready to add it to the panel. My favorite pieces of this file are the little brown door boards. They even have itty bitty nail holes at each end! Such detail!

I also used a brick stencil on my buildings to make them look like haunted castles. Scuffed up the rest of the pieces with black chalk and then glued them on. I found a little black bat on my floor so had to add that LOL!  I have a lot of Halloween things floating around. Ha! I think it would be fun to add velum behind each panel and then add lights behind it…I might still do that!

I’m excited to add this to my Halloween decorations-it will look spooky on my mantel!

Sue

Hidden Binding Mini Album House – Halloween Style!

Hi friends!

Traci here and today, I’m sharing a fun Halloween Mini Album that’s in the shape of a not-so-scary little haunted house. I made it with a wonderful Lori Whitlock cutting file called Hidden Binding Mini Album House (SVG, Silhouette) and I just love it!

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album with cute ghosts, spiders, and bats

To start, I cut the base out of Bazzill card stock in raven black, then added some cute pattern paper and mini icon stickers from the Doodlebug Happy Haunting Collection. Lori’s file comes with 2 pretty flowers and a front door but, I added some stickers instead to keep with the Halloween theme.

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album with cute ghosts, spiders, and bats

The album uses a hidden binding technique to secure the pages. That allows
enough room in between for pop dots, stickers, die cuts, tags, twine, etc. And, it lays
perfectly flat when closed! You can watch the assembly tutorial for it over on Lori’s YouTube Channel here.

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album page with a cute cat sitting on a pink chair, a bookshelf, and spider webs

Inside, I wanted 4 pages that were super sturdy so I cut 8 pieces out of black card stock and adhered two back to back to make each of my 4 pages. But, you could create this album with just 4 single pages.

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album page with a chandelier, skull and bones, and a stack of books

I covered each page in cute pattern papers, photo mats, then decorated with stickers. It’s “frightful & delightful”!

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album page with ghosts, owls, and wonky eyes
Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album page with a moon, a cloud, and purple skeletons

While I designed this as a haunted house, the file could be used for ANY theme just by changing the paper collection. You could decorate it for pictures of family/home, a dog house, fall, a summer beach house, a cabin in the woods, or a winter wonderland in the mountains. It’s so versatile!

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album page with cute ghosts, stars, and a gate

On some of the pages, I added scalloped circular photo mats. To make these, I used a 3″ scallop circle punch and a 2.5″ circle punch.

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album page with pumpkins and colorful stars

 

This cute mini album would be great filled with Halloween photos of family, friends, the pumpkin patch, pumpkin carving, a party, a haunted house, a festival, a corn maze, awesome costumes, trick-or-treating, and loads of sweet treats!

 

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album page with cute houses, pumpkins, and a skeleton

This would also make an amazing gift idea for the holiday. Give it to a friend, teacher, babysitter, dog walker, or the hostess of a Halloween party. 

 

Halloween House Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album on an Artsy Albums Acrylic Display Stand


Lori has other hidden binding mini album shapes too. I’ve made the flower, telephone, and the tag shape and I’ve loved them all. But she has even more, so be sure to check those out.

I hope you like my Halloween version of this house shaped mini album and it
inspires you to create one yourself. Until next time … happy scrappin’!

 

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FRIDAY $5 Bundle!!

Our latest $5 Bundle went up this morning. Did you get a chance to check it out? This week, we have an adorable combination of fall and Halloween envelope box cards for you. This bundle disappears on Sunday night. Also, don’t forget our sale for other items ($5 bundle not included) and our contest that ends tomorrow, Saturday night, at midnight MST. So much is happening!

Have a great weekend!

P.S. The tutorial for these is here.

3D Pumpkin Haunted House Tutorial

Hi everyone!

You probably saw these great 3D pumpkins in the shop. Today I’m sharing a tutorial to put them all together.

3d Pumpkin Haunted House (SVG, Silhouette)

1. Cut out all the pieces.

 2. Apply adhesive to the panel, and adhere the vellum pieces to each panel.

3.  Attach the pumpkin and haunted house pieces together by lining up the notches.  You will first use this piece with notches on top and bottom.

 

 

Top View

4. Now install the top and bottom black circles.  Be sure to securely line them up with the notches in the pumpkin pieces.

5. Now install all the panels. Be sure to tuck in a tea light or fairly lights.

And now you have a great decor piece.  The house looks good from both sides, so it is a perfect table piece.

Take advantage of the sale, and add these 3D pumpkins to your stash.

Have a great day!

Ashley