Card Making – Page 249 – Lori Whitlock

Birthday Easel Card with Courtney

February 25, 2016February 23, 2016

HELLO out there in bloggy world! This is Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts with another super fun Lori Whitlock cut file example! Lori just came out with these easel cards a few weeks ago. My grandma’s 86th birthday just happened and I made this for her.

I grabbed the A2 Easel Birthday Cake file and Lori’s Jack and Jill – Jill Collection for Echo Park and went to work! 🙂 The colors of this collection are so bright and happy! The neutrals in the collection meant that I didn’t even have to pull out other cardstock. 🙂 Love it. The first thing I did was to stitch around the outside of my frame on top. I loved the old fashioned nature of these prints and wanted to add to that feel.

I stamped my sentiment second. You don’t have to. The cut file comes with the Happy Birthday sentiment that can be cut out letter by letter. 🙂 Lori has you covered! I popped the sentiment piece up on the pennant base and then popped that whole thing up.

I LOVE dimension. I think it just adds so much to have that depth to a card. I popped the flame and you can see the layers popped here as well. This card comes together so easily!

I also added twine to the balloons to “anchor” them to the bottom of the card. I popped the balloons as well.

We always see easel cards when they are open but I wanted to show you the card closed as well to show you how pretty it is. I feel like not all cards are designed where they are attractive when they are closed as well as open. Here you can see that right when it is taken out of the envelope your recipient will be impressed!

As you can see this is a gorgeous card that can be made with masculine prints just as easily as girly ones. I’ll be pulling out this cut file again and again!

Link to the file in Lori’s Store

Link to the Silhouette Store

Telescoping Card Tutorial by Tya

February 18, 2016February 17, 2016

Hi there – Tya here and I am up on the blog today to give you a tutorial on how to put together this amazing card. It is called a Telescoping Card and it is such a fun, interactive card that I know will be sure to impress! The card measures about 5 inches and would be great for a card, or scrapbook layout or mini album feature.

So the fun thing about this card is that it starts out looking like a normal, round shaped card. But with the help of a couple of mini brads – this card swings out and makes a 3 layered card. Isn’t it awesome!! Let me walk you through how I put this together.

Step 1-

Cut out your shapes. I used my Silhouette Cameo. The file I used is called a Circle Telescope Card.

Notice the little holes cut from the shapes- these are important so make sure they cut out all the way.

Step 2 –

Place the white cardstock onto the bases.

Step 3-

Decorate the card fronts. I used Lori’s Little Man collection for Echo Park.

Step 4-

We will start building from the bottom up. Flip the middle section upside down and lay it on top of the bottom section. There a tiny holes that you simply line up, and place a mini brad in.

Attach the brad and spin the middle section right side up.

Step 5-

Flip the top section upside down, and place on top of middle section. The middle section has a tiny hole on the top and the bottom. Add a mini brad to the top hole.

Spin the card so the top section is facing the right way.

Here is the card all put together with the mini brads holding the sections together.

And that’s all there is to it! I had a lot of fun making this card and I know you will too! Hopefully I have inspired you to give this fun card a try! Thanks for stopping by today!

Cricut Explore Scoring Tutorial with Karin

February 10, 2016February 11, 2016

Hi everyone! It’s Karin and today I’m going to show you how to make an easel card in Design Space using Lori Whitlock’s baby elephant easel card design from her SVG Shop. In the tutorial, I will teach you how to change the usual perforated score lines you have in SVG files to the special score lines that Design Space uses. Also, I have some really good news about that — they have improved the scoring function of the machine by having the scoring stylus pass over all score lines twice. This now creates a really nice, deep score line. Wait till you see it in the video.

If you could see my office/studio/craft room, you would know that I really need to use up my stash. I have ridiculous amounts of patterned paper so that is exactly what I’m doing today.

The patterned paper I’m using today is from a Best Creations collection named Safari Boy. I did a quick search and found that you can find some pieces of it on eBay and Amazon, but not much. I’m sorry if you are hoping to find this paper, but I think we can all stand to use something from our stash (wink wink).

The blue card stock I’m using is from American Crafts Tropicals collection. The brown papers are Recollections brand from Michaels. All of these papers cut beautifully in the Cricut Explore.

In addition to teaching you how to upload and cut the pieces for this card, I will teach you how to change the perforated scoring lines to the Design Space scoring lines that are scored with the scoring stylus.

The video below takes you through all these steps.

For information on the products I used in this project, please visit my blog.

Personalized Valentine Stickers by Tya

January 28, 2016January 27, 2016

Hi friends – It’s Tya and today I am sharing with you a tutorial on how to custom make your very own Valentines Day Stickers! Recently Lori came out with a few darling sets of Print and Cut Valentines with the cutest icons on them. So I thought it would be fun to make some matching stickers with the same icons on them and add a little personal touch to them by saying who they were from as well!

Let me show you the steps on how I did this!

First off gather your supplies – I used some Double Dot papers from Bo Bunny for my enevelopes, some Silhouette White Sticker paper and some buttons for decor.

First step-

Pull up the files in the the Silhouette Software – I used the Butterfly and Heart Valentine file for my project.

Using the Print and Cut feature – I printed out my cards.

Next I ungrouped the images until I got the Butterfly and Heart Image all by themselves.

Now I want to draw a circle around the shapes to make the outside of the sticker, so I took the Ellipse tool and made a 3 inch circle around both shapes.

Next, I typed out my sentiment using the Type Tool – I used the LW Simple Dot Font. I added the sentiment onto the shapes.

Next , using the Ellipse Tool again, I drew a 2 .75 inch circle.Drag that circle into the larger circle and center. Using the Line Style Tool, changed the line from solid to dashed to make it look like it was a sewn edge. You don’t necessarily have to do this step but I thought it was fun. 🙂 Now go ahead and duplicate the shapes to fill your sticker sheet.

Next we need to make sure that the only lines that the Silhouette is going to cut is the outer line as shown, so go to the Cut Settings tab and make sure you click on every part of the sticker and make sure that the inside shape, sentiment and dotted line circle do not get cut by clicking No Cut. Then select the outer line and select cut edge. This way the only line that will get cut is the very outer edge.

Now we are ready to print the sticker sheet out. Load the sticker paper into the printer. Add registration marks and select the “White Sticker Paper” setting on the Silhouette and then print it out. The settings that are preset for this type of paper are perfect. Here is the paper all printed and ready to cut.

And here are the stickers when then have been cut out.

Next , using pattern paper cut out the envelopes.

Now you are ready to decorate your envelopes with the stickers. I added some fun buttons and twine to fancy them up a bit.

That’s all there is to it! If you are tired of boring, store bought Valentines cards, give these cute cards and stickers a try. This would be so fun to let your kids help with the decorating of the envelopes. Thanks for stopping by! Happy crafting!

Do You Want to Build a Box Card?

January 27, 2016May 9, 2016

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For my first project as a member of Lori Whitlock’s incredibly talented creative team, I am going to walk you through making a box card using the brand new All Occasion Box Cards Cricut cartridge.

In the video tutorial below, I am going to cover importing digital papers for use as patterns on cutting files, importing digital elements to be used as design elements that will be printed and cut out, and sizing box cards using two methods.

Below are closeups of the box card that show the papers and elements used.

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The papers and elements I used in this project are from Lori’s Be My Valentine digital collection.

The video below is a step-by-step tutorial on how I put this card together in Cricut Design Space and cut all the elements with my Gold Explore Air available on HSN.