A Tea Party with Lori’s Sizzix Dies

Hi everyone!  It’s Traci, from Artsy Albums, and I’m excited to be on Lori’s blog today to share some fun projects using her Sizzix dies.  As you know, Lori designs fabulous cutting files for our digital cutting machines, and creates beautiful paper collections for Echo Park.  She also designs wonderful dies for Sizzix!  For crafters who don’t have a digital cutting machine, or who want to cut heavier materials like chipboard, these are so much fun!

I used several different dies and stamps to create a sweet tea party set for a little girl.  I’ve added links below so you can get all of the details.  The papers and embellishments are from the Petticoats collection that Lori designed for Echo Park.

Before you can have a tea party, you have to invite some friends.  I used Lori’s Sizzix Bigz Teapot die to create my invitation.  To create a card, I folded my white card stock and cut the shape out with my fold positioned to the right of the handle’s cut line.  This prevented that area of the handle from cutting and allowed the fold to stay in tact.  I then cut two more teapots to add to the front, and inside, of the card.

 

I created some adorable treat packaging with the Square Favor Box Bigz Die and the Bigz Favor Bag die.  The “Hello Cupcake” die and stamp sentiment are from Lori’s Birthday Framelits Set.

I created a thank-you card using several of the dies and a stamp from the Jar and Teapot Framelit set and finished my set with a cute little mini album.  The Cupcake #2 Bigz die was perfect for this since I wanted to cut several pieces of thick chipboard.  After cutting the cupcake out of pattern paper also, I glued the page pieces together and punched a hole in one side for a binding ring.  A little ribbon and a lot of enamel dots finished off my mini in no time.

I hope you visit some of the links I’ve included to learn more about Lori’s wonderful designs over at Sizzix.com, and stop by my blog at Artsy Albums sometime and say hello!

Happy crafting everyone!

 

 

 

Sizzix Dies and Stamps Used:

Chalkboard Card for a Teacher Using Cricut Design Space with Karin

I made this adorable chalkboard card that you can use to give a special teacher a gift card.

20160517-2016-05-16_23-30-50
To make the card, I brought the files into Design Space by choosing Upload Image.
20160517-2016-05-16_23-33-57
I opened the image of the cutting file (JPG) in Preview on my Mac and just moved that window onto the screen next to the cutting file pieces so I could see the colours used in the original project. In this case, I loved the colours because they are nice and bright so I used all the same colours for my card. I even had a great piece of wood grain patterned paper.
20160517-2016-05-16_23-36-15
To change the colours of the components in Design Space, all I did was click the piece, that piece is highlighted in the Layers panel, then I clicked the scissors icon and then the colour I wanted for that piece.
20160517-2016-05-16_23-42-03
Here you can see that I changed the colour of these tabs to red.
20160517-Screenshot 2016-05-16 23.58.59
Before clicking Go, I selected the individual pieces by drawing a rectangle around them and then I right clicked and chose Attach. This is so that the little circular cuts and scoring lines stay in the right place on that particular piece.
20160517-_MG_5129
After I cut and assembled the pieces, I used some baker’s twine to string the banner pieces along.
20160517-_MG_5130
I put knots in the baker’s twine to attach the legs at the front and back.
20160517-_MG_5131
I just used my ATG gun to put adhesive on the back of the iTunes card and attached it to the back of the card.
20160517-_MG_5132
I stamped a sentiment on the front of the card. The You Rock stamp is from the Avery Elle Celebrate Stamp set. I used American Crafts Zing Embossing Powder in White Opaque Finish, my VersaMark watermark stamp pad and my Ranger Black Heat Tool for the sentiment.

20160517-_MG_5133-Edit-Edit

Thanks so much for stopping by. Please visit my blog for more fun projects. Also, if you would like to be informed whenever I upload a new Cricut video tutorial, you can sign up for my Cricut Tutorials mailing list.

Sizzix Woodland Animal Party with Lori Whitlock Dies

Hello everyone! Angi from Twenty Five Smiles here with a fun party idea. This one would be perfect for both boys and girls. And since it’s a “woodland theme” you could host this party indoors or out. I used Lori’s adorable dies from Sizzix for this one. And I also used some of her patterned paper that she designed for Echo Park. Let’s get this party started!

 

Here are some close up shots of my little party! I just love the Sizzix Bigz Die Owl. It’s so adorable. I added some of the Petticoats and Pinstripes patterned paper to the wings. I also used the Framelits coordinating dies and stamps to make the cupcake toppers.

 

The Sizzix Bigz Die Fox is another adorable part of the party. I added more of the patterned paper and used the enamel dots for the eyes and nose.

Be sure to add more fun sentiments to some juice bottles.

The kiddos would love seeing them on their drinks.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my fun little party idea today. Be sure to check out Lori’s Sizzix dies, they’re a lot of fun to work with!

Sizzix Dies and Stamps Used:

May Off the Page Challenge with Kathy

I can’t believe it’s already May!  It’s time for the May Off the Page Challenge over in the Paper Issues Friends and Fans Facebook Group!  This month’s challenge is all about Flowers! We want to see all of your paper projects featuring flowers.  You can also add in Mother’s Day and Teacher Appreciation gifts projects as well!  Of course we would love you to use Lori Whitlock files!  For my project, I used the fun files from the May Kit of the Month take a peek…

These just make me happy!  The would be so cute for a Mother’s Day gift or for that special teacher or friend. Here are some close-ups!  I used some papers from Echo Park’s Hello Summer collection, they are so bright and cheery!

 

Be sure to play along with this challenge by posting your project in the May Challenges Album in the Paper Issues Friends and Fans Facebook Group in the comments under this project.  Each project posted will give you an entry to win a $10 Gift Card to the Paper Issues Store!  You have until June 6th  to enter!  I can’t wait to see what you create!