Card Making – Page 273 – Lori Whitlock

Mothers Day Card by Corri

April 4, 2013March 29, 2013

Today on the blog we have Corri sharing with us this beautiful card.

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a pretty Mother’s Day card that I made with files from Lori Whitlock

and paper from the Echo Park – Sweet Girl Collection.

I used this card kit and stamped my sentiment on this banner.

This card comes with three options for the sentiment…Mom, Dad and I (heart) U.

Thank You Card by Natalie

April 2, 2013March 21, 2013

Today we have a beautiful Thank You card by Natalie…

The other day I was in need of a thank you cards for some cute neighbors. They needed to be signed by a group of girls, so they needed to be big enough to hold lots of comments. So I made these cute mini albums which turned out to be the perfect thank yous.

I used Lori’s mini album with the round end found here. I love that it comes with files for all the middle pages, but a little binding piece and a cover for the front. I cut it out with Echo Park‘s For the Record 2, which had the perfect embellishments to cover the front and back pages. I filled them full of blank pages and handed out each page to all the girls who were writing notes, then took all them and bound it into a cute book. I hope that these become a treasure for the recipients of the books and know how much we love them!

Spring & Easter projects by Christine & Natalie

March 26, 2013February 23, 2016

Today we have 2 different Creative Team members sharing their talents with us. First is Christine, she says…

I have created a mini book using the Mini Album Pinking Edge and some papers and embellishments from Sweet Girl by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park. These are just a few of the pages. You can see the rest at my blog.

The front page of the mini book has a banner title that is part of the Sweet Girl collection by Echo Park in the Silhouette store. I loved that I could make this banner larger so it really becomes the focus of the page.

I used another digital cutting file by Lori, called Scalloped Shapes for the background of this journaling card that is part of the paper pack.

You can see yet another frame on this page from Lori Whitlock. It is called the 4×6 Frame in the Silhouette Store

Mini books are really so much fun, especially when you can cut out your own. It easy to add as many pages as you want and even alter the size. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by to see my project.

Supplies Used:

Mini Album Pinking Edge

Scalloped Shapes

4×6 Frame- Silhouette Store #9783

Sweet Girl Paper Collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park

Natalie has a beautiful Easter project to share with us.

I’ve been know to make big signs for my front porch. So when I brought this wooden pallet sign for my front door home from my local craft store, my son immediately said, “Mom, that isn’t nearly big enough for the front porch.” I said, “silly, it’s for the front door.” I had to figure out how to make it work, because I just had to bring the pallet looking sign home. And since Easter is around the corner, I came up with this:

I first cut out the Easter saying out of vinyl, and placed it on the unpainted pallet. Then I painted the wooden pallet blue, sanded and distressed it, removing the vinyl to reveal the color below. I then cut out the Easter egg out of card stock, and using mod podge adhered it to foam core. I then used plain old doilies, and cut circles and used the left over flowers that were cut to make the banner and stapled them to some twine and attached it to the pallet using hot glue. It took me about an hour to make it.

I used the following files from Lori Whitlock’s store

Easter phrase – found here

Easter egg set – found here

Eye Candy by Mendi and Joy

March 25, 2013March 7, 2016

Today we have 2 of our talented ladies on the blog, Mendi and Joy. Mendi is up first with an adorable Easter layout…

“Well, as promised I challenged myself to use Lori’s new Echo Park collections to create an Easter layout. What took me by suprise though was that rather than going with the more girly “Sweet Girl” line, I ended up using her “About A boy” line almost exclusively. Just goes to show how versatile these papers can be for all sorts of themes including a girly project. When it came to embellishing my page I turned to Lori’s fun spring shapes. I think one of my favorite things about diecutting my own embellishments (aside from saving loads of money) has to be dressing them up. With the help of some chalk ink, hand stitching, foam tape and buttons, Lori’s flower, chicks & butterflies totally came to life! I used her LW Happy font for my title, topped with some Glossy Accents. I love how doing this gives you the feeling of a fancy alphabet sticker, but the beauty is it’s always the perfect size to fit your space and you’ll never running out of vowels”. 🙂

For today’s layout I used the following cutting files:

4 Easter Set

Chicken and Chicks

Easter Egg Set

LW Happy font (title)

Simple Borders

Also don’t forget that today is the last day to get all these great shapes and many more for 25% off using the promo code “March25” at checkout.

Next we have Joy with the cutest gift’s. Joy says…

These purse toppers are so cute! Cut them to fit any bag you already have to turn it into an adorable gift holder. It’s such a versatile file. You can dress it to fit any occasion. Use it to hold gift cards, candy and more!

Card and Chick by Christine

March 12, 2013February 29, 2016

Today we have Christine showcasing her talents with us…

I love making Easter projects and as soon as I saw the Chick Candy Dispenser, I knew that I just had to cut it out.

I followed Lori’s instructions here on her YouTube Channel to put it together and then added a few of my own embellishments. Don’t you just love googly eyes? I think that they add so much personality to my little chick.

The front of the box opens up to reveal your treat of choice. I had just picked up these yummy Hershey’s Kisses in Easter colors. The front will close and then you carry the box around by the handle at the top.

I added the feathers on the back of the box. I had to use some really good glue to get them to stick but once they were dry everything was fine. I used orange glitter paper on the beak and the feet. Sometimes, those little details can really make a project pop!

You can’t have a treat box without a card, can you? So I looked through Lori’s card files and found this one which I think is perfect. It gave me a way to incorporate the cardstock that I used on the chick into the card so everything is matching!! I love how simple it is too.

And since it was so easy to cut out this card, I decided to make a matching envelope. Again, I used the same yellow cardstock to cut it out. What fun to have a bright yellow envelope. I used the fancy envelope. I love the beautiful flap. Because I wanted to dress it up even more, I cut out a mat for my flap. If you want to learn how I did that, please stop by my blog and I will show you how. It’s really easy!