Hi everyone! Another 60 degree false spring day here in South Dakota so it inspired me to make some bug cards. I used Echo Park Little Things paper designed by Lori Whitlock.
The files for these cute little bugs come in sets. I used the bee from the Bugs 2 set and the ladybug and snail from Bugs set.
I embellished the cards with twine, buttons and the ephemera and frames and tags from the paper line.
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!
Chelsea
Hello everyone! Traci here and today, I’m sharing a Happy Easter Mini Album I made with two of Lori’s fabulous cutting files and the Echo Park, Our Happy Place Collection. It’s filled with spring colors, flowers, and beautiful prints. This little album is perfect for holiday photos and it makes a sweet handmade gift!
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To create this, I used the A2 Easel Card Easter Bunny Basket File (SVG, Silhouette) for the design on the front cover and the Hidden Binding Mini Album Rectangle (SVG, Silhouette) for the actual book.
Here’s the simple tutorial …
1. I resized the Hidden Binding Mini Album‘s pieces to create a book that would be 4.75″ wide x 7” tall. I chose this size so that I wouldn’t need to resize
the Easter basket file.
2. Next, I cut out all of the pieces for both files.
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3. I assembled the card first. The Basket file comes with a base “grass” background that is shaped to help you know where to layer each of the pieces. I added the pink shape on top of the green base.
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4. Then, I layered the yellow basket on next.
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7. How cute! I used some foam tape underneath the feet and tail to give them some dimension.
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8. You can see in this picture that the pink base helps you know exactly where to adhere the flowers.
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9. I added some pretty colored enamel dots to the center of the flowers and the bow for a bit of shine.
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10. Once the card was assembled, it was time to build the album. Above, are the pages
and the binding piece. The binding piece is scored, so I folded along the
score lines to create “mountains” and “valleys”.
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11. I added adhesive inside the “valleys” and adhered the sides together.
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The outside of the binding now looked like this. The cutting file includes a separate piece that will be glued
over these folds to create the album’s spine.
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12. This is the inside of the binding. To add the pages, I adhered one page piece to the front of the first spine fold and a second one to the back … sandwiching them on the “mountain”.
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13. I continued to add the rest of the pages until the book was complete.
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14. To decorate the cover, I adhered the Easter basket piece to the front and added my title.
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15. Inside, I embellished the pages with lots of pretty papers, stickers, enamel dots, and photo mats. To see more of the inside pages … hop over to my Artsy Albums blog.
I hope this Happy Easter Mini Album gives you a little holiday and spring inspiration! Whether you love making scrapbooks or greeting cards, you should definitely give these cutting files a try. I love them!
Hi everyone! I have some cards to share with you today. They all were created using Lori’s Echo Park Our Happy Place. I used the 6×6 paper pad to create these, enamel dots and stickers from the sticker book. I just want to show what a different look you get to these cards when you use patterned papers instead of plain colored card stock. It makes even the cutesiest of cards have a whole different look. Some what of softer and bit more sophisticated look. I love how these all turned out, this collection has the softest colors and darling little patterns. I am all set for my Easter cards with these being finished now.
I will have a list at the bottom, in order, of the files I used for these.
Happy Thursday my crafty friends. When I saw this cute little chicken card, the A2 Shaped Box Card Chicken, (SVG) it reminded me of soup, and since everyone around me is currently sick with some cootie or another I thought this would be the perfect little project.
First cut all your pieces. As always I have my Cricut write my words on the tag.
Fold your pieces on the score lines
Add your adhesive to these pieces
Glue your beak, wattles and comb to the chicken insert. Don’t put the eye on yet.
I added the insert piece into the box. I put it as close to the front as possiable as I wanted to use it as a box with goodies too.
Once my box was assembled, I added adhesive around the square part on both the front and back, 1 side as a time.
I put the bowl shaped pieces on the fron and the back.
This is where you will attach the eye. Top left corner of the bowl piece.
I used pop dots to pop the wing (heart) piece on both back and front. Embelished with a little bakers twint on the tag.
I added a soup packet and kleenex as well as some tylonal and cough drops. I did place a piece of packing tape along the bottom to keep my goodies from falling out.
Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!
Chelsea