Die Cutting – Page 16 – Lori Whitlock

Silhouette March Madness Sale!

March 25, 2025March 25, 2025

Hey Silhouette Fans! Don’t Miss This Month’s Epic Sales!

If you’re a fellow Silhouette user, you know how important it is to keep your crafting supplies fresh and up-to-date. Well, you’re in luck—this month’s Silhouette sales are packed with amazing deals that you won’t want to miss!

Before I dive into the details, remember to use my affiliate code LORI at checkout for an extra 5% off your purchase, whether it’s on sale or not. It’s a small way for you to save more while supporting me at the same time. Win-win!

Here’s What’s On Sale This Month:

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Creative Maker Machine Bundles
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30% Off Files Design Store
It’s time to refresh your library! 30% off fonts, spring, fun & games categories. There are lots of deals for every kind of project.

Don’t forget to use my code LORI at checkout for an extra 5% off your order!

As always, if you have any questions about which machine, accessories, or software features, drop me a message! I’m always happy to share my Silhouette experiences and recommendations with you.

Happy crafting and shopping!

~Lori

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5×5 Bug Book Album

March 20, 2025March 25, 2025

Hi everyone! I have a fun mini album to share with you created with Lori’s new Echo Park collection, Little Things Mean A Lot. It’s a fun collection, full of bright colors and lots of attention to detail with fun little critters. I thought it would be perfect to create a mini for a little guy that I know that will love to catch some bugs for the summer and his mama can add some pictures as they go.

I cut one cover, and then I cut four pieces to cover the inside and the outside of the cover. Three base pages and then 12 squares to cover those and one spine cover. You also need some twine or thread along with adhesive.

Here is all my pieces cut…lots and lot. Then my inside pages put together. Ink all the edges. The bottom left corner is your cover pieces and the bottom right is just a bunch or borders of Lori’s that I cut to add to my pages for fun and detail.

Top right you can see the inside of my inside pages, top left is the inside of my cover and the bottom picture is the outside of the cover.

Next, just line up the holes of your three inside pages with the holes on the cover and tie them in with twine or string. How cute it that spine on the cover!!!??!!

Then you get to just go to town embellishing and creating with the amazing collection. I had so much fun. I used enamel dots, ribbon, stickers, buttons and just had the best time creating this. I know he and his mama will love it. And how cute is that little bug catcher!?

You can find the album here in Lori’s Store or here in the Silhouette Store.

I hope you will give one of these mini’s a try!

~Cathy

Shaped Bug Cards

March 17, 2025March 16, 2025

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

Box Card Easter Bunny Car

March 10, 2025March 25, 2025

Happy Monday! I’m here to share this cute project with you.

Such a fun little bunny box card to m

ake…and I love the carrot passengers!

Back in the days of stamping expo’s, my thing to collect was carrots-don’t ask me why, who knows??? I still love anything to do with carrots.

This is such a super cute creation, I can’t wait to pop it in the mail!

Spring Easter Bundle (all seven files)

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Box Card Easter Bunny Car Single file

(Lori Whitlock Store, Silhouette Store)

Easter is right around the corner! Time to get a head start!

Lori has these new files in her store and they are just adorable!

Enjoy! 💕 Sue

Happy Easter Mini Album Tutorial

March 6, 2025March 25, 2025

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!

Happy Easter Scrapbook Mini Album with a rabbit, a basket, eggs, and flowers

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.

Happy Easter Scrapbook Mini Album Tutorial

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.

4. Then, I layered the yellow basket on next.

5. I adhered the little eggs in place, tucking them in behind the yellow basket.

6. Then, I added the pieces of the bunny’s body.

7. How cute! I used some foam tape underneath the feet and tail to give them some dimension.

8. You can see in this picture that the pink base helps you know exactly where to adhere the flowers.

9. I added some pretty colored enamel dots to the center of the flowers and the bow for a bit of shine.

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”.

11. I added adhesive inside the “valleys” and adhered the sides together.

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.

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”.

13. I continued to add the rest of the pages until the book was complete.

14. To decorate the cover, I adhered the Easter basket piece to the front and added my title.

Happy Easter Scrapbook Mini Album Page with flowers, a scalloped photo mat, and a pretty plaid paper

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!

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