Category: Die Cutting

Silhouette Tutorial with Tya – Custom Card Sentiments

Hi everyone- Its Tya here to share with you a fun and easy Silhouette tutorial! I love using Lori’s shapes in all sorts of fun ways. Today I wanted to share with you how to add a custom sentiment to a card front.

For my card base I used Lori’s A2 Snowflake Ornament Card that you can find here in her SVG shop and here on the Silhouette website.

As you can see, I removed the snowflake from the card front and added some festive holiday sentiments on my card front instead using the handy subtract tool in the Silhouette software. Let me show you the steps that I followed to make the cards.

1- Ungroup the shape and delete the snowflake.

2- Grab the card front. Using the Draw a Rectangle tool, draw a 1.5×4.5 inch box right in the center of the ornament.

3-Open the modify window, select both shapes, and then click on subtract.

4-You will now have the top and bottom section of the shape with a space in the middle.

5- Type out your sentiment. I typed the word Merry in all capitals using the LW Block font I downloaded from the Silhouette store. I suggest using block fonts, or fonts with a serif on them for this technique. I also like to use capital letters just to make things easy and even. Resize your sentiment so that the letters slightly overlap the top and bottom lines of our space we cut out of the middle.

6- Select  just the top section of the ornament, right click and click on make a compound path. This keeps the hole in the top section of the ornament.

7- Select the whole shape, right click and select Weld. You can see now that the shape of the ornament is still intact, and we added a custom sentiment to our card front – this is a fun way to add a personal touch to your cards and to get more use from your card shapes.

Here are all the cards I made using this technique. I really enjoyed using Lori’s Christmas Cheer Echo Park paper line for my cards. The colors just pop! Love it! For this card, I used the Merry Christmas flourish phrase found here and here.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and letting me share this tutorial with you! I hope that you will give this nifty technique a try! And I would love it if you would stop by my blog and say hi! Happy Holidays and Happy Crafting!

 

Christmas Gift Link Up with Corri Garza

Hi everyone!  Corri here today with a new link up party for you guys.  Since this time of the year is all about gift giving, I thought it would be fun to have our link party be all about “Gift Ideas.” Lori has recently added so many great gift files to her shop….check out these cute ideas.

Link up your projects using any of Lori’s files for a chance to win a $15 gift card.

Here’s my project for today.

This box would be so cute filled with candy, a gift card or a small gift.  I used paper from the Christmas Cheer Collection from Echo Park.

We love seeing all your projects…you can also share them on Instagram using the hashtag #loriwhitlock and tag @loriwhitlock.


Tuesday Freebie + New in SVG Shop

TODAY ONLY, this 3D STAR file is FREE with Purchase.

Here is a fun Christmas Star to add to your Christmas tree or use for another project. Simply add this file: 3D Star to your shopping cart along with any $3.99 purchase from www.loriwhitlock.com/shop and this file is yours FREE.  Be sure to use Coupon Code: STAR at checkout. The price of the 3D Star  will be deducted from your total.

We have many requests for the PDF file for hand cutting. Now many of new shapes will include a line art PDF. Also, all or our files now come Cricut friendly. If you need measurements for an older file please don’t hesitate to ask by emailing us HERE.

Finally… Check out these adorable new files in the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop, and they are on SALE through the weekend, too!!! Most of these downloads include SVG files, cut size information and a PDF for hand cutting if desired.

To find these files in the Silhouette Design Store click HERE.

 

Cyber Monday Sale + Christmas Tree Shaker Card with Lorrie

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend! I sure did, it was a wonderful Thanksgiving at my house with my brother and his family from Colorado here with us along with my sister from Southern Utah. We had so much fun together! And, I’m heading to the gym right now as I ate WAY too much!

Please disregard the earlier email that went out. We are in a little bit of a transition as I have a new assistant starting today. I’d like to thank my good friend and amazing assistant Lisa for her service over the past few years. I appreciate her hard work to keep me, the blog, the shop, and the creative team all organized and functioning properly. Thank you, Lisa!! You’ll be missed.

We would like to help you get a jump start on your holiday crafting projects. Today only, you can pick up these festive holiday SVG files, AND EVERYTHING else at our SVG shop for 40% OFF. Just use code CYBER40 at checkout! Hurry, the sale ends at midnight.

Now we have an awesome project for you by Lorrie Nunemaker. Lorrie has become quite knowledgeable about the new Cricut Explore…

Hello everyone!  I am excited to share with you this fun Christmas Tree Shaker Card.

For this project I used the Christmas Tree Pop-Up Card.  Using the Cricut Explore I cut the pop up label 2 times, once using fun foam and once using the red striped paper from Echo Park Christmas Cheer Collection by Lori Whitlock.   I added a layer of transparency and some sequins to make the tree portion a shaker card.

For Silhoeutte users, you can find the file HERE.

Have a great day!

Santa Shaped Card with Corri

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  Corri here today sharing a fun shaped card made with Lori’s Santa Face file. Here’s how I made it.

First, ungroup the pieces and drag them off your mat.    Drag the beard portion onto your mat and then click on the replicate menu along the top. Click on mirror above.

Next, select the top beard and move it down slightly.  Select both pieces and the right click and select weld.

Now you have your card base. Next, cut all the layers including an additional white beard piece.   To add some texture to the card, I embossed this layer.

I used paper from the Christmas Cheer Collection from Echo Park Paper.  Such a fun card and it goes together really quickly.

Be sure to check out all the new Christmas files in Lori’s SVG shop and Silhouette Shop.

Also, be sure to check out the Silhouette Black Friday Sale from last night’s post. To get these deals be sure to shop HERE. And use code LORI at checkout. Sale ends December 8.

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