Category: Die Cutting

Cropping in Silhouette Studio by Corri

Hi everyone!  I have a simple tutorial for you today using a new tool I recently discovered in Silhouette Studio.  It’s the crop feature and it’s super easy to do but very useful.  I used it to make a quick and easy name tag for my daughter’s backpack.

First, open this tag and border on your mat. I resized the tag to 5″w. Make a duplicate of your tag.

Line the the border up on top of your tag.

Select both items and then go to the Modify menu in the upper left of your screen.

 

Click on Crop.

It trims your border to fit perfectly along the edge of your tag.

I typed  Olivia using Lori’s Happy Font and embellished my tag with this butterfly and a sticker from the

Here and Now Collection that Lori designed for Echo Park.

 

I laminated it to make it more durable….so it was a little hard to photograph but it turned out very cute! I will be using the crop feature a lot.  It’s perfect for trim border for cards that have an unusual shape.  I also think it would be cute to trim a grass border to fit perfectly along the edge of an Easter egg.

Silhouette Giveaway + $1 Wednesday at Jessica Sprague

Have you seen the Silhouette sketch pens that work with the Cameo and Portrait? The sketch pens add so many creative possibilities to your machine.

I’ve designed 2 new fonts that you’ll find in the Silhouette Online Store this week. They are designed specifically to work with the Sketch Pens. What a great way to add a personal sentiment or message to a project. With these fonts you are able to type your desired wording and sketch it using your Cameo or Portrait. How fun is that?

I’ve also created a set of 3 very useful sentiments that you’ll find in the Silhouette Online Store this week. Simply sketch the words and then cut the flag shape around them to create labels for cards or layouts. I love how you can easily create a custom embellishments with sketch pens!

Today through August 29 Silhouette is offering some pretty amazing sketch pen deals to our readers! To get the following pricing be sure to shop here: www.silhouetteamerica.com/pens and use coupon code: LORI at checkout.

(1)    CAMEO plus sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a $25 gift card and a penholder for $269.99 ($88.96 off the retail price)
(2)    Portrait plus sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a $25 gift card and a penholder for $129.99 ($108.96 off the retail price)
(3)    Sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a penholder for $19.99 ($13.97 off the retail price)

Guess what?? We are giving away a Silhouette Portrait machine along with our current promo! Would you like to be our lucky winner? To enter use the form below. Good luck to you all. We will announce our winner on Monday, August 26.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

One Dollar Wednesday at JessicaSprague.com!

It’s Wednesday again and that means TODAY ONLY you can snag two digital kits for an amazing deal…
TODAY for JUST $1 you can grab this awesome set: School Frames and Borders

SCHOOL FRAMES AND BORDERS

And, you can get the following awesome product for HALF OFF, Office Oriented Findings 1

OFFICE ORIENTED FINDINGS 1

While you are at jessicasprague.com getting your kits, be sure to check out the samples made with each of these kits at the bottom of each listing.

New in Shop + Tuesday Freebie

TODAY ONLY, the CANDY BOX: 4 CANDIES SVG file is FREE with purchase.

Before coupon code total should be $5.00 or higher. Just add coupon code: CANDY at checkout and the cost ($2.99) will be deducted from your purchase. That makes your order total only $2! What a great deal. This freebie is good until midnight tonight!

Here are some of Lori’s newest shapes added to the SVG shop and her Silhouette Portfolio! Thanks for stopping by… Lisa

Only a purchase in Lori’s SVG shop will qualify for the free cutting file.

 

Cascading Album by Traci and a Layout by Mendi

Today we have 2 fabulous projects to share. Traci has created one of the Cascading Albums and Mendi has an adorable layout.
Happy Monday everyone!
I am glad to be back sharing another project with you today!  If you know me, or have ever been to my blog, you know that I’m a huge fan of mini albums.  They are my favorite project and I love the fact that Lori has so many wonderful options in her shop.  So for today’s project, I used one of Lori’s Tiered albums with a bracket edge.  I also used brand new papers and embellishments that Lori designed for Echo Park called Reflections.  Oh my goodness what a fabulous collection!!
For the title of my album, I used Lori’s Family Memories phrase.  This new paper collection is perfect for older family photos or more recent ones — I just love the colors!
I wanted to add a fold-up card piece to one of the album pages, so I cut out Lori’s Hinges to give the card more interest.  Depending on the size you make your hinges, you can add brads to the holes, or use a little bling like I did 🙂
Finally, to add to the vintage feel of my album, I added a fancy frame.  I just love how the frame looks with some gems added for sparkle!
I have posted additional photos of this album over on my blog today, so I hope you’ll stop by and check them out.
Thanks for letting me share with you!!
Traci
Thanks Traci! Here is Mendi’s beautiful layout!
Mendi here today sharing a layout which uses Echo Park’s Here & Now collection (one of my favorite collections of Lori’s) and a number of her fun SVG cutting files.


To form my title block, I layered 5 different cutting files of Lori’s.  I had some old (OLD) Autumn Leaves ticket stamps which I paired with Lori’s ticket shape.  I also mixed things up a bit by removing the shadow from the “Spring Is Here” title and enlarging the word Spring and moving the words to two separate lines to fit on my label.


I created a second grouping to form the second point in my visual triangle using Lori’s layered flower, pennant and a matching sticker from the collection kit.  I added a pearl brad and some foam tape for my flower to add a little interest.


Lori’s tabs with the date was just what I needed to finish my visual triangle (and remind me where to file this one away in the albums when I finally get around to it).  😉

To complete my layout I used the following cutting files designed by Lori:

Tuesday Freebie Summer Titles

Good morning. Thank you so much for all of the support and love we received last week during our blog party. We wish we had a Cameo for each of you as we love all of our dedicated readers.  Incase you missed it on Facebook, we would like to share our Cameo winner with you, Kris S! Congrats on winning this fabulous machine. Please contact Lori at lori@loriwhitlock.com with your snail mail address so we can get this sent out to you! Thank you again to ALL that entered!

~ Lori and Lisa 

I’ve decided to extend the 30% OFF sale in Lori’s SVG SHOP one more day!! Today is the last day!! There are some awesome new shapes in the store including the cutest little owl purse, life card storage projects, & school projects. Be sure to stock up while you can get them on SALE! Enter code: SUMMER at checkout.

 

And, TODAY ONLY, this SUMMER TITLES SVG file is FREE with any purchase.

Before coupon code total should be $4.98 or higher. Just add coupon code: SMRTTLES at checkout and the cost ($3.99) will be deducted from your purchase. This freebie is good until tomorrow. If you have trouble combining coupon codes, please use the 30% OFF code, make your purchase, email me (or put it in the notes at checkout) for your freebie and I’ll email it to you. (info@loriwhitlock.com)

Here are some of the new shapes added to the SVG shop and her Silhouette Portfolio! Thanks for stopping by!