Category: Die Cutting

Giveaway, Freebie + New SVG Shapes

Do you follow the paper collections Lori designs for Echo Park? They are so so cute. Each release I think is my favorite, then she comes out with a new one and my favorite changes. Recently “A Perfect Summer” was released and Lori is hosting a GIVEAWAY! Three lucky people will be winning this collection. Are you one of them?

If you haven’t had a chance to enter be sure and enter below for your opportunity to win one of these beautiful collections. Winners will be announced on Thursday. Enter by Wednesday at midnight.
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Also, TODAY ONLY, this ice cream cone SVG file is FREE. Just add coupon code: ICECREAM at checkout and the cost will be deducted from your purchase.

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

Stationary Set by Traci and Centerpiece by Corri

Today we have some fabulous projects by Traci and Corri
Hi Lori fans!
I’m so excited to be on the blog today sharing a really fun, and pretty quick, project with you.  As many of you may know, I’m a mini album girl.  They are my all-time favorite project.  Despite my mini love, I also love giving fun gifts with cute packaging.  So today I decided to share my love of little gift notes.  A 3×3 gift note is the perfect little “accessory” to a perfectly wrapped present.  I make several at a time so that when I have a birthday, wedding, or new baby gift to wrap, I already have a cute little hand-made gift enclosure to go with it.
Here is some gift note inspiration for you — complete with Lori’s adorable 3×3 stationary box to keep the cards in until you need them.
I love all of Lori’s digital cutting files, so it’s never hard to find the perfect addition to any card or project.  For this one, my favorite part of each card are the sentiments.  Lori designed the “Happy Birthday”, “Thank You’ and “Hello” pieces with an adorable font and a great background piece.  The ability to cut a white background allowed each of my sentiments to “pop” off any pattern paper I layered it onto.  I also love the cupcake for this card…especially with the little heart cut out.
I have always been a fan of Echo Park…especially the paper and embellishments that Lori designs for them.  Most of the papers I’ve used in this card set are from the “My Girl” Collection.  For the card below, I added a fun little branch from the sticker sheet and set an adorable bird up on pop dots for dimension.
For the “Thank You” card, I found Lori’s mason jar cutting file
This design can be used for so many things — I cut the design and then added a flower sticker and brad from the “My Girl” collection and finished it off with a knot of twine.
For the 3×3 box, I cut the file and also created an “inset” shape for each side.  After adding the inset accent pieces, I cut one of Lori’s new 3D flower designs for the front.  The flower also serves as a little accent to tuck the tab behind so that the lid stays closed 🙂  So, so, cute!
Thanks so much for visiting today!  Please stop by my personal blog, Artsy Albums, to say hello!
Traci
Next we have this adorable center piece by Corri.
I have a fun project for you today that would be great for a Memorial Day or July 4th table decoration.
I cut Lori’s Octagon Flower Pot as sized in the file from some kraft card stock.
For the rim of the pot, I used the red wood grain paper from Echo Park’s “Perfect Summer” collection which Lori designed.
I cut 3 of the Spiral Stars (size reduced to 2.795″h) and 2 Spiral Flower 1 from some navy card stock and some pattern paper from the “Perfect Summer” collection.  I cut an extra base layer for each flower, then hot glued a wooden skewer to one of the base layers and mounted the assemble flower to that with foam dots.
To add some stability, put something with a little weight in the bottom of the flower pot.  I used a few tokens from Chuck E. Cheese!   I used some more hot glue to glue a 4″ foam ball in the pot and then arranged my flowers and covered with some paper shreds.
You could change up this cute project for all kinds of summer parties.  Add some graduation caps and 2013 on your sticks for a cute graduation party center piece. Corri

Using your Eraser Tool

Tutorial by Traci:  A Fun Way to Use Your Eraser Tool

Hi everyone!  I’m excited to share a fun tutorial with you today.
Although we love to cut Lori’s adorable shapes out of paper, today I will share how you can cut your shapes to pop up from the paper.
First, add the shape you want to use to the page in your software program.

Next, move the shape to the area where you will want it to pop up from the page.  Resize your shape and ungroup the pieces if necessary.

For my page, I also rotated the butterfly slightly.
 
Next, select your eraser tool on the left toolbar.  If you have the Designer Edition of Silhouette Studio, an Erasers window will appear on the right side.
Select “Outline” and if needed, “zoom” to see the lines better (hour glass with plus sign at top). Then erase the areas of your shape that you do not want to cut.
If you don’t have the Designer Edition software, you can still use an eraser, but the steps are a bit different.
First click on ‘Point Editing’.  A bunch of grey points will appear on your shape.  (You may have to click on “Simplify” before the points will appear).
Next, click on the points you want to erase.  When you select each point, click on ‘Break Path’ in your Point Editing window.
This will make the lines stay broken. Now you should be able to erase the areas that you do not want to cut.
 

 

I also wanted to add a border that would pop up from the page so I repeated the steps above for the border.

 

For the border, I erased the top cutting line of the shape so that it would fold up from the page.
 
So, as you can see I did not cut anything out, I just made it so that it popped up from the page.
Here is the final page layout.  A fun little page about my adorable niece, Hannah, who is, of course….Cute As A Bug!

Traci Penrod
Artsy Albums

Tuesday Freebie + New in Shop

Good Morning! I hope your week is turning out beautiful! Today Lori has many fun new shapes available at both her SVG shop and Silhouette Portfolio.  We love to see what you create, be sure to post them to Lori’s Facebook page. Be sure to grab this freebie with any purchase in Lori’s SVG shop.

 Today only, this flag owl  SVG file is FREE with ANY PURCHASE. Just add coupon code: FLAG OWL at checkout and the cost will be deducted from your purchase.

 

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

Teacher Gifts by Mendi + Ornate Cards by Christine

Today on the blog we have the talented Mendi and Christine. Today Mendi blew me away with these adorable teacher gifts. My mom was a teacher for many years and would have loved something like this. Mendi says…
As many of you are wrapping up your school year I thought I would share an idea for a quick and easy teacher’s gift.  I ran across some bare wood plaques at my local craft store when I was searching for ideas and thought they would be perfect. A simple coat of paint (and perhaps a light spraying of clear Kylon to seal) and they were immediately transformed and ready to cover. 
I have always been attracted to primary colors and school themes so I had a big stash of school themed papers to turn to, but it’s not hard to find something perfect these days with all the school ruled papers, cork, chalkboard and ruler paper out there on the market. I think Lori’s Take Note collection from last year would be super cute for this!
For these projects I used the following cutting files designed by Lori:
Pencil (Silhouette store only)
Apple (Silhouette store only)
September Art (Silhouette store only)
LW Happy Font
I hope I’ve inspired you to create a quick personalized gift for a special teacher in your 
life. I was serioulsy amazed with how quickly these came together!
Next we have Christine sharing these beautiful cards with us.
Today I am sharing two cards that I made with the Ornate Pull Out Cards.  I used numbers 1 and 4 today but the others are super fun too.  
Here are the cards together.  You can opt to leave the background piece, the fancy part, alone and it’s really pretty or you can back it with some cardstock, like I did with my cards.  For me, I liked the additional strength that it gave the card but you’ll want to make sure to use a very plain paper if you do so that those gorgeous cut outs don’t get lost.

Here are close ups of each card individually.  I used Lori Whitlock’s Sweet Girl paper and embellishment collection from Echo Park to create these cards.  The little extra sticker and brad here and there really make these cards extra special.

Here is what this card look like when the base is pulled out from the wrapped sleeve.  Lots of room for writing a special message or a signature.
My second card is pictured below.  
And here is a closeup of the center of the card and what it looks like pulled apart.  There are so many ways to decorate these cards and what a fun and different way to create an interactive card.
Thanks for stopping by.  Here are the supplies that I used to create my cards.
Lori Whitlock SVG’s: 
Other Supplies:
Sweet Girl Paper Collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park Paper
Sweet Girl Embellishments by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park Paper
Sweet Girl Cardstock Paper by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park Paper
Silhouette Cameo Electronic Die Cut Machine