Happy New Year! Now that we’ve said goodbye to 2018, it’s time for me, Michelle, to start my 2019 Valentine crafts. Today I would like to share a tutorial for one of Lori’s Mini Mailboxes. It’s a classic! You can find the SVG files at the Silhouette Design Store, or at the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop.
The file is adorable and so easy to put together. It would be great as a treat box or a fun place for children to leave little notes. It would be a fun snow day activity too. The possibilities are endless, so let’s get started!
First, cut out your pieces. I used the Lori Whitlock I HEART CRAFTING line by Echo Park Paper. It’s not Valentine or Love themed paper, but the pinks and reds are perfect for both! Tip: It’s easier to glue down your embellishments while it is still flat. The paper will curve easier if you use a dry adhesive, like a tape runner or double sided tape for your embellishments.
Here are the steps to assemble the mailbox:
- Using a kitchen skewer or dowel rod, gentle train the paper to curve as shown.
- Fold all glue tabs inwards and apply adhesive. I used a quick dry liquid glue.
- Turn the box on its end and place your hand inside to push down against the table. This will give you a flat surface to push against and make sure that the glue tabs are all attached to the inside.
- Attach the mailbox flag to the base with a brad. Tip: Using a brad will allow the flag to move, but if you don’t have any, it will still be cute! Try gluing a button for another fun look!
The cute little postage stamps shown in the photo are also from Lori’s SVG files. You can find them at the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop, or at the Silhouette Design Store. The other decorative elements I cut from some of Lori’s other various files.
The little pull tab at the top allows the mailbox to open easily. Especially for little fingers!
Thanks for visiting today. Happy Crafting!
Love,
Happy New Year’s Eve everyone. Anita here to share with you this awesome and easy to make twist pop card. I used Lori’s new Echo Park collection
When you open the card the center pops out!
Here is the view from the top down while the card is open.
Anita here today to share an adorable gift set that I made for a dear friend who happens to love gnomes. Lori Whitlock has several different cards which you can customize to make adorable cards and gifts. This card is a box card ( 
Here is the card open and standing up.
Here is a close up of the notebook.
Lastly this is a photo of the card folded flat and ready for mailing. That’s it for me today. Happy Holidays everyone.
Anita here with a fun tutorial to make this gift set. I love to quilt and embroider as much as I love to paper craft and I was thrilled to recently discover that Lori Whitlock has embroidery files that she has designed, many of which mirror her paper craft SVG files. You can find her gorgeous embroidery files at 
I bought shrink film from Amazon and used Lori’s Print & Cut Stamps Christmas Cookies which you can find 
I then used my Copic markers to color the shrink film. I knew that the colors would deepen once I shrunk the image so chose my colors with that in mind. I used R37, E11, G14, G07, E99 for the gingerbread man and Y08, E99, R37, G07 for the Gingerbread house. Be sure to punch a hole in your shrink film before you put it in the oven and remember that the hole shrinks also. The directions say to bake the film on parchment at 300 degrees for 2-3 minutes but I found that my heat gun worked much better as I could control the plastic as it shrank. Below is the before picture.
Here is the photo of the shrink plastic after it was done.
I went to Embroidery online and bought the bundle which had all the Christmas embroidery files that I wanted to use for this project. It is called 
I then strung my two adorable gingerbread embellishments on some yummy twine, added a bell and glued that down as well.
The last thing that I did was made a card that used the SVG cut file which matched the embroidery. I used Lori’s new Christmas collection called Celebrate Christmas. The cut file can be found here in Lori’s store and 
That’s it for me. Hope that you have a wonderful holiday season.
These 2 svg files are part of the new Christmas files from Lori. She just released a bunch of adorable cards, boxes, advent calendars, and ornaments that are so cute! I created these cute little guys out of the 
This shaped card is so cute and I love that even though it has a round bottom it still stands up straight on it’s own! It measures about 4.25″ both ways so it will fit inside of an A2 envelope.
And here is the matching box! I absolutely love how the white linen paper from this collection makes the perfect snowman face. This is a great set to have on hand when giving a small gift this Christmas!