Halloween Fun with Cathy

October 8, 2018October 7, 2018

I love Halloween paper crafting, I can simply never get enough and it’s so easy to create little treat boxes for all your favorite ghouls with all the choices you have from Lori. There are tons of boxes and bags at her shop or at the Silhouette online Design Store. I used an older Halloween Collection for Echo Park today for my projects.

First up two little treat boxes, easy peasy and go together in a matter of seconds once you have them cut out on your machine. I used the 2 favor boxes on 12×12 at Silhouette and the ribbon tie bracket favor box silhouette version or ribbon tie bracket favor box at Lori’s Shop.

Then I created a cute card and little paper bag for another little ghoul! I used the a2 pop dot bat card, silhouette version and here at Lori’s shop. Then just an adorable little paper bag that just takes seconds…bag with rounded top, Silhouette version and here at Lori’s shop.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out all of Lori’s great treat and favor boxes…the possibilities are endless.

Shutter Card Tutorial with Kathy

October 4, 2018September 28, 2018

Happy Fall Everyone! Today I have a quick assembly tutorial for Lori’s new Shutter Cards. These cards are such fun and have some great dimension. I used the Shutter Card Squirrel file (SVG, Silhouette) for my tutorial along with some papers and embellishments from Echo Park’s Celebrate Autumn Collection.

The actual assembly of these cards is pretty simple, it’s mostly the folds that need some attention. I started by cutting out the pieces of my card.

Next I added the patterned paper panels to the different sections of the card. I like to do this before folding because I think it helps me to visualize how things should be.

Once the panels were added, I folded the card along the score lines.

Here is a view of the folds from the top of the card.

I put together this graphic showing how the folds should be. The upside down V means mountain fold (popping up when lying flat) and the V is a valley fold (pointing down when lying flat).

Once the card was folded, I added the additional embellishments. I started with the squirrel on the bracket shape. I added some foam tape under the bracket to give it a little more dimension.

Next, I added the insert with the leaf and acorn. I started by adding adhesive to the bottom front strip of the piece.

I then tucked this piece in behind the front strip on the card base as seen below.

I finished the card with a cute chipboard piece sentiment from the Celebrate Autumn Chipboard Phrases.

This card folds flat and will fit into an A7 (5.25″ x 7.25″) envelope (Lori has a set here in her shop) . That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

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Very, Very Not-So-Scary Autumn Paper Houses with Michelle

October 1, 2018September 28, 2018

Thank you for joining me, Michelle, in sharing some Autumn crafting with Echo Park Paper’s Celebrate Autumn collection. Autumn is my favorite time of year to craft. I love all of the colors and textures of the Season.

Autumn Paper Houses

To make my Celebrate Autumn houses, I used Haunted House Smaller and Haunted House Tall svg files. As you can see, my houses aren’t scary at all! I just snipped the cobwebs of with my scissors.

Lori Has a great assembly video where she explains step by step how to put them together. You can find the files for the Haunted House Smaller at the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop, or at the Silhouette Design Store.

You can also find the files to make Haunted House Tall at the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop or at the Silhouette Design Store.

There’s a total of five houses in the series, so you can craft an entire village!

Have a crafty day!

Michelle

4 Drawer Organizer Tutorial with Anita

September 27, 2018September 26, 2018

Hi Everyone:

Anita here with a tutorial to create this adorable four drawer organizer. I am going to show you how to put this cutie together and was thinking that you could customize them for every season. I am going to put chocolates into mine and give it to a friend. You can find the 4 Drawer Organizer cut file here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette Design store. I used one of my favorite Echo Park Lori Whitlock designed paper lines called Sweet Baby Girl.Here is a screen shot of the cut files on my mat. You will need to cut four of the outer box and the inner box as noted in black bold type near the boxes cut files.

Here are the pieces that you will have once you have cut everything for your project.

I always start my projects by folding the score lines as you can see by the photo above.

For the inner box you are going to want to glue the tabs from the back of the box to the side of the box.

Next you will glue the back flap into the box.

Next you will glue down the front flap into the box.

Lastly, you will glue in to the box the two last flaps and your inner box is done.

Now onto the outer box.

There are flaps along the bottom of the box cut file and you will be gluing the tabbed pieces together and leaving the flaps alone for now.

Here you can see that I have started to glue together the tabs on the outside box and am ready to glue the last side onto the box with the flaps left alone for now.

Here you can see that I glued together the last part of the box and the flaps are open and at the top. They are going to get glued into the box and will make a lovely clean box with smooth insides which allows the inner box to slide easily in and out.

And that is how you put together both of the boxes. Next, you will stack the four outer boxes two by two and glue them all together. Make sure that you put enough glue to hold them together. Lastly, you are going to glue on your accent pieces to finish off your box. You could also add any cute embellishments that you want.

Hugs,

Anita

Autumn Planner Pages & Flowers with Aimee

September 24, 2018September 23, 2018

Hello everyone and Happy Fall!! Aimee here with you today to share my September Planner pages. Fall is my absolute favorite so these pages came together quickly.

There are so many new files that would create beautiful planner covers! I chose the “it’s Fall Y’all” sentiment along with the wreath and flowers. I started this project with a focus on making DIY flower clips but I had so much fun designing the cover with the new cut files and Lori’s beautiful new “Celebrate Autumn” collection that I lost my focus. LOL!! So here is a close up of the dashboard…

And now I will get to the main part of this post…Lori has a ton of beautiful flowers in her shop so it was difficult trying to figure out which ones to use but these 2 looked the most fall-ish to me. I cut out the flowers, assembled them, and then glued them to a matching paper clip. To make sure they would stay on the paper clip, I adhered paper circles to the backs. Make sure to use a good type of glue so they stay in tact through your planner activities.