Echo Park – Page 96 – Lori Whitlock

Scallop Handle Chapstick Purse by Tya

May 30, 2016May 30, 2016

Hi everyone! Happy Memorial Day! It’s Tya up on the blog today! I am loving all the new files that Lori has came out with lately. I had a really hard time choosing what to highlight. I decided to show the new Scallop Handle Chapstick Purse – isn’t it adorable?

You can find it here (Lori Whitlock SVG Shop) or here ( Silhouette ) .

I was so excited to use the new Happy Summer line that Lori designed for Echo Park. The papers and embellishments were just the right touch for this fun cut file. I did 3 of the purses and these would be wonderful to have on hand for little gifts to give a special someone. I found this yummy mango flavored Chapstick that reminded me of summer too. Here are some close ups of the purses.

I loved the way they latched nice and easy and the holder on the inside has 2 little flaps on the edges to keep the Chapstick in nice and tight.

Hopefully I have inspired you to snatch up this adorable design. I love how fun and girly it is. Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek today – Happy Crafting!

A Tea Party with Lori’s Sizzix Dies

May 28, 2016May 11, 2016

Hi everyone! It’s Traci, from Artsy Albums, and I’m excited to be on Lori’s blog today to share some fun projects using her Sizzix dies. As you know, Lori designs fabulous cutting files for our digital cutting machines, and creates beautiful paper collections for Echo Park. She also designs wonderful dies for Sizzix! For crafters who don’t have a digital cutting machine, or who want to cut heavier materials like chipboard, these are so much fun!

I used several different dies and stamps to create a sweet tea party set for a little girl. I’ve added links below so you can get all of the details. The papers and embellishments are from the Petticoats collection that Lori designed for Echo Park.

Before you can have a tea party, you have to invite some friends. I used Lori’s Sizzix Bigz Teapot die to create my invitation. To create a card, I folded my white card stock and cut the shape out with my fold positioned to the right of the handle’s cut line. This prevented that area of the handle from cutting and allowed the fold to stay in tact. I then cut two more teapots to add to the front, and inside, of the card.

I created some adorable treat packaging with the Square Favor Box Bigz Die and the Bigz Favor Bag die. The “Hello Cupcake” die and stamp sentiment are from Lori’s Birthday Framelits Set.

I created a thank-you card using several of the dies and a stamp from the Jar and Teapot Framelit set and finished my set with a cute little mini album. The Cupcake #2 Bigz die was perfect for this since I wanted to cut several pieces of thick chipboard. After cutting the cupcake out of pattern paper also, I glued the page pieces together and punched a hole in one side for a binding ring. A little ribbon and a lot of enamel dots finished off my mini in no time.

I hope you visit some of the links I’ve included to learn more about Lori’s wonderful designs over at Sizzix.com, and stop by my blog at Artsy Albums sometime and say hello!

Happy crafting everyone!

Sizzix Dies and Stamps Used:

Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card Tutorial with Courtney

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016

Hey all! It’s Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts here with your Thursday tutorial!

Okay, so this is both a tutorial and a “what you can do with the product” tutorial so I am going to show you the traditional way this is put together, but I am going to then deviate slightly by making the stars into mini shakers.. so hang with me.

Before you start anything when you import to the Cricut Design Space software you want to right click and ungroup everything. Then you want to highlight a whole segment and “attach”. The reason you want to do this is so that the scoring lines actually end up in the correct places. It’s a weird funny “glitch” but if you don’t then the scoring lines think they want to cut out of black and even if you make them white they still will try to “cut” as a different object. This took me quite some “you-tubing” to figure out. 🙂

First of all I duplicated both the mirror looking layer and the background rectangle. The extra mirror looking layer is for the front of the card and the extra background rectangle is for acetate to make this a shaker-shadow box. Those are shown as a red piece and a black piece (not pictured) respectively on my screen shot. I’m so sorry I cannot get all of it into view! The Cricut software doesn’t put it on different mats it just puts it in different colors (or you choose them) and it divides it onto different mats accordingly. I LOVE it for saving me time, but it’s not super for pictures for a tutorial. 🙂

Step 1: I adhered the red polka dot panel (the extra mirror looking layer) to the front of the card.

Step 2: I adhered the red polka dot rectangle to the back middle of the card.

Step 3: Adhere the acetate to the back of the tan and white polka dotted panel.

Step 4: I added the foam dimensional tape around the stars and then added a second layer of tape to increase the thickness and then fill the stars with sequins.

Step 5: Put the cream layer upside down onto the foam dimensional tape. Line it up by using the top and the bottom line of the bottom panel.

Step 6: Put liquid glue on the skinny sides of the cream layer, the outside of the whole panel you have been working on, and the top and bottom of the “box”.

Step 7: Tuck the top and bottom of the box in between the cream layer and the rocket layer.

Step 8: Adhere the panels to the sides of the frame and decorate! 🙂

Recipe:

Lori’s Shop: Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card: Birthday

Silhouette Shop: Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card: Birthday

Lori Whitlock’s Pinstripes collection for Echo Park Paper

Pinstripes: Boy Bingo Cards (PS104010)

Pinstripes: Rocket Ships (PS104005)

Pinstripes: Alpha Stickers (PS104015)

Pinstripes: Adhesive Chipboard (PS104022)

Pinstripes: 6×6 Paper Pad

acetate

liquid glue

tape runner

Sizzix Woodland Animal Party with Lori Whitlock Dies

May 14, 2016May 14, 2016

Hello everyone! Angi from Twenty Five Smiles here with a fun party idea. This one would be perfect for both boys and girls. And since it’s a “woodland theme” you could host this party indoors or out. I used Lori’s adorable dies from Sizzix for this one. And I also used some of her patterned paper that she designed for Echo Park. Let’s get this party started!

Here are some close up shots of my little party! I just love the Sizzix Bigz Die Owl. It’s so adorable. I added some of the Petticoats and Pinstripes patterned paper to the wings. I also used the Framelits coordinating dies and stamps to make the cupcake toppers.

The Sizzix Bigz Die Fox is another adorable part of the party. I added more of the patterned paper and used the enamel dots for the eyes and nose.

Be sure to add more fun sentiments to some juice bottles.

The kiddos would love seeing them on their drinks.

I hope you enjoyed my fun little party idea today. Be sure to check out Lori’s Sizzix dies, they’re a lot of fun to work with!

Sizzix Dies and Stamps Used:

Book Box Tutorial with Kathy

May 12, 2016May 9, 2016

Hi Everyone, it’s Kathy today with a tutorial showing how to assemble Lori’s new Book Boxes. These boxes are so cute and come in three different sizes! I used the Small Book Box as a gift card holder for my daughter’s English Teacher… he has been so helpful, writing college recommendations, helping to edit essays and providing much morale support, she wanted to make sure he knew how much he is appreciated!

I started by cutting the pieces out using Lori’s Pinstripes Collection for Echo Park. For the book “cover” you want to run it along the edge of your desk or table to curve the spine area. The same for the spine cover (blue).

The first assembly step is to glue together the main box piece, making sure the tabs are inside the box.

Next, I added the “pages” strips to the side and the bottom of the box. Be aware, the bottom page piece is supposed to stick out a bit further then the box bottom.

Next I added the decorative panels to the book cover.

I then added the spine cover, making sure to line up the outside score lines.

*** A quick note on the last two steps… I did it in the incorrect order… You want to add the spine piece first, then cover with the cover pieces, but mine was already glued… it still looks great, but goes to show, even the “experts” make mistakes!!

The next step is to add the cover to the box. You want to line the edges of the open end of the box up with the outside score lines on the spine of the cover.