Category: Card Making

30% Off SVGs + March Blog Hop + FREE File!

Happy March, everyone! Welcome to our March 2023 Creative Team Blog Hop! The creative team has some lovely new projects to share with you that will get you excited to craft!! We also have a FREE FILE for you! 
This week we have a 30% OFF SALE going on at Lori’s SVG SHOP including ALL digital files and commercial licenses now through Saturday, March 18th ! Be sure to use coupon code: MAR2023 (case sensitive) at checkout in the SVG SHOP. 
 
To thank you for joining us in the hop today and sharing the hop with your friends, we have a gift for you! TODAY ONLY, You can download this Notched Square Box with Bracket Window file by Pebbles absolutely FREE! Be sure to go grab it while you can.  (Simply add the file to your cart, it will be FREE at checkout.)
 
We have some fun new files this week and they are all 30% off this week when you use code MAR2023 in our SVG Shop!  And, as always, my new files are available in the Silhouette Design Store as well. This week I have 9 new 5×7 Pop Up Cards that are super cute! Customers loved the Birthday Wish Pop Up Card from last week so I decided to make more. There are spring, easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduation and many more themes that I think you’ll enjoy.
We also have new files from Bella Blvd, Jillibean, Dresden, and Quietfire.

***CLICK HERE TO SEE NEW FILES***

And, last but not least… would you like to see what our amazing team has created? Click the links below for some wonderful inspiration. If you get lost come back here to get on track Lori Whitlock, Traci Penrod, Anita Mulcahey, Brandie Adams, Ashley Cook, Cathy Harper, and Marcia Dehn-Nix.  Thanks again for dropping by! Don’t forget to use coupon code: MAR2023 for 30% off your orders in the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop through Saturday. Have a GREAT day!
~Lori

Birthday Gum Ball Card

Have you ever seen a design that immediately made the creative side of your brain start sparking?  That happened to me the minute I saw Lori’s cute birthday gumball machine (SVG, Silhouette) and I thought — shaker card! For some reason, the thought of buttons flying around in the middle of this card just made me happy!  So here’s a quick tutorial on what I did … 

 

First, I cut out all of the pieces as they were in Lori’s file.  Then, I used the shape tool to create an oval.  I hovered the oval over the gumball machine to get the right size, and then I did an offset of the oval to create a frame.  

 

Once I had my frame shape, I cut it out 5 times from white card stock, and once from the light blue dot paper (Echo Park, First Responders, Emergency Vehicles paper).  The 5 layers of white card stock ovals will give the frame thickness and dimension so that the buttons can move freely underneath.

 

 

I layered the five card stock ovals, added small foam adhesive as shown, and traced the shape onto a piece of clear acetate.  Clearly, you don’t need to be accurate about this because you’re going to use scissors to cut inside the lines in order for your acetate to sit within the border of the oval frame.  I used a thin line of liquid glue to adhere the acetate to the top of my white oval frame.
I adhered the light blue dot oval over the acetate and then adhered everything together.  I layered the folded white card base, then the plain white template placed the buttons on the template, then added the oval over the template/buttons.  Finally, I added the red top and bottom pieces (also paper from the Echo Park First Responders collection) with more foam tape and finished the card with the sentiment and remaining cut file pieces.  The stripe is just a piece of scrap cut to 1/4″ thick to add along the bottom if desired.

 

Inside, the finishing touch was a cute little phrase that comes with the cutting file.

 

Thanks for stopping by Lori’s blog today! I hope this card will inspire you to think outside the box and create something fun with Lori’s wonderful cutting files!  Until next time, happy crafting my friends!

NEW Fabulous Birthday Card Bundle Video Released!

Hello my crafty friends! Today I released a YouTube video showing off the new Fabulous Birthday Card Bundle. If you’re on the blog scroll to the bottom of this post to view it. If you’re reading this from an email, simply click HERE. Also, below are some quick snips of my favorites and they are also some of the top customer favorites, too. I really hope you get to make some of these fabulous cards! You will also find these new cards in the silhouette design store.

 

 

Have a wonderful day!

 

Lori

 

NEW Fabulous Birthday Card Bundle!

I am always looking for a fun and easy birthday card to put together for a friend or family member, so this week I designed a new bundle of 10 birthday cards. It’s called the FABULOUS BIRTHDAY CARD BUNDLE I am working on a video today that will show them off and help with assembly. The video will be posted later today. I’ll send out a link tomorrow morning. Take a peek at how much fun they are….

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a great day!

 

Lori

Bobble Card Pot of Gold

Anita here with a fun St. Patrick’s Day card called Bobble Card Pot of Gold (SVG, Silhouette).  I used Mini Action Wobbles Springs to pop up the pot of gold and it wiggles when you pick it up or shake it.  Lori has a tutorial on her site for this type of card and links to get the wobbles.  I used some of her Echo Park paper collections including Day in the Life No. 2, Pets, and Our Little Princess. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Hugs,

Anita