Lori’s Essential Mini Album with Traci

Hi Lori fans! It’s Traci, from Artsy Albums, and I’m happy to be back to share another project using Lori’s Sizzix dies.  For this one, I used her new Essential Mini Album Thinlits dies.  This set comes with 15 dies!  I also used her new Mix & Match flowers set.

For the cover, “The Story” title is included in the mini album set.  I added it to a label that I cut from the Perfect Labels Thinlits set and then layered all of those pretty flowers with a cute brad.

I love how Lori provided the base album page in this set, along with a layered piece for pattern paper.  The film strip frames are also included in the set … so cute!!  All of the pieces were cut from paper designed by Lori for Echo Park called Pinstripes.

I hope this mini has inspired you to go check out these sets, and all of the other fun dies and stamps that Lori has designed for Sizzix!

Happy crafting!

Life Cards Flip Through

Hi Everyone, it’s Karin today and as promised in my last post, here are the pages I have completed in my Project Life binder. The page above shows a number of Lori’s Office Oriented Life Cards and the following images include life cards and various other Lori Whitlock digital elements.

The next two pages are from my last post in which I used St. Patrick’s Day life elements

Using the Lori’s digital images from Snap Click Supply makes fast work of my pocket pages!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Lori Whitlock Amazon Shop

Hi Everyone!  I often get questions about the types of adhesives, papers and tools that I use, as well as where to find some of the products I design for Echo Park and Sizzix.  I decided to put together an Amazon Shop with links to the items I use most.  You can access that store from both my blog as seen here:

And also from the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop by clicking on the Papercrafting products link here:

In the shop you will find a number of items.  There is a page with some of the adhesives that I use most in my projects

 

The next link is to a few of the different types of cardstock that I like to use, as well as some of my Echo Park Collections.

I also have links to some of the Silhouette and Cricut products I often use and recommend.

And lastly I link to some of the products I designed for Sizzix.

I hope you find this shop and these products helpful!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Lori

 

 

 

Digital Life Cards and Print Elements with the Cricut Explore with Karin

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I worked on a series of videos to show you how I am using Lori Whitlock’s digital life cards in my Project Life binder. I combined the videos into the one below and will add another in two weeks showing how far I have progressed in a very short time.
I had started a Project Life binder in 2012 and had it very well organized, but then I never kept it up. Since it is now so much later, I have decided that I won’t organize the binder by date. Instead I will just work through all my images and journalling using digital life cards and make my binder look nice and complete the project.
I literally have hundreds of files to work with so I need to organize them before I get started. I used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to do this because it makes it so easy to find what I need. Also, if I want to tag elements for specific topics or themes, Lightroom makes this very easy. The image above shows how the thumbnails look in Lightroom.
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The image above shows how I took an element, uploaded it into Design Space, cleaned away the outer white area to have the scalloped edge and inner portions as a print element that I cut out with my Cricut Explore.
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In my video, I show you how I set up the element in the upper left corner of the print then cut image above to use it as a card in a 3×4 pocket.
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This image shows you how the cutting line goes around the outside of the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Be sure to check back in two weeks when I post a flip through of my Project Life binder so far.