Hexagon Pop Up Beach Ball Card

June 12, 2025June 30, 2025

Hexagon Pop Up Beachball Card Bundle

You can find this card in a Hexagon Pop Up Bundle, or purchase it by itself.

You can buy the single card here (Lori Whitlock, Silhouette)

Here is a tutorial for you today!

Here are some of the working parts glued together and ready to go.

This is the base piece. I creased all the fold lines.

You will add glue to the center of each section and then fold the piece upon itself, matching the two glued parts together.

This is what it will look like from the side.

This is what it will look from the top. There are 3 slots with the largest in the center.

You can insert the pieces numbered 1, 2 and 3 in order to get an idea of what this card will look like but you will need to take out #2 an #3 while dealing with #1-it’s just easier.

Glue the tab of #1 and glue it so it stands straight when folding the base upright.

Fold the first base section, being careful to make sure when you fold it flat, that it will flatten fully.

Here it is flattened.

Insert #2 into the other side base section and glue it flat onto the inside center piece.

Here I am inserting #3 piece. When you fold the second side up make sure your #3 piece is glued up straight and then glue the main side flap together, forming an open square on each side

It looks like this when you set it up. Take note of the little tabs on the bottom of each side.

Add glue to the front and back of each base piece. Here, you will align the long piece, making sure to line up with the bottom of the box and going over each little side tab. The tab on the long piece should secure in the back by adding glue to the last tab. Assure your card will easily flatten. As you stand the card up and push down on the outside frame, it will lock those little side tabs sticking out into the outside frame.

Here you can see what the bottom looks like. Very neat and finished.

Side view. To re-flatten just push on the inside and that will pop out the secured tabs.

All finished! I just adore the little bluebird Lori added to the file!

I hope you enjoyed this card–the hexagon cards really impress people when they pull it out of the envelope!

💕Sue Kment

June 2025 Creative Team Blog Hop + 30% Off

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025

Welcome to the June 2025 Creative Team Blog Hop — we’re so glad you’re here! This month, our talented team has been bursting with inspiration and has created some stunning new projects to help spark your own creativity. To make things even more exciting, we’ve lined up a limited-time 30% OFF sale, a fabulous FREEBIE, and a fun GIVEAWAY just for you. Ready to hop along? Here’s the lineup…

Lori Whitlock <<<(you are here)
Traci Penrod
Brandie Adams

Ashley Cook

Cathy Harper

Chelsea VanWyk
Sue Kment
Noelene Apap

We have a 30% OFF SALE at Lori’s SVG SHOP on all digital files and commercial licenses until Saturday, June 14th! Simply use the code JUN2025 (it’s case-sensitive!) to grab your favorite SVG files at a fantastic price. SHOP HERE.

As a heartfelt thank you for joining our June Hop and sharing in the springtime fun, we’ve got a special treat just for you!

For today only, you can download this adorable Thank You Gift Box SVG file absolutely FREE. Just add it to your cart and complete checkout—no strings, no catch, just a little gift from us to you!

THIS WEEK’S NEW RELEASE!

Celebrate the red, white, and blue with this week’s brand-new Patriotic Project Bundle! This festive collection includes fun cards, a hexagon gift box, and an adorable 3D Uncle Sam’s Hat that’s perfect for treats or party favors. Whether you’re hosting a celebration or sending some star-spangled cheer, these SVGs are a must-have for your 4th of July crafting. We also released a truck filled with flowers and the cutest little ladybug! Don’t forget to use code JUN2025 during the Blog Hop this week to get 30% OFF your purchase!

We’re so excited to introduce a talented new artist in the shop—Carrie Alyse! Her charming, whimsical illustration style is sure to capture your heart. These designs are ready-to-go print and cut files for Silhouette, and we’ve also included easy instructions for getting them set up with Cricut. They’re some of the quickest, easiest cards you’ll ever make—just add a sentiment (or customize to your liking), send to print, and you’re done! We’re thrilled to welcome Carrie to the team—go check out her adorable work!

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Be sure to check out the CT member blogs listed at the top of this post! Thanks again for dropping by! Have a GREAT day!

~Lori

5 x 7 Flower Truck Box Card Tutorial

June 5, 2025June 30, 2025

Welcome to the Lori Whitlock Blog!

Today I have a tutorial for you on assembling this cute 5 x 7 Flower Truck box card.

5 x 7 Box Card Flower Truck

Silhouette

or see all three here:

5 x 7 Box Card Truck Bundle

Let’s start.

Truck Body: Glue on the tires and the front door pieces. I used mirror silver paper for the front bumper and a different matte silver paper for the windows on the front truck piece. The longer truck piece is the back of the truck. Glue the rectangle piece-this will be the reinforcement piece for the top awning later.

Awning: This awning piece will be glued onto the truck front piece. A little trick to keep the 3 squares centered is to add the thin rectangle into each spot and then glue the back of each square only and insert it and then pick out the thin square piece. You can throw that piece away if you want.

Inserts: Glue up all your little potted flowers. As always, I cut extra little pieces because no matter what-I always lose some. You can also cut different colors to change things up if you want. Each insert piece is numbered so you know which one goes in front. FYI it’s the four potted flowers in front. You can see the numbers on the bottom right corner of each insert.

Glue the two end tabs of this piece and add the main front truck piece. Make sure your card folds flat.

Line up the awning piece and glue to the front truck piece and also add the brown panel at the back of the truck.

Here is the truck after those steps. All that is left is to add the flower pot inserts as you do with any box card, awning support and the sentiment.

Here you go! The inserts are added (at this point make sure your box card will fold flat). You can see I am getting ready to add the rectangle piece inside the awning for support. Glue the rectangle inside to the front and back top awning. All I have to do now is add my print and cut sentiment and it’s done! TIP: if you buy the bundle, print and cut all three sentiments at once and then you will be ready to assemble the other trucks!

These are so fun to make-give them a try!

💕Sue Kment

Mason Jar Pop Up Box Card

May 22, 2025July 22, 2025

Happy Spring almost Summer Everyone! I have a quick little card tutorial to share with you today using Lori’s new Echo Park Collection Firefly. I simply adore everything about this collection, the patterns, the amazing details, the colors….it is all swoon worthy, you have to get it. It is just so perfect for summer. The card is one of her pop up box cards, that fold flat for mailing and then pop up and give a fabulous 3 d effect for your recipient. You can find this card here in Lori’s Shop or here in The Silhouette Online Design Store. I just love mason jars and this is just so cute.

First, cut and organize all your pieces.

I always ink all my edges, except the white.

Put your card base together, here I used papers from the 6×6 Firefly paper pad and card stock. Your score lines will be a peak and a valley.

As you can see here, it fold to a 5×5 card base.

Next, make this piece. Here I added some beautiful washi tape from the Firefly collection. Love it! Again you will have a peak and a valley for score lines.

You are only going to add adhesive on the two ends, and you can see where I wrote here and here. Make sure no adhesive goes in the middle, otherwise your card won’t pop up. My adhesive fits the first little panel and then from the second score line to the right.

Once you add this piece, you can see how the little pop up box is formed to add your remaining dimensional pieces.

Now just finish up the layers for these two pieces and add adhesive to the sides. Add them in order, as Lori numbers them for you…1 & 2.

Press them firmly to the sides to create the pop up effect!

And there you have it! The cutest little card popping with joy! I love using all the fun embellishments form her collections to really create my own take on each of her cards.

Thank you for joining us today!

Cathy

Summer Layout Tutorial

April 3, 2025April 2, 2025

Hello! We got the dreamiest paper in the mail last week and I couldn’t wait to create with it. Echo Park’s Have A Great Summer designed by Lori Whitlock has all the best colors and papers. It made me think of how fun this layout would be with these papers.

First I decided on papers and made my cuts. (*If you are making this on cricut, check your sizes, my scallop page cut 7×7 so I had to adjust.)

I went ahead and inked all my little pieces

And then I added letters to the banner pieces.

One thing I’ve learned over the years is it’s never a bad things to flip the paper over. I had originally thought I wanted to use the pink side of the solid paper, but it just wasn’t as summery so I flipped it and used the yellow. I love that I did. So bright and fun.

I added my photo and took a few liberties with positioning the other elements. I made sure my sun was over my clouds so it wouldn’t blend into the background and popped the photo corner up on the outside of the photo.