Tutorial – Lori Whitlock

Easter Banner Tutorial

March 27, 2025March 27, 2025Leave a comment

Hello crafty friends. Today I want to share with you how I made this cute Easter banner using 6 Lori Whitlocks Files:

Layered Bunting 2 (Silhouette, SVG)

Easter Purse Topper (Silhouette, SVG)

Easter Sheep Car Box Card (Silhouette, SVG)

Easter Bunny Car Box Card (Silhouette, SVG)

5×7 Easter Bunny Card (Silhouette, SVG)

Easter Basket Chick Box Card (Silhouette, SVG)

I wanted my banner to have a pastel rustic feel. I chose some Doodlebug kraft gingham cardstock for my bunting base. Then some coordinating coloured papers to match.

To start my project I opened all the files in Silhouette that I wanted to use. I deleted the parts I didn’t need then I copied them onto one page with the bunting. You will see I have used the similar bunnies from the 5×7 Easter Bunny Card & Easter Bunny Car box card. I did this because the carrots in the box card are whole carrots once you ungroup everything. Also she has more of a body. I omitted her bow & used the floral head piece from the 5×7 card. You can just use the Bunny from the Easter Bunny Car box Card if you wish. I also took the extra step of using the egg from the topper to give the bunny a belly like the one in the 5×7 card. To do this I used the same step below by sizing it onto the bunny.

When you open the Bunting file it will have 3 bunting shapes across the page. I right clicked over all 3 & enlarged by dragging the corner just enough so that all 3 bunting pieces fit across my page. I then coppied all 3 & pasted another row. You can make yours bigger or smaller however you please. I did mine this way as it will give me the most bunting pieces, (6 in total per page), without too much scrap. I cut 9 bunting panels in total. Next I sized my images one by one. To do this I copied a bunting panel to the side of my page. I then placed my image piece inside & enlarged or reduced the size making sure it fit inside. Make sure you place the little panel across the top of the bunting as well as I did in my image below. Do this step for all your pieces.

Now once you have all the sizes correctly cut out all your pieces & glue together all your image pieces.

Then just place everything onto the panels to see what order you want everything to sit. Once you are happy with it, it helps to take a photo so that you remember where to glue everything.

Now glue the panels onto the bunting base. You will notice that the body on the bunny is a little long. Before I stuck down the bunny I placed her onto the bunting with washi tape, then I turned the bunting over & traced the edge with pencil along the back of the bunny. I then cut along the pencil trace & proceeded to stick the bunny onto the front of the bunting.

I used foam squares to stick down my image pieces. This gives them a raised look.

Once you have all the bunting pieces ready the last step is to thread some twine & pastel pom poms through to finish the banner.

You can use as little or as many files as you wish. The possibilities are endless. I just love Lori’s files & couldn’t resist the temptation.

I hope I have given you some inspiration today to create an easter bunting banner!

For more inspiration, check out my Instagram!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Noelene

5×5 Bug Book Album

March 20, 2025March 25, 2025Leave a comment

Hi everyone! I have a fun mini album to share with you created with Lori’s new Echo Park collection, Little Things Mean A Lot. It’s a fun collection, full of bright colors and lots of attention to detail with fun little critters. I thought it would be perfect to create a mini for a little guy that I know that will love to catch some bugs for the summer and his mama can add some pictures as they go.

I cut one cover, and then I cut four pieces to cover the inside and the outside of the cover. Three base pages and then 12 squares to cover those and one spine cover. You also need some twine or thread along with adhesive.

Here is all my pieces cut…lots and lot. Then my inside pages put together. Ink all the edges. The bottom left corner is your cover pieces and the bottom right is just a bunch or borders of Lori’s that I cut to add to my pages for fun and detail.

Top right you can see the inside of my inside pages, top left is the inside of my cover and the bottom picture is the outside of the cover.

Next, just line up the holes of your three inside pages with the holes on the cover and tie them in with twine or string. How cute it that spine on the cover!!!??!!

Then you get to just go to town embellishing and creating with the amazing collection. I had so much fun. I used enamel dots, ribbon, stickers, buttons and just had the best time creating this. I know he and his mama will love it. And how cute is that little bug catcher!?

You can find the album here in Lori’s Store or here in the Silhouette Store.

I hope you will give one of these mini’s a try!

~Cathy

Box Card Spring Flower Pot Tutorial

March 13, 2025March 25, 2025Leave a comment

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a quick assembly tutorial for one of the new Flowerpot box cards. I used the Box Card Spring Flower Pot file (SVG, Silhouette). This file is so bright and cheerful. It has several print and cut sentiments so that it can be used for any occasion. I used the Happy Birthday sentiment, and the papers are from the Our Happy Place paper collection by Echo Park Paper Co.

The box part of this card comes in two separate sections with two decretive panels on each. These two sections are glued together side by side. It also has two rim pieces that will be glued on the front and back of the card. The rim pieces hang over the edge of the pot a little so be sure not to add glue all the way to the edge of the paper. I glued the pot all together forming the square before adding the inserts this time as well.

Before the inserts are added to the box card the flowers need to be assembled. All of the flowers have multiple layers for added dimension. The file does come with centers for the flowers, but I used enamel dots for mine. After all of the flowers are assembled I added them to the inserts. Inserts one and two are the only ones with flowers. The third insert is plain green.

The tabs on all of the inserts are folded into valley folds and glue added to the backs of the tabs. I held the tabs folded down and slid the insert into the box, made sure the top of the tabs was flush with the top of box and front of the tabs was flush with the front of the box. After I had the tabs lined up, I folded the box card flat in both directions to make sure everything would lay flat. I then added the remaining inserts the same way but using the insert in front as the guide.

With the inserts all in place I then glued the flower and sentiment to the front of the box.

I love how versatile this box card can be. I hope you give it a try. Thanks for stopping by today!

Brandie

Happy Easter Mini Album Tutorial

March 6, 2025March 25, 2025Leave a comment

Hello everyone! Traci here and today, I’m sharing a Happy Easter Mini Album I made with two of Lori’s fabulous cutting files and the Echo Park, Our Happy Place Collection. It’s filled with spring colors, flowers, and beautiful prints. This little album is perfect for holiday photos and it makes a sweet handmade gift!

Happy Easter Scrapbook Mini Album with a rabbit, a basket, eggs, and flowers

To create this, I used the A2 Easel Card Easter Bunny Basket File (SVG, Silhouette) for the design on the front cover and the Hidden Binding Mini Album Rectangle (SVG, Silhouette) for the actual book.

Here’s the simple tutorial …

1. I resized the Hidden Binding Mini Album‘s pieces to create a book that would be 4.75″ wide x 7” tall. I chose this size so that I wouldn’t need to resize
the Easter basket file.

2. Next, I cut out all of the pieces for both files.

Happy Easter Scrapbook Mini Album Tutorial

3. I assembled the card first. The Basket file comes with a base “grass” background that is shaped to help you know where to layer each of the pieces. I added the pink shape on top of the green base.

4. Then, I layered the yellow basket on next.

5. I adhered the little eggs in place, tucking them in behind the yellow basket.

6. Then, I added the pieces of the bunny’s body.

7. How cute! I used some foam tape underneath the feet and tail to give them some dimension.

8. You can see in this picture that the pink base helps you know exactly where to adhere the flowers.

9. I added some pretty colored enamel dots to the center of the flowers and the bow for a bit of shine.

10. Once the card was assembled, it was time to build the album. Above, are the pages
and the binding piece. The binding piece is scored, so I folded along the
score lines to create “mountains” and “valleys”.

11. I added adhesive inside the “valleys” and adhered the sides together.

The outside of the binding now looked like this. The cutting file includes a separate piece that will be glued
over these folds to create the album’s spine.

12. This is the inside of the binding. To add the pages, I adhered one page piece to the front of the first spine fold and a second one to the back … sandwiching them on the “mountain”.

13. I continued to add the rest of the pages until the book was complete.

14. To decorate the cover, I adhered the Easter basket piece to the front and added my title.

Happy Easter Scrapbook Mini Album Page with flowers, a scalloped photo mat, and a pretty plaid paper

15. Inside, I embellished the pages with lots of pretty papers, stickers, enamel dots, and photo mats. To see more of the inside pages … hop over to my Artsy Albums blog.

I hope this Happy Easter Mini Album gives you a little holiday and spring inspiration! Whether you love making scrapbooks or greeting cards, you should definitely give these cutting files a try. I love them!

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“Just Chicken In” box card tutorial

February 27, 2025February 26, 2025

Happy Thursday my crafty friends. When I saw this cute little chicken card, the A2 Shaped Box Card Chicken, (SVG) it reminded me of soup, and since everyone around me is currently sick with some cootie or another I thought this would be the perfect little project.

First cut all your pieces. As always I have my Cricut write my words on the tag.

Fold your pieces on the score lines

Add your adhesive to these pieces

Glue your beak, wattles and comb to the chicken insert. Don’t put the eye on yet.

I added the insert piece into the box. I put it as close to the front as possiable as I wanted to use it as a box with goodies too.

Once my box was assembled, I added adhesive around the square part on both the front and back, 1 side as a time.

I put the bowl shaped pieces on the fron and the back.

This is where you will attach the eye. Top left corner of the bowl piece.

I used pop dots to pop the wing (heart) piece on both back and front. Embelished with a little bakers twint on the tag.

I added a soup packet and kleenex as well as some tylonal and cough drops. I did place a piece of packing tape along the bottom to keep my goodies from falling out.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Chelsea