Tutorial – Page 11 – Lori Whitlock

Ferris Wheel Card Tutorial

August 31, 2023August 28, 2023

Hello everyone, Marcia here today. With it being State Fair time, I wanted to make this fun Ferris Wheel Card (SVG, Silhouette). This shaped card is perfect for your Midway or Theme Park-loving friends. I used the Echo Park Paper A Magical Place collection by Lori Whitlock to create mine.

This is an easy card to make. Let me show you how.

1. Choose your papers and cut out all the pieces. I like to ink the edges of my pattern papers to add more definition

2. Adhere the black ferris wheel base to the shaped card base. Then glue the star and layered heart in the middle of the wheel. Adhere the roof of the passenger cars to the bottom of the cars.

3. Use foam tape to adhere each passenger car to the wheel and embellish as you wish. I added a sentiment to the front of my wheel as well as some crystal gems for the sparkling lights.

I know this card will put a smile on someone’s face! Lori has lots of other fun theme park cards in her shop. Take a look.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

~Marcia

Dino-mite 4×6 Pocket Page Mini Album Tutorial

August 24, 2023August 24, 2023

Hi everyone! I just fell in love with Lori’s Echo Park collection, Dino-Mite. It is just so dang cute with the sweetest images and the colors are just so fun. I have a coworker who has this little guy who is all about dinosaurs and he just turned two, so I thought I would make a mini for her to document some of their adventures over his Birthday weekend. I used Lori’s 4×6 pocket page mini album here in the Silhouette Online Design Store or you can find it here in Lori’s Store. I also didn’t realize Lori already had a tutorial on it, so I’m putting the link here for it also. I put mine together a little differently, lol.

Lori’s Tutorial

I started by using Echo Park’s Dino Mite Card Stock Pack and cut all of my pages first, two of each color. Using the cardstock pack gives you two colors, so it works out perfectly when you fold your pages over to create the pockets for a nice contrast. Just fold on the score-lines, add your adhesive and you have your four pocket pages. Next, I cut my four smaller pockets from the 6×6 Dino-Mite paper pad, fold on the score-line and add adhesive. Here’s where I did mine differently, I added these smaller pockets to the back side of each of these pages with the pre-attached pockets. No biggie there. Turned out just as cute. Each of these pockets also has an insert that Lori’s has designed to go inside, you can matt your photos on these or add your journaling. You’ll see those in the finished pictures. I used the Echo Park matching Dino-Mite Card Stock again for those.

I cut my cover next, again from the Dino-Mite matching Card Stock and then just used book rings to put it all together. Easy peasy. On two pages, I added little flaps (like you see below with a photo matt under neath) these are just 4×4 element cards from the Dino-Mite paper pack that I scored at 1/4 inch and added adhesive to create the little flap. I just dug into the paper pack and used all the goodies from the pack and Dino-Mite frames and tags, Ephemera to embellish my album.

I Love It!

This little flap folds up too!

The little borders you see added here and there are Lori’s, you can find them

here in the Silhouette Online Design Store or here in Lori’s Store.

Thanks for stomping by!

Cathy

Believe in the Magic Card–Back to School Style Tutorial

August 10, 2023August 9, 2023

It’s that time of year around here when kids are heading back to school. Is it a magical time for them? I hope so. In the spirit of Back to School and the magic of a new school year, I’m sharing a card tutorial using vinyl. I’m using this Believe in the Magic card found in the SVG shop, and Silhouette store.

First, cut all the pieces in vinyl. And then weed the designs.

Now we start building the card. It is helpful to have a picture of the card to help you layer the pieces. I used transfer tape for some of the pieces, but for many of the pieces I just places them like placing a sticker. It was really fast since all the vinyl is adhesive.

Tip: After this first luggage outline piece, you should place the bird cage.

Add the details to the suitcases.

Keep layering the pieces.

What a fun card to put together. When placing vinyl on paper, you want to use transfer tape that isn’t too sticky. That way it comes away from the paper easily. Hope you enjoy trying out making a card with vinyl.

Have a great day!

Ashley

5×7 Card Happy Birthday Words Tutorial

August 3, 2023August 1, 2023

Happy Thursday! Teri here. I’ve been a member of Lori’s team for several years now but I work mostly behind the scenes. Today I’m going to show you how to put the 5×7 Card Happy Birthday Words card together. You can find it here: SVG, Silhouette.

I love this card! It’s so versatile. You can use masculine, feminine, patterned papers or even one color. It’s an amazing card! Let’s get started.

First, I cut out all my pieces.

On the reverse side of the card front and using a thin glue bottle tip, apply glue to the very edges of the first H and the marks.

This is what it should look like.

Next, apply glue to the edges of the A and the marks above it.

Then apply glue to the edges of the other letters. There should be enough room for each letter so that none of the colors should not overlap.

After all the letters have been glued in place, apply glue to the edges and in a couple of spots in the center of the card. Then apply it to your card base.

There you have it! All done and super cute!

Enjoy your day!

Teri

Box Card Crayon Back to School Tutorial

July 27, 2023July 26, 2023

Hi there! Are your kids already headed back to school? Mine starts next week and I have nieces and nephews who have already started. Crazy. With school starting soon we also have “meet the teacher night” and I like to give a card to our new teacher. This year I made the Box Card Crayon Back to School (SVG,) card. Here is how I made it.

This box card only has one insert, but I cut two of each of the crayons. The pieces are kind of small but manageable. I used a sticker maker for some of the really small ones and I fine tip glue bottle for everything else. I folded all of the score lines as mountain folds. I inked the outside pieces with like colors and the smaller detail pieces of the crayons I used black ink.

I glued the crayons in ROYGBV order on the insert and glued the second set of crayons in the reverse order on the inside of the back of the box card (I did this after I glued the box together). I also glued the front details of the crayon box on as well as the sentiment.

With the crayon box open flat, I glued the left tab of the insert onto the left side of the box card lining up the tab up with the innermost score line. I also folded the front of the box card over to help line everything up.

With the box card open flat again I folded the left outside edge tab in and added the glue. Then I added glue to the right-side tab on the insert. The tab should be lined up with the score line on the inside of the box card.