Tutorial – Page 9 – Lori Whitlock

Box Card Pineapple Drink Tutorial

July 24, 2025July 23, 2025

Good morning!! Today is National Refreshment Day. This beverage holiday toasts those moments of ice, cold refreshment. So what a better time to send one of these cute pineapple drink cards?! Today I will walk you thought the assembly. First cut allyour pieces and lay them out.

First I assembled the fruit and added score tape to the tabs. My paper is from Echo Park’s Little Things Mean A Lot collection.

Next is the base, add score tape to the tab like in the photo below.

Make your box by folding where the perforations are and adhering your score tape to the inside of the neighboring flap.

Add your dark brown piece to the light brown piece and then add both the back and front to the box making sure the small portion is on the bottom like below.

Once you have your front and back attached, fold the perforated tabs and line the top of the inset up with the top of the pineapple and adhere to the sides with your score tape.

Add the second insert and get ready to mail your refreshment!

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

A “Chickens” Mini Cookbook

July 17, 2025July 22, 2025

Hi everyone! I have a fun little mini album to share with you today. I created it with Lori’s new Echo Park Chickens collection. I used every element of this collection, from the 12×12 paper pack, the frames n tags, the ephemera, enamel dots, matching cardstock and the 6×6 pad. How blessed I am to have all this at my fingertips to create with.

I started by choosing four patterned papers to create envelopes. I used this envelope, Nesting Window Card Envelope in Lori’s Shop. I cut them and assembled, just ATG tape was used to adhere.

I then took all four and used my Cinch binding machine to create the little book with a spiral binding.

After I had my pages bound I then used this fun elements sheet to make 4 mini cards to go inside the envelopes. I cut my card stock 8.5 x 4. 25 inches and scored in the middle to make the little cards.

Simple little cards, my plan is to add my daughter’s favorite chicken dish recipes to these. Hand written is the goal.

Next, I cut four library pockets and I just adhered these with ATG adhesive as well.

Next, four tags cut from an elements page to go inside my four pockets. Again, I will add more hand written recipes.

I adhered the library pockets onto the back of the envelopes as you can see in the following photos.

This is a darling collection and just so perfect for creating a cookbook.

Thank you for stopping by!

~Cathy

3D Flower Pot Bouquet

July 3, 2025July 4, 2025

Hi there, friends! Today, I am sharing a tutorial for the 3D Flower Pot Bouquet Daisies (SVG, Silhouette). This flower bouquet would make a perfect hostess gift, birthday gift, or a sweet pick-me-up for a friend. I used the Stars and Stripes collection by Echo Park Paper Co for a patriotic theme.

To begin this project, I cut all the flower pieces first so that I could shape the flowers while my Cricut cut the remaining pieces. The flowers have five layers total. Two of the layers make the flower, and three for the centers. I used a stylus tool and a foam mat to shape my flowers. This process takes a little time, but it wasn’t complicated.

For the pot I folded all of the score lines into mountain folds, inked the edges, and glued the decorative panels in place. Two of the sides of the pot have two large tabs each. I added glue to one tab at time and made sure to line everything up with the edge of the pot. I repeated this process for all four corners.

I then glued into place the four grass panels to the inside of the pot, one on each side. For the inserts I folded all of the tabs into a valley fold and added glue to outside of the tab. I eyeballed this part but I tried to make a sure the number three insert was in the middle of the pot. There is five inserts total, three for the flowers and two grass inserts. I inserts are numbered which makes gluing them in order easier.

With all the inserts glued into the pot I folded down the round heads for the flowers and leaves. I glued the leaves on first then glued the flowers on top of that.

I embellished my pot with a sticker from the collection and added enamel dots to the centers of all of the flowers.

This was a fun little project and would be cute in any theme. I think my next one is going to be back to school themed, since my kid goes back in three weeks!

Thanks for stopping by.

Brandie

4×6 Horizontal Tabbed Mini Album Tutorial

June 25, 2025June 25, 2025

Hi friends! Traci here and today, I’m sharing a fun vacation mini album I made with Lori’s cutting file called 4×6 Horizontal Pocket Mini Album Tabbed Pages (SVG, Silhouette). It’s filled with pretty shaped pocket pages and tabbed cards that are perfect for saving your favorite memories. I added pictures of our trip to Hawaii and it made the cutest little keepsake! 🌴🦩🌞

I decorated the album with the Doodlebug Design, Fun in the Sun Collection, but … this file could be made with ANY theme for photos of a holiday, family, friends,
new baby, school, your pet, or a season. It’s 4×6 inches and has a flap that folds over onto the front cover to keep the pages secure.

Above, you can see there are 6 pocket pages with a tabbed card / photo mat tucked inside each one. Let’s take a quick look inside, then I’ll share the tutorial …

The front of the pockets have a cute cut-out shape and plenty of space for embellishments. And inside, the tabbed card can hold 2 photos (front and back) or be used for journaling.

The back side of the pocket pages are blank so I added more photo mats and cute tropical embellies!

This mini is so fun! I love the interactive pages in this album. To see more photos and all of the pages in this project, visit my blog here.

Now, for the tutorial …

1. I cut out all of the pieces, including 6 pages, the covers, 6 tabbed photos mats, pattern paper for the pockets and a binding piece.

2. I adhered the patterns to the front of each pocket, and the covers, before gluing everything together.

3. To create the pockets, I fold the right and left tabs inward and glued them against the back, leaving the tab on the left free.

4. To assemble the front cover, I adhered the remaining tab on the first pocket just to the left of the score line on the cover piece. This score line will eventually be the album’s binding.

5. Next I continued to adhered each of the pocket’s tabs to the back of the page in front of it.

6. The pockets created a stack of pages to the left of the spine. At this point, I also adhered the back cover piece to the tab on the front cover.

7. To adhere the last pocket to the back cover, I used the binding piece that comes in the cut file to adhere them together.

Once I finished assembling the album, I decorated it and added my photos.

I hope enjoyed this project made with Lori’s 4×6 Horizontal Pocket Mini Album Tabbed Pages File (SVG, Silhouette). It’s not only great for your own photos, but … it also makes a wonderful gift idea. Happy scrapping! 😊

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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.