Happy Monday! Can you believe it’s December already? Where has this year gone? Time to get started on Christmas cards. I’ve been looking at this adorable iris shutter latte card (SVG, Silhouette) and know I could make it festive.
When you slide the lever down the side of the card, the shutter opens/closes to reveal the heart.
I used Echo Park Paper Have A Holly Jolly Christmas by Lori Whitlock. I added some holly stickers from the paper line to the sentiment and the heart.
I removed the flowers from the card and added the holly instead. (SVG, Silhouette). And if you haven’t figured out by now, I’m a fan of puns/play on words so I had to change up the sentiment as well.
You can find a tutorial on how to make this and other iris shutter cards HERE.
I loved the Gingerbread Man so much I wanted to make a little Gingerbread Girl as well. This was very easy to do. I turned his bow tie into a bow. To do this I just made a copy of the bow tie then using the copy I moved the 2 bow tie pieces together until they touched. I then simply fused them together by using the weld tool in my Silhouette studio. I also wanted to give them some candy so I used some of the candy from the 3 Story Gingerbread Dollhouse (SVG, Silhouette).
I also made the Reindeer & Santa. For my Santa I have used white polar fleece on parts of his clothes. I have never had luck cutting fabric on my Silhouette. So I chose a more simple approach. I cut the white cardboard pieces then glued onto them the polar fleece. I placed something heavy on them as they dried to keep them flat. Once they were dry I just trimmed off the excess polar fleece around the shape. Then proceeded putting my Santa together as normal.
Happy Thanksgiving! Traci here and I hope you all have a wonderful holiday filled with blessings and warm, happy moments. Today, I have a tiny scrapbook to share with you titled Give Thanks that would be so fun for those memories. And, it might be the “miniest” mini album I’ve ever made!
Look how small it is! 💕 I created it with one of Lori’s amazing cutting files called 2×2 Accordion Mini Album (SVG, Silhouette) and the Echo Park, I love Fall Collection also designed by Lori.
First, let’s look at this little cutie, then I’ll explain exactly how I made it with a tutorial below.
I just love that it looks like a miniature book. It has an orange and green scalloped spine, pretty pattern papers, and a Give Thanks title sticker on the cover from the 12×12 elements sheet.
Inside, there are 16 little scrapbook pages (8 double-sided). I added some fun shaped journaling spots and photo mats using a 2″ scallop circle punch and a 1.75″ circle punch by Marvy Uchida.
You could use each page in this album for photos, or … mix it up and add embellishments on some of them like I did. Above, I added the Harvest Blessings sticker from the sticker book.
The journaling spots are perfect for adding dates, names, locations, events, or … what you and your family are most grateful for this year.
This project could be a cute little gift idea for after Thanksgiving. Make them for your guests with pictures from the holiday. Or … create this tiny album with ANY paper collection and it could be a fun Christmas present or stocking stuffer idea!
Now, for some instructions …
1. I chose my papers and cut out the 8 pages, 2 inside covers, 2 outside covers, and three pieces for the spine.
2. Next, I folded the paper on the score lines for each of the pages and positioned them on my table with the 1/2″ tab on the left.
3. Then, I adhered each 1/2” tab to the back of the page before it until I had all 8 pages glued together.
4. The very first page still has a tab on the left side, so I adhered the inside front cover here.
5. The inside back cover has a tab on it, so I adhered this to the last page of the album.
6. Once all of the pages are attached, I folded them into a little book and added the front and back covers.
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Finally, I adhered the 2 scallop accent pieces next to the spine on the
front and back, then used liquid adhesive to fold the orange spine around the
entire left side of the book.
There
is no need to adhere any of the pages back to back or to the spine. They stay nicely in their accordion shape once the spine piece goes on. Once the book is complete … it’s time to decorate!
I hope you’ll try this fun project made with Lori’s 2×2 Accordion Mini Album cutting file and her fabulous I Love Fall Collection designed for Echo Park.
For a video tutorial of this album, please see Lori’s YouTube video here:
Have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy your day with family and friends! 🍂🦃🧡
Hello there! I’m here today with a cute little Shaped Squirrel Card. This is so fast and easy and perfect for a Thanksgiving greeting card, Thinking of you or a sweet Thank You card. Isn’t the little flower Squirrel is holding as sweet as can be?
If you are looking for a quick and easy project-this is it. It would be perfect to do with the littles too! (SVG, Silhouette Store).
You can always search Lori Whitlock shaped card and you will be amazed at all the fun files that pop up!
These little houses make an adorable addition to your decor & then can be folded flat for storage. They are so easy to put together.
I wanted my roof to have a pattern like a real roof. So I embossed it with a scalloped design embossing folder. To do this I firstly folded the roof panel along the perforated line then gave it a light spray of water to make the cardstock more bendable without tearing. Do not use too much water because it will fuse both sides together. Now put the roof panel aside.
Next I glued the timber frame panels to the front of my house bases.
Next I turned them over & glued the coloured window frame panels to the back side making sure to carefully align any windows or doors in place.
For my windows I have used vellum incase I wanted to add any fairy lights inside my houses. I glued the vellum on top of the window frame panel.
The next step was to glue the side flaps of the building to join your 2 building pieces together. You can now close the bottom flap to create a box. Do not glue the bottom flap. This way you can simply open it & fold your building flat for storage.
Next add glue to the roof base side that is joined to the building.
Now carefully adhere to the inside of the embossed roof piece making sure you centre it. The other side should be free & not glued down. Now fold the other side of the roof down & slide through the cut slots of the roof into the chimneys to secure it into place.
It should now look like this.
Now I wanted to go one step further & give my houses Christmas decorations. I made some embellishments using Sculpey clay & molds. You can use anything you like. Although by using raised embellishments I will need to be extra careful how I lay for storage. You can also create flat decorations using any dies or stickers in your stash.
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