Lori Whitlock

Twist Pop Early Autumn Card and More with Michelle

September 4, 2017August 31, 2017

Happy Labor Day! I’m Michelle Zerull from Pinch Your Chic and for me, Labor Day signals the end of Summer and the beginning of Autumn. Even in 80-degree weather, I’m anxious to get out my fall decor and start those fall crafts. Today I would like to share a cute Twist Pop Card to announce the Fall Season.

I used papers from Echo Park’s “A Perfect Autumn.” I love the colors! By adding a lot of white, it lightened the mood for this time of the year. When opened, the card sentiment literally pops! Isn’t that a clever design? 3-D Crafting is awesome!

The Twist Pop Card Digital Cutting Files can be found in the Silhouette Design Store or at Lori Whitlock’s Digital Cut File Shop. Lori has many different styles of this Twist Pop Card available, and with this Video Tutorial, they’re easy to put together.

I had so much fun playing with my pretty “A Perfect Autumn” Papers, that I made a coordinating Milk Carton Treat Box too! This little carton can be also be found at the Silhouette Design Store and here at Lori’s shop.

And if you put both projects together on a sweet little 5X7 Paper Serving Tray (or here at Lori’s Shop) that you crafted, you have the perfect gift to present to a friend or neighbor to start “A Perfect Autumn!”

Happy Labor Day!

Michelle

A New Friday $5 Bundle!

September 1, 2017August 29, 2017

Hi Everyone! Today we have a new Friday $5 Bundle! It will ONLY be available until Midnight Sunday and when it’s gone it’s gone. These SVG files can be used with Cricut Explore, Silhouette Studio (with the Designer Edition upgrade), Scan N Cut, and any other cutter that will work with SVG files. Help spread the word by telling your friends and announcing it on social media!

Now through Sunday, you can pick up this Holiday Card bundle including 5 beautiful SVG files for just $5! It’s not too early to start making those Christmas Cards!!

The cost of this bundle is $5, for $9.95 worth of SVG files, over a 49% savings! A perfect bundle of files to have on hand! But don’t wait, this bundle will only be around until Sunday at midnight!

Have a great day!

September Kit of the Month

September 1, 2017August 29, 2017

We have a brand new special for the entire month of September ! You can get this Free Kit of the Month with any $20 purchase (Purchase must be in one transaction.) Simply add the 2017 September Kit of the Month to your shopping cart along with ANY $20.00+ purchase from the SVG Shop and this file is yours FREE. Be sure to use Coupon Code: SEPKOTM (case sensitive) at checkout. This offer is good through September 30, 2017!

(Your cart must reach at least $27.95 before the coupon will be applied and then $7.95 will be subtracted from your total at checkout. The files will be available for immediate download after you pay for your order by visiting MY ACCOUNT>COMPLETED ORDERS>ORDER DETAILS inside of your account. Only one discount code per order allowed.)

Thanks for visiting the blog today! Please let us know if you need any help with your files. We want to make sure everyone is happy with their purchase. Have a great day!

Fabulous Exclusive Deals from Silhouette!

August 31, 2017August 29, 2017

Hi Everyone! I have a couple exclusive Silhouette special to share with you! From September 1st through September 15th, Silhouette will be selling “Mystery Grab Bags” full of awesome Silhouette products. There will be two tiers of these grab bags, one for $24.99 which will contain over $50 dollars in product and another for $44.99 which will contain products worth over $115. The fun part is, you won’t know what their grab bags contain until they receive them!

The small grab bag will contain 4 items from the list below, and the large grab bag will contain 7 items.

Chalkboard Vinyl
Cork Sheets
Glow-in-the-Dark Sticker Paper
Heat Transfer Starter Kit
Leatherette
Printable Shrink Plastic (white or clear)
Printable Sticker Paper (white, clear, gold, silver, or rose gold)
Printable Vinyl
Printable Window Cling (white or clear)
Scratch-off Sticker Sheets (gold, silver or printable white)
Sketch Pen Starter Kit
Sticker Sampler Pack
Temporary Tattoo Paper (gold, silver, printable clear, or printable white)
Vinyl Starter Kit

In addition, there is also a CAMEO bundle on sale for $269.99!!!

To access the fabulous deal, click on this link: https://www.silhouetteamerica.com/septemberelite and then use Code LORI at checkout to get in on the fun!

Don’t miss out, these specials end on September 15th!

Sweet Berry Basket Treats

August 31, 2017August 31, 2017

Thank Hello, Crafty Friends!! Design Team Member, Mitsyana, here again! This time to bring you these adorable Berry Bushel Treat Baskets!

I love sweet treats! But what I love even more are sweet friends. So from time to time. I make these sweet friends sweet treats. Whoa, what a tongue twister! Try to say that 5 times fast!

Supplies Used:

Lori Whitlock’s Berry Basket (here in the Silhouette store)

Patterned Cardstock – DCWV’S Peri & Peach Stack

Little Birdie Crafts’ Renae Classic Flowers

Stamped Sentiment- Stamps of Life – Cake2Stamp

Light Pink Crinkle Ribbon

Xyron Mega Runner

VersaMagic Ink- Night Sky, Pink Petunia

Cellophane Bags

CHOCOLATES!!

Stamp Positioner (Optional)

For my project, I used this adorable Berry Basket file from Lori Whitlock’s SVG shop.

Berry Basket

I downloaded the file. Then extracted the contents of the zipped file onto my computer. Once unzipped and downloaded I can open it using my electronic cutter software.

In my ecal software, I clicked on the SVG/ Import icon to open/add the file onto my virtual cutting mat.

Once the file is open it’ll look the picture below.

Lori pre-sizes the files so there’s no guess work to how big the file should cut. But if you’re like me you like to resize your boxes because sometimes you don’t want a one sizes fits all deal. Which is totally fine too.

To resize a file make sure you file is set to “Keep Proportions”. This will option will be located in the ‘Portion & Size’ panel on the right.

I set the width to 8.75″. With the “Keep Proportions” box checked it automatically sets the height in proportion to the width.

As always, also changed the color of the pieces. This helps me to remember which pieces I’m going to cut in what paper. I sort them by color so that all pieces being cut out the same paper are grouped together.

I load my mat with my paper choices and cut all the pieces at the same time.

Once all my box pieces were cut, I inked the edges of the scalloped tops with Pink Petunia chalk ink. Then used my Xyron Mega Runner to attach them to the tops of the main panels. It’s easier to attach these pieces while the panels are laying flat.

Then I folded the flap on the crease lines. I used a dollop of glue on the tiny side tab and adhered the two side panels together. Then ran glue along the bottom flaps and attached the bottom rounded square piece.

The berry basket file also comes with the little label you can add to the front. It’s optional whether or not to use it. But it does give it a nice little touch.

I used a stamp from Stephanie Barnard’s Cake2Stamp set that reads ” You’re SO Sweet” onto the label in Night Sky chalk ink. The sentiment fits perfectly onto the label (even when resized). I knew I may have needed to re-stamp my sentiment a few times so I placed my label in a stamp positioning tool and stamped it about 3 times. This helps to ensure that I get exact placement each time.

I placed a bag of chocolates (you can use your fave) and tied it off with crinkle ribbon. Then attached these adorable pre-made paper flowers from Little Birdie Crafts’ Renae Collection.

And here is my finished box…