Valentine Birdhouse Tutorial with Kathy

February 11, 2016February 4, 2016

Hi Everyone! It’s Kathy today with a fun tutorial to show you how to put together the new Valentine Birdhouse. (available here in the Silhouette Shop). This is such a cute way to package some sweets or a small gift for a friend!

This is a relatively easy file to assemble… First I cut the pieces. There is a small rectangular piece in the cut file. This is meant to be cut from a transparency to form the window of the box. If you don’t have any transparencies, you can omit this piece, and place your goodies inside a small clear bag.

To start, tape the transparency piece (if using) to the wrong side of the house body window. Make sure your tape doesn’t overlap the opening.

Start assembling the house base by folding on the score lines, and gluing the house sides together, making sure the tab is on the inside of the house.

Next, glue the bottom of the house closed. The smaller flaps go on the inside, and the larger flaps on the outside.

The roof is next. Fold along the score lines as shown.

Fill your birdhouse with your treats or a gift. If you are not using a transparency, make sure the goodies are in a small, clear bag.

Place the roof on top of the house. This piece is not glued down, it is simply a “cover.”

A ribbon is used to hold the roof “cover” on the box. The ribbon should be no more than 1/2″ wide. Start by tipping the house and roof on the side, thread the ribbon around the bottom of the box and up through the slits in the roof.

Both ends f the ribbon should be pulled out through the top of the roof.

To finish it off, tie a nice bow!

That’s it for me today, thank you for stopping by to peek!

Cricut Explore Scoring Tutorial with Karin

February 10, 2016February 11, 2016

Hi everyone! It’s Karin and today I’m going to show you how to make an easel card in Design Space using Lori Whitlock’s baby elephant easel card design from her SVG Shop. In the tutorial, I will teach you how to change the usual perforated score lines you have in SVG files to the special score lines that Design Space uses. Also, I have some really good news about that — they have improved the scoring function of the machine by having the scoring stylus pass over all score lines twice. This now creates a really nice, deep score line. Wait till you see it in the video.

If you could see my office/studio/craft room, you would know that I really need to use up my stash. I have ridiculous amounts of patterned paper so that is exactly what I’m doing today.

The patterned paper I’m using today is from a Best Creations collection named Safari Boy. I did a quick search and found that you can find some pieces of it on eBay and Amazon, but not much. I’m sorry if you are hoping to find this paper, but I think we can all stand to use something from our stash (wink wink).

The blue card stock I’m using is from American Crafts Tropicals collection. The brown papers are Recollections brand from Michaels. All of these papers cut beautifully in the Cricut Explore.

In addition to teaching you how to upload and cut the pieces for this card, I will teach you how to change the perforated scoring lines to the Design Space scoring lines that are scored with the scoring stylus.

The video below takes you through all these steps.

For information on the products I used in this project, please visit my blog.

One Buck Wednesday at Snap Click Supply

February 10, 2016February 8, 2016

Today at Snap Click Supply I have two items featured for $1 on Wednesday!. That means you can pick up 2 of my digital scrapbooking products at a steal. TODAY ONLY!

St. Patrick’s Day Papers

St. Patrick’s Day Elements

Be sure to go grab these great deals while you can. These offers will end at midnight!

And don’t forget, ALL FILES are 30% off in my SVG Shop ! It’s the perfect time to stock up! This sale lasts through February 15th!

Have a great day!

February Creative Team Blog Hop

February 9, 2016February 8, 2016

Welcome to our February 2016 Creative Team Blog Hop! Our creative team has been working hard making some great projects that will inspire you to get crafting this Month. In addition, Kolette and I have some new files for you! Be sure to check out all the fun new projects below.

One of the best things about blog hop week is the 30% OFF SALE going on at Lori’s SVG SHOP. ALL files (and commercial licenses) from Lori Whitlock, Kolette Hall, and Dresden Carrie are on SALE. Use code FEB2016 (case sensitive) at checkout in the SVG SHOP.

In addition, today only, you can get 30% OFF all of my digital files over at Snap Click Supply! Use code DIGIFEB16 at checkout to get the discount!

I also have another gift for you! Today only, You can get this fun file for free!

Kolette and I have some great new files in the SVG Shop this week . Check them out and remember all files are 30% off this week when you use code FEB2016 in my SVG Shop! Take a peek…

How would you like to win a $20 Gift card to my SVG Shop?

a Rafflecopter giveaway

And, last but not least… would you like to see what our amazing team has created? Click the links below for some wonderful inspiration. If you get lost come back here to get on track.

Lori Whitlock
Corri Garza
Mendi Yoshikawa
Traci Penrod
Kathy Skou
Cathy Harper
Tya Smith
Courtney Lee
Angi Barrs
Chrissy Guido
Ashley Cook
Rachael Sheedy

Thanks again for dropping by! Have a GREAT day!

3×3 Pop-up Valentines Using Print and Cut with Courtney

February 8, 2016February 3, 2016

Hello Lori Whitlock fans! 🙂 This is Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts with my first official Creative Team post and I am here to inspire you to make those last minute valentines for your kiddos! I know it seems easier to buy them at the store… but I promise this is SO simple, unique, AND you can just print them again next year!

I used four different files to create these valentines (and actually two different machines!) Valentine Print and Cut Set 1, Valentine Print and Cut Set 2, Valentine Print and Cut Set 3, and the 3×3 Valentine Pop-up Cards. I was determined to get to know my print and cut feature on my Silhouette so I resized the digital file to fit the front of the 3×3 card from the 3×3 Valentine file. You can just print them out as they come and you will have super cute valentines! I printed 6 extra for the girls because they were just too darling. Here are the outsides.

After I printed and cut them, I cut them down to a smaller size to fit on the front of the 3×3 cards. The front is actually 3 x 2.75 because of the way they fold. I corner rounded some of the edges and started on decoration! I used border stickers, stickers, and enamel shapes to add some depth and interest.

The insides were too cute. I cut all of the 3×3 Valentine bases and insides with my Cricut Explore Air. It was made SO simple because the different layers are color coded and you can sync them so easily. I moved a bunch of color layers together so that I wouldn’t have so many mats to cut and so the valentines would have some super cute continuity. Here are the insides. I arranged the collage so you could see how they coordinate with the outsides above.

Have fun with the decoration! I tried not to over-think it and I just had a blast. I love that when you decorate the bottom of the pop-up that you also get to see it on the inside of the card. It’s super fun.
I hope this inspires you to grab some of Lori’s adorable valentine files! There are SO many cute ones to chose from and the kids have such a great time helping you make them! My two littles are fighting over who gets which ones! Time go to make some more! 🙂 The SVG links to Lori’s shop are above in the text. Here are the Silhouette File links.