Lori Whitlock

A Perfect Summer Layout by Mendi + Ice Cream Cone Card by Corri

June 24, 2013May 31, 2016

It’s Mendi here sharing a layout using the super fun “A Perfect Summer” collection which Lori designed for Echo Park! My jumping off point for my page was the hot air balloon patterned paper from the 6×6 paper pad which I used as a border behind my photo mat. I originally had tried using the full sized 12×12 sheet, but found that I couldn’t actually see enough of the print so the smaller format really worked well.

I created a little embellishment for one of my squares using Lori’s popular Hot Air Balloon cutting file which I popped up with foam tape for a little added depth.

I also played with her awesome new “Ready Set Go” Title which fit my space perfectly. The title she designed came in one layer, but for fun I cut it out four times from different colored paper, then cut off the extra words from each color and pieced it back together for a bright look.

For my layout I used the following cutting files available in Lori’s shop:

Cheerful Titles

8 Tabs

3 Borders (only used outer outline)

Relax Summer is Here (hot air balloon choice #1)

Hot Air Balloon Card (hot air balloon choice #2)

Four Seasons Layout: Summer (hot air balloon choice #3)

Corri here with a fun and quick card using Lori’s new A2 Ice Cream Cone Card.

Birthday Sale at Jessica Sprague

June 24, 2013June 23, 2013

It is that time of year again! All of Lori’s digital scrapbooking supplies, sold at JESSICASPRAGUE.COM, are 40% off the entire week.

Now is a great time to pick up life templates, cards and collections at a great price! Come join the fun here at Lori’s digital shop.

PS all of her Echo Park digital collections will also be 40% off.

New at Jessica Sprague Life Cards Patriotic

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013

Check out the NEW kit we have today at JessicaSprague. This fun set of digital cards is great for adding a little patriotic flair to your Project Life-style albums. Jessica Sprague is having a PRE-Birthday SALE starting this weekend! So, instead of the normal 25% OFF on new products, you’ll receive 40% OFF which makes this adorable set of Patriotic Life Cards only $1.79. What a deal! Get them for this price through SUNDAY.

LIFE CARDS PATRIOTIC

Layout by Chrissy Guido. Products used, Life Cards Patriotic, Everyday Stamps, Life Templates-Set 13, Patriotic Picnic Paper, Lazy Summer Days, Summer Days Sunshine by Echo Park

Layout by Haley Ney. Products used LW Brown Basics, LW Life Templates Set 12, Life Cards Patriotic

Layout by Kim Lund. Products used Everyday Stamps 2, Life Templates Set 1, Life Cards Patriotic

Silhouette Tutorial Bending Text by Traci

June 20, 2013July 25, 2016

Hi everyone! I’m excited to share a fun and easy tutorial with you today! These steps will show you how to bend lines of text, either to create a phrase that wraps around an object, or to fit inside a curved shape as I have done on Lori’s adorable hot air balloon.

Here is the card I created with a curved “Thank You” cut out of the band.

First, pull up the shape you want to place your text in and resize it if necessary.

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If there are multiple pieces to your shape, ungroup them and move everything to the side except the piece you want the word in. Zoom in on your shape a bit, and chose the text option on the left tool bar. As you type your word or phrase, a green box will appear. Note that there will also be a little circle, with a cross in it, along the green line.

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If you place your curser over this circle and click, you are able to drag your word into your shape. When you hover the word over a line, the letters snap to the shape of the line. To move your word up into the center of your shape, you will use the grey sliding bar that appears through your letters. If you place your curser along that bar and slide upwards, your letters will move up. However, in some cases, the spacing on your letters will also move in and start overlapping.

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To prevent this, move your word over to the left so that you can see how much room you will have to increase your character spacing.

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Play with the character spacing (found toward the bottom of your text style window) until you like the way the word looks.

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Now you should be able to go back to the sliding grey line and move your word up into the center of your shape without the letters bunching up together. You will notice once you’ve done this however, that your original shape line is now grey (no cut line). This would be okay if you just wanted to cut out the bent word.

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But, for this tutorial, we want to cut out the banner shape for the front of my balloon, so I will need to make this a cut line (red) again. Highlight your shape and click on the Cut Style icon at the top. In the Cut Style window, click the button that says “Enable Cut Style”.

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Now your entire image is red and will be cut.

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This is also a fun technique to use for cutting a phrase to wrap around a circle. You would just snap your phrase on the outside line of the circle, rather than inside the shape. I will post another project showing an example of this on my blog today, so I invite you to stop by Artsy Albums to check it out!

Thanks! Traci