Silhouette Sketch Pen Promotion!

Have you seen the NEW Silhouette Sketch Pen Starter Kit? I’m really excited to get the word out on these pens! In the past they’ve had three small sketch pen packages.  This one is awesome because it contains 24 pens and 10 exclusive sketch designs! Between March 26-31, my readers can buy any of these three bundles at discounted prices:

Silhouette CAMEO® and sketch pen starter kit: $269.99
Silhouette Portrait™ and sketch pen starter kit: $139.99
Sketch pen starter kit: $12.99 (regularly $19.99)

To get the discounted pricing go to: www.silhouetteamerica.com/pen and use code: LORI at checkout.

I had a chance to play with the pens and I designed a few new shapes that you’ll find a the Silhouette Online Store. First up, is a set of Easter Sketch Designs. I tested them out and created these tags:

Next, I designed this A2 Birthday Step Card

Just a reminder, you will only find the discounted pricing through this link: www.silhouetteamerica.com/pen and you’ll need to use code: LORI at checkout.

I hope you get a chance to own and play with these sketch pens. I love that with my Silhouette machine and some sketch designs, I can create so many more customized projects! It’s like having an endless supply of stamps on hand. And, you can count on seeing more sketch designs from me in the future.

Have a great day!!

Spring & Easter projects by Christine & Natalie

Today we have 2 different Creative Team members sharing their talents with us. First is Christine, she says…
I have created a mini book using the Mini Album Pinking Edge and some papers and embellishments from Sweet Girl by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park.  These are just a few of the pages.  You can see the rest at my blog.

The front page of the mini book has a banner title that is part of the Sweet Girl collection by Echo Park in the Silhouette store.  I loved that I could make this banner larger so it really becomes the focus of the page.

I used another digital cutting file by Lori, called Scalloped Shapes for the background of this journaling card that is part of the paper pack.

You can see yet another frame on this page from Lori Whitlock.  It is called the 4×6 Frame in the Silhouette Store

Mini books are really so much fun, especially when you can cut out your own.  It easy to add as many pages as you want and even alter the size.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by to see my project.
Supplies Used:
4×6 Frame- Silhouette Store #9783
Sweet Girl Paper Collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park
 Natalie has a beautiful Easter project to share with us. 
I’ve been know to make big signs for my front porch.  So when I brought this wooden pallet sign for my front door home from my local craft store, my son immediately said, “Mom, that isn’t nearly big enough for the front porch.”  I said, “silly, it’s for the front door.”  I had to figure out how to make it work, because I just had to bring the pallet looking sign home.  And since Easter is around the corner, I came up with this:

I first cut out the Easter saying out of vinyl, and placed it on the unpainted pallet.  Then I painted the wooden pallet blue, sanded and distressed it, removing the vinyl to reveal the color below.  I then cut out the Easter egg out of card stock, and using mod podge adhered it to foam core.  I then used plain old doilies, and cut circles and used the left over flowers that were cut to make the banner and stapled them to some twine and attached it to the pallet using hot glue.  It took me about an hour to make it.

I used the following files from Lori Whitlock’s store
Easter phrase – found here
Easter egg set – found here

Eye Candy by Mendi and Joy

Today we have 2 of our talented ladies on the blog, Mendi and Joy. Mendi is up first with an adorable Easter layout…
“Well, as promised I challenged myself to use Lori’s new Echo Park collections to create an Easter layout. What took me by suprise though was that rather than going with the more girly “Sweet Girl” line, I ended up using her “About A boy” line almost exclusively. Just goes to show how versatile these papers can be for all sorts of themes including a girly project.   When it came to embellishing my page I turned to Lori’s fun spring shapes.  I think one of my favorite things about diecutting my own embellishments (aside from saving loads of money) has to be dressing them up. With the help of some chalk ink, hand stitching, foam tape and buttons, Lori’s flower, chicks & butterflies totally came to life!   I used her LW Happy font for my title, topped with some Glossy Accents. I love how doing this gives you the feeling of a fancy alphabet sticker, but the beauty is it’s always the perfect size to fit your space and you’ll never running out of vowels”.   🙂
For today’s layout I used the following cutting files:
Also don’t forget that today is the last day to get all these great shapes and many more for 25% off using the promo code “March25” at checkout.

Next we have Joy with the cutest gift’s. Joy says…

These purse toppers are so cute!  Cut them to fit any bag you already have to turn it into an adorable gift holder.  It’s such a versatile file.  You can dress it to fit any occasion.  Use it to hold gift cards, candy and more!

New Life Cards at Jessica Sprague

This weekend at jessicasprague.com, Lori has added some fabulous new Life Cards to her growing collection. These journaling cards come in solid colors and are available as both PNG’s and Brushes/ABR. You can use them as is, with the coloring already chosen, change the color or use them as masking shapes for your favorite pattern paper or photo.

Check out this adorable layout by Roelien using a few of these cards.

Supplies used:
Heidi Swap Sentiment stickers
These files are also available as SVG’s for your digital cutting machine in Lori’s SVG shop.