Hi Everyone!  It’s Kathy,  with my very first post as a member of Lori’s Team!!  I’m very excited to be here!  Today I wanted to show you how I transformed Lori’s Adorable Shaker Camera embellishment into a fun mini album celebrating my cousin’s sweet new baby boy!

I started by loading the Shaker Camera file into my Silhouette.  Keeping everything grouped together, I resized the camera shape to be about 4.5″ x 6.5″ so that it could accommodate 4″x6″ photo sleeves.  By keeping all the shapes together, everything was uniformly resized.

After ungrouping everything, I cut two of the camera shapes and the six “thinner” rings from some Silhouette Chipboard.

I then cut some patterned papers to cover both the outside and the inside covers.  When doing this, make sure to flip the camera shape horizontally for one of the covers.  This will make sure that everything lines up properly.

 

Now I started assembling all of the pieces to make my album covers.  I started by gluing both the outside & inside covers to the chipboard camera pieces.  I then glued the chipboard rings together in a pile.  This builds the “shaker” part of the card.

To finish the “lens” I first glued the ring stack to the background circle I cut from a coordinating piece of paper.

Next, I filled my shaker with a cute Teddy Bear Sticker and some sequins.

Finally, I finished it off by adding a circle of clear plastic to hold all the shaker elements inside, and then added the “fatter” ring that I cut from another piece of patterned paper.

 I added the completed lens, and the viewfinder piece to the front cover.  I used Lori’s Perfect Type Font to cut out the Baby’s name and added that to the lens.

I didn’t have the 4″x6″ photo sleeve when I started this project, so after the covers were complete, I used one of the sleeves to measure where to punch holes for the binder  rings.  On the inside cover, I again used the Perfect Type Font to print the baby’s birth information on a cute little label!

Lastly, I filled the pages!  I wanted to keep it simple, and leave some room for my cousin to add her own writing, so for each page, I simply added one of Lori’s 7 Shapes Labels where I put the date.  Here are the rest of the pages…

I left her some blank pages and labels to add to the album!

That’s it for me today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy New Year Lori fans!!  Welcome to 2015!

It’s Traci here today to share an easy project tutorial for making a magnetic desktop calendar.

For this project, I used one of Lori’s adorable Chalkboard cards and Silhouette brand chipboard to create the base of the calendar.   I also used her 2015 Print & Cut Calendar file, along with Silhouette’s Adhesive Magnet material, to make the monthly calendars.  Here is how to create this desktop calendar for yourself:

1.  First, open the Chalkboard file and duplicate the large base portion as shown below.  Using the eraser tool, erase the inside window on just one of the bases.

2.  Once you have the two bases (one with a window, one without) cut them out of chipboard (I use Silhouette brand) and out of paper of your choice.  Be sure to adjust the cut settings to accommodate the thicker chipboard material, and then re-adjust the setting for the thinner paper.  The red paper that I used is from Lori’s “Yesterday” collection for Carta Bella.

3.  Cut the chipboard that has the window in half along the score line and adhere the back piece to the other chipboard as shown above.

4.  Adhere the other paper piece to the chipboard as shown.  You should have two layers of chipboard and one layer of paper on the front and back of your base once finished.

5.  Using a paper trimmer, cut a piece of magnet material (I used Silhouette brand) 3 1/8″ x 3 1/4″.  The piece of magnet will act as the “chalkboard” inside the window.  Adhere all pieces of the base together.  Tie twine or ribbon through the holes in the legs of the stand to help the calendar stand up.

6.  Create the calendars by doing a print & cut with the monthly calendars.

7. After cutting the calendars, I used the “offset” feature to create a mat for each calendar, and also for cutting the magnet material out of the same shape.  The magnet material is self adhesive so I layered the calendar and the mat, and then just adhered the magnet material to the back of each piece.

8.  To finish the project, I added the banner that comes with the chalkboard file and cut out some numbers for 2015.  I tied the banner to the top of my calendar with twine and added a cute chipboard butterfly from Lori’s “Yesterday” collection.   I also added a piece of magnet to the back of some other chipboard pieces so I could add them on my calendar some months.

As you can see below, the months can easily be added and changed on the desktop stand each month.

Thanks so much for stopping by Lori’s blog today!  I invite you to also come visit me on my blog at Artsy Albums and say hello!