One Dollar Wednesday at Jessica Sprague

One Dollar Wednesday at JessicaSprague.com!

Today only you can pick up a couple of digital kits for a steal…

TODAY for JUST $1 you can grab the popular: Life Card Templates 4×6 Set 1

LIFE CARD TEMPLATES 4×6 Set 1

And, you can snag the following awesome product for HALF OFF, which makes it $5… Basics Life Cards

BASICS LIFE CARDS

With these two sets on such an awesome SALE it’s the perfect time to try a Project Life style layout or album. Also, these Basics cards coordinate beautifully with Lori’s Honey Edition of Project Life. While you are at jessicasprague.com, be sure to check out the samples made with these kits at the bottom of each listing.

 

 

Giveaway, Freebie + New SVG Shapes

Do you follow the paper collections Lori designs for Echo Park? They are so so cute. Each release I think is my favorite, then she comes out with a new one and my favorite changes. Recently “A Perfect Summer” was released and Lori is hosting a GIVEAWAY! Three lucky people will be winning this collection. Are you one of them?

If you haven’t had a chance to enter be sure and enter below for your opportunity to win one of these beautiful collections. Winners will be announced on Thursday. Enter by Wednesday at midnight.
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Also, TODAY ONLY, this ice cream cone SVG file is FREE. Just add coupon code: ICECREAM at checkout and the cost will be deducted from your purchase.

Here are some of Lori’s newest shapes added to the SVG shop and her Silhouette Portfolio! Thanks for stopping by… Lisa

Stationary Set by Traci and Centerpiece by Corri

Today we have some fabulous projects by Traci and Corri
Hi Lori fans!
I’m so excited to be on the blog today sharing a really fun, and pretty quick, project with you.  As many of you may know, I’m a mini album girl.  They are my all-time favorite project.  Despite my mini love, I also love giving fun gifts with cute packaging.  So today I decided to share my love of little gift notes.  A 3×3 gift note is the perfect little “accessory” to a perfectly wrapped present.  I make several at a time so that when I have a birthday, wedding, or new baby gift to wrap, I already have a cute little hand-made gift enclosure to go with it.
Here is some gift note inspiration for you — complete with Lori’s adorable 3×3 stationary box to keep the cards in until you need them.
I love all of Lori’s digital cutting files, so it’s never hard to find the perfect addition to any card or project.  For this one, my favorite part of each card are the sentiments.  Lori designed the “Happy Birthday”, “Thank You’ and “Hello” pieces with an adorable font and a great background piece.  The ability to cut a white background allowed each of my sentiments to “pop” off any pattern paper I layered it onto.  I also love the cupcake for this card…especially with the little heart cut out.
I have always been a fan of Echo Park…especially the paper and embellishments that Lori designs for them.  Most of the papers I’ve used in this card set are from the “My Girl” Collection.  For the card below, I added a fun little branch from the sticker sheet and set an adorable bird up on pop dots for dimension.
For the “Thank You” card, I found Lori’s mason jar cutting file
This design can be used for so many things — I cut the design and then added a flower sticker and brad from the “My Girl” collection and finished it off with a knot of twine.
For the 3×3 box, I cut the file and also created an “inset” shape for each side.  After adding the inset accent pieces, I cut one of Lori’s new 3D flower designs for the front.  The flower also serves as a little accent to tuck the tab behind so that the lid stays closed 🙂  So, so, cute!
Thanks so much for visiting today!  Please stop by my personal blog, Artsy Albums, to say hello!
Traci
Next we have this adorable center piece by Corri.
I have a fun project for you today that would be great for a Memorial Day or July 4th table decoration.
I cut Lori’s Octagon Flower Pot as sized in the file from some kraft card stock.
For the rim of the pot, I used the red wood grain paper from Echo Park’s “Perfect Summer” collection which Lori designed.
I cut 3 of the Spiral Stars (size reduced to 2.795″h) and 2 Spiral Flower 1 from some navy card stock and some pattern paper from the “Perfect Summer” collection.  I cut an extra base layer for each flower, then hot glued a wooden skewer to one of the base layers and mounted the assemble flower to that with foam dots.
To add some stability, put something with a little weight in the bottom of the flower pot.  I used a few tokens from Chuck E. Cheese!   I used some more hot glue to glue a 4″ foam ball in the pot and then arranged my flowers and covered with some paper shreds.
You could change up this cute project for all kinds of summer parties.  Add some graduation caps and 2013 on your sticks for a cute graduation party center piece. Corri

New at Jessica Sprague

Debuting this weekend at JessicaSprague are 3 different kits you can grab for 25% off. That is a great deal! Get them for this price while you can! SALE ENDS SUNDAY!

LIFE TEMPLATES SET 15

layout by Chrissy Guido

Lori Whitlock- Life Templates Set 16, Basic Life Cards, Basic Journal
Cards, Patriotic Elements,Lazy Summer Days

layout by Kim Lund

products: Life Templates Set 15 and Lazy Summer Days

Life Templates Set 16

layout by Chrissy Guido

Lori Whitlock- Life Templates Set 16, Basic Life Cards, Basic Journal
Cards, Patriotic Elements,Lazy Summer Days

LIFE TEMPLATES SET 17

layout by Chrissy Guido

Lori Whitlock -Life Templates Set 17, Kraft Frames, Brown Basics,
Everyday Stamps,Celebration Stamps, and Sweet Memories Arrow

 

 

Using your Eraser Tool

Tutorial by Traci:  A Fun Way to Use Your Eraser Tool

Hi everyone!  I’m excited to share a fun tutorial with you today.
Although we love to cut Lori’s adorable shapes out of paper, today I will share how you can cut your shapes to pop up from the paper.
First, add the shape you want to use to the page in your software program.

Next, move the shape to the area where you will want it to pop up from the page.  Resize your shape and ungroup the pieces if necessary.

For my page, I also rotated the butterfly slightly.
 
Next, select your eraser tool on the left toolbar.  If you have the Designer Edition of Silhouette Studio, an Erasers window will appear on the right side.
Select “Outline” and if needed, “zoom” to see the lines better (hour glass with plus sign at top). Then erase the areas of your shape that you do not want to cut.
If you don’t have the Designer Edition software, you can still use an eraser, but the steps are a bit different.
First click on ‘Point Editing’.  A bunch of grey points will appear on your shape.  (You may have to click on “Simplify” before the points will appear).
Next, click on the points you want to erase.  When you select each point, click on ‘Break Path’ in your Point Editing window.
This will make the lines stay broken. Now you should be able to erase the areas that you do not want to cut.
 

 

I also wanted to add a border that would pop up from the page so I repeated the steps above for the border.

 

For the border, I erased the top cutting line of the shape so that it would fold up from the page.
 
So, as you can see I did not cut anything out, I just made it so that it popped up from the page.
Here is the final page layout.  A fun little page about my adorable niece, Hannah, who is, of course….Cute As A Bug!

Traci Penrod
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