Today I’m hosing a giveaway over on FACEBOOK. Go comment for a chance to win one of my new Season’s Greetings Collection Kits!
All Boxed Up!
This week you should see my studio! It’s completely covered in scraps of paper. I’ve been working on some NEW boxes for the Silhouette Online Store. I am quite pleased at how they turned out. How cute will these be for the upcoming fall and holiday season?? Fill them with Halloween treats, make Thanksgiving door prizes, or tuck them into a stocking for Christmas. I would LOVE to see what you create with these files. So, please feel free to email them to me (info@loriwhitlock.com) and I’ll share some of them here on my blog. Oh, and you’ll notice that the top 3 boxes are cut out of cardstock from my Happy Day’s Collection for Echo Park Paper.
FREE Teacher Appreciation 4×6 Card
In honor of BACK TO SCHOOL I created this 4×6 teacher appreciation card. Simply open the .png file in your photo editing software and insert your child’s photo behind the frame. You can type a name or sentiment in the open space, save it as a .jpg file and print it at your local photo processing center or at home. The pattern paper is from my Happy Day’s collection for Echo Park. The font is my HAPPY font available in my online store. Enjoy!!
Be @ Home Feature!
Last month Be @ Home emailed me and asked if they could feature my blog on their site as part of their “Best of the Web” Award Series! I am so honored that they would feel that my blog was worth visiting let alone being featured. So, today you’ll see that they’ve featured www.loriwhitlock.com along with several other cool sites. You should check them out. They have great tips on DIY projects, home decor, kids, cooking and more.
Have a fantastic Thursday!! Thanks for dropping in!
Lori
Card Making
I have always received a great deal of joy from creating beautiful things…. out of nothing. So, for me, the limitless possibilities of fun shapes I can engineer and cut with my digital cutting machine is super exciting!! Seriously…to be able to load a sheet of paper into my Silhouette and then have it magically cut the sheet perfectly so that it folds up into a beautiful card (or box or whatever) is nothing short of a miracle! The end result is an awesome project handmade by me that brings a smile to someone’s face. And, to me that’s absolutely amazing!
I’ve designed quite a collection of cards over the past couple of years that are available at the Silhouette Online Store. I thought I’d take the opportunity today to post several of them all in one place so you can see them, use them for assembly reference, and hopefully get some good ideas! Even if you don’t have a cutting machine, hopefully you can glean some ideas from this post.
Card making is something I really love to do. I’ve designed several card kits and card projects over the years. One of the first card projects I worked on as a graphic designer was “The Ultimate Card Kit” by Lisa Bearnson. Right then and there I was seriously hooked on engineering cards. Cards are easy to assemble and go together very quickly. Homemade cards certainly don’t need to be a sheet of cardstock folded in half. Try making a card out of a circle, scalloped shape, or a bracket shape. You can create them out of just a few supplies that you most likely already have on hand. Use ribbon, stamps, brads, buttons, and flowers to embellish your cards. And, the best part… when you give your card away you are making the world a more beautiful and cheerful place. So, go give it a whirl and make someone happy today! 
