Cards by Christine and Flowers by Natalie

I LOVE that so many of our Creative Team Members are in the card making mode. It has been great inspiration for me. Today we have Christine and Natalie sharing their adorable projects with us.  Christine says…
It’s time to stock up on cards.  Already this year, I have been caught without a card when I really needed one.  So I found this cute little card file in Lori Whitlock’s shop and decided to make a couple.  There is actually 4 different styles and I am showing two of them.  

What I love about making this cards is that if you use double sided paper, you can do the card base and accent panels from one piece of paper and one cut!
The belly bands are the different elements in the four cards.  The other two, not shown, are square and star shaped.  Look for those in an upcoming post because I am hooked.
Here is my second card.  This one has a circle shape on the belly band.  Instead of using the circle accent, I decided to use the space to attach some coordinating cardstock stickers.
The papers I used on both of my cards is  For the Record Documented by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park.  It’s a beautiful paper collection.
These cards are really easy and quick to cut out and decorate.  A really good card to use to build up your stash!
Supplies used:
Other Supplies used:
For the Record “Documented” paper collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park
Papertrey Ink Stamps
Next I have some very clever hair flowers to share with you. Natalie has created these beauties with one of Lori’s SVG files, I was shocked…
I’m excited to share with you this cute little project. I would bet you would have never bet that this was made from my silhouette?  When I saw the rolled flowers in Lori’s shop I knew that I wanted to try them out of fabric, and they worked.  The key is to use either stiff fabric with some stabilizer under it or, use this thin fabric to cut from.  The fabric I chose was thin polyester lining.  It’s used to line skirts or dresses with out adding a lot of bulk.  I came in an array of colors, and it was super cheap.  I cut the fabric 12×12 to fit on my cutting mat, then cut out the shape with my silhouette.  There were a few places that didn’t cut all the way through, which I hand trimmed, which is OK because these are not suppose to be perfect.  After I cut them, I grabbed my lighter and singed the edges, making them pucker and curl.  Then I got a needle and thread and had sewed the curls into place, then attached the rhinestone button.  Then hot glued a clip and some felt to clean it up.  Now I have some cute little flowers for my girls hair.  I think they turned out darling, now only if I had the time to make about 100 more!
The file I used was from Lori’s shop and you can find it here.

A Sale & Projects by Corri & Amanda

First things first, I want to tell you about the sale going on loriwhitlock.com

Next up we have 2 of our Creative Team Members sharing projects with you, Corri and Amanda. Corri says…

I love hot air balloons so when I saw Lori’s new hot air balloon card I couldn’t wait to make it. 

This card goes together very easily and would be perfect for almost any occasion.
I used paper from Echo Park – Hello Summer collection which Lori designed.  I love the bright colors on this collection.

Next we have Amanda sharing with us this adorable layout.

I created this page to document the fact that although my little cat likes to pretend she’s grumpy, we often catch her snuggling and grooming our other 2 cats. She’s a big softie, really!

8 Tabs – http://www.loriwhitlock.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=950
Valentine tickets – http://www.loriwhitlock.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=946
Happy Place Word Art titles – http://www.loriwhitlock.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=934
And the 1pc flourish heart here in sil store – http://www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/php/?page=view-shape&id=37918
I also used a few scraps of paper and the doily border sticker from the Love Story collection by Echo Park