Tag: Cathy Harper

Circular Pop Up Card

Happy Summer everyone!  I hope you are all safe,  healthy and enjoying your summer!  I have a perfect little project to share with you, if you have gone camping or anytime you have spent in the great outdoors.  It’s Lori’s new circular pop up card,   you can find it  here in Lori’s SVG Shop or here in the Silhouette Design Store.

It was simply too much fun to make and I may have gotten carried away, but I adore how this little book/card turned out.  You can find Lori’s amazing tutorial here on You Tube.  I have five pages instead of four like she had in tutorial.  You can even add up to six pages.  The only thing I did differently was I notched the square pieces with a circle punch so that I could add tags, I made my own little pockets!  Just use adhesive on the sides and bottom so that your little pockets open to put tags inside.

When it pops open, it turns into the coolest little star book with 5 pages!  Love this!  It almost explodes!

This project was so much fun, and as you can see, I did get a bit carried away, but I love this so much and I can’t wait to make more.  Thank you for joining us today!

~Cathy

4th of July Box and S’mores delivered!

Hi everyone!  Cathy here with you today and hoping life is returning to normal or at least to the new normal for you.  The 4th of July is just around the corner and I created a fun box filled with s’more ingredients and napkins to send home to a little person.  I used Lori’s Large Valentine Box Card Centerpiece (Silhouette Online Design Store) or you can find it here in Lori’s SVG Shop.

I love all the hearts in this design and knew that I wanted to turn it into a patriotic display.  I used Lori’s and Echo Park’s brand new America collection.  I love how this turned out, the wood grain paper was perfect for creating the box.  I cut lots of the hearts, inked the edges and layered them with pops dots.  I then cut a piece of chipboard to fit the bottom of the box that I adhered to the bottom, so that I would be able to fill with the all the s’more goodness.    I decorated the front with twine and ephemera from the collection.

Now to get it sent to that little someone and hope the chocolate and marshmallows don’t melt.

Wishing you all a Happy and Safe 4th of July!

~Cathy

 

Unicorn Cake Stitched Layout

Hi everyone!  I’m excited to share a layout with you today that I created with Lori’s 5×7 unicorn card.  You can find the file here in Lori’s SVG shop or here in the Silhouette Design Store.  I wanted to show you how to add stitching lines to your layouts with your sketch pens.  It’s pretty simple and it adds so much detail.

I first picked out my papers and then brought the file up on my screen.  I only need the cake, stand and flowers.  I un-grouped the file and grabbed what I needed, and then regrouped the remaining pieces.  Next, I enlarged the remaining pieces to 14.75 x 18.5.

 

Next I set up the stitching lines for the pieces.  I started with the unicorn face, but removed the eyelashes first by releasing the compound path.  I  cut the eyelashes separately.

 

When I add stitching with pens to my layouts, I almost always do an internal offset of .130, then change my line style to the second stitch design that you see in that window.

It’s easier for me to cut first, leave on the mat (don’t remove the mat from the machine)  and then go back and do the pen.  You can also do cut by line color.   Once you are ready to add the lines just insert your pen and change the setting from cut to sketch, and blade to sketch pen.  Next, let your machine go to work.

This next screen shots shows the flowers, cut three sets in different colors.  This is before I removed to main flower shape.  So you can see the detail you can get with the pens.  I added sketch lines to all my pieces except the eyelashes.

Check out the detail you can get. Love it!

I used Lori’s All Girl Echo Park collection and embellishments.  I added a few punched circles for a border and vellum circles.  It’s just the sweetest layout of my little grand baby!

Cathy

A Little Bit Of Spring

Hi everyone!  Cathy here with you today and Spring has finally arrived in Michigan.  Some times we have sunny days and some days in just rains and rains, but I am in the mood for Spring planting and lots of pretty flowers.  I made Lori’s A2 Watering Can Card.  You can find it here at the Silhouette Design Store.  It’s just so cute, perfect to brighten someone’s day or to send for Mother’s Day, as that is right around the corner.

I love that Lori’s files are color coded, it makes everything come together faster.  I added a bit of stitching with my Silhouette pen to the watering can, then just assembled.  I used Lori’s new All Girl collection for the watering can and added a few extra little stickers from that collection as well.  It’s just a darling card that will bring a smile to all!

Thank you for joining us today!

 

Love You Layout

Day 30 something of lock down, I’ve honestly lost track of how many days I have now been home from work.  But I am happy to be safe and healthy, I hope this finds all of you doing great as well.

I have a layout to share with you today where I took two of Lori’s card files, enlarged both of them, then used them as the main design elements of my layout.  I had a blast with Lori’s and Echo Park’s new All Girl Collection.  I used the collection pack, enamel dots, the new stick on brads, chipboard, stickers and even the stencil.  This collection is beyond perfect for my two grand daughters…..everything that they love is in this collection including llamas and unicorns.

I used these two files from Lori.  I enlarged the love you heart elements to 11 x 8.5, then cut all the layers. You can find the files here, Silhouette Design Store , Lori’s SVG Shop.

For the tulips, I enlarged them to 8.5 by 6.5.  You can find the file here in the Silhouette Design Store and here in Lori’s SVG Shop!

Here’s the finished product.  I love how this turned out.  I love using big design elements when I create a layout and these card elements were perfect for what I had in mind.  So always fun to look through Lori’s Card SVG files and imagine how else I could use them.

 

Thanks for joining us today.  Stay safe and healthy!