Tag: Cathy Harper

Watering Can Bouquet Box Card tutorial with Cathy

I love all of Lori’s box cards, they are super cute, fold flat to mail and are super easy to put together.  I thought I would walk you through the process.  It seems like there are a lot of pieces to cut and put together, but they really are simple and are super quick to assemble with adorable results.

This is Lori’s Watering Can Bouquet card, you can find it here in Silhouette or here in Lori’s shop.  Super cute and perfect for just about any occasion.

I first opened up the file in the picture below, next I sorted the file by color.  I love that Lori designs her files in color, so it is so easy to divide and cut by color.  It makes things go so much faster.

After all my pieces were cut, I inked all the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Inks and scor-tape is your best friend for these box cards, paper thin and super sticky.  First adhere the box of your watering can together and then add then handles and spout to the two pieces with the coordinating slots.

You now should have a shape that looks like the first box below.  Now it’s time to add all your embellishments to your layers, which Lori makes it so easy as she numbers them 1, 2, 3.  Just layer your embellishments following the pattern and picture from the file.  Add scor-tape to each perforated and scored side.  I always start with number 1 and then add number 3.  Then I know that they are perfectly spaced before I add number 2 in the middle.   Run your finger along each side of pieces 1,2,3  to make sure they are really stuck down well.  It really is as easy as 1,2,3!

In no time at all you are done and have the cutest dimensional card ever.  Lots and lots of box cards to choose from in both stores.

Spring Fling Embroidery Hoop with Cathy

Happy Spring everyone!  I think it may have finally arrived here in Michigan, but we are supposed to get a little bit of snow today.  Hoping it doesn’t last long, I’m so ready for sunshine and warmer weather.  I have a fun project to share with you today with an embroidery hoop and one of Lori’s mason jar box cards.  Lots of dimension,  pretty spring patterns and colors.

I used Echo Park’s Spring Fling collection designed by Lori to create my project.  I started with an 8 inch wooden embroidery hoop.  Adding the paper to the embroidery hoop can be a bit tricky and time consuming, but I love the results.  I found this tutorial and it was really easy to do.  After I had my hoop done, I cut all the fun little pieces for Mason Jar Pinwheel Box Card that you can find here in Silhouette or here at Lori’s shop

I inked the edges of everything with Broken China Distress Ink and assembled it, once it’s all cut it really only takes a few minutes to assemble.  I added the 4×4 sentiment from the collection kit to the embroidery hoop and then attached my box card with Scor-tape plus few pop dots.  I added a few stickers from Spring Fling, a  bit of twine and enamel dots.

Here you can see all the dimension that these box cards have.  So fun!

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you have a Spring filled week with sunny skies and warm temperatures.

~Cathy

Spring and Easter Cards with Cathy!

Just when I think Spring is finally here, I wake up to snow.  I’m so ready for Spring days, but until that finally arrives these cute cards with Spring colors will have to do.  I have 3 cards to share with you today created with Lori’s files…first up the flower shaped mother’s day card, that I just turned into a cute spring card.  It can be found in here Silhouette and here Lori’s shop .  I used my Silhouette sketch pens for a little more definition and added the grass border file, find it here on Silhouette, and here in Lori’s shop.   So cute and springy!

Next, I made a fun shaker card for Easter with Lori’s Echo Park Easter Wishes collection.  I love making shakers and Lori’s files make it so easy to do.  Just layer up your shapes and fill with sequins.  You can find the 3d shaker card here at Silhouette  and here in Lori’s shop.

And one last super quick fun shaped card, again with the adorable Easter Wishes collection.  A little pinwheel card to wish you a Happy Easter.  You can find the file here at Silhouette or here at Lori’s shop!

Don’t forget that Lori is having an Easter Sale in her SVG Shop!  All Easter Themed SVGs are 25% off through Monday when you use code EASTER25 at checkout!

Hoping you have Spring weather wherever you might be….and hoping it arrives in Michigan soon!  Thanks for stopping by!

Sketch and Cut Layout with Cathy

Hi everyone!  Cathy here with you today to share a quick tutorial to create this fun layout with Lori’s new sketch files and my Silhouette Sketch pens.  These are the files I used… sketch flower (silhouette), Sketch Flower 2 (Silhouette), Sketch Leaf (Silhouette) and Sketch Circles (Silhouette). You can find them in SVG format in a bundle, Easter Sketch bundle and the Wedding Sketch Bundle.

First add the circle sketch to your mat and size it the size you would like, then center it on your mat.  I wanted to kind of get an idea of how it would look so I changed my line colors.

Next add in the rest of your sketch files and size as you wish.  Again, I changed the line color so I could get a general idea and feel for the layout.  I tried out a number of different layouts before I came up with my final plan.

Separate and move all the files off to the side except for the circle sketch.  Then switch out your blade for a sketch pen in your color choice and let your Silhouette go to work drawing the circle on your background paper.  I love using the pens, so much fun!  If you need help with using the sketch pens, there is a tutorial here on Lori’s Blog.

I removed the background paper, and added a new, white paper to my mat for the other designs.  Add your other sketch shapes to your mat and let the pens do the work.  After you have completed the sketches, make sure not to remove your mat.  Leave it right where it goes back to after it sketches.  Then switch out your pen for the blade again and offset your shapes with the offset feature.

One more step and your on your way to layering and creating your layout.  Offset your images, remove the inside (the original sketch) just click on the inside and pull it away.  I find this easier than selecting the no cut line…seems like I always forget and ruin my project.

Once they are all cut out, layer them on your layout!  Thanks for stopping by today!

A Mason Jar Shaker Card with Cathy

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share how I took one of Lori’s shaker tags and made it into to a card.  I love the trend right now of shaker tags and cards, so much fun.  I adore Lori’s new Celebrate Winter collection from Echo Park and immediately a shaker card came to mind with all of the lovely blue shades in the collection.  I started with this shaker embellishment, you can find the here on Silhouette or here at Lori’s shop.

I turned this super cute file into this shaker card.  I adore how it turned out and it was super easy to do!

Open the file, and enlarge it to 16.75 x 18.75, by doing this it will make you mason jar just about the size of regular A2 card.  After you enlarge it, separate your mason jar, ovals, and windows. That way you can make your card base.

Follow the step below, you could add a score line where the jars meet but I just used my scor-it to do that.  Why add an extra step?  Lol.

I cut extra lid shapes so that my card would just have that extra dimension.

I backed my window with white card stock and then you layer all of your windows, use a good adhesive, you want a good seal so that none of your sequins fall out.  I always repurpose a piece of clear packaging for my clear window part.  So layer all of the window shapes, except one, fill with sequins and such, adhere your clear window, and then one more window goes over the top. Then just adhere all of your lid shapes.  All that’s left to do is embellish your card… I used some of the Celebrate Winter Collection from Echo Park to embellish.

I love how this turned out…this is simply one of the cutest collections for winter ever!