Santa Set with Corri

Hi everyone!  Corri here today sharing a couple of cute Santa projects to help get you ready for Christmas.

I cut the Santa Square Card (Silhouette, SVG) and the Santa Suspender Box (Silhouette, SVG).  This card is so cute and goes together really quickly.  It would be a great card to make in multiples for friends or family. I added some texture to the hat pieces by using an embossing folder.

The Suspender box is also very easy to assemble and would be so fun filled with candy.  Perfect for secret Santa,  It’s large enough to tuck a gift card inside too.   I hope you like these cute Santa projects.  Check out all the adorable Christmas files in Lori’s Shop.

Pink Gingerbread House with Michelle

I’m excited to share one of my favorite Holiday crafting projects. My Pink Paper Gingerbread House has holiday sweetness, as well as crafting fun!

Pink Paper Gingerbread House

Lori has made a step by step assembly video to explain how to put it together. Don’t worry, it’s easier than you might think. Her video has lots of tips.

Pink Gingerbread Man closeup

You can purchase the SVG file for the Gingerbread House at the Silhouette Design Store as well as at the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop. The cute gingerbread people are included in the file too. Isn’t he adorable?

Pink Paper Gingerbread House

I hope that I’ve inspired you to hang up your apron and craft your own paper Gingerbread House. Make one for yourself and another one for a gift that will be treasured!

Have a creative day!

Michelle

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

 

Anita here with a fun tutorial to make this gift set.  I love to quilt and embroider as much as I love to paper craft and I was thrilled to recently discover that Lori Whitlock has embroidery files that she has designed, many of which mirror her paper craft SVG files.  You can find her gorgeous embroidery files at Embroidery Online.  I will give you all the links in the post .

I bought shrink film from Amazon and used Lori’s Print & Cut Stamps Christmas Cookies which you can find here in her store .  I resized the image of the gingerbread man so that it would come out the size that I wanted.  I then printed the image onto the shrink film through my laser printer.  Just let it dry for a few minutes before coloring it.

I then used my Copic markers to color the shrink film.  I knew that the colors would deepen once I shrunk the image so chose my colors with that in mind.  I used R37, E11, G14, G07, E99 for the gingerbread man and Y08, E99, R37, G07 for the Gingerbread house.  Be sure to punch a hole in your shrink film before you put it in the oven and remember that the hole shrinks also.  The directions say to bake the film on parchment at 300 degrees for 2-3 minutes but I found that my heat gun worked much better as I could control the plastic as it shrank.  Below is the before picture.

Here is the photo of the shrink plastic after it was  done.

I went to Embroidery online and bought the bundle which had all the Christmas embroidery files that I wanted to use for this project.  It is called Christmas Time by Lori Whitlock.  You can buy the collection or the individual embroidery files.  I embroidered the phrase It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas on a piece cotton.  I then finished the edges and glued it to the front of my tote.  I also embroidered my daughter-in-law’s name on the top of the apron as this set is for her.  She is an amazing baker.

I then strung my two adorable gingerbread embellishments on some yummy twine, added a bell and glued that down as well.

I really love to match things and  have been so excited to make this project.  Here is a close up of all the goodies that I put inside the basket.

The last thing that I did was made a card that used the SVG cut file which matched the embroidery.  I used Lori’s new Christmas collection called Celebrate Christmas.  The cut file can be found here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette store and is called Look a lot Like Christmas Phrase.
That’s it for me.  Hope that you have a wonderful holiday season.

Hugs,

Anita

 

Snowman Shaped Gift Set by Aimee

Happy Monday crafty friends! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving that was filled with lots of turkey, love, and laughter! Aimee here today to share this adorable snowman card and gift bag set.These 2 svg files are part of the new Christmas files from Lori. She just released a bunch of adorable cards, boxes, advent calendars, and ornaments that are so cute! I created these cute little guys out of the Echo Park Celebrate Winter by Lori! I love this wintery fun collection!This shaped card is so cute and I love that even though it has a round bottom it still stands up straight on it’s own! It measures about 4.25″ both ways so it will fit inside of an A2 envelope.And here is the matching box! I absolutely love how the white linen paper from this collection makes the perfect snowman face. This is a great set to have on hand when giving a small gift this Christmas!

Snowman Shaped Card – Lori’s Shop or Silhouette Design Store

Snowman Shaped Box – Lori’s Shop or Silhouette Design Store

Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful day!

Aimee

Pop-up Card Tutorial with Ashley

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope your day is filled with great food, friends, family, pie, etc.  And if you like shopping this weekend, I hope that you get all the deals you are looking for. I think there are many crafting deals that can be enjoyed right from your home and your favorite internet browser.

I am helping plan a Christmas Party for our church congregation.  We wanted each family to have a special invite.  So I searched for a pop-up card that I could make many.  I found this great Tree Pop-up (Silhouette, SVG shop).

Image 1

I decided to do a little editing. Before I un-grouped the card, I resized it just a little so that the outside of the card would fit onto a 8.5 x 11 piece of paper.

Then I did a little point editing.  To add points to a design, double click on the shape, and click where you want to add a point.  For this project, I chose the point to be a corner, then I manipulated the curves to the shape that I was going for.

At our Christmas Party, we will have a program about some of the symbols of Christmas. I wanted to incorporate that into the card.  I used  images from Lori’s Dingbat Christmas font (Silhouette, SVG Shop). Since these shapes will just be an outline in the card, I deleted any extra pieces by un-grouping, releasing compound path, and deleting any of the inner pieces.

With all the symbol images placed, I added text.  Since my text isn’t too near the cuts, I decided not to do print and cut, so that I could get 2 cards for every piece of cardstock. I saved just the text in the correct format as a PDF and took it to the copy store to print.  After printed, I cut 100 cards (well the Cameo did the cutting).

I am tying them up using a cute tag from Lori’s Tag Dingbat font (Silhouette, SVG shop).

I think they are pretty cute.  I hope everyone likes the special invites.  Now only 99 more to tie :).

Happy Thanksgiving!! And Happy Shopping!