spring – Lori Whitlock

March Creative Team Blog Hop

March 10, 2025March 11, 202510 Comments

We’re so excited to kick off the March 2025 Creative Team Blog Hop and get this month rolling with lots of crafting inspiration! Our talented team has been busy creating beautiful new projects that will spark your creativity throughout this season.

To make this month extra special, we’re offering an exclusive 30% OFF SALE at Lori’s SVG SHOP on all digital files and commercial licenses until Saturday, March 15th! Simply use the code MAR2025 (it’s case-sensitive!) to grab your favorites at a fantastic price.

We’ve also got a special freebie and an exciting giveaway waiting for you! Keep reading…

As a big thank you for joining the hop and spreading some March/springtime cheer, we’ve got a special gift just for you! For TODAY ONLY, you can grab this adorable Happy St. Patrick’s Day SVG file completely FREE. Just add it to your cart, and it’s yours at checkout—no strings attached!

This week I designed an Easter version of the ultimate XL fold flat village scene. It is just the cutest project! I hope you love it as much as I do. What a perfect project to make at this time of year. Bring festive cheer to your home with this charming Easter Village Paper Project, measuring 24″ wide by 11″ tall when assembled. Featuring interlocking 3D village houses, this whimsical scene includes the Easter Bunny riding a carrot car, an Easter chick peeking out of a window, and spring trees in full bloom as the backdrop. The clever design allows the houses to fold flat for easy storage, making it a perfect space-saving decor item for your mantle, shelf, or tabletop. Ideal for Easter and spring, this delightful piece adds a playful and vibrant touch to your home year after year. Grab it 30% off this week with code MAR2025.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE SHOP

How about a giveaway? You’re in luck! Enter our giveaway below, and we’ll announce the winner on the entry form right here on this blog post. Keep an eye on your inbox—you might be the lucky winner!

And, last but certainly not least… ready for some amazing inspiration? Check out the creative projects from our talented team! Just click the links below for some wintery crafting magic. If you get lost, no worries—just come back here and pick up where you left off: Lori Whitlock (you are here), Traci Penrod, Ashley Cook, Cathy Harper, Chelsea VanWyk, Sue Kment, Noelene Apap . and Tamara Tigchelaar.

Thanks again for dropping by! Have a GREAT day!

~Lori

A2 Sliceform Pop Up Card Spring Beautiful Day

May 13, 2024May 12, 2024

Hello There! Today I am going to show you this surprise pop up card! It’s quite impressive-even my son was surprised when I opened it up.

You can find the file through the links below:

A2 Sliceform Pop Up Card Spring Beautiful Day

(SVG, Silhouette)

I have always meant to make one of the Lori Whitlock sliceform cards, but honestly they looked so intimidating. Well…. let me tell you, they are really easy to put together! Surprise, surprise. I should have known Lori wouldn’t do that to me! Her files are always top notch.

You can follow her YouTube tutorial HERE. This card was easy to assemble by following her video instructions.

I hope you enjoyed this card and give the sliceform files a go!

Sue

Butterfly Mini Album Tutorial

March 21, 2024March 20, 2024

Hey friends! Traci here and today, I have a new project for spring. Last Thursday was National Butterfly Day and I realized … I’ve never made a mini album in the shape of a butterfly! So, with the help of two amazing Lori Whitlock cutting files, I created a super cute little butterfly scrapbook. Take a look …

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album Tutorial

I chose the first cut file titled Butterfly Set (Silhouette) because it had the perfect wings, however it didn’t have the separate body piece that I needed. So I found a second file called Shaped Card Butterfly (Silhouette) & used them both!

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album with cut-outs

I loved the delicate patterned cut-outs in the wings and thought it would be pretty backed with some colorful papers. I also added a few gems for sparkle.

Let’s take a quick look inside, then I’ll walk you through the steps of how I made it …

Butterfly shaped scrapbook album page with hearts, flowers, and a bird

I used the file to cut white card stock pages, then covered them in a mix of 12×12 pattern papers from Bella Blvd’s Birthday Bash and Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre.

Butterfly shaped scrapbook album page with stripes, flowers, a cake, and cupcakes

I created photo mats for each page in varying shapes and sizes, then decorated with lots of cute die cuts.

Butterfly shaped scrapbook album page with flowers and confetti

On this page, I made two round photo mats by punching a 2.5″ scalloped circle out of a pattern paper, then a 1 3/4″ circle out of white card stock.

Butterfly shaped scrapbook album page with lots of pretty flowers

Ok, time for the tutorial. Here’s how I made the album with Lori’s awesome cut file …

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Album Tutorial

1. I duplicated the shape first so that I would have a front cover, back cover, and pages.

2. I wanted the pages and back cover to be a solid shape so next I highlighted my second butterfly and clicked release compound path — this separates all of the little inside shapes.

3. I moved the base butterfly shape off the the left, and deleted the little bits and pieces that were left behind.

4. Next, I created an internal offset of the solid butterfly so that I would have a smaller shape to cut pattern paper layers.

I cut the cover pieces once, and then cut 5 solid pieces to use as pages. Finally, I cut various pattern papers out of the smaller butterfly.

I hope this helps you to create your own shaped mini album with Lori’s butterfly cut files. She has so many great ones to choose from! Hop on over to her shop today and have fun exploring. Happy crafting!

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Double Gatefold Card Ladybug Tutorial

December 28, 2023December 27, 2023

Hi everyone! I hope you are all getting rested up from the Holidays! I have a quick tutorial to share with you today that features Lori’s new Echo Park Collection Little Ladybug. It’s just so fun, all kinds of darling patterned papers and makes us dream of Spring. Especially, after our first blizzard of the season here in South Dakota, the day after Christmas. Oh the Joy!

The file I used today is the Double Gatefold Ladybug Card or here in the Silhouette Online Design Store.

First, cut your pieces with desired papers.

Next, fold in on each score line creating a double fold like this.

You can see here how your card will double open.

Ink the edges of your patterned papers.

And adhere to the cardstock base, add a few enamel dots to the antennas.

Then I just double layered a couple tags from the collection and added a few more enamel dots, and there you have it. A quick and easy card. I forgot to take a photo of the envelope, but the file also comes with an envelope that the card fits perfectly.