Tag: Thanksgiving

November Link up with Tya

First, off, let’s announce the winner of the Link Up last month! Sue Kment, you just won the $15 gift voucher to the  SVG Shop please email us at info@loriwhitlock.com to claim your prize. Congrats Sue and thanks to everyone for adding your projects to the Link Up. We have a new link up starting today led by Tya Smith.

Hi everyone! It’s Tya up on the blog today! Hopefully you all had a wonderful October with all the Halloween festivities and fun that goes along with that! We are officially in November – one of my favorite months! Not only is it my birthday month, but I just love Thanksgiving! What a wonderful time it is to meet with friends and family and take time to reflect on all we are thankful for. I decided for my link up we will focus on giving thanks! Whether that is a festive Thanksgiving project or simply a beautiful thank you card to someone special – you decide!

For my project this month, I decided to add to my Thanksgiving decor and do a charger plate with one of Lori’s beautiful sayings on it. Here is the project-

I used some vinyl for the saying.I used this one- Give Thanks Vinyl

Lori has a few other great sayings in her shop that would be wonderful to use on a charger plate. Check some of them out over on her Shop. I added a few enamel dots from the Story of Fall enamel dot set to the flourish part of the saying for an added pop.

I added a couple of lovely 3 dimensional flowers to my plate. I used this flower and this flower. The Sunflower has a brad from the Story of Fall Collection Decorative Brad set in the middle.To finish off the plate, I added a thin twine rope with some hot glue to the plate.

That’s all there is to it ! This would make a great hostess gift if you are going to someone’s home for dinner, or just do as I did and add it to your own home decor.

We would love to see your “Giving Thanks” themed projects.  Just link up your project using any of Lori’s files for your chance to win!

Link up your GIVING THANKS themed projects using any of Lori Whitlock’s cutting files for a chance to WIN a $15 gift voucher to the Lori Whitlock Shop.


Turkey Pop-dot Card with Kathy

Hi Everyone!  It’s Kathy today with a fun, Thanksgiving-themed card.   I love Lori’s new Pop Dot cards and the Turkey Pop Dot Card is so stinkin’ cute!  Take a peek…

I just love his expression!  The card goes together so quickly and I love the added dimension!  I finished it up with a little twine bow and a sentiment sticker.   You can download the for this file in Lori’s Shop here or in the Silhouette Store here.  That’s it for me today, thanks so much for stopping by to peek!

 

Using the Cut by Color Feature with Kathy

Hi everyone!  It’s Kathy today with a tutorial on how to use the Cut by Color Feature in the Silhouette Studio.  If you’re not familiar, this feature allows you to select different cutting conditions for each line color on your design mat.  This is super handy when working with the Silhouette Sketch Pens and shapes.  I used this feature to create the leaves on these fun Thanksgiving Place cards.

Papers Used: The Story of Fall from Echo Park

I started by loading the leaf place card from Lori’s Thanksgiving Place Cards set (here in the Silhouette Store).  I moved the leaf part of the design onto my mat.

Next, I loaded my sketch font and typed the names I wanted in my cards.  I changed the color of the lines that made up my names by opening up the Line Color Window and clicking on a different color (the color does not matter as long as it is different from the color marking the leaf shape)

This is what my mat looked like when I was done adding all of the names.

Once I was happy with my design, I clicked on the Cut Settings button, then the Adjust Cut Settings button on the bottom.  First thing I did was change the Cut Mode from Standard to Advanced (1).  Next I clicked on Line Color under Cut Order (2).  This brought up a grid with the two line colors in my design.  I started with the first color, in my case black or the color of my names.  I clicked on this (3), set the Material type to Silhouette Sketch Pen (4).  I then right clicked on the highlighted line color and chose add pause.  This is very important.  It stops the Cameo after it has written out the names using the sketch pen so that you can swap back to the cutting blade before it proceeds to cut the leaf shape.

Next, I clicked on the Red line color (1).  Since the Red line is my outside cut line, and I don’t want to cut the name, I clicked on the center square button (2) until it showed just the outline.  This tells the Cameo to only cut the outline, not anything inside.  Finally I set my Material type to Patterned Paper(3).

Once these steps were done, I loaded my black Silhouette Sketch Pen in the housing, inserted my mat and chose Send To Silhouette.  First the Cameo wrote all of the names.  It then paused.  I swapped the Sketch Pen for the cutting blade, then hit Resume cutting.  The Cameo went on to cut the leaf shapes around the names.

Here’s a close-up of one of my Place Cards…

I love using my sketch pens and this makes it so much easier to use them with fun shapes!  I hope you find this helpful!  That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

Give Thanks Card with Kathy

Hi Everyone!  It’s Kathy today with a fun Thanksgiving card I created using a couple of Lori’s files…take a peek…

I love Lori’s card bases because you can use them for any type of card… just change the papers and embellishments to suit your needs and you can use them for Birthday, Holidays, Get Well, you name it!  For this card, I used the 5 x 7 Shutter Card (here in Silhouette Store), then added the Thanksgiving Turkey (here in the Silhouette Store).  It came together quickly and I love how it turned out!  That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!