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Creating Titles Using the Flip and Weld Features with Traci

Please welcome Traci to the blog today sharing this adorable layout with us.

Happy Thursday Lori fans!

I’m so glad to be here sharing a tutorial with you today!  This one is pretty easy, but I often forget that I can do this so I thought I would share a creative way to have fun with your titles. 

I’ve been saving a photo of my son for just the right layout idea.  I wanted to focus on the photo, but have a really nice element in the title or embellishment.  I decided to use a few of Lori’s wonderful files to create a really neat title for this picture.  Plus, fall is my favorite time of year, and it will be here before we know it!

1.  First, pull up Lori’s wonderful fall designs…the autumn leaves title, and the fall flourish.

 2. Next, move the title off to the side so you can focus on the flourish. Size the flourish to 6″ in the ‘scale’ window and click Lock Aspect Ratio and apply.

3.  Click on the ‘duplicate’ icon and then ‘duplicate right’.

4.  Both of the shapes are facing the same way…which will look a bit funny under the title, so highlight the left shape, right click, and flip
horizontally.

5.  Next, move the left shape over just enough to overlap the right one slightly.  Highlight both shapes, and then right click and hit weld.


6. Now, right click and flip vertically so the image is upside down.   This allows for a straighter line across the top of the shape for adding the title.

Next move the “autumn leaves” title back over onto the mat.  Ungroup both words by highlighting the whole title, right click and hit ungroup.

7.  To add an internal offset on top of the full title, first duplicate the title and temporarily move one off to the side. 

8.  Next, line up your title and flourish pieces so that they overlap slightly.

9.  Right click and hit weld to connect your border and title pieces all together.  Cut this piece out.

10.  To cut a smaller, overlapping title to cover the ‘autumn leaves’ portion,  highlight those pieces and click on the offset icon, and then ‘internal offset’. Zoom into the shapes to make sure that you can pull away the correct portion, and move the outer pieces off the mat. Finally, cut the internal offset portion in a different color.

And here is my final layout!
In addition to Lori’s flourish and title pieces, I also used the brand new paper and embellishments she designed for Echo Park, Reflections Fall.
Thanks so much for letting me share! Please stop by my blog at Artsy Albums to say hello!
Traci

Cascading Album by Traci and a Layout by Mendi

Today we have 2 fabulous projects to share. Traci has created one of the Cascading Albums and Mendi has an adorable layout.
Happy Monday everyone!
I am glad to be back sharing another project with you today!  If you know me, or have ever been to my blog, you know that I’m a huge fan of mini albums.  They are my favorite project and I love the fact that Lori has so many wonderful options in her shop.  So for today’s project, I used one of Lori’s Tiered albums with a bracket edge.  I also used brand new papers and embellishments that Lori designed for Echo Park called Reflections.  Oh my goodness what a fabulous collection!!
For the title of my album, I used Lori’s Family Memories phrase.  This new paper collection is perfect for older family photos or more recent ones — I just love the colors!
I wanted to add a fold-up card piece to one of the album pages, so I cut out Lori’s Hinges to give the card more interest.  Depending on the size you make your hinges, you can add brads to the holes, or use a little bling like I did 🙂
Finally, to add to the vintage feel of my album, I added a fancy frame.  I just love how the frame looks with some gems added for sparkle!
I have posted additional photos of this album over on my blog today, so I hope you’ll stop by and check them out.
Thanks for letting me share with you!!
Traci
Thanks Traci! Here is Mendi’s beautiful layout!
Mendi here today sharing a layout which uses Echo Park’s Here & Now collection (one of my favorite collections of Lori’s) and a number of her fun SVG cutting files.


To form my title block, I layered 5 different cutting files of Lori’s.  I had some old (OLD) Autumn Leaves ticket stamps which I paired with Lori’s ticket shape.  I also mixed things up a bit by removing the shadow from the “Spring Is Here” title and enlarging the word Spring and moving the words to two separate lines to fit on my label.


I created a second grouping to form the second point in my visual triangle using Lori’s layered flower, pennant and a matching sticker from the collection kit.  I added a pearl brad and some foam tape for my flower to add a little interest.


Lori’s tabs with the date was just what I needed to finish my visual triangle (and remind me where to file this one away in the albums when I finally get around to it).  😉

To complete my layout I used the following cutting files designed by Lori:

Layout by Traci and Cake Explosion Box by Christine

Traci is on the blog today sharing this beautiful layout with us… Hi everyone! I’m back today to share a sweet layout with you.  This is my darling niece back in 1997 (I’m just a tad behind on my scrapbooking).  She was at such a cute age back then that even though each of these photos wasn’t from the same day or event, I wanted to use them together.  (How cute is that hat)??  Every time I saw Taylor back then, she made me laugh — so Lori’s title was perfect for this layout.  I’ve also been wanting to use one of Lori’s 12×12 backgrounds and I fell in love with the honeycomb pattern.  Using my cameo, I was able to cut the entire 12×12 background out of a sheet of pink pattern paper.  Then, I clipped parts of the inside away, so that the pattern was left on the bottom and up one side.
I also cut a few of the hexagons out of other pattern papers to give the layout some random pops of color.  I cut a hexagon shaped card in half to layer under some embellishments in the top right corner, and I finished up the page with twine around the edge and a few flowers.
Here are the cutting files that I used…thanks for letting me share with you today!
Lori Whitlock Geometric Lace, also available in the Silhouette store as Honeycomb Background Lace
and check out what Christine made today
It just so happens that my day to share on Lori’s blog is also my daughter’s 21st birthday so I thought that it would be fitting to share something birthday related.  This birthday explosion box is new in Lori Whitlock’s store and I had a lot of fun putting it together and adding my own personal touches.

On the top of the box, I added a bow that comes with the Birthday Box file.  Just cut a couple of strips of paper and secure with a brad.  When you lift the top off the box, the sides fall open and the cake inside is revealed.

I made the little 21 myself by typing the numbers out first and ungrouping them.  Then I drew a small rectangle the width of the numbers and welded it to the bottom of the numbers.  This created a little tab that I was able to use to attach it to the top of the box.  If I had thought about it before I cut out the box, I would have put an extra slit in the top of the box like the others have, so that I could just slide the tab in and secure it underneath.  Next time I make this, it will be easier to make it look nice.  Make sure that you can fold the number over, or the lid won’t fit on the box.
I used October Afternoon’s CakeWalk collection to cut out my box and added a few sticker embellishments here and there.
This way a really fun box to create.  I am excited to try it again in different colors.
So, if I may, a big Happy 21 Birthday Wish to my daughter.  I hope this day brings you joy and happiness!
Lori Whitlock Supplies used:

Silhouette Knife Tutorial

Hi friends!  I’m excited to share a sweet card and tutorial with you today!
I recently went on vacation and had my son’s fiancé stay at my house with my dogs.  I decided to make a thank you card for her, and wanted the dogs on the card to resemble my pups.  I love Lori’s cute dog cutting file, but one of my dogs has a shorter tail, and one has shorter ears…so here is what I did to fix this.
1. First I pulled up the dog shape I wanted to use.  I resized and ungrouped all of the pieces and slid the shapes that I didn’t want to use right away, over to the side.
2.  Next, I highlighted my dog and duplicated the shape.  Since one of my dogs is smaller, I resized one, and flipped her around so that they weren’t facing the same way.
3.   Before I cut my shapes, I zoomed in on them so that I could see the cut lines better.
4.  I used the knife tool along the left hand tool bar.   I clicked on the line to start my cut…and then clicked on the line where I wanted my cut to end (notice the first dog’s tail).
5.  I did the same step for cutting the second dog’s ears to make them shorter.
Once the cut line was created, I used the ‘move tool’ (top arrow) and then clicked on the pieces to move them off to the slide.
6.  The photo below shows where I have used the knife tool to cut one dog’s tail and the other dog’s ears to make them look like my adorable pups 🙂
7.  Since I don’t want my dogs’ tail and ears to be square, I used the “edit point” (second arrow with dots) tool to round these areas out.  If you click this tool, you can pull your points around into the shape you want.
8.  This shot shows how one of the ears has been rounded.
9.  Here is the final way my sweet dogs looked before I cut them out…
And here is the card I created with my new shapes.
Lori Whitlock cutting files used on this project:
Thanks for visiting Lori’s site today!  Please pop over to my blog at Artsy Albums to say hello!

Mini Album by Traci and Layout by Mendi

Here we go again, it is already the middle of the month. The best part is that it is Monday, which means our awesome Creative Team is here sharing inspiration with you. First we have an adorable mini album from Traci…
“Today is Always a Happy Day” when you get to create fun projects with Lori’s designs, and I had a lot of fun with this adorable mini album.  This album was created using Lori’s 5×5 album with box.  The pattern comes in two files, one for the box, and one for the album, and the whole project is a snap to put together.
For the base of the box, album pages, and title (which is also one of Lori’s designs and can be found here or at the Silhouette online store) I used heavy white card stock.  I wasn’t sure if it would be sturdy enough for the project, but once I layered all of the other papers and embellishments, it is very durable.
The paper is from the Here & Now collection by Echo Park and the little sun sticker is from  A Perfect Summer line.
The little birds on the branch are an SVG in Lori’s shop called Love Birds.  I chopped one of the little bird’s legs off (poor guy) so that he could sit lower on the branch.
I love how the design of this album has the ribbon/twine holes already punched for you.  I did, however,  use a 1/4″ hole punch to make them a little larger so that my thicker ribbon would slide through easily.
I will have a few more pictures posted over at Artsy Albums today, so please stop by my blog and say hello!
Thanks, and I hope your day is happy!
Traci
Next, is this beautiful layout by Mendi…
Today I turned to the Maggie Holmes collection by Crate Paper and a handful of complimentary cutting files designed by Lori.  I knew I wanted to do something fun with the 12×12 decorative tape sheet from the collection so I cut it into strips, mixing it with other paper strips and adhered them to printer paper.  I then cut my mouse ears out on my Silhouette by welding 3 basic circles together.

I took Lori’s “memories” title from a layout cutting file and paired it with one of her awesome banners which I enlarged to fit over my mouse ears and popped up with foam tape between the layers for some depth.
I also used her scalloped border which I cut twice (once from blue and another without the inside cuts from ivory).  I like to do this to minimize the visual distraction when a patterned paper is layered below my borders.  I finished off my layout with a layered tag to document the basic details of the day.  


To Create my layout I used the following cutting files designed by Lori Whitlock:
Memories Layout (for title)
5 Layered Labels (Silhouette Store only)