Crafty Projects and Silhouette Inspiration and Instruction
That’s right, I said it. I’ve been creating a new website so I can have more control over the site layout, and I will be filling it with Silhouette lessons for you! The lessons will be thorough, so beginners (and also long-time Silhouette Studio users) …
My mother-in-law had an excellent Mother’s Day this year. Her daughter got all of us moms together to make a photo album for Grandma with a two-page spread from each grandchild with his/her picture and what they love about her. The book was amazing, but …
I made this card for a family friend who just turned 15. This was a really fast project with red and white adhesive cardstock and a few rhinestones. Look carefully and you can see I cut the numbers 1-14 out of white adhesive cardstock …
My oldest son has the privilege of going on an LDS Trek this summer, where he will join with about 200 youth ages 14-18 to reenact four days of the Mormon Handcart Pioneers’ journey to the Salt Lake Valley. This is a big deal, and …
Need a quick and easy child’s gift? My daughter needed an auction item for school, so I grabbed a 2-liter bottle of soda pop and created a face in vinyl. Her class earns fake money for completed assignments, good behavior, good scores, etc. Once a …
I have loved the recent trend in cards and scrapbook pages with watercolors. I decided to add a little watercolor to my Mother’s Day card this year. I just grabbed a few watercolor pencils in my mom’s favorite colors (nothing fancy–these are Crayola watercolor pencils), …
As Mother’s Day quickly approaches, I’ve decided to briefly revisit this Grandma Album that has been by far my most-popular project ever. Download: First, here are some download links for freebies to create this album from a pre-made file. Choose the one that best meets …
I’ve been playing with pink and gold 180 gram Italian crepe paper from Carte Fini, and it’s a lot of fun to work with! This is not your typical paper, nor even your typical lightweight crepe paper. I’ve seen a lot of beautiful floral arrangements …
How do you pop a balloon? It takes 13 steps, if you do it Rube Goldberg style. This was a super-deluxe school project that took 3 hours to set up yesterday afternoon in our garage/driveway, and the result was a very entertaining 17 seconds. For …
Thanks for being so patient while I put together the tutorial for this umbrella mobile featured on the Silhouette Blog last month. The mechanics of a mobile are always the hardest part, but we’ll get to that in a minute. (And not to worry; I’ve …
I made this perfect pear card to celebrate our friends’ 25th anniversary. The white hearts, the label, and the pears are printed and/or cut on textured white adhesive cardstock with my printer and my CAMEO. I turned this pear design into a print & cut …
I bought the new CAMEO 2 recently, and I must say I love it every bit as much as my original CAMEO 1. This is the one released late in 2014 with the large LCD touchscreen instead of buttons. I’ve been happily using mine for …
What kind of a card do you make for the men in your life? Or even the men that are only acquaintances? That’s often a tough one. Here’s a card I made for a friend of my husband who surprised us the other night …
Here’s a cute fabric and paper mobile I created to celebrate spring! This is my 51st and final project for the Silhouette America design team. After two terms, I’m taking a break. (But you’ll still find plenty of Silhouette inspiration and instruction here on my …
I did it. I submitted my last scheduled design-team post to Silhouette last night. 51 projects in 18 months. And that was right after 2 1/2 years of design-team work and teaching Silhouette classes for a local scrapbook store. Nearly four years of creative deadlines, …
I meant to share a more detailed tutorial on this multi-color, flocked heat-transfer project that was featured as a design-team post in February. My, how time flies! The original, condensed version of this post was featured on the Silhouette blog. Here are more details to …
I’m spotlighting the free design of the week on the Silhouette America blog today with this cute shamrock arrangement. I made my own springy stems with floral wire and used gold glitter heat transfer material for some accents. Here’s the post as it originally appeared …
These are some of the “pillow treats” I made for our LDS Young Women’s girls camp last summer that I never got around to sharing. I have a couple more to share with you soon. I found the quote by President Thomas S. Monson on …
Here’s a fun project to bring springtime into your home. A few simple paper blossoms added to real branches are a nice eye-catching display for springtime branches. My family all did a double-take and had to check this out more closely to see if they …
I made this card for my hubby for Valentine’s Day this year and then forgot to share it! I love how this 5″ x 7″ card turned out. The phrase is from one of my favorite word-art designers, Kolette Hall, and you can find it …
Looking for an eye-catching grandparents’ card? I made a camera pop-up card for my parents with a picture of their grandkids inside as a surprise. The designer, Lori Whitlock, has an assembly video tutorial {here} for assembling this camera pop-up card (Design ID #61512). If …
Here’s a little card I whipped up for a friend. As an experienced card maker I don’t typically use card kits in the Silhouette design store, but this arrow stamp flap card by Kolette Hall just called my name. The card is a flat …
I have wanted to use this beautiful saying ever since I first saw it in the Silhouette design store. I made it as a gift to my sister who has had a rough time the past few years, and who also happens to be …
I spent today helping my daughters make their valentine collection boxes for school this upcoming week. Both girls knew exactly what they wanted, so I just helped them fill in the details with my Silhouette CAMEO. My older daughter (6th grade) wanted an aquarium to …
I have just fallen in love with heat transfer material all over again! Not because I was procrastinating, but because I have been so busy (ahem)…I waited until the day of a baby shower to start on my gift. I got up early and went …
