Mother’s Day Mason Jar Bouquet
This year for my Mother’s Day project at Heartland Paper I decided to make a bouquet of paper flowers to go in a mason jar. I like looking at mason jar ideas on Pinterest, and now I have one of my own to add. I …
Crafty Projects and Silhouette Inspiration and Instruction
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Making Paper Peonies
I used these paper peonies in Mother’s Day projects the last two years and want to share my technique in how to make them. Peony instructions: 1. Download my peony file and cut with your Silhouette from cardstock or pattern paper (it looks best with …
Card Set for Mother’s Day
A great gift for Mother’s Day or for any friend is a set of cards ready for them to send. For this project I made a set of 6 coordinating cards (2 of each kind) in a folio box. I shared this folio box Silhouette …
Farm Animals Book (Freebie!)
I created a book like this years ago, based on an idea from a friend. That was before my Silhouette, so I stamped, printed, and cut everything myself. I laminated my original book and my kids have all enjoyed it, so I decided to …
Silhouette Double-Sided Adhesive Sheets
I have wanted to try the double-sided adhesive sheets released by Silhouette last summer ever since I heard about them, and I finally got some! Here are the simple instructions provided by Silhouette, plus my added observations. 1. Open or create an image in the …
Card Organizer
I’ve made a New Year’s Resolution to do better at sending out cards. I love making cards, but the last couple of years I’ve usually run out of time or made other excuses not to get out birthday cards for everyone on my list. But …
Teacher Appreciation Gifts
I made these for my kids’ gradeschool teachers back in November. I’m never on the ball for official teacher-appreciation holidays, so we brought each teacher a gift basket during parent-teacher conferences at the end of the first term. That’s a long week for teachers, and …
Just Saying Hello…
This is the last of the three projects I made (for now) using the “Seen & Noted” papers from Pebbles Inc. Again, I found a fun tutorial on Split Coast Stampers and adapted it for this card and turned it into a cutting file I’m …
Note Holder
Here’s a fun note holder I found as a tutorial on Split Coast Stampers and converted it into Studio and SVG cutting files. It’s so cute, and only takes a single piece of letter-size paper for the box itself. It’s just a touch bigger than …
Be Happy Card
This is one of three projects I’ve made with the new “Seen and Noted” paper by Pebbles Inc. I like the bright and cheerful colors. I’m providing a free Studio cut file for all the shapes but the butterfly, which I purchased from the Silhouette …
Fall Trio Mini Blog Hop
I feel very fortunate to consider myself friends with two very talented women I met through the Silhouette Plus forum. We decided to get together and do a little collaboration. We each designed a cutting file or two, shared them with each other, and made …
Card Holder Freebie
I made this card box for Sandi (check out her blog) as she was looking for a holder like this. It’s a Studio file that’s in two pieces so you can cut it from one piece of 12×12 paper or split it onto two …
Bennit the Bunny Cards
Some of you may remember Bennit the Bunny from this post, and as I was searching for uplifting card ideas for Card Care Connection, I remembered that he’s the most cheerful little character I could ever find! Last time I used the print & cut …
Tutorial: Grandma Word Album
Here is the tutorial I promised for making your own Grandma Word Album with Silhouette Studio. This can be adapted to make an album out of any word you choose. Just so you know, National Grandparents Day is September 9, 2012. (It’s the first Sunday …
Calling All Card Makers!
I just found out a great opportunity to use our card-making skills to brighten the lives of those affected by cancer. Card Care Connection has asked me to help reach the card-making community in order to help. So here I am, asking for hand-made cards …
Brigham City Vinyl Tutorial
I sent 50 vinyl cutouts to be sold at Just Bee Scrappin’ in Brigham City, Utah, and want to make sure anyone who purchases them knows how to apply vinyl. I’ve done all the cutting and weeding for those cutouts, but you can also grab …
Christmas in…August?
I don’t normally do Christmas cards in the middle of the summer, but my friend Barb set a challenge for us to make Christmas cards this week, well last week, but better late than never. 🙂 I figured it sounded fun, especially if I came …
Princess Mini Album
Here it is! My latest and greatest. A princess mini album. I cut everything out with my Silhouette Cameo, including the chipboard album pages. I will be sharing the album cutting file (Studio) at the end of the post, along with a printable file (PDF) …
Quick CD Cases to Share
How about a freebie today? I made some CDs for my Silhouette Basics students at Heartland Paper and needed something to put them in. I have a lot of paper, so I decided to make my own CD cases. There are plenty of CD templates …
I’m Your Biggest Fan
Do you know what one of my favorite things about the Silhouette machine is? I can take any idea out there on the web and quickly turn it into a great cut file. This little fan was so easy, thanks to Pinterest and to Paper …
July 4th Scrapbook Page
Here’s another project I created for the Heartland Paper design team. I left out the photos for now because it’s just an idea and I never seem to have any great pictures from the 4th of July. They’re all pretty average. I do better with …
Family Reunion Goodies
I haven’t even been to an official family reunion for about 15 years, but I was happy to accept the assignment of a family-reunion craft for my Heartland Paper design-team project this month. Now I know what I’ll do if I’m ever in charge of …
Somebody Stop Me! Fabric Frenzy
Here’s the long-awaited post on more fabric flowers with the Silhouette, tutorials included. (Sorry it took me so long. Has it only been a week since I taught this class?) I spent last week preparing for my Silhouette Silly class at Heartland Paper, where I …
Scrapbooking, Silhouette-Style
I took an intermediate online class on the Silhouette from Kerri Bradford at JessicaSprague.com and enjoyed it. I already knew most of what she taught, but it was nice to see her process when designing, and I did pick up a few fun tips and …
Floral Wreath with Paper Flowers
Here it is! I can’t tell you how long I spent on this project because I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of months, collecting ideas and watching/reading tutorials, and gathering flower files. The actual cutting and assembling I spread across a couple of …
