Triangle-Fold Winter Card

Triangle-Fold Winter Card

(Original design team post was featured on the Silhouette blog 12/10/2013) Are you enjoying the holiday season?  Kelly here with another card appropriate for various winter occasions.  I found this cute triangle-folds card in the online store but decided to replace the cupcake that comes 

Polar Express Hat

Polar Express Hat

  It’s fun to have crafty skills to help others with their projects. My brother-in-law Jeremy Telford (a.k.a. The Balloon Guy) is playing the conductor during a “Polar Express” neighborhood Christmas party. He asked if I could make him a decal for a conductor hat, 

Silhouette Advent Calendar

Silhouette Advent Calendar

I was so excited when I found out I could decorate a Silhouette Advent Calendar for a design team project!  All of the Silhouette America design team’s advent calendars were posted on the Silhouette Blog.  It was hard to narrow down what I wanted to 

Thankful Mini Card Set

Thankful Mini Card Set

Here’s a thankful mini card set originally posted on the Silhouette Blog, which I’m now including here in its entirety. Hello!  Kelly here to share another card project with you.  Thanksgiving is quickly approaching here in the U.S. so I made a little set of 

Spooky Eyes

Spooky Eyes

O.K. I know Halloween is past for this year, but I promised to share this when I posted a sneak peak on Instagram.  This is definitely not an original idea; I saw it on Pinterest in several variations (all made from toilet paper rolls), but 

Winter Birthday Card

Winter Birthday Card

(Originally posted for the Silhouette Blog design team on 11/14/2013) In choosing a birthday card design for this chilly time of year, I opted for this adorable penguin as a focal point.  I enjoy paper piecing designs because it leaves so much room for tiny 

Christmas Card

Christmas Card

(Originally posted on the Silhouette Blog 11/4/2013) I make handmade Christmas cards every year to send to friends and relatives.  My goal is always maximum impact for minimum assembly effort.  (Never mind how many card versions I go through to find the perfect design!)  I 

Cheese!

Cheese!

  My Cameo has been helping with our Halloween costumes this year.  (Give me paper over fabric any day!)  My two daughters decided they wanted to be black cats and my youngest son wanted to be a mouse.  To continue on with the theme, they 

Gratitude Album

Gratitude Album

  Fall is in full swing here in the western U.S., and that means our Thanksgiving is approaching. I was asked to make a gratitude album for the Heartland Paper design team using the Basic Grey Capture album and page protectors. I must say this 

Thanksgiving Place Setting

Thanksgiving Place Setting

I made this very simple Thanksgiving place setting today. If I’m going to be making these for our very large family gathering, easy is good. Thanks to my Silhouette, these can be whipped out in practically no time! The simple act of inking the edges 

Patriotic Ribbon

Patriotic Ribbon

I made this ribbon to wear during 4th of July celebrations here in the United States, but you can adapt this ribbon for any occasion by changing the colors and making your own label for the front.  My daughter gave me a ribbon similar to 

Sweet Treat Bouquet

Sweet Treat Bouquet

  Here’s a fun gift my mom taught me how to make years ago. I gave these out near Valentine’s Day to a few of my neighbors, but you could do this any time for a sweet treat. I took some thin bamboo skewers, stuck 

Mother’s Day Mason Jar Bouquet

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 

Card Set for Mother’s Day

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 

Valentine Treat Boxes

Valentine Treat Boxes

  O.K., I know it’s now March, but I took pictures when I finished the 90 Valentines for my kids’ school parties last month and I am going to show them off! My days have been very full since then, so I apologize for the 

Christmas Card 2012

Christmas Card 2012

Here is my Christmas card for this year. I always try to make cards that don’t take a lot of time but still meet my personal standards, and most years I fail. I start with a base design but then add one more little touch 

Dial Calendar

Dial Calendar

When I saw this calendar design by Samantha Walker on the Silhouette Blog a while back, I had to have it and snatched it right up! Paid the whole 99 cents for it…didn’t even wait for a sale. (Big spender here, I know.) With my 

Scrapbook Steals Blog Hop:  Adhesive Washi Sheets

Scrapbook Steals Blog Hop: Adhesive Washi Sheets

I can’t tell you how excited I am to be a part of the Scrapbook Steals blog hop!  I jumped at the chance to be a guest designer for some mystery product from the website that brings me a new amazing deal every day (twice)! 

Fall Trio Mini Blog Hop

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 

Christmas Countdown

Christmas Countdown

Here’s a Christmas Countdown project I made for Heartland Paper’s design team.  I had a lot of fun decorating each envelope a little differently for 25 days in December.  The star of the show (besides the adorable Doodlebug Design envelopes, cards, and new North Pole 

Halloween Treat Bottle

Halloween Treat Bottle

  It’s getting to be that time of year again! I think fall and Halloween projects are some of my favorite. This is a vinyl project I’ll be teaching for my next Silhouette Silly class at Heartland Paper on September 20th.  It will be from 

Tutorial:  Grandma Word Album

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 

Christmas in…August?

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 

Hoppy Easter Framed Art

Hoppy Easter Framed Art

First, let me give credit to my source of inspiration.  I found this cute spring project on Pinterest and had to make something like it for myself.  Here’s Kim’s DIY spring art project from the Celebration Shoppe.  And here’s my take on it: I made 

Valentines for Kids

Valentines for Kids

I know Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but I need to share what I did for my kids’ Valentines this year. I used a pen in my Cameo to write “I choo-choo-choose you.  Happy Valentine’s Day” on train shapes, then had the blade cut