Crafty Projects and Silhouette Inspiration and Instruction
Make + Design Podcast Who enjoys listening to podcasts? I must admit I have a few favorites. I recently had the opportunity to be a guest on Carina Gardner’s new podcast, “Make and Design.” Carina created this podcast for makers, designers, and other creatives. Episode …
It’s my Bloggiversary! Seven years ago I started this blog, and each year gets better and better! In the past 12 months, I’ve had some unexpected changes that I couldn’t imagine one year ago. I had no idea, for one thing, that I would …
The past few months have been brutal as I balance my part-time accounting job with my real life as a mom, plus blogger, designer, and instructor. But the end is in sight! Just thought I’d share this bit of info I found (direct quotes) from …
This offer is closed. Original post: I’ve got exciting news if you’re a Silhouette fan and/or have been considering getting a Silhouette CAMEO 3! Silhouette America is opening up their Black Friday sale for early access on Wednesday, November 23, to select followers (that means …
The winner of the Silhouette Mint™ (plus extras) for my 6th Bloggiversary celebration is: Cyndy! Thanks for being one of my blog subscribers since 2014! I’ll be contacting you shortly. For those of you who didn’t win, I’m sorry. I’d love to give each and …
My blog is officially 6 years old! To celebrate, I’m having a giveaway. Who wants a brand new Silhouette Mint™ machine for making custom stamps? Read on… Year 6 Recap This past year turned out completely different than I thought it would. I knew I …
I love Harry Potter as much as the next gal, but I was curious to see how the leaders could use a Harry Potter theme in an uplifting setting for Girls Camp. My daughter just returned from her second year at LDS Girls Camp and …
I did it! I switched from Blogger to a self-hosted site. It may take a bit to work out the little bugs and get it perfected, but so far so good. Please take a look around, and be sure to click through the different pages …
I’m trying to launch my new website this weekend and will be transporting this blog to my new site, FindingTimeToCreate.com. Hopefully all will go well and you will soon be seeing my new look even if you come to this Blogger blog. If it all …
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 …
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, …
While I’m excited to start a new year, I must say I found nothing wrong with the old one. But it sure went by fast! I’ve hit some great milestones this year, actually all within the last six weeks. My blog passed 1.5 million cumulative …
I’m breaking away from my craft-related posts today to show off my son’s Lego grand-piano creation. As he sits and plays the piano downstairs, I’m reminded of this Lego creation he made and just want to share it with you. Enjoy your day!
This year on our kids’ Christmas to-do list, they asked if they could decorate graham cracker houses. This is what we all made (kids ages 5-14, plus my husband and I). I found the recipe for the frosting and the way to cut the graham …
Congratulations, Shannon M., for winning a pack of white adhesive cardstock! (I’ve sent you an email.) Thanks to everyone who participated in the Silhouette design team blog hop and giveaway!
Every once in a while, I don’t use Silhouette Studio for designing. Because this was an invitation with all text and because it would be printed at a print shop, I opted to use Microsoft Publisher instead. I was asked to make over 100 invitations …
Congratulations, Nance (a.k.a. Jun Bug House)! Thank you, everyone, for the sweet comments on my blog and on ADORNit’s blog. Nance, please send me an email with your mailing address to kellyslater42 at yahoo dot com.
I almost forgot… It’s my blog’s 4th anniversary today! Thanks to all my loyal viewers who come visit on a regular basis. And thanks to my new visitors who’ve found me from other blogs, Pinterest, and Instagram. I hope you all come back often! Lately …
I think July is as busy as December each year! Sorry I haven’t been posting much, but I do have a lot of projects completed and waiting to be added as soon as I get a little break from hectic life. The kids have been …
I hope your Fourth of July celebrations were as exciting as this… And to my non-American friends, I hope you’re having a great weekend as well!
I’m no food photographer by any means. Nor a baker, for that matter. But my husband made me a beautiful lemon layer cake and I took some pictures just because it was so pretty! Doesn’t it look yummy? (It was!) He is a big …
I’m celebrating the 3rd anniversary of starting my blog today! {throwing confetti cut with my Cameo} I love what I get to do and share with you. When I started my blog I had four little kids ages 1-10, and so I named my blog …
I passed one million views on my blog today! One million views since I started my lowly little crafting blog in October of 2010. Gee, that seems like a long time ago, and how things have changed! I’d like to do a little giveaway to …
I do have some projects to post soon, but I’ve had a setback in my crafting abilities. I had a kitchen accident almost a week ago and lost a couple of fingertips on my left hand. I’ll spare you the details, but with the recovery …
