Mother’s Day Card
I had some leftover materials from my floral wreath, so I made a card to go with it. It can actually be used as a thank you card, too, if you don’t want to use it for Mother’s Day. Supplies: Pattern Paper: My Mind’s Eye, …
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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 …
Fabric Peonies with your Silhouette
Have you missed me? I’ve been busy with a super-deluxe project that I’ll show you in just a couple of days, but for now I want to show you what I made with some delicate fabric using my Cameo to cut it. I bought this …
Cutting Delicate Fabrics with Your Silhouette
Here’s a quick trick I found today. I can cut tulle with my Silhouette and have no backing ironed on! 1. Place fabric on your cutting mat. 2. Lay clear transfer tape (contact paper or even vinyl may work, but clear will let you position …
Silhoutte Silly Class at Heartland Paper
I’m teaching this class on March 29th in Bountiful, Utah. Please call Heartland Paper to sign up if you can make it and want to attend. (801-294-7166) This is the make & take project that will use the skills you’ll learn that night: Questions? Ask …
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 …
Sketch-Pen Window Card
I made this card for a card challenge on the Silhouette Plus forum, then turned it into a class on using sketch pens for Silhouette users in my area. I’m going to try this class again later because of a lack of interested parties this …
Just for Fun
I wanted to try out this little purse file I had in my Silhouette Library, so I cut one in black and one in pink. I spread it diagonally across my 12×12″ mat to make it as big as possible, so there was a lot …
Silhouette Basics Class: Lesson 2 Make & Take
I just wanted to show this cute bag topper we’ll be making for the Silhouette Basics Class at Heartland Paper (Lesson 2 is on March 6th this time around). My co-teacher Alice came up with the cute idea and I just refined it a little. …
Scraplifting with Silhouette Studio
Ahhh…it feels good to scrapbook again. I decided to take on the sketch challenge from the Silhouette Blog and scrapbook a funny conversation I had this week with my two-year old, who has quite an advanced vocabulary for his age. He’s constantly asking questions, but …
Thanks a Bunch! Card Set
Here it is, the second set of cards I promised during the “Love My Cameo” blog hop. This is actually where I started, with these beautiful flower sketch designs from Barb Derksen. I made my own designs for the blog hop to match the Valentine’s …
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 …
Love My Cameo Blog Hop: Card Gift Set
Welcome to my stop along the “Love My Cameo” blog hop. If you have just come from Lisa’s blog at Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons, you’re in the right place. If you just stopped by my blog today, click on this link to Amy Chomas to …
Teacher Gift: Tissue Box Covers
I made these tissue box covers for my kids’ elementary school teachers. What teacher doesn’t go through a lot of tissues in a year, right? This cover will go over both Kleenex-brand square tissue boxes and Kirkland-brand (Costco) square tissue boxes. I shared this cutting …
Valentine’s Day Card
I’ve been playing with my sketch pens again lately in my Cameo, and this is the Valentine card I made for my husband. I used a black glitter Silhouette sketch pen to sketch the typewriter, a dark silver gel pen in the Chomas Creations Silhouette …
Silhouette Studio Tutorial: Make Your Own Scalloped Circles
I was asked how to design your own scalloped circles using Silhouette Studio, so I’ve written a short tutorial. This can be done in either version (basic or designer). Here are the scalloped circles I’ll show how to make, using basically the same steps each …
Sweet Valentine Hanger Tutorial
I made a version of this Valentine hanging decoration a couple of years ago, but this is my new and improved version. I turned this in to Heartland Paper today, so if you live in or near Davis County, Utah, you can go see it …
Flower card
I spent most of my time available one day making one of my etched-glass frames as a bridal-shower gift for a sweet girl who used to babysit my kids. As the time drew near for me to leave, I realized I hadn’t made a card …
Home is Where….
I finally got around to putting vinyl on my wall after years of putting it on everything else. I’ve put Silhouette vinyl on doors, mailboxes, mirrors, jars, plastic containers, dishes, holiday ornaments, cards…you name it. But not on my walls, until a few days ago. …
Love You Card
This is the card we’ll be making for our final lesson in the Silhouette Basics class I’m teaching at Heartland Paper in Bountiful, Utah. It’s simple, but we’re using one existing heart shape, a circle, and a rectangle to make all of this. And a …
Tutorial: Butterfly Valentine Suckers
A reader asked me how she could use her new Cameo to make these from Skip to My Lou‘s free printables: using Sarah Bailey’s “Butterfly Valentine” file from the Silhouette Design Store: She wanted to get text on a path around the butterfly wings, so …
Silhouette Studio Tutorial: Rhinestone Tool for Single-Line Text
I know a lot of you aren’t Silhouette users, but a lot of you are. I’ve written quite a few tutorials for the Silhouette Plus forum, and teach Silhouette classes at Heartland Paper, but I’ve decided I should include these tutorials here on my blog …
Pop Up Letter Tutorial
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to make pop-up letters for gift wrapping or whatever you want using Silhouette Studio (basic or Designer). 1- draw a long rectangle 2- type your desired letters (I used Franklin Gothic Demi font in these screen shots and Impact …
For the Bride
I made a similar wedding gift a while ago, but didn’t get to go to see it opened. Last week I was able to give this gift at a bridal shower and the bride’s reaction was one that makes all handmade gifts worth it. I …
Pop Up Letters
At the last Silhouette Basics class I taught at Heartland Paper, I taught how to use the point-editing tools in Silhouette Studio to make this popup place card. I forgot, however, to bring this extra project I made that shows another example using point-editing. This …
