Crafty Projects and Silhouette Inspiration and Instruction
I made this rainbow-colored set of chevron birthday cards for the young women in our neighborhood. The chevron square background is my own design, but the cute little sketched flags are in the Silhouette online store, all ready to be sketched and cut. Originally I …
I’ve got another owl shirt tutorial up on the Silhouette America blog today. This time it’s a rhinestone owl shirt for daughter #2. She helped me position all the rhinestones in the right place (we used four colors). Originally posted on the Silhouette blog, now …
OK folks, my Silhouette CAMEO has once again broadened my craft interests. My daughter wanted an owl-themed birthday party, which we did. I had purchased a yard of owl fabric to make some kind of pillow for her, and though time was running out I …
My daughter loves owls lately, and she was thrilled when I told her she could pick an owl from the Silhouette design store so we could put it on a T-shirt. There are so many owls! She settled on this cute owl, which meant we …
I made this card with Silhouette stencil material and dye-based stamping inks on watercolor paper. I love the blending I was able to accomplish and the texture from the watercolor paper. Stencils are so fun to use for flawless artwork! And now that I have …
Summer vacation starts today for my kids, so I’m on the lookout for ways to keep them busy. Of course I turn to my CAMEO first. 😉 My preschooler has spent the year learning his letters and their sounds, and I’d love for him to …
Baby shower season is in full swing around here! I found this cute 3D stand-up birthday card in the online store and added pastel pink glitters to make it appropriate for a baby girl. Because this card has a lot of layers (cardstock, chipboard, double-sided …
My mom likes a lot of color and sparkle, so I made this small plaque for her. This quote comes in the Silhouette vinyl starter kit, and I tried something new by adding an accent layer of double-sided adhesive so I could glitterize the …
I made this mobile as a baby gift in less than a day. I had the concept in my mind for a while, but I actually chose all the designs and cut and assembled the whole project the day of the baby shower. I …
This is a project I’ve wanted to make for a long time, and I had to recruit my husband and his workshop to help me. He was excited about this magnet board, too, so he was very willing to help. We wanted a place where …
Spring is here in my neck of the woods, and that means a little spring cleaning. Time to stop huddling under blankets and get some cleaning and organization done! Have you seen all of the organization options in the Silhouette online store? I chose a …
Wedding season is upon us! I attended two bridal showers this week and love making handmade gifts, so these are my gift of choice this season. Let me tell you how I made these fabric wrapped canvas panels with quotes. I bought a 3-pack …
Here’s a tutorial for making perfect stickers to put on craft sticks for simple children’s craft stick puzzles. This would even be fun to make a secret message to be unscrambled. This is my take on several related ideas I saw on Pinterest. Original tutorial …
Hello, friends! I made every bit of this “Lucky to Have You” card with my Silhouette CAMEO. (Well, not the baker’s twine or the brads. But the gold brads were made by dipping plain silver brads into fine gold glitter.) Here is my post originally …
Happy Valentine’s Day! I made this decorative chalkboard for an easy way to write love notes to my husband (and an easy way for him to write them to me). 😉 I couldn’t find exactly the right fabric I wanted for a background design, but …
My kids and I made these Valentines using the new Silhouette stencil material. I created the stencils using my Silhouette Cameo, and they painted them with watercolors. It was a great kid-friendly project! (And our 75 homemade Valentines are done ahead of schedule.) Original …
When I started making tutorials about Silhouette Studio back in 2010-2011, I was sharing what I had discovered in order to ease the learning process for others. Well, I’ve learned a few more tricks the past few years and still want to share them so …
This cake cut-out birthday card was originally featured on the Silhouette Blog, but now you can read it all below. I’ve got tips on using some Modify functions in Silhouette Studio (you know, the confusing ones like “release compound path” and “subtract”), so read on… …
Originally posted on the Silhouette Blog 1/2/2014 Happy New Year! January for me is a time for setting goals and getting things in order, like having cards ready to send. I made some custom address labels using Silhouette Studio to design them, and I used …
Originally posted on the Silhouette blog 12/22/2013 Today’s free shape is this group of birch trees. Doesn’t this make a beautiful winter scene? I’ll show you how to put this card together. First, open the birch trees shape and resize it to 5.0” x 5.0”. …
Originally posted on the Silhouette blog 11/28/2013 Kelly here! I’m happy to be here with you again, this time for a Thursday Sketch project. Stamped backgrounds have caught my eye lately in cards, and I think a lot of sketched shapes would make great backgrounds …
My daughter had a rough day last week and I knew a notebook would cheer her up, so we made this together. I bought a lot of blank Hobby Lobby notebooks on clearance this past summer and made a Silhouette cutting file to match, …
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 was …
For our summer vacation we went to visit my parents in Oregon. It’s an 800-mile drive that we make in a single day, with four children between ages 4-13 in tow. This was a pretty good traveling year for us with wonderful technology available …
