Quick Tip:  Aligning Layered Flowers

Quick Tip: Aligning Layered Flowers

I can usually “eyeball” the center of a single flower, but when it comes to stacking layers of flowers together, my layers tend to drift off-center.  Here’s my solution: Take a piercing tool, needle, or stick pin and poke through the center of the top …

Tracing Paper Dolls for the Silhouette to Print and Cut

Tracing Paper Dolls for the Silhouette to Print and Cut

Update 1/26/2014:  The instructions below still work, but I’ve made simplified video tutorials on my new blog post Disney Princess Paper Dolls.  Please go there first for updated and easy instructions.  Thanks! Original post: I found these Disney paper dolls from a photo on Silhouette’s …

Valentines for 2011

Valentines for 2011

I can’t bring myself to buy boxes of valentines from the store.  I just can’t.  Even with three kids in school this year, my crafty self just won’t allow it.  So I had to plan for 60+ homemade valentines.  Where do I start?  The Silhouette, …

Who Likes Unicycles?

Who Likes Unicycles?

Here’s a card and a mobile I made for my brother with the Silhouette using the print and cut features.  The unicycle comes as a cut design, but I didn’t want to cut and then glue all the tiny little pieces, especially multiple times for …

Tutorial:  Valentines with Welded Words

Tutorial: Valentines with Welded Words

I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Silhouette Blog and the Flickr group for Silhouette, and it’s obvious there are a lot of questions out there.  I wish I could just spread all my knowledge I’ve learned about the Silhouette the past couple …

Fuzzy Vinyl Monogram Tutorial

Fuzzy Vinyl Monogram Tutorial

I am so thrilled to show you this!  This is the project I worked on in December before getting to my Christmas cards.  This is fuzzy vinyl on a glass 8×8″ shower block.  I finally made one for myself. My sister-in-law wanted to make these …