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New Beginnings Invitation 2014

New Beginnings Invitation 2014

  For those of you who are part of the LDS community and know about the Young Women organization, you may be familiar with the New Beginnings program.  We start out the new year with a meeting that introduces the annual theme and gets the 

You & Me Card

You & Me Card

Are you excited about the new products released by Silhouette this month at CHA?  I am!  I made a Valentine’s Day you & me card for my husband using the new white corrugated paper and the new stencil material in my Silhouette machine. I love 

Valentine Collage

Valentine Collage

For this project (originally featured on the Silhouette Blog 1/17/2014) I used the Silhouette advent calendar to make a Valentine-themed piece of home decor. It’s a Valentine collage! With Christmas over, I was sad to put away my advent calendar.  So I didn’t. 😉 I 

Baby Boy Card

Baby Boy Card

  My cousin had a baby shower last weekend, and this is the card I made for her soon-to-arrive baby boy.  I had so much success with this similar baby girl card that I just changed the color scheme and altered a couple of details. 

Cake Cut-Out Card

Cake Cut-Out Card

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… 

Custom Address Labels

Custom Address Labels

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 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

  Happy 2014! I whipped up these star toothpick toppers last night before our New Year’s Eve family party. Sorry all I have is my Instagram photo to show you. The idea wasn’t mine, but I was happy to use my Silhouette CAMEO to quickly 

Season’s Greetings Card

Season’s Greetings Card

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”.  

Uses for Silhouette Tattoo Paper

Uses for Silhouette Tattoo Paper

I have one more post referring to the Silhouette tattoo paper I used on this candle.  The tattoo paper is best used with a full sheet for a print & cut because of the registration marks and the need to apply an adhesive layer on 

When Projects Go Bad…

When Projects Go Bad…

Dun. Dun. Dun… You may have seen this recent project where I used Silhouette tattoo paper to decorate a candle. Well, for the sake of experimentation and frugality, I also tried the Silhouette clear sticker paper on an identical candle.  Pretty, right? Not so fast.  

Adhesive Cardstock Colors

Adhesive Cardstock Colors

  I’ve said many times that I love the Silhouette adhesive-backed cardstock. I still have every color of the older 8.5 x 11″ variety packages (and use them happily), but I love the newer colors as well. These are 12 x 12″ sheets that have 

Holiday Candle

Holiday Candle

I’m excited to show you this candle I made using the Silhouette temporary tattoo paper. It was originally featured on the Silhouette Blog, but now you can read all about it below. I love candles during the holidays!  Kelly here to share this candle I 

Neighbor & Teacher Gifts 2013

Neighbor & Teacher Gifts 2013

I decided to keep it simple this year for neighbor gifts.  I bought a big box of Orbit gum from Costco and made little wrappers for them using this Santa Suit Gum Wrapper file by Lori Whitlock.  It was made for a different type of 

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 

Tool Cup

Tool Cup

Have you seen these cute cups in the Silhouette online store?  Designer Samantha Walker has recently put out quite a variety of these cups.  Just search for “cup” under artist Samantha Walker in the Silhouette design store, and you should be able to see them. 

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 

Card with Sketch Pen Tutorial

Card with Sketch Pen Tutorial

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 

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 

Decorated Notebook Cover

Decorated Notebook Cover

  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, 

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 

Baby Girl Card

Baby Girl Card

  My friend just had a sweet baby girl last week so I made her this card. There are several baby carriage shapes in the Silhouette online store, but this one just called my name. Even better, it was a great shape to use as