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Fall Trio Mini Blog Hop
I feel very fortunate to consider myself friends with two very talented women I met through the Silhouette Plus forum. We decided to get together and do a little collaboration. We each designed a cutting file or two, shared them with each other, and made …
Bicycle Happy Birthday Card
I cut a couple of Echo Park bicycles out during my recent online class, and this is what I did with one of them. This is a birthday card I made for my sister-in-law. The bicycle, tree, and flag are all print and cut in …
Happy 2nd Bloggiversary!
Today is my second anniversary of starting this blog. Thank you so much for all of your support and friendship the past two years. And to my newer followers (I just reached 502!!!), I hope to keep you inspired and educated with my crafting pursuits. …
Live Online Class Today
Thank you to those who joined me earlier today on my first online class since July. I had a few minor difficulties, like forgetting to record and my print & cut miserably failing with the newest software update, but not to worry… I promise to …
World Card Making Day
For those of you who aren’t aware, this Saturday the 6th of October is World Card Making Day! Now that’s a holiday to celebrate. 😉 I’ll be working on cards as much as I can that day, and I hope you card makers out there …
Christmas Countdown
Here’s a Christmas Countdown project I made for Heartland Paper’s design team. I had a lot of fun decorating each envelope a little differently for 25 days in December. The star of the show (besides the adorable Doodlebug Design envelopes, cards, and new North Pole …
Perpetual Flip Calendar
This is a project I’ve wanted to make for years. I saved an image of someone’s flip calendar on my computer in an “inspiration” folder ages ago and am so happy to have finally made it! I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the titles …
Silhouette Live Online Class!
Yes, I know it’s been three months since I did my test run for a live online class, but I’m finally able to do another! Anyone who attended the last class may have already received an invitation. I’ll have two online classes on Thursday, October …
Wish You Were Here!
I made this card for The Paper Cabana Challenge #4. The challenge was to use a background cut design. No problem! I whipped up this chevron design to fit on a standard card front and layered it on top of a cloud pattern paper (a …
Welcome Sign
The Paper Cabana Challenge #3 asked us to look to Bright Wish Kanzashi Studio for inspiration on our project. Of course, seeing all those flowers made me want to create yet another flower project. I think the reds and oranges stood out to me, as …
Fall Challenge
It finally feels like fall around here, complete with cooler rainy weather and fall colors starting to pop out on the trees. I love it! This is also my favorite season to decorate in my house. I was so excited to do this project I’ve …
Primary Color Challenge
I’m so excited to be a guest designer for the first challenge at a new e-cutter challenge blog called The Paper Cabana. The first challenge is “primary colors” so I grabbed some things from my stash and went to work. I love using clear …
A few more cards…
I was packaging up my cards to send to Card Care Connection and realized I had some random matching scraps and print & cut labels I had made but not used. So I whipped these four cards together to finish off my collection. They’re very …
Card Holder Freebie
I made this card box for Sandi (check out her blog) as she was looking for a holder like this. It’s a Studio file that’s in two pieces so you can cut it from one piece of 12×12 paper or split it onto two …
Halloween Treat Bottle
It’s getting to be that time of year again! I think fall and Halloween projects are some of my favorite. This is a vinyl project I’ll be teaching for my next Silhouette Silly class at Heartland Paper on September 20th. It will be from …
Bennit the Bunny Cards
Some of you may remember Bennit the Bunny from this post, and as I was searching for uplifting card ideas for Card Care Connection, I remembered that he’s the most cheerful little character I could ever find! Last time I used the print & cut …
Grandma Word Album Tutorial–Part 2
This tutorial is in response to those who have designed a word album in Silhouette Studio based on my instructions from this post, but who don’t have a Silhouette machine to cut it out. Please note that there are some tips for printing and some …
Piano Card
I had the opportunity to attend an event where Jon Schmidt, a well-known pianist/composer, came to perform for our youth group. It was fantastic! We were in charge of the event, so I made this card for Jon Schmidt to go with our thank-you gift. …
Tutorial: Grandma Word Album
Here is the tutorial I promised for making your own Grandma Word Album with Silhouette Studio. This can be adapted to make an album out of any word you choose. Just so you know, National Grandparents Day is September 9, 2012. (It’s the first Sunday …
Calling All Card Makers!
I just found out a great opportunity to use our card-making skills to brighten the lives of those affected by cancer. Card Care Connection has asked me to help reach the card-making community in order to help. So here I am, asking for hand-made cards …
Brigham City Vinyl Tutorial
I sent 50 vinyl cutouts to be sold at Just Bee Scrappin’ in Brigham City, Utah, and want to make sure anyone who purchases them knows how to apply vinyl. I’ve done all the cutting and weeding for those cutouts, but you can also grab …
Christmas in…August?
I don’t normally do Christmas cards in the middle of the summer, but my friend Barb set a challenge for us to make Christmas cards this week, well last week, but better late than never. 🙂 I figured it sounded fun, especially if I came …
Princess Mini Album
Here it is! My latest and greatest. A princess mini album. I cut everything out with my Silhouette Cameo, including the chipboard album pages. I will be sharing the album cutting file (Studio) at the end of the post, along with a printable file (PDF) …
