Crafty Projects and Silhouette Inspiration and Instruction
In this month’s blog post on Silhouette 101, I’m sharing a tutorial on how to make this cute Halloween wall decor. The design is actually for a card, but I’ve enlarged it and added some fun details to make it really stand out. I hope …
Welcome to my version of a Harry Potter birthday party, pandemic style. There is no shortage of Harry Potter birthday party ideas out there, so most of the ideas I got from other sources. A few things are uniquely mine. Pandemic Alterations In the …
Print & Cut Perfection Class Here’s another free class I created for Silhouette 101, available now on YouTube. It’s called Print & Cut Perfection, and it’s all about the popular Print & Cut feature in Silhouette Studio. Links to Lessons Here’s a peek …
Hi friends! Today on the Silhouette Blog I’ve got a post about this picnic party I created with my Silhouette Portrait®. Yup, not the CAMEO, but the Portrait! It was a fun challenge to make some fun 3D crafts using the smaller but more portable …
Hello, my friends! How about a little Easter treat inspiration? Yeah, I know Easter is past, but I made these treats in a short afternoon and really want to share them with you! These are some quick & easy Easter treats in case you are …
Have you heard about the new Silhouette ModelMaker™ software? Silhouette just released it to the general public for purchase last month, and I’m here to share some more information about it. Edit 7/6/2021: The ModelMaker software is no longer available to purchase or download. It …
We had a fun activity with the girls in our neighborhood this week. We decorated cookies and delivered them to several other neighbors whom we thought could use a little pick-me-up. I volunteered to make the cards. 🙂 I’ve mentioned this before (probably several times), …
I’m a bit ashamed to say I haven’t really gotten out my Halloween decorations yet this year, but I did make an entirely new Halloween village this month with Carina Gardner’s designs in the Silhouette Design Store. Details about all the fun houses I made …
As you may have seen in my previous post, our Girls Camp this year had a Harry Potter theme. I took that theme and ran with it to make my daughter’s and my niece’s secret sister gifts. Enter Pumpkin Juice, spell books, and Hedwig the …
Big News: Silhouette Summit I have been so excited about this for MONTHS! I’ve been invited to attend Silhouette Summit 2016 in Honolulu, Hawaii! The clock is ticking down, and it’s only a matter of days away! (May 20-21) I truly think I am Silhouette’s …
I love these type of 3D cards in the Silhouette design store. They are pretty fast to cut with my CAMEO and to assemble. Most of the thought and planning (the slow part for me) is already done and included in the design. I made …
Do you have any of those projects you’ve been meaning to get to for a very long time? (The kind that you live without but really want to make but never find the time?) This Family Home Evening board was one of those projects for …
Hello! I really did not intend to take the entire month of August off, so I apologize if you were relying on me as your sole source of inspiration. 😉 We went away for two weeks and dropped our four kids off at my parents’ …
I’ve been working on some secret sister gifts this week, and after wasting a fair bit of time trying to modify existing 3D holders to fit these Minute Maid juice boxes, I decided it was easier to design a tote box myself from scratch. I …
This was a fun watercolor card to make. I used several colors of dye inkpads and a sponge to dab colors all over a piece of watercolor paper, then used a refillable water brush to blend the colors. I think it looks a lot like …
I made this card for a family friend who just turned 15. This was a really fast project with red and white adhesive cardstock and a few rhinestones. Look carefully and you can see I cut the numbers 1-14 out of white adhesive cardstock …
Thanks for being so patient while I put together the tutorial for this umbrella mobile featured on the Silhouette Blog last month. The mechanics of a mobile are always the hardest part, but we’ll get to that in a minute. (And not to worry; I’ve …
I made this perfect pear card to celebrate our friends’ 25th anniversary. The white hearts, the label, and the pears are printed and/or cut on textured white adhesive cardstock with my printer and my CAMEO. I turned this pear design into a print & cut …
What kind of a card do you make for the men in your life? Or even the men that are only acquaintances? That’s often a tough one. Here’s a card I made for a friend of my husband who surprised us the other night …
Here’s a cute fabric and paper mobile I created to celebrate spring! This is my 51st and final project for the Silhouette America design team. After two terms, I’m taking a break. (But you’ll still find plenty of Silhouette inspiration and instruction here on my …
I’m spotlighting the free design of the week on the Silhouette America blog today with this cute shamrock arrangement. I made my own springy stems with floral wire and used gold glitter heat transfer material for some accents. Here’s the post as it originally appeared …
I made this card for my hubby for Valentine’s Day this year and then forgot to share it! I love how this 5″ x 7″ card turned out. The phrase is from one of my favorite word-art designers, Kolette Hall, and you can find it …
Looking for an eye-catching grandparents’ card? I made a camera pop-up card for my parents with a picture of their grandkids inside as a surprise. The designer, Lori Whitlock, has an assembly video tutorial {here} for assembling this camera pop-up card (Design ID #61512). If …
I spent today helping my daughters make their valentine collection boxes for school this upcoming week. Both girls knew exactly what they wanted, so I just helped them fill in the details with my Silhouette CAMEO. My older daughter (6th grade) wanted an aquarium to …
