Crafty Projects and Silhouette Inspiration and Instruction
Are you curious about the dual carriage on the new Silhouette CAMEO® 3 and on Silhouette Curio™? I’ve got a tutorial on the Silhouette America blog today showing the advantages of a dual carriage, along with steps on how to use it efficiently in both …
Over on the Silhouette America blog I’ve got a fun little project to share with you. I used clear and white sticker paper to create little happy note cards in a jiffy! The tutorial covers print and cut, the Modify: Crop tool, and tips for using …
This is Silhouette’s free design of the week! A sweet baby girl carousel card. I’ve got more details and photos of this project over on the Silhouette America blog. Go grab this card kit for free before 1/26/16 and take a look at my tutorial …
Have you tried the Silhouette deep cut blade yet? Today I want to share with you how to use this special blade. I added a glitter foam balloon to this card for my little friend’s birthday, and I think she’s really going to like it. …
Hello! I’ve got a few Silhouette PixScan tutorials you may have already read, and today I’m adding to the list. I love this specialized mat because it can do quite a few things my CAMEO can’t do on its own. Here’s my tutorial for using …
Have you tried the new Curio’s “print and emboss” feature yet? I made this card with my Curio, and I’m so “impressed” with how it turned out! All of these colorful words are embossed around the edges so the letters are gently raised above the …
Here’s a card I made for my wonderful mother-in-law, who helped me teach an “All Wrapped Up” class in our neighborhood this week. She poured her heart and soul into it from the moment I asked her to do it with me, and the class …
My blog is five years old today! What a great experience this has been to share my joy of crafting with you all over the world! I’m so happy I started this journey all those years ago and have been able to use my talents …
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 …
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’ …
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 …
I have loved the recent trend in cards and scrapbook pages with watercolors. I decided to add a little watercolor to my Mother’s Day card this year. I just grabbed a few watercolor pencils in my mom’s favorite colors (nothing fancy–these are Crayola watercolor pencils), …
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 …
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 …
Here’s a little card I whipped up for a friend. As an experienced card maker I don’t typically use card kits in the Silhouette design store, but this arrow stamp flap card by Kolette Hall just called my name. The card is a flat …
Hello, Silhouette fans! I used this week’s free design to make a simple sketched winter card. We have several winter birthdays in our family, and I think this design is great for cards. I sketched the tree with its snowflakes and a sentiment on vellum, …
I finally finished my stack of Christmas cards and mailed them off this morning. I didn’t realize I would have so many other things come up that it would take more than two weeks to make 28 cards! That’s December for you. You may think …
Hello, Silhouette friends! Let me share with you how I used this week’s free design on a couple of cards, in combination with metallic sketch pens and rhinestones for extra shimmer. This ribbon design has a lot of pieces to be placed, so I chose …
I was asked by a friend to make two sets of cards to give away at a “get-to-know-you” event. I didn’t have a lot of time to create something from scratch, so I revisited several cards I’ve done in the past to come up with …
This year I decided to be a good mom and have birthday parties for all of my kids. Well, three out of four got parties. Long story. Anyway, I figure if I am truly a crafty mom then I can make some fun invitations and …
Every once in a while, I don’t use Silhouette Studio for designing. Because this was an invitation with all text and because it would be printed at a print shop, I opted to use Microsoft Publisher instead. I was asked to make over 100 invitations …
