Crafty Projects and Silhouette Inspiration and Instruction
Here’s my assembly tutorial for this haunted house I made for Silhouette America. My instructions are for a CAMEO machine, but the original house file does come sized to be used with Portrait and earlier Silhouette models. If you don’t use a CAMEO, it will …
When I was little we had a paper skeleton my mom brought out at Halloween, and we loved to put him into crazy positions. I found this positionable skeleton in the Silhouette Design Store more than a year ago and finally put him together! This …
This week I’ll have three projects to share over on the ADORNit blog as a guest designer! And I’m hosting a giveaway for the You & Me collection (which I’ll be showing off on day #2). Here is my first ADORNit project, which uses the …
This has been the busiest start to the school year we’ve ever had. I guess that makes sense, now that I’ve got all four kids in school. At least part of every day. But my Silhouette CAMEO has been getting a workout with school assignments …
The first large project I made when I bought my CAMEO in 2011 was a haunted house, and I thought it would be fun to revisit this project and create a new house for my fall decorations. I started with the luminara haunted house …
Are you looking for a simple kids craft? How about cutting out some chipboard shapes, which your child can then wrap with twine or yarn? We added these chipboard shapes to a school tissue box for each child. I wanted to let my kids help …
Fall is just around the corner, which is my favorite time of year. I’m happy to say goodbye to the summer heat and welcome the cool nights. But there are still gorgeous flowers all around! I wanted to fill my 2012 Advent Frame with beautiful …
I’m back on the Imaginisce Blog today showing a couple more Silhouette Cameo projects I created with the Little Princess collection. I made paper purses for my daughters. Click here to go to the blog post which includes details on design and material choices for …
I made a set of notes and envelopes to have ready to write on and toss into my kids’ lunches this school year. (Actually, I threw in some generic feminine cards with vellum envelopes, too.) The more I have ready, the easier it is …
I’m so excited I was asked to be a guest designer for Imaginisce this month! They sent me all the goodies from their Little Princess collection and let me play with them however I wanted. Two of the projects are featured on their blog today, …
I’ve got a couple of guest designer posts for Imaginisce coming up, and for one of the projects I used my tissue box cover (a Silhouette Studio file). I made this available as a freebie a few years ago, but I revised the file a …
I found this fun file in the Silhouette Online Store and decided to make it for storing our remote controls. There are a lot of organizational boxes in the online store, and I’ve heard some people express concern that they might not hold up …
I was asked to help with a neighborhood party where the organizers wanted to set up an area for taking pictures. They asked me to make photo props and help take pictures of everyone, so of course I said yes. I love an excuse to …
This is what the kids and I made for Father’s Day this year for our “Dynamite Dad.” They are about 6″ to 7.5″ tall and are filled with his favorite treats. Here are the full details for these Father’s Day Firecrackers, originally posted on the …
Summer vacation starts today for my kids, so I’m on the lookout for ways to keep them busy. Of course I turn to my CAMEO first. 😉 My preschooler has spent the year learning his letters and their sounds, and I’d love for him to …
Today’s project is a fun way I used this week’s camera free shape to have a little photo op with my kids. (Originally posted on the Silhouette blog 5/13/2014). How about a Picture Perfect Frame? I used a square scallop frame to fill my 12 …
My daughter needed a quick gift for a birthday party and I had no time to go shopping for a gift. So of course I turned to my Silhouette Cameo. I found this cute bag from the online store, resized it as large as would …
I made this mobile as a baby gift in less than a day. I had the concept in my mind for a while, but I actually chose all the designs and cut and assembled the whole project the day of the baby shower. I …
It has come around again: state floats for a school project. My son ended up with the state of Oregon a couple of years ago, and my daughter managed to get the same state this year. I grew up in Oregon and the kids’ …
Spring is here in my neck of the woods, and that means a little spring cleaning. Time to stop huddling under blankets and get some cleaning and organization done! Have you seen all of the organization options in the Silhouette online store? I chose a …
Here are some little handouts used for motivation to put your heart into [anything]. I made these sucker holders to motivate our Young Women to work on their Personal Progress goals. It’s easy to find heart-shaped suckers this time of year, but any time …
Both of my girls needed collection boxes for their school Valentine’s Day parties, so I grabbed my Silhouette Cameo and whipped these up. “What does the fox say?” is cut in black vinyl with LD Carefree font. (This phrase is the name of a silly …
I think my favorite thing about a party is the party favor—making it or receiving it. These are some girly party favors I made where I added a fabric flower as an embellishment on the box. (I’m a big fan of both paper and fabric …
My kids and I made these Valentines using the new Silhouette stencil material. I created the stencils using my Silhouette Cameo, and they painted them with watercolors. It was a great kid-friendly project! (And our 75 homemade Valentines are done ahead of schedule.) Original …
