Crafty Projects and Silhouette Inspiration and Instruction
I’ve been playing with my sketch pens again lately in my Cameo, and this is the Valentine card I made for my husband. I used a black glitter Silhouette sketch pen to sketch the typewriter, a dark silver gel pen in the Chomas Creations Silhouette …
I spent hours drooling over all the pretty mobiles I could find on Pinterest, and then I combined several of my favorites to create this one. This is another project I submitted as a design-team member for Heartland Paper Co. It only uses a single …
I made a version of this Valentine hanging decoration a couple of years ago, but this is my new and improved version. I turned this in to Heartland Paper today, so if you live in or near Davis County, Utah, you can go see it …
This is the card we’ll be making for our final lesson in the Silhouette Basics class I’m teaching at Heartland Paper in Bountiful, Utah. It’s simple, but we’re using one existing heart shape, a circle, and a rectangle to make all of this. And a …
A reader asked me how she could use her new Cameo to make these from Skip to My Lou‘s free printables: using Sarah Bailey’s “Butterfly Valentine” file from the Silhouette Design Store: She wanted to get text on a path around the butterfly wings, so …
My son and I made this robot to collect his valentines at school. When you push the button it says, “Happy Valentine’s Day” in a robot voice. He was very happy taking that creation to school today! The electronics came from Radio Shack, and everything …
Here’s my entry for Silhouette’s contest for valentines projects. Only one entry per person, so I had to choose which one to submit. This one’s the most complex and it gave me a good reason to get it done. I used the same techniques here …
I can’t bring myself to buy boxes of valentines from the store. I just can’t. Even with three kids in school this year, my crafty self just won’t allow it. So I had to plan for 60+ homemade valentines. Where do I start? The Silhouette, …
I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I had to finish my extended family’s calendar, and then decided to upgrade to Windows 7, and the combination of the two has taken all my spare time since my last post. No crafts made. But the …
I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Silhouette Blog and the Flickr group for Silhouette, and it’s obvious there are a lot of questions out there. I wish I could just spread all my knowledge I’ve learned about the Silhouette the past couple …
