February Lori Whitlock Blog Hop

Hi Everyone:

Happy February.  I just love Valentine's Day and had such fun making these XOXO Mini Candy Bar Wraps which I bought from Lori's store and you can find it here or here in the Silhouette Store.  They were designed by Pebbles in My Pocket.  These are made using a print and cut file and then I used a wet adhesive to glue my wrappers around the Hershey Nuggets candy.

You should have come to my blog via Kathy's blog and will next be going to Brandie's blog.   If you didn't get here that way, you can start at the beginning at Lori's blog.  There is a wonderful file below and a coupon for Lori's store.  Don't forget to enter the Rafflecopter contest as well.

 a Rafflecopter giveaway

That's it for me today.  Be sure to hop along and see what my fellow Creative Team members have created for you.

Hugs,

Anita 

Valentine's Day Pop Up Box Cards

Hi Everyone:

Happy Monday.  Anita here with two adorable Valentine cards that I made for my son and daughter-in-law.  I just love how easy these cards are to put together and how many cute options there are.  I used the Pop Up Box Card Valentine Waffle which you can find here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette Store.  The second card I used the Pop Up Box Card Valentine Pie file for my daughter-in-law who loves pie.  You can find that cut file here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette store. Lori also has a wonderful You Tube tutorial on putting together these cards which you can view here.  I used some of my adorable Doodlebug papers from my stash for these cards.

Here are close up views of both cards with them open.

Here are views with both cards closed.

That's it for me today.  Have a great day everyone.  

Hugs,

5 X 7 Lace Card Tutorial for Lori Whitlock

Hi Everyone:

Anita here with a fun and easy tutorial to make this lace edge card which you can use for any occasion that you need a pretty card for.  You can find the file that I used called Lace Edge 3 here in Lori's SVG store and here in the Silhouette Design store.  As you will see there are many different styles to choose from.  I used Lori's new fabulous Echo Park collection called Celebrate Winter.  Planning to send this off to a friend with warm winter wishes.

Here are the three pieces that you will be cutting out using your preferred electronic cutter.  The card base, the insert and the pocket that the insert will go into to write your sentiment on.

You are going to want to put your card in front of you with the fold on the left.  You are going to fold on the score lines on the card and also on the pocket.  Next you will glue the pocket to the right side of the card putting glue only on the tabs.  This photo shows the pocket completed and the insert inside.  Below is another shot which has the insert half way out so that you can see it.

This card goes together so easily and as you see can be designed for whatever occasion you want.  You could even slip a gift card, cash or check in the pocket with your sentiment as well.  That's it for me today.

Hugs,

January Lori Whitlock Creative Team Blog Hop

Hi Everyone:
Happy January.  I had such fun creating my project for the January Lori Whitlock Creative Team blog hop using a file from Lori's store called Let It Snow Snowman by Kollette Hall.  You can find it here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette store.  I used layers of vinyl and lots of fun embellishments to create this winter scene decoration for a very dear friend of mine.

You should have come to my blog via Kathy's blog and will next be going to Brandie's blog.   If you didn't get here that way, you can start at the beginning at Lori's blog.  There is a wonderful file below and a coupon for Lori's store.  Don't forget to enter the Rafflecopter contest as well.

a Rafflecopter giveaway 

Hugs,

Twist Pop New Year's Card

Happy New Year's Eve everyone.  Anita here to share with you this awesome and easy to make twist pop card.  I used Lori's new Echo Park collection
called Celebrate Winter and her cut file called Twist Pop Card 2019 which you can find here in her store and here in the Silhouette store.  She also has a wonderful tutorial on how to put together this card here on her blog and you can also look in her store for the many different occasions you can make this card for.

Here is the photo with  the card open.

Here is the view from the top down.

Here is the view from the side.

That's it for me today.  Hope that 2019 is wonderful to you and your loved ones in all ways possible.

Hugs,

Christmas with my Gnomies Set

Anita here today to share an adorable gift set that I made for a dear friend who happens to love gnomes.  Lori Whitlock has several different cards which you can customize to make adorable cards and gifts.  This card is a box card which she has a tutorial for which you can find here and the cut file is called 5X7 Box Card Gnome and you can find it here in her shop and here in the Silhouette store.  I used one of Lori's wonderful new Echo Park collections called Celebrate Christmas.  I also used the pink for his nose from her Echo Park Sweet Baby Girl line.  The Notebook is from her Celebrate Christmas line also and it is the lined one and is called Lined Inserts.  You get two notebooks in each set and they also have unlined ones.  My friend was thrilled to receive this gift.

Here is the card open and standing up.

Here is a close up of the notebook.

Lastly this is a photo of the card folded flat and ready for mailing.  That's it for me today.  Happy Holidays everyone.

Hugs,

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Anita here with a fun tutorial to make this gift set.  I love to quilt and embroider as much as I love to paper craft and I was thrilled to recently discover that Lori Whitlock has embroidery files that she has designed, many of which mirror her paper craft SVG files.  You can find her gorgeous embroidery files at Embroidery Online.  I will give you all the links in the post .

I bought shrink film from Amazon and used Lori's Print & Cut Stamps Christmas Cookies which you can find here in her store .  I resized the image of the gingerbread man so that it would come out the size that I wanted.  I then printed the image onto the shrink film through my laser printer.  Just let it dry for a few minutes before coloring it.

I then used my Copic markers to color the shrink film.  I knew that the colors would deepen once I shrunk the image so chose my colors with that in mind.  I used R37, E11, G14, G07, E99 for the gingerbread man and Y08, E99, R37, G07 for the Gingerbread house.  Be sure to punch a hole in your shrink film before you put it in the oven and remember that the hole shrinks also.  The directions say to bake the film on parchment at 300 degrees for 2-3 minutes but I found that my heat gun worked much better as I could control the plastic as it shrank.  Below is the before picture.

Here is the photo of the shrink plastic after it was  done.

I went to Embroidery online and bought the bundle which had all the Christmas embroidery files that I wanted to use for this project.  It is called Christmas Time by Lori Whitlock.  You can buy the collection or the individual embroidery files.  I embroidered the phrase It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas on a piece cotton.  I then finished the edges and glued it to the front of my tote.  I also embroidered my daughter-in-law's name on the top of the apron as this set is for her.  She is an amazing baker.

I then strung my two adorable gingerbread embellishments on some yummy twine, added a bell and glued that down as well.

I really love to match things and  have been so excited to make this project.  Here is a close up of all the goodies that I put inside the basket.

The last thing that I did was made a card that used the SVG cut file which matched the embroidery.  I used Lori's new Christmas collection called Celebrate Christmas.  The cut file can be found here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette store and is called Look a lot Like Christmas Phrase.
That's it for me.  Hope that you have a wonderful holiday season.

Hugs,

Anita