Print and Cut New Years Eve Party Favors - Lori Whitlock Creative Team Project

Hi blog friends! Thank you so much for stopping by during this crazy time of year! It's great to have you here! My design style is based on simplicity! I adore a quick and easy ,yet super creative idea especially during the busy times of year -So today, I thought I would share with you a couple of New Years Eve Party Favors. One of the main reasons why I love using Lori's files is that they are darling (of course) and they are so easy to put together. I also utilized my Print and Cut feature on my Silhouette Cameo - another time saver for me and a great way to use some of my favorite digital papers from Lori's collection. Let me show you what I did!

 All papers are from the Birthday Fun Patterns Digital papers found on Snap Click Supply.

 

I did a french fry style box for my Midnight Kisses favor. Add a few Hershey Kisses to the bag, tie a bow and you are set!

 The label on the front highlights one of my favorite new fonts called LW Curious- isn't it darling! I also added some enamel dots for some dimension as well.

Midnight Kisses Box Supplies:

•  3D Snowflake Box (Silhouette) Winter Snowflake Box (Lori Whitlock Shop)
• 4 Bracket Labels (Silhouette)  Bracket Label Shapes  (Lori Whitlock Shop)
• LW Curious Font (Silhouette) LW Curious Font (Lori Whitlock Shop)
• Clock- Alarm (Silhouette Store Only)
•  Treat Bag Topper Birthday  (Silhouette) Bag Topper Birthday (Lori Whitlock Shop) (for the flower shape with the enamel dot on it.)

The next favor was originally a candy holder, but what New Years Eve celebration is complete without a little confetti? I added some fun star shaped confetti to the inside of the box.

 

One little change I did to this file is that when I went to tie the tuelle, there was a big hole in the box ends that the confetti would leak out of, so I just added a 3/4 inch circle punched from cardstock to cover the ends up. 

Confetti Popper Supplies

• 3D Large Candy Box (Silhouette) Large Candy Box (Lori Whitlock Shop)
•  Treat Bag Topper Birthday  (Silhouette) Bag Topper Birthday (Lori Whitlock Shop) (for the flower shape with the enamel dot on it.)
• 2015 Calendar Print and Cut (2015) (Silhouette) 2015 Calendar P&C (Lori Whitlock Shop) (for 2015 title)
• 4 Bracket Label Shapes (Silhouette) Bracket Label Shapes  (Lori Whitlock Shop)

So hopefully I have inspired you to whip of some of these fun little favors for your New Years Eve festivities.
If you have kids at your party, how fun would these be for them? Thanks for stopping by, Happy Holidays!

Happy, Happy News!

 

So happy to announce that I have been fortunate enough to be asked to stay on another term with Doodlebug Design! They have become like a family to me and I am absolutely thrilled to be back! So look forward to a bright, happy, sparkly year full of lots of Doodlebug projects on my little old blog! ! Here are the rest of my new friends! Stop by their blogs as well and say hi! Thanks for stopping by!

Jennifer Beason  FL Visit Blog @jenniwren32 Kathy Skou  MA Visit Blog @ekskou Lori Allred UT (DT Coordinator) Visit Blog @allreddesign Mendi Yoshikawa WA Visit Blog @mendi_yoshikawa Piali Biswas NJ Visit Blog @touchofcreation Stephanie Buice  AL Visit Blog @stephbuice

Tya Smith UT Visit Blog @tyasmith3 Traci Penrod GA Visit Blog @artsyalbums Wendy Sue Anderson  UT Visit Blog @wendysuea Melinda Spinks  Australia        Visit Blog @melindaspinks Silvia Barrera Mexico               Visit Blog @Silviabarrera Vicki Boutin Canada           Visit Blog  @vickiboutin

Have a wonderful day and visit us on the Doodlebug Design blog for lots of inspiration!

My Craft Channel - Mass Card Production Tips

Do you have your Christmas cards mailed out yet? Feeling rushed? Let me show you a couple of tips to help you with your mass production of cards.Thanks for stopping by and tune in every week to my Paper Crafting Tips show on My Craft Channel when I share with you more of my favorite paper crafting tips :)

Custom Card Sentiments - a Silhouette Tutorial for Lori Whitlock Creative Team

 Hi everyone- I am here to share with you a fun and easy Silhouette tutorial! I love using Lori Whitlock's Silhouette shapes in all sorts of fun ways. Today I wanted to share with you how to add a custom sentiment to a card front.

For my card base I used Lori's A2 Snowflake Ornament Card that you can find here in her SVG shop and here on the Silhouette website.

 

As you can see, I removed the snowflake from the card front and added some festive holiday sentiments on my card front instead using the handy subtract tool in the Silhouette software. Let me show you the steps that I followed to make the cards.
1- Ungroup the shape and delete the snowflake.






2- Grab the card front. Using the Draw a Rectangle tool, draw a 1.5x4.5 inch box right in the center of the ornament.
3-Open the modify window, select both shapes, and then click on subtract.

4-You will now have the top and bottom section of the shape with a space in the middle.

5- Type out your sentiment. I typed the word Merry in all capitals using the LW Block font I downloaded from the Silhouette store. I suggest using block fonts, or fonts with a serif on them for this technique. I also like to use capital letters just to make things easy and even. Resize your sentiment so that the letters slightly overlap the top and bottom lines of our space we cut out of the middle.

 6- Select  just the top section of the ornament, right click and click on make a compound path. This keeps the hole in the top section of the ornament.

7- Select the whole shape, right click and select Weld. You can see now that the shape of the ornament is still intact, and we added a custom sentiment to our card front - this is a fun way to add a personal touch to your cards and to get more use from your card shapes.

Here are all the cards I made using this technique. For this card, I used the Merry Christmas flourish phrase found here and here.


Thanks so much for stopping by today and letting me share this tutorial with you! I hope that you will give this nifty technique a try!

Lori Whitlock December Blog Hop

Hello friends - welcome to the December Blog Hop with Lori Whitlock's Design Team! You should have arrived here from Cathy's blog

If you need to know the order of the hop - please refer back to Lori's blog.

I have always been a huge fan of Lori's work on the Silhouette site. I bought so many of her cut files because I love anything 3D when it comes to paper crafting so when Lori had her design team call I knew I had to be a part of her team. Well I am a couple of months into being on her team and I have fallen in LOVE with her digital elements so I decided to try my hand at a couple of digital scrapbooking layouts to showcase just how darling her digital designs are as well. I adore the Christmas Cheer line that you can pick up from Snap Click Supply. 

I used these files to make my layouts: 

• Christmas Cheer Element Pack 3
• Christmas Cheer Paper Pack 1
• Christmas Cheer Paper Pack 2
• LW Classic Font (on Lori's site)

And just in time for you to try your own hand at some digital scrapbooking fun, stop by Snap Click Supply

and take advantage of this discount today!

Also-  Hop on over to Lori's online shop where you can take advantage of this awesome deal this week. And also pick up the darling freebie ornament shape while you are there!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Make sure to stop by all of my fellow design team member's blogs and see what we've all been up to this month!

Chrissy's blog is your next stop!

• Lori Whitlock
• Corri Garza 
• Mendi Yoshikawa 
• Traci Penrod 
• Kathy Skou
• Cathy Harper
• Tya Smith-------YOU ARE HERE!!
• Chrissy Guido
• Ashley Cook
• Stephanie Chavers
• Rachael Sheedy

Gift card holders with a fun twist - Doodlebug Design

Hi Doodlebug friends! Happy Holidays! Today I am  here to share with you my take on this weeks assignment of using Doodlebug's awesome products for gift giving. I have a lot of hard to buy for people on my gift giving list, so when in doubt of what to get - I go the gift card route! Honestly, I LOVE getting gift cards - then there is no hassle of having to return a gift LOL! One thing that I do love to do with my gift cards though is to make a fun handmade gift card holder to put them in, so today I will show you my latest idea.

When I saw these cute card holders from my favorite Silhouette Designer, Lori Whitlock - I decided to alter them a little bit.  I loved the box design, but decided instead of the tea lights, I would add a tasty little treat in place of the candles and then place the gift card inside the top section that opens like a card.

 

You can find the cutting file for your digital cutting machines here Tea Light Christmas Card or a PDF here Tea Light Christmas Card if you would like to recreate these for your own.I used some tags from the Christmas Tags Craft Kit, a St. Nick Doodlepop, a Merry Tree Doodlepop,and some stickers from the Santa Express Icon Sticker sheet. Here are my holders :)

 To add the M&M's to this card, add a little piece of acetate to the window section to hold all the candies in.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek. If you are looking for a fun way to spice up your gift cards - give this fun technique a try! Happy Crafting and Happy Holidays!

My Craft Channel -Paper Craft Tips - Gift Bow from paper scraps

Hi Blog friends! Man - I have been so behind in posting my Paper Craft Tips that I do on My Craft Channel! So today, I am catching up and showing you all this fun and easy on how to make a gift bow with just a few paper strips. Thanks so much for watching and Happy Crafting!

Frosty Friends Repurposed Winter Wreath

Hi There Doodlebug Friends!Today I am here to share with you my Frosty Friends project for Doodlebug Design. I just adore this line so much!  So - I just have to say that I am so blessed to be surrounded by such inspirational and creative friends - I was totally inspired to make my project after I saw my amazing friend and Doodlebug Design Team Coordinator Lori Allred demonstrate how to make this adorable and absolutely super creative way to make this cute wreath on one of her upcoming My Craft Channel segments. If you haven't checked out her awesome Inspired by Pinterest shows you should!

Now at first glance this looks like just an ordinary wreath - but let me show you what I used to make it - you will be amazed :)

 This wreath is make using a 12 inch foam wreath form and these microfiber dusters (like a Swiffer) that I picked up from the local Dollar Store!  I LOVE how the dusters resemble a flock of fluffy snow! Perfect for the Frost Friends line!

To make the wreath you just need to peel apart the duster portion. It comes apart very easily and you will get 2 of the strips like the one above, out of each duster.  Then simply hot glue the dusters around the wreath form until it is completely covered.

I then had a lot of fun using all sorts of elements from the Frosty Friends line - I cut out a huge paper snowflake from my Silhouette digital die cut machine and then layered a snowman from the Mix and Match Snowman Craft Kit. I added some stickers from the Frosty Friends This and That Sticker sheet and the Icon Sticker sheet.

 I then added some folded paper rosettes and topped them with some cute winter critters from the Frosty Friends Doodlepops. I also added some Winter Sprinkles and some Sugar Coated Cardstock circles that I punched out with some paper punches and added Snowflake Doodlepops and beautiful white buttons tied with bakers twine.

 Thanks for stopping by today and don't be afraid to think out of the box when it comes to crafting! I had so much fun repurposing the dusters into a fun and fluffy winter wreath! Happy crafting!

Santa Express 12x12 Gift Bag Tutorial

Hi there Doodlebug friends! I am here to share with you a fun and festive tutorial on how to make a nifty gift bag from just 2 sheets of your favorite papers from Doodlebug Design's new Santa Express line.  

It never seems to fail- every year I seem to always run out of gift bags and the LAST place that I want to go during the hustle and bustle of the holidays is back to the store. Why head to the store when I have oodles of darling paper right at my finger tips that would look great as a gift bag? With that being said - let me share with you this fun (and easy!) tutorial on how you can make a gift bag of your very own!

This bag is made using 2 of the same pieces of pattern paper - or you can use cardstock as well. The scoring measurements are the same for both pieces of paper.

Basically you score both of the papers on 3 sides at 3 inches, and then on 1 side at 2 inches. Here is what the paper with look like with the score marks when you are done.

 Side 1 - score at 3 inches

 Side 2 - turn paper and score at 3 inches

 Side 3- turn paper again and score at 3 inches

Side 4 - Turn paper on last side. This is the 2 inch scored side.

Now go ahead and fold that top 2 inch strip down to make the top section of the bag. I love that I get to use BOTH SIDES of my paper! The hardest part was choosing which side I wanted to show where!

On both pieces of paper - fold on all of your lines and then trim on the scored lines as show above.Just snip up to the bottom scored line.

Add adhesive to the 2 bottom flaps as shown.

Glue the box together as shown. 

On the other sheet of paper add adhesive to the bottom and the sides of the paper. This paper is going to slide into the other one so we need the outside edges to be sticky :)

 

Here is the box all glued together.

Now take a hole punch like a Crop-A-Dile and punch 2 holes on each side.

 

Add your  favorite ribbon or trim for the bag handles.

Now for the fun part - Decorate it however you like. I added some tags from the Christmas tag craft kit. I also added some stickers from the This and That sheet and the Icon sticker sheet. I finished my tags off with a bit of the Holly Berries Sprinkle Shapes.

Now add your gift and tissue paper and any other goodies you'd like and just like that you have a custom made gift bag I am sure your recipient will love because YOU made it just for them. Happy Holidays and Happy Crafting everyone!