Sometimes a Valentine's Day card doesn't have a play on words (like our Starburst or Airheads cards) with the candy at all. Sometimes the color of the candy offers the inspiration. Perfectly yellow, little drops of sunshine inspired our "You Brighten My Day" homemade Valentine card. These cute handouts will be for my son's Kindergarten class.Let me tell you, once I got this idea in my head, it was HARD to find little boxes of Lemonheads. So, I'll save you the trouble. On Amazon you can get … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Snack Bags
St. Patrick's Day is here so here is a quick little treat bag idea for all your little friends.We just got some sketch pens for the Silhouette and so we decided to try them out on the Silhouette Portrait for this project.There are 4 main steps in this project: Step 1: Print The first thing you need to do is print bag tags using your printer. This will only print the chevrons, white text bubble, "I'm", "to be your Friend" and the registration marks (the black square and the … [Read more...]
Silhouette Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Pixelated Shamrock Pop-up card
The Back Story As I was writing the Pixelated Heart Pop-up card post, I went back to the site where I got the card templates, to get links to include in my post. On the sidebar I noticed that there are pictures of other tutorials on the site and I found these Pixelated Christmas Pop-up cards. I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool if there were pop-up cards for all the major holidays. I searched the site for any other holidays besides Valentine's Day and Christmas, but I couldn't find any so … [Read more...]
DIY Dress Up: Construction Worker
This is DIY Dress up #2 - the Construction Worker (Check out #1). In this set we have:Construction Worker vest Construction hard hat Tool beltConstruction Worker vest We picked up a Construction vest at our local JoAnn craft store and decided to accessorize the "Construction Worker" with some easy DIY crafts.A Construction Worker uses a lot of tools to get the job done, and where does he keep those tools? In a tool belt! Tool BeltI say this in every heat transfer … [Read more...]
Silhouette Machine Tips: 4 Easy Steps to Cutting
So you've created a wonderful masterpiece in Silhouette Studio but somehow you have to make that picture on your computer come out of your Silhouette Machine. These Silhouette Machine Cutting Tips are what you need to get your project from digital to actual. Purchasing your vinyl cutting machine is a great way to expand your craft skills. Silhouette Machine Tips: 4 Easy Steps to Cutting1. Set your cut settings2. Print out your project3. Load the … [Read more...]
DIY Dress Up: Mailman
At our house I have one daughter and two sons, yet we have a TON of girl dress up clothes and not so many boy dress up clothes! I decided to change that! Get ready for a 5 series post on simple DIY boy's dress up outfits.Here's a DIY Mailman Dress up outfit. In this set we have:Mailman vest Mail bag LettersMailman vest We picked up a Mailman vest at our local JoAnn craft store and decided to accessorize the "Mailman" with some easy DIY crafts.No Mailman is complete … [Read more...]
How to Make a Jingle all the Way Glass Block
Stefanie found this cute craft on pinterest and asked me to create it for her. First I had to find a svg file of a jingle bell that I liked (and that she liked). Then for the words I used two different fonts, Georgia for 'jingle' and 'way', and Century Gothic for 'all' and 'the'.Next, I set the cut settings by finding the Silhouette Vinyl optionSilhouette Tip: If the cutting blade in the machine is getting dull and doesn't cut well the blade setting can be increased by 1 … [Read more...]
How to Cover Your Light Switch Covers
This post contains affiliate links. These days whenever I need to do any cutting in a project I ask myself "how can I do this on the Silhouette." So when Stefanie came to me with the idea to cover light switch and outlet plates covers with scrapbook paper, I thought it would be a great job to do on the Silhouette. I thought that I would measure one of the plate covers then draw it out in Silhouette Studio, but it was not that simple. I used a little measuring tape to make the measurements and … [Read more...]
How to use the Silhouette Fabric Cutting Blade
Disclaimer: I received the Silhouette Fabric Cutting Blade for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.The Back Story ArtSuppliesDirect.com asked if we would be willing to review the Silhouette Fabric Blade and we were excited for the chance! What better way to test out the Silhouette Fabric Cutting Blade then to make something for our cute baby. And since he's a boy it had to be either a mustache or a tie; I went with tie. There are tons of examples on … [Read more...]
Silhouette Project: Fan-tashe-tic Birthday Card
The Back Story It's my brother's birthday next week so I decided to look on pinterest to see if I could find anything 'pinteresting'. After a little bit of digging I found this:Fan-tashe-tic Birthday Card This post is more of a show and tell rather than an actual tutorial because all it takes is a rectangle some text and and mustache picture. Here is card designed in Silhouette Studio.Just as a small side note, I went with the traditional mustache look on the card but there are tons … [Read more...]
Silhouette Tutorial: Valentine Pixelated Popup Heart Card
The Back Story When we first got our Silhouette CAMEO I started looking for Silhouette projects and tutorials on pinterest. One of the very first things I found was a popup card of a heart that someone else had made on their Cameo. Unfortunately, when it came time to try and make the card the pin was just a picture, it was not a link to a website tutorial. After doing a little "pinsearching" I found a pin for a website with the tutorial on how to make the card. The tutorial goes through … [Read more...]
