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Welcome to Our New Creative Team Members

Hello Everyone!  Please join me in welcoming Anita Mulcahey and Lezlye Lauterbach to our Paper Creative Team!  We are so excited to have them on our team and can’t wait to see what they create!  Here is a little bit about them….

Anita Mulcahey

I am so pleased to be part of the Lori Whitlock design team.  I have been a fan of her work, both the scope and depth of it.  I am married to the love of my life and have been for 31 years and we have two adult children, one who is married with two fur babies and one who graduated from college recently and is working towards the requirements for PA school.  I have been paper crafting for over 25 years and am also an avid quilter.

 

Lezlye LauterbachMy name is Lezlye, and I reside in the beautiful county of El Dorado in Northern California., about 1 hour from Lake Tahoe. I have been Rubber Stamping since high school, and started to dabble in scrapping then too.Over 30 years!  It wasn’t until my daughter turned 5 that scrap booking took over. I now rotate between any and all paper crafts! I have been married for 30 years and have 3 children. I have a Yorkshire terrier named Daizy Bell, she can be found sitting at my feet while I work.

We are sad to be saying goodbye to a couple of members as well.  Mendi Yoshikawa, Rachael Sheedy, Chrissy Guido and Karin Adamczyk will be leaving the team.  I so appreciate all of their hard work over their time here and wish them all the best in their future creative endeavors!

 

 

Disney Themed Box Card with Karin

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Someone in my Cricut group was asking if it would be possible to create a Disney themed box card. I answered that yes, you could take one of the box card designs from Lori Whitlock’s All Occasion Box Cards cartridge and then use images from a Disney cartridge to modify the box card and make anything you want.

In my video below, I show you exactly how you would do this. With the Cricut Explore and Design Space, you can literally make whatever you want. In the video, I used a Cricut cartridge, but you could also use SVG files or images from JPG files that you would print then cut and use in your box card.

I would love to see what you come up with. Leave comments below with your ideas.

 

Welcome to the Blog Hop

We have a fun Friday (and Saturday) in store for you! It’s our very first Design Team blog hop and we’re so super excited that you’re here to support us! The Design Team has been busy working on some fun Christmas projects to help you get in the holiday crafting mood. I know… Thanksgiving isn’t over, yet! But, us crafters need a plan and have to get started early to make the magic happen!

To celebrate and to help you get your holiday crafting cutting files… EVERYTHING IN THE ONLINE SHOP IS 25% OFF THIS WEEKEND (now through Sunday)! Just use coupon code: JOLLY25 at checkout.

And, to express my appreciation to YOU, I’ve created a SVG/DXF gift tag set to give to YOU today absolutely FREE. I am truly humbled and honored that so many of you support my design and products. You are AMAZING and I thank you!! You can collect a tag file at each of the Design Team blogs. So, be sure to visit each blog to get the entire set.

DOWNLOAD TAG #1 BY CLICKING HERE.

Last but not least… we’re also giving away a $25 gift card to the online shop to one lucky winner. Simply leave a comment at each stop along the blog hop (there’s 7) and we’ll choose a random winner from the commenters. I’ll post the winner here on my blog and on my Facebook page on Sunday. So, be sure to check back so I can send the winner a gift card.

So, without further delay… I’d like to share with you a project I’ve been working on for the blog hop… a village. There are 3 separate SVG/DXF files: Cottage, Church, and School House. I’ve spent my spare moments over the past few weeks developing the cutting files for this darling set and they are NOW available in my ONLINE SHOP. Due to the time involved in developing the village it will remain exclusive to my online shop. And, at 25% OFF, this is the time to pick it up! I’m so happy with how it turned out. The pictures look pretty good, but it’s absolutely awesome in person! You’ll be amazed at how simple these are to construct. What a cute home decor set for the holidays! And, the school would make a super cute teacher gift!!

Don’t forget to comment at all 7 stops for your chance to win a $25 gift card. Thanks for visiting. Below is the lineup for the rest of the blog hop. Have FUN!

Lori Whitlock (you are here)
Carolyn King
Natalie Graham
Corri Garza
Joy Dickson
Krissy Clark
Tamara Tripodi

Have a super awesome weekend getting ready for Thanksgiving! Hopefully you find this hop inspiring!

DT Spotlight: Natalie Graham

I sure hope you’re all having an excellent weekend! Today is our last DT spotlight. Today I’d like you all to meet the super talented and crafty Natalie Graham. Natalie is one of my best friends and a ton fun to be around! She’s always overflowing with fun projects and ideas.  Make sure to look at the darling projects she created at the bottom of the post.

Hello. My name is Natalie Graham and I live in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. I am a Utah girl living here in Canada with my husband and kids for a couple of years.  I have  been married to my husband Ben for 14 years and have four wonderful kids, Hayden, 12, Ethan, 9, Abby, 6 and Aubrey, almost 3.  I use to teach preschool for the school district and for Head Start before I had my first baby, then I decided it was better for me to use my teaching skills for my family and have been home with them ever since. I just started my first “craft blog” where you can find my work at mygrahamcrackers.blogspot.com

Q: How long have you been paper crafting?
I started “playing with paper” after my first son was born, so I guess I can say my habit for hoarding scrapbook supplies has been about 12 years.

Q: What made you start paper crafting?
I love doing all things creative, I see something cute, and I immediately want to make analyze it and figure out how to make one myself.   I also have few memories or memorabilia from my own childhood and want to make sure I document my children’s life well so they have something to look back on and remember what a fun family we are!

Q: What is your favorite type of paper crafting project to make?
There is something truly satisfying about a finished scrapbook page. Scrapbook pages will never get tossed like a card or get smooshed in a decoration box.

Q: What is your ‘must have’ paper crafting tool?
Hands down… Diet Coke!

Q: What inspires you most?
Other people’s work.  It makes me get all giddy with the idea of I can do it too!

Q: What are some of your favorite colors to work with?
I’m a girly girl at heart. I would put pink on everything if I could.  Somehow my boys don’t agree.

Q: What is your favorite type of embellishment?
See above…. A girly girl love flowers…. Pink ones are even better!

Q: What other crafty things do you enjoy?
Maybe I should say the things I don’t do…. That would be shorter…I am a sewer, photographer, quilter, jewelry maker…I also like to crochet, digital scrapbook and stalk others blogs for other DIY projects. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have a “project” going.

Q: What are some of your other hobbies and passions?
I love to read, cook, bake and hang out with my kiddos!

I am super excited to have the chance to work with Lori and these talented gals on the team. My head is spinning with all the up coming project ideas! 

Look at the darling winter card Natalie created out of my Wintertime collection for Echo Park. And, the “thank you” gift card holder is adorable! To create the holder Natalie used the Scalloped Gift Card Holder file that is available HERE.