Creative Cutters: Sublimating with Markers
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Creative Cutters: Sublimating with Markers

Are you familiar with sublimation? You’ve probably seen it often, whether you realized it or not – on garments, mousepads, puzzles, and even coffee mugs. It’s very popular right now and was the topic of this month’s Creative Cutters meeting! Scientifically speaking, “sublimation is a chemical process where a solid turns into a gas without…

Photo Projects in Silhouette Studio Made Easy (just drag & drop!)
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Photo Projects in Silhouette Studio Made Easy
(just drag & drop!)

Do you ever create photo projects in Silhouette Studio? Whether you’re working on a digital scrapbook page, designing a printable transfer, or crafting 3-D objects, using photos in Silhouette Studio is actually quite easy. There’s no need to import them into your patterns folder or go through the process of opening a file – just…

Double-Sided Faux Leather Earrings Using the Xyron Sticker Maker
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Double-Sided Faux Leather Earrings Using the Xyron Sticker Maker

If you’ve read my tutorials on how to make faux leather earrings, you know I love using my Xyron Sticker Maker to make double-sided earrings. But sometimes it’s hard to visualize exactly how to put them together from a written tutorial, so I made a video just for YOU! Lycia EvanoffLycia is a lifelong crafter…

DIY Patriotic Earrings for Silhouette & Cricut (FREE file)
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DIY Patriotic Earrings for Silhouette & Cricut (FREE file)

Looking for a quick project to jazz up your Independence Day attire? How about these cute DIY Patriotic Earrings? They’re a great way to use of scraps of faux leather as well as leftover bits and pieces of patterned HTV. (Yes, I do keep my scraps. They’re much too pretty to waste!!!) Lycia EvanoffLycia is…

Using the Foil Quill on Vinyl: Custom Envelope Seals
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Using the Foil Quill on Vinyl: Custom Envelope Seals

May is the month for celebrations! There’s Mother’s Day, graduation, and end-of school activities (not to mention several birthdays in our family). And since my “baby” is graduating from college this month, we have that much more to celebrate! Celebrations mean invitations, cards, and thank-you notes. Even when a card is store-bought, I love to…

Creative Cutters: Fun with Alcohol Inks
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Creative Cutters: Fun with Alcohol Inks

We always have fun at Creative Cutters, but we really got to PLAY this month and experiment with something new for all of us – alcohol inks! Working with alcohol inks leaves plenty of room for creativity. There’s no limit to what you can make using different techniques and color combinations and no two results…

Mother’s Day Card using the Foil Quill and your Silhouette
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Mother’s Day Card using the Foil Quill
and your Silhouette

I’ve always loved the look of foil accents and the “wow” factor they add to a variety of projects. My daughter gave me a Minc machine a few years ago and it’s been put to good use, so when I heard about the new Foil Quill from We R Memory Keepers, I knew I had…

Beyond Faux Leather: Specialty Materials for DIY Earrings using your Silhouette Cameo, Portrait, or Curio
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Beyond Faux Leather: Specialty Materials for DIY Earrings
using your Silhouette Cameo, Portrait, or Curio

Like so many other Silhouette projects, DIY earrings leave plenty of room for creativity and individual expression. While faux leather is still very much on-trend, there is a wide variety of specialty materials that can be used to make earrings. After spending this past weekend at the Terri Johnson Creates Spring Retreat in Woodbridge, VA …