Fruit Cup Wrapper Tutorial by Maya

Hello Samantha Walker fans! I can't believe that 2013 is coming to an end. My kids have 4 more days of school left and my son's kindergarten class is getting ready for the holiday party on Friday. I was asked to bring fruit and I was thinking how to make the presentation a little more festive than the usual fruit tray. Samantha's Snowflake Cupcake Wrapper to the rescue!

I opened the snowflake wrapper cut file in the software and enlarged the shape to 105% of the original size. This size fits perfectly the 9oz crystal cut cups that I used.

This is the enlarged shape showing it's final size.

To make the little flags for the forks I used Samantha's Snowman Cupcake Wrapper. I ungrouped the shape and deleted everything except the letters. After that I drew a simple flag around the letters, grouped everything together and resized it to the size I wanted.

I was able to cut 5 wrappers and 6 flags from one 12x12 sheet of thin glitter cardstock.

I glued the wrappers to the cups by adding adhesive under the overlapping edges.

Ready for the party!

The flags are wrapped around the forks and  secured with 2 glue dots.

Tip: save the tiny stars from the snowflake centers. They make perfect confetti to sprinkle around.

I hope I inspired you to think outside the shape and see that each shape can be used in may different ways.
Happy Holidays!

Supplies that can be used to recreate this project:

Birthday Card Tutorial by Maya

Hello Samantha Walker friends! Today I am going to share with you a birthday card. Since I saw these birthday cake shapes in the store I was waiting for an opportunity to use them. That opportunity came when I started to work on a birthday card for my daughter that turned fifteen this month.

I used Pop Up Circles Card as a base. The Antique Oval Frame was the perfect background for the Turning Fifteen Cake.

The pink and the yellow papers are from the Cool Summer 6x6 pad by Samantha Walker for Carta Bella.

I used my finger nail to pop up the circles on the card front and adhered it to the card base by added adhesive in the center, behind the oval frame. I used a glue pen for the cake parts. To finish my card I added white pearls to the frame and a tiny bow to the cake base. 

There are many more birthday cake shapes in the store - one for every milestone you can think about and also a generic one like this.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Jack-O-Lantern card by Maya

Hello Samantha Walker fans! It is Maya here today. I am going to show you how simple is to make beautiful Halloween card using Samantha Walker cut files. 

While my older kids showing less interest in Halloween, by 5 years old is becoming fascinated by this spooktacular holiday. His favorite thing right now - jack-o-lanters!.  I picked this gorgeous design from Samantha Walker Silhouette online store. 

The design itself is so pretty that I didn't want to add anything else.

That is how it looks like in Silhouette Studio. I cut the card itself from orange cardstock and the square from black glittery cardstock.

I used few pieces of sticky tape to adhere the black square behind the card front.

The card is about 5.75" x 5.75". I used the envelope cut file to cut the matching envelope.

 

I omitted the liner that came with the envelope and instead stamped "Eek" using a stamp from "Boo-tiful Cameos Clear Stamps" set by Samantha.

This card looks adorable on a smaller scale as well. I scaled it down to 80% and cut the card from dark orange glittery cardstock. 

The final size is 4 5/8" x 4 5/8"

Here is the original version and the smaller version side by side with matching envelopes.
Links to products used in this tutorial:


Thanks for stopping by! 
Maya

Using pattern stamps on layouts with Maya

Hello Samantha Walker fans! 

This is Maya and today I am sharing with you few ideas how to use pattern stamps on your layouts.

My son Eli came back from his first day at school with big paper star that he absolutely loved. I wanted to use stars on the layout and found them in the JustRite Pattern Basics stamp set by Samantha.

I used the stars and the tickets stamps.

I stamped rows of stars on a scrap of silver paper and cut them apart. They will be the background for the picture.

The tickets stamp is one big stamp with three rows of tickets. I wanted only the top row so I stamped the tickets pattern twice on a piece of red cardstock and cut off the top row of tickets. I than stamped them again on the back side of the paper strip. 

I colored some of the stars with metallic blue marker. "Remember" tag is cut out of "Giddy Up"  patterned paper, mounted on a piece of dark blue paper and cut out again.

I wrapped the ticket strip around small pencil and used it as a base for the title.

This stamp sets coordinates perfectly with the "Giddy Up" boy collection that I used to make this layout. Thank you for stopping by and I hope I inspired you to take out those pretty stamps out of their packages and just use them!

Dress Card Tutorial with Maya

Hello Samantha Walker fans!

Today I am going to share a tutorial how to make this adorable dress card. Perfect for little girls that you may know (and not so little girls as well!). 

Download the 'may all your dreams...come true' card from Silhouette Online Store. That's how the cut file looks like after opening it in Silhouette Studio.

I decided to use papers from Samantha's 6x6 paper pads. First I cut the dress shapes from pink paper from "Giddy Up" girl paper pad. I love that the paper is double sided! I am using both sides of the paper for the dress.

More dress parts from the same pink paper.

Now the belt, the underskirt and the sentiment using the blue paper from "Cool Summer" 6x6 paper pad. 

Yellow wave using the yellow paper from "Cool Summer" 6x6 paper pad. I rotated the shape to make sure it will fit the 6x6 paper taking advantage of the fact that it is actually 6x6.5.

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The last step - white card base.

Everything is cut out and ready to go.

Let's put the dress together - my favorite part!

I wanted to give it a little 3d effect so I added small pieces of foam tape between the skirt layers.

I mounted everything on yellow card piece of paper from "Cool Summer" paper pad and added few jewels.

 

That was really fun! I am sure I am not the only one who loved playing with paper dolls. That comes really close. Check Samantha's online store for more dresses. How cute is this "Party dress"? Or maybe the "Princess Dress"? They will look adorable on a card or layout or even home decor project.

Thank you for visiting today!

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Quick and simple page with Picasa Collage by Maya

Hi, Samantha Walker fans! This is Maya here today, sharing quick and simple page using Picasa Collage tool.

Picasa is what I use to organize my digital pictures and to do simple image enhancements. One of my favorite Picasa features is collage. It is great for putting 2 small pictures on 4x6 canvas, making quick 8x10 collages (handy when you get that email about free 8x10 print at Walgreens) and even pre-planning image placements for future layouts.

For this layout I knew I want to use three small pictures in a row. I selected the pictures in Picasa, cropped them to 3x4 and clicked on Collage button. I chose Picture Pile mode and that allowed me to drag my pictures anywhere I want. I changed the color of the background to white and placed my pictures side by side in one row. At first I worked with 4x6 format (as seen in the screenshot) but later changed to 5x7. The only thing what was left is to save the picture and print.

An hour later I picked it up from Walgreens. 

I had the perfect papers to use - Samantha Walker Cool Summer collection from Carta Bella. With bright summer papers and great selection of cardstock and chipboard stickers the layout came together in no time.

Ice cream is a favorite summer (and not only summer) treat in our house. I know I am going to use every last piece from this collection.

 

 Thanks for stopping by!

Sandal Straps Tutorial by Maya

Hi, Samantha Walker fans!

It is Maya here today, sharing a tutorial for making cute sandal straps.

The spring finally arrived to Midwest and it's time to give my winter boots a break and dig out the sandals. The warm weather put me in a mood for a pair of new flowery straps for my Sseko sandals. I picked out cute fabric from  Samantha Walker Serenata collection  with sweet orange flowers. An hour later I had them wrapped around my feet. Let me show how I did them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can use the same technique to make a belt or a hair ribbon and  many other useful accessories. Thank you for stopping by! Enjoy the spring weather!

-Maya