Persia Lou

Creative. Crafty. Fun.


  • Free “Good Luck” Four Leaf Clover SVG Cut File

    Download my free “Good Luck” Four Leaf Clover SVG cut file and get crafting for St. Patrick’s Day! This cut file design can be used with your Silhouette, Cricut, or other electronic cutting machine to make yourself some seasonal apparel, home decor, and more! This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this site… [Keep Reading]

    Free “Good Luck” Four Leaf Clover SVG Cut File

  • Free Printable Washi Tape Valentines

    These free Valentine’s Day printables will help you to make cute and crafty gifts in minutes! Just print, tie on a cute roll of washi tape, and you have a special Valentine’s Day surprise! This post was originally shared at the Consumer Crafts blog and contains affiliate links, which help to support this site at… [Keep Reading]

    Free Printable Washi Tape Valentines

  • How to Sketch & Cut with the Silhouette Cameo 4 or Portrait 3

    Learn how to sketch and cut with the Silhouette Cameo 4 (or Portrait 3!) machine! Sketching and cutting makes it super easy to make custom labels, tags, and more without a printer! Thank you to Silhouette for sponsoring this post, which contains affiliate links that help to support this site at no extra cost to… [Keep Reading]

    How to Sketch & Cut with the Silhouette Cameo 4 or Portrait 3

  • “Wild About You” Leopard Print Cards + More Free Valentine’s Printables

    Download my free leopard print “Wild about You” Valentine’s Day cards and printables to give to your Valentine this year! This post may contain affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you. Who is ready for some free Valentine’s Day printables?? 🙋‍♀️I love me some good free printables, and… [Keep Reading]

    “Wild About You” Leopard Print Cards + More Free Valentine’s Printables

Free “Good Luck” Four Leaf Clover SVG Cut File

Download my free "Good Luck" Four Leaf Clover SVG cut file and get crafting for St. Patrick's Day! This cut file design can be used with your Silhouette, Cricut, or other electronic cutting machine to make yourself some seasonal apparel, home decor, and more! This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you. Hello hello! I'm not sure how this has happened, but we are almost already two months into 2021, and that means St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner! To get you ready for St. Paddy's Day, I've teamed up with some of my cut file designer friends to bring you a whole of sweet new collection SVGs. You can use this design in a lot of different ways - put it on a t-shirt, make yourself a vinyl decal, or even make a cute little ... [Read More]

Free Printable Washi Tape Valentines

These free Valentine's Day printables will help you to make cute and crafty gifts in minutes! Just print, tie on a cute roll of washi tape, and you have a special Valentine's Day surprise! This post was originally shared at the Consumer Crafts blog and contains affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you. Thanks! I know people can have... feelings about Valentine's Day. It can be cheesy and depressing and lots of other not great things, but I have found that I kind of love Valentine's Day with kids. We like to make heart shaped pizzas and make punny valentines for their friends, and really it's all just fun and low pressure. The kids love picking out little toys or trinkets to hand out to their classmates, and we work together to come up with little ... [Read More]

How to Sketch & Cut with the Silhouette Cameo 4 or Portrait 3

Learn how to sketch and cut with the Silhouette Cameo 4 (or Portrait 3!) machine! Sketching and cutting makes it super easy to make custom labels, tags, and more without a printer! Thank you to Silhouette for sponsoring this post, which contains affiliate links that help to support this site at no extra cost to you. I know I'm not the only one who finds themselves purging clutter and working on organization at the beginning of a new year. My craft supply stash has gotten pretty out of control lately, so I have been working on cleaning things up, and pretty labels always make organization a little more fun. While I could have printed labels or cut vinyl decals, instead, I decided to make labels by sketching and cutting, which is perfect for making quick, gorgeous projects without a ... [Read More]

“Wild About You” Leopard Print Cards + More Free Valentine’s Printables

Download my free leopard print "Wild about You" Valentine's Day cards and printables to give to your Valentine this year! This post may contain affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you. Who is ready for some free Valentine's Day printables?? 🙋‍♀️I love me some good free printables, and this month my Totally Free Printables friends and I have some really good free printables for you all. I'm sharing a "Wild about You" Leopard Print design, which I am loving. This design comes in two different colors and in both an 8" x 10" print and an A2 sized card. I created these as a Valentine's Day print, but they could obviously be used any time. I think the 8" x 10" print could be a cute little home decor print year round. Just, print, trim, and ... [Read More]

DIY Holographic Minimal Mountain Art with DecoArt

Make your own minimal mountain art with a pop of holographic sparkle with this simple DIY art tutorial! This project was made in partnership with DecoArt, and this post may contain affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you. We took down all of our Christmas decorations over the weekend, and the house is feeling a little bit empty now. Do you know this feeling? It's like there's a hole where the tree used to be. Know what I mean? That feeling always prompts me to do some rearranging and to add in some new decor. DIY art project to the rescue! You know that I love me a DIY art project. If you are also looking for a home decor refresh, then I have the perfect little DIY winter art project to share with you all today! DIY Holographic Minimal ... [Read More]

Free Fingers Crossed 2021 SVG Cut File

Download my free 2021 fingers crossed SVG cut file and make yourself some hopeful 2021 party decor and gear for New Year's Eve! This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you. Well, I think we can probably all agree that 2020 has been a crazy year full of unexpected challenges and loss. Unfortunately, we will still be dealing with a pandemic, when the calendar changes to 2021, but if you are holding out hope for a better new year, then this cut file is for you. I created this fingers crossed 2021 design for those of you who are cautiously optimistic, like myself. You can use this design in a lot of different ways - put it on a t-shirt, make a banner, or even make yourself a cute headband or hat like I did. DIY Fingers Crossed 2021 ... [Read More]

Green and Pink Christmas Gift Wrap Ideas

If you love wrapping gifts for the holidays, then keep on reading. I'm sharing all my best ideas for layered, textured, green and pink Christmas wrapping! This post may contain affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you. I have had so much fun wrapping Christmas gifts this year. It's always one of my favorite parts of the holiday season, but this year I decided to make it a bit more of a creative process. I started by choosing a color scheme and creating a pinterest mood board. This may seem overkill for wrapping Christmas gifts, but I just really find that pin boards help me to focus my vision for any kind of creative project. I chose to go with pink, dark green, and red as my color scheme and to layer on different textures and finished with a kind ... [Read More]

Free Oh Snap! Gingerbread Man SVG Cut File

Download my free Oh Snap! Gingerbread Man SVG Cut File and create your own adorable gifts, home decor, apparel, and more this holiday season. This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this blog at no extra cost to you. Thanksgiving is over, and I can now post as many Christmas projects as I want! Yay! How about a free Christmas cut file? Or maybe a whole bunch of them? There are even more free Christmas designs below from some of my designer friends, so keep on scrolling. DIY Oh Snap! Gingerbread Man Gift Box If you like my little cookie treat box, you can make your own really easily. Here's how. Decorated Gift Box Supplies: Blank Paper BoxesAdhesive VinylSilhouette Cameo, Cricut Maker, or other cutting machineWeeding HookTransfer Tape My Oh Snap! ... [Read More]

Silhouette Cameo 4 Black Friday 2020 Deals – Early Acccess

It’s here! Silhouette Black Friday deals are here!! 💃 I have early access to the best Silhouette Cameo 4 bundles for you, so you can get shopping now! (This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you.) Have you been waiting patiently for Black Friday deals to get yourself a new shiny crafting toy? Maybe the Silhouette Cameo 4 or the Silhouette Portrait 3?? Well, today your patience is being rewarded because EARLY ACCESS to Silhouette's best Black Friday deals stars right NOW (Deals open at 8 AM MST on 11/25). I know you are all ready to get shopping, so let's get to those deals! I made a quick little video talking about the different Silhouette deals and bundles available for Black Friday this year, so if you prefer watching to ... [Read More]

Print & Cut 101: How to Print and Cut with Silhouette

In this step-by-step tutorial (with video!) I will show you how to print and cut with your Silhouette machine. The Silhouette print and cut feature allows you to print designs and then accurately cut around them for amazing custom creations. Thank you to Silhouette for partnering with me on this post. This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you. Today, I am breaking down the Silhouette print and cut process. I have shared lots of print and cut projects on this site in the past (you can check some of those out here), but I have never done a full step-by-step tutorial of how to print and cut with your Silhouette Cameo or Silhouette Portrait, so I am excited to share this full beginner's guide with you all! Silhouette Print and Cut ... [Read More]