Welcome! We are so excited to share with you our new Thursday Tutorials. We have had so many questions, we thought we would start a collection of answers and tips here. Today we have Corri sharing one of her perfected skills. Take it away Corri…
One of the most popular cards that I’ve done is this cupcake card I did last year.
I thought I would share a tutorial to show you all how to weld shapes to create your own shape card.
First, select a shape you would like to use to create your card. It’s best if the top of the shape is simple to allow for a clean weld and crease along the top.
I used this cupcakes file to create my card. I resized the file to 11.75″h so that my completed card would be about 5″h.
Next, ungroup and delete the pieces you don’t need.
Drag the cupcake top and wrapper off the mat and position the cupcake base layer in the lower left corner of your mat.
Click on the cupcake shape, then on the menus along the top of your screen select object, pull down to duplicate then select replicate above.
Now you have two identical shapes stacked on top of each other. Click on the top cupcake to select it.
Then go to object, transform, flip vertically.
While the top cupcake is still selected, use the arrow keys to move it down a little until the edges overlap slightly. Select both cupcake shapes (you can hold down the shift key to add the second shape to your selection) and then go back to the object menu. Pull down to select Modify and then Weld.
Now you have your card base….just fold and cut out the remaining layers and embellish.
For my card today, I used Echo Park All about a Boy. I left off the heart and cut a number 5 instead using Lori’s Happy Font instead.
Everyone loves cupcakes and you can personalize this cute card for any age depending on the the papers and embellishements you choose.
Oh, wow, Corri!! What a great project and a fantastic tutorial. Love that little cupcake and I really like how you embellished it with the number 5!! Awesome work!!
Christine
This is awesome Corri and I loved your tutorial. That cupcake card was one of my favorites of yours and the new one is equally cute! 🙂
I’ve recently become addicted to making shaped cards on my Silhouette. In fact I was feeling so inspired by the most recent call for shaped Christmas cards over at Paper Crafts that I created 17 of them this past month using Lori’s shapes. I can’t wait to find out tomorrow if they want any of them… My plan was to have some leftovers to share as possible design team assignments this coming Christmas. 😉
What a tasty little card. Cute as can be.
Corri awesome tutorial, your cupcake cards are adorable!!
Corri, thanks so much for this tutorial, I learn something new today with it, I´m happy and I´m going to try it wright now. Your card is so cute and that inspired me to make one. Tks a lot
nyc