Hi everyone!  It’s Cathy and I have a quick print and cut tutorial with Lori’s new Extreme Pop Up Card Thank You Flowers (Silhouette) or here at Lori’s shop .  I changed the front of the card so that I could use more of Lori’s new collection for Echo Park called Forward with Faith.  It’s so pretty so for the  front of the card, I layered tags, stickers and ephemera from the collection but other wise my card is pretty close to the original file.

Here you can see the inside of this super fun card.  There are four different cards on the Silhouette Store and Lori’s Store.  The dimension you get is just unbelievable and even better, they fold flat for mailing.  I used a pearl card stock to print the pop flowers, just added more shimmer.

So print and cut sound intimidating, but it’s really so easy and there are so many unbelievably cool files from Lori that use this feature.  Your cutting machine does it all for you in just a couple of easy steps. First, open your file and separate your pieces.  Select your pieces that need to be printed, and open your mat to add registration marks.  You need your printer to print these registration marks in the corners so that it can read them when it goes to cut.  The registration marks also show you your allotted design space. You want to make sure your design is all inside theses marks.   Once you have your design up on your screen and position where you want, simply send to your printer.

Now take your printed image from the printer and line it up on your cutting machine mat.  Load and send it to cut, adjust your settings if needed for the type of paper you will be cutting and hit send for your machine to begin cutting.  It will automatically look for those four corners printed on your paper.  It’s pretty cool how it knows to do that.  It will cut accurately around your image.  It’s like magic.

So from here I am going to send you over to Lori’s You Tube video that shows you how to assemble these awesome cards.  You can find the link here:  Extreme Pop Up Card tutorial.  They go together in a matter of minutes!