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Anita here with a fun and easy tutorial to make your furry friend a dog bandanna. My son and daughter-in-law have three dogs and they like to include them in their Christmas photo. I made some personalized bandannas for my fur grand dogs using some of Lori’s fun fonts and heart cut files. For Lily and Sully’s bandannas, I used the Wide Marker font at 288.0 pt which can be found here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette store. For Scout’s bandanna I used LW Thick at 288.0 pt which can be found here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette store. The cut file for the hearts is called 4 hearts and can be found here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette store. I found a doggie bandanna pattern on the internet from Sew Caroline and the free pattern is here.
Here are the supplies that I used for Lilly’s bandanna. You can really use any heat transfer vinyl.
I measured across the part of the bandanna where I wanted to put the letters so that I would have a sense of how wide the name could be and fit nicely.
Lori’s fonts are so easy to find in your Silhouette font library and they start with the letters LW.
I had fun experimenting with some of Lori’s different fonts to see which one I liked the best.
Heat transfer vinyl has a clear plastic sheet which is sticky over the front of the vinyl which allows you to protect the vinyl while ironing it on. You are going to want to place it with this clear/front side face down on your mat. You can cut vinyl without a mat but I didn’t want to move my rollers so I put it on a mat.
As you can see from above there are many different types of heat transfer vinyl. I chose to use a metallic one so that is what I selected in the cut settings. Notice that the letters are not mirrored on my mat.
Isn’t Silhouette so smart? They know I am cutting with vinyl and asked me if I wanted to mirror my design. Given that I was cutting out letters I said to send them mirrored. I also chose to do two passes as my blade isn’t brand new and I was asking it to cut through three layers. I could also have mirrored it before sending it to cut.
Wows, my mat is looking well-loved. Here are the letters cut out and the extra vinyl removed. Don’t remove the top plastic sheet, you need it on until the letters are ironed down.
Everything is ironed down now. I used a plastic pressing sheet and did not heat it for the 45-60 seconds as they recommend on the package because my iron runs really hot and I didn’t want to bubble the vinyl. I usually choose a middle point and put the first letter down there and then add the rest one at a time. I find that things move less that way when ironing. Apply even pressure, not steam and don’t move your iron back and forth.
I used Velcro circles on each corner point and stitched them down. I used a seam ripper to gently peel away the top plastic piece, you could also use a pin. If the vinyl starts to pull up then you might have to reheat it. Be careful to not overheat it.
Here is Lily’s completed bandanna.
Here are all three bandannas. Can’t wait to see how the Christmas photo turns out.
Hugs,
Anita
Hello there, it’s Brigit, I have a fun heat transfer vinyl project to share today. When I saw Lori’s homemade gingerbread phase (here in the Silhouette Design Store) I knew it would look so cute on one of the potholders from the Dollar Tree.
Hi Everyone! Today I have a different kind of Doodlebug Design Feature! Check out this fun Advent Countdown Calendar created by Kathy Skou for Doodlebug Design using my 2 on a 12 x 12 Perfectly Square Box File (in Silhouette Store here) …
Kathy pieced together 26 of my boxes, stacked them up and added Doodlebug’s Milk & Cookies Flannel Jammies Double Sided Cardstock countdown blocks (available where Doodlebug Design papers are sold) The boxes open to show a hidden treat!
What a fun way to countdown to the holiday! You can see her original post with the paper she used here.
Have a great day!
Cozy up with the Winter Dingbat Font and make these sweet little stocking-stuffer notebooks! This is Michelle Zerull and I’d like to share a pocket sized project that can made in practically no time at all. Perfect for stockings, classroom gifts and coworkers. Make one for yourself too!
For these mini notebooks, I used “A Perfect Winter” papers by Echo Park. The colors and patterns are great for the holidays and beyond. For the “Faux Stamped” covers, I downloaded the Winter Dingbat Font which can be found in the Silhouette Design Store and also at Lori Whitlock’s SVG Shop. The books themselves were made from the 2×2 Accordion Mini Album SVG files that can be found here in the Silhouette Design Store and also here at Lori Whitlock’s SVG Shop. Lori has an excellent Tutorial Video where she shows how to assemble the books. Be sure to watch the seven minute video for Lori’s tips and tricks! I’ll show you here, how to use the adorable Winter Dingbat Font to make the book covers.
I’ve been a rubber stamper for over 20 years. I love the look, but I hate stamping on my favorite patterned papers. I’m always afraid that I’m going to get a bad impression and ruin them. Sadly, it happens. By using the Winter Dingbat Font, I know that I’m going to get a consistently perfect image every time without actually stamping. The Winter Dingbat Font contain 26 images and phrases that can be cut, colored and printed in any size your heart desires! Yes, that’s right…26 images…in ANY size! This “Faux Stamping” technique is so easy to do with the print and cut feature on my Silhouette Cameo. It’s my latest obsession!
After downloading your font and SVG design, open up your design area and type in the alphabet using your dingbat font. Look at all of those images! The hard part is choosing which ones to use! For this project, I’m going to use three of the phrases. I clicked on the designs, clicked on the fill tool and chose the color black. I ungrouped all 26 images and deleted the images that I was not going to use.
Next, I opened the 2×2 Accordion Mini Album files. I’m going to cut them all eventually, but right now, I’m working with the covers. I ungrouped the pieces and set them off to the side for later.
I copied the teal front cover piece and made three covers. (I made a lot of little books!) Move your phrases to the front of the covers and remove the cut lines by selecting “no cut.” Important! Remember to remove the teal color from your pieces and change it to transparent. At this time, I also changed my page setup. I don’t have a 12×12 printer, so I am going to cut my 12×12 patterned paper down to 8.5×11 so it will feed through my printer. In order for the Silhouette to read the registration marks, you will need to choose a light colored patterned paper.
Add your registration marks to your letter sized page setup. Place your light colored 8.5×11 patterned paper in your printer and hit “print.” Voila! Perfectly printed on patterned paper! Now you can put this sheet through the Silhouette Cameo for perfectly cut book covers that already have the phrases printed, or “Faux Stamped”on them.
Cut and assemble the other pieces like Lori shows in the tutorial video. Instead of using designer paper for the pages, I chose to use plain white pages so I could make them into mini notebooks.
I hope that you enjoyed my “Faux Stamping” with Dingbats technique. The dingbat fonts are so fun to play with!