Category: Echo Park

How to Make a Shaped Card with Kathy

Happy April Everyone!  It’s Kathy today with a tutorial showing how to make a shaped card from a one-dimensional file using my Silhouette.  I make a lot of these cards, and always get asked how I do them, so I decided it was time to write it all out!  For my card, I started with Lori’s new Cute Dog File (SVG, Silhouette)  I thought it would make a sweet card!

Start by loading the file into Silhouette.  I then  sized it so it was 6″ wide.  ( I wanted my card to be able to fit into a 6.5″ square envelope when done)

Next, select the image by clicking on it, and then select the offset button. (the button that looks like a star with a line around it)  The default offset is .125, which was fine for my project, click apply.  This will create a shape around your original shape which is slightly larger.

Move the original file off of your mat, and copy the offset shape two more times.

Click on one of the copies, right mouse click and select flip vertically.

Move the flipped shape down so that it overlaps the other offset shape.  Where they intersect will eventually be where the card folds.  Select both the “top and bottom” shapes, click on the transform button then click on the left justify button.  This will make sure your card sides are properly aligned.

Once the pieces are aligned, make sure they are still both selected, right mouse click and select weld.  This will make them one solid piece.

To add a score line, select the line tool, and draw a line in the center of the intersect.  Change the line to a dashed line.

Lastly, select the line and the card base, right mouse click and select group.

After I created the file, I cut all the pieces.  I assembled the dog shape, then layered it on the single offset piece.  This is then layered onto the folded base.

What you end up with is a cute puppy-shaped card!  I used Lori’s Sweet Baby Girl collection for Echo Park paper for the card.

That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

Flat Front Shutter Card Birthday

Hello Everyone:

Anita here with a fun and easy tutorial for the Flat Front Shutter Card Birthday which you can find here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette Design Store.  I used one of Lori’s brand new Echo Park lines called Sweet Baby Girl.  It was perfect for a soft and feminine card.

Here are all the pieces.  There are several that are small so remember to keep track of them.

I put together the pieces of the card and  glued everything down before I started folding.  It is much easier to work on the folds that way.

Your first step is to crease the fold to the right of the cake and you will be folding it so it pops up when lying flat.

I held the card in my left hand and pressed gently down on the middle score line with my left hand and held it in place while I used my right hand to score it across the fold.  You will be creating a valley fold here.  As you can see the folds on the top and bottom of that section just naturally pop up the way that they are supposed to be creating hill folds.

I folded up the right side of the card and used a bone folder to gently strengthen my score marks.  On the smaller pieces you will be scoring through two of the folds.

Here is a view from the top so you can see exactly what it should look like.

Lastly, here is the closed card and as you can see it lays flat and can be popped in an A2 envelope to be sent off to someone sweet.

Thanks for looking and be sure to check out Lori’s shop for more great cards of this type.

Hugs,

Anita

Easter Bunny Tote with Brandie

Hi there crafty friend! Brandie here with a cute and easy Easter bunny basket idea. If you are like me and want to give something small for Easter than this tote is perfect!

The Easter bunny tote file can be found here in Lori Whitlock’s shop and here in the Silhouette store. This little tote is cute as is but I wanted to use  the new Easter bunny faces files. They have so much personality!

I  removed the face on the tote and did a print and cut with the boy and girl bunny face files on the support piece that is included in the tote file. You can find the girl bunny here and the boy bunny here in Loris shop and here and here in the Silhouette store.

All of the pattern papers are from the 6×6 paper pads of Echo Park’s Sweet Baby Girl and Sweet Baby Boy collections

I hope you all have a Happy Easter. Thanks for stopping by!

Brandie

Quilting Weekend Goodie Set

Happy March everyone.  I am so excited to share my project for today.  I love to sew and quilt and am going away for a long weekend with  good friends to quilt.  I made this adorable box of Lori’s using paper and stickers from her Echo Park line called I’d Rather Be Crafting.   The cut file I used for the box is called Basket with Flower and can be found here in Lori’s shop and here in the Silhouette store.  I also used the bow from the Matchbox Drawer Card Bow which is here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette store.  To make my curls, I cut 1/4″ pieces of cardstock and wound it around a pen.

 

I also made pie tin pin cushions to give to my friends along with their spring Chex Mix.

Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of your day.

Hugs,

Anita

Sweet Baby Girl Bottle Card and Diaper Bag by Aimee

Hello crafty friends! Aimee here with you today and I am so excited because this is my 1st Lori Whitlock blog post! I am still over the moon to be joining this team of amazing crafters and working with Lori’s amazing cuts!

Today, I am sharing this card/gift bag for a sweet baby girl. I used the Diaper Bag (here in the Silhouette Store) and the Baby Bottle Shaped Card (here in the Silhouette Store)  along with the beautiful new Lori Whitlock Sweet Baby Girl collection. We have had 2 new sweet baby girls born into the family within the past 3 months!

This card is just adorable and came together quickly! I had it put together within 5 minutes and then came the fun part of decorating it! Every piece of this card came from Sweet Baby Girl collection with the addition of some Doodlebug twine and button.

Same thing for this sweet little diaper bag…it came together quickly! I used small amount of glue to put the box together and to adhere the “diaper” pieces to the front, back, and sides, and then a couple of pearl brads to attach the handle. I don’t know of any mom who wouldn’t love to receive this sweet little set!

Hope you have enjoyed these projects, thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Aimee