Category: Lori Whitlock

Valentine Truck Box Card Tutorial

Hi friends! Today I am sharing an assembly tutorial for the Boc Card Valentine Truck Back End (SVG, Silhouette). I used 80lbs cardstock and a few designer papers from the Little Ladybug collection by Echo Park Paper Co. This cut file does have a lot of small pieces but totally manageable with a fine-tip glue bottle.

First, I assembled all of the decorative elements. The back of the cab of the truck has a border for the window and two rear-view mirrors. The tailgate has three layers. A foundation, a decorative layer, and the XOXO layer. It also has two taillights with two layers, a bumper, and a license plate with two layers. All of the hearts are for the inside insert of the box card. For the card base, I flipped the card over, folded all the scored lines as valley folds, and glued the black tires into place.

With the card base open I glued the back of the cab onto the inside of the card base. Then folded the score lines on the insert as valley folds and added glue to the tabs. I lined up the tab on the right next to the score line on the inside of the card base. Then folded over the left side of the card base on top of the glue on the left tab of the insert making sure everything was level and flat while folded down. I added glue to the tab on the card base and folded the right side of the card base down on the glue making sure it was lined up with the score line.

Now with the card folded flat, I added glue to the back/tailgate portion of the truck and added the tailgate to the box card.

Now it is ready to send to a valentine!

That’s all for me today. Thanks for stopping by!
Brandie

New Year, crafting goals and birthdays!

Are you starting the new year with any crafting goals?  My goal is to organize my crafting space and supplies.

Along with that, today I’m sharing one of Lori’s moneyholder cards. You could use this all year long for birthdays. So you could make as many as you need at the start of the year and have them ready to go when you need them. You can find them here: SVG, Silhouette

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Ashley

Yippie! A NEW Friday $5 Bundle!

This weekend we have the cutest Friday $5 Bundle which includes 5 amazing impossible card SVG files for just five bucks. These cards are so fun to make. You can find a tutorial HERE. These cards fold flat for mailing and you simply twist them around to stand them up. SO CUTE!! This deal is only available until Sunday at midnight, so don’t wait! Take a peek…

Be sure to go grab these SVG files while you can. 

** Because Friday $5 Bundles are already heavily discounted they are not eligible for further discounts including monthly, seasonal and flash sales.

Shop Friday $5 Bundle HERE

Thank you for joining us today! Have fun crafting this weekend!!!

~Lori

 

Strawberry Lemonade Shaker Card Cricut Tutorial

Happy New Year everyone. Thanks for checking in today. I am going to show you how to turn this already cute card (SVG, Silhouette) into a shaker card!

I want to remind everyone that I am a Cricut user and these instructions are specifically for Cricut Design Space but the idea is the same regardless of what platform you are using.

Once your SVG is uploaded, you must click on “Ungroup”. Once I clicked on ungroup, I had to select the whole image and click ungroup again. This will allow you to move the pink lemonade portion of the file.

Once I had singled out the pink lemonade, I copied it to have 4 lemonade sections.

One of these will be needed to cut the clear acetate sheet (noted by the light grey color), and one will be needed as the back lemonade portion of your card (noted by leaving it solid pink). The remaining 2 will create the frame for your shaker.

 

For the image in purple, I shrunk from the original 3.275 x 3.291 to 2.8 x 2.81 and layered it over one of the additional pink pieces. The pink will show you the size of your frame.

Once you have overlapped the pieces above (the purple and pink pieces) select both and click on “Slice”. Once you have sliced these two images together, you will need to delete some pieces.

 

You will be left with this

I also removed the sentiment, 1 because we aren’t anywhere near summer here in South Dakota and 2 because it covers the cute shaker portion. Once your screen looks like the above photo, click on “Make” and cut your pieces.

 

Once you have your pieces cut, assemble your card as you would any other shaker card.

Adhere the acetate to the pink frame and add your solid adhesive foam strips over the back of the frame (where you glued the acetate). I use ones like this:

Once the base of your card is put together, add your shaker bits (I used little lemon slices and some pink pearls) over the pink base and line up your frame on top of the shaker bits, and stick it down.

 
You should end up with an adorable little card like this! P.S. I used paper from Lori’s Echo Park line called Year In Review.
Happy Crafting!
Chelsea