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Shadow Box Card Golf Cart Tutorial

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   Hello! 

 I wanted to show you how I put together this Shadow Box Card.  I’m making this golf-themed card as a Thank You for my son-in-law. He’s celebrating the end of tax season (he’s a CPA) and can’t wait to hit the fairways! The addition of the sun on this card is my wishful thinking for warmer weather…it is unseasonably cold here.

  Shadow Box Card Golf Cart (SVG, Silhouette)

This is a good-sized card and it folds down to fit in a 5 x7 envelope. There are many pieces but it assembles very quickly. FYI- You will need two 12 x 12 pieces of white cardstock for the main working panels of the card. 

 

These are the two main frame pieces. The slots will be on either side of the card.

These are the insert panels for inside the frame.
 
 
 
This is all the smaller pieces. The blue piece is optional, but I used it as a sky.  The sun is from the Summer Set file. You can also find it here.
 
 
This is what the panels should look like when the colored cardstock is glued on. 
 
 
A view of the panels stacked to reveal your golfing scene!
 
 
To assemble the outer frame you are going to glue the front frame to the back frame after you fold the small end flaps in and add glue.
 
 
Make sure to flatten out each frame piece and align at the bottom when you glue the flaps. This will ensure a nice fit for the inserts.

 Start by inserting the back panel in first, slightly bending the panel so that the top of the tab inserts into the side slit and then the bottom of the tab will follow easily. 

 


 
Here you can see the tabs after they were inserted into the side slots. Now you have a fun 3D diorama type scene!
 
 



A little tip. I bought some quarter-inch blue tape and stuck my little pieces on them. I always lose tiny pieces so I cut extras and add them to a piece of tape to keep them from escaping! 

I hope you will give this card a try-it was fun and easy to make. It would be perfect for any golfer in your life!

💕 Sue Kment

   

Box Card Rainbow with Unicorn Tutorial

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Hello Crafty friends, today I want to share how I made this cute Rainbow Unicorn Box Card with you!
 
For my card I chose the Box Card Rainbow (SVG, Silhouette). The Rainbow card is cute on its own, but I wanted to add a little touch of magic to my card, so I have also added the Unicorn from the Unicorn Card (SVG, Silhouette).
To start I opened both files on separate pages in Silhouette. I then copied & pasted my unicorn to the page with the Box Card Rainbow. From here I was able to resize the Unicorn to fit with my Rainbow as the original was a lot larger.
I wanted this to be a Birthday card, so I swapped out the sentiment by typing a new one using the Samantha Craft font then I print & cut.
To start I glued the little black piece to the back of Unicorn shape that has the holes cut for the eye & nostril. Then I added more glue & pasted this on top of the solid Unicorn shape.
After cutting all my pieces I glued the coloured panels onto my white corresponding pieces.
I then folded the tabs on my Rainbow shapes. The back & middle pieces I folded to the front. The small one at the front I folded to the back. Next I glued them all into place one at a time starting from the back, by first doing one side then gently folding the card flat as I go to make sure it placed evenly before I glued the tab on the other side.
Then I added some foam squares to the back of the Unicorn & front Rainbow/Cloud & Cloud pieces to get some dimension on the card.
Lastly I adhered the cloud pieces & my Unicorn onto the card & finished off with some Star & Heart enamel stickers to embellish.
The box card folds flat to fit into 5×7 envelope!

 

I love how this turned out!
Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs
Noelene 🙂

 

Airplane Slider Card

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Hey there everyone! Hope you are all having a great week. I wanted to share this fun airplane slider card (SVG, Silhouette) with you. Again with this great A Magical Voyage paper line. With my bonus son going to school to be a pilot, I had to use this line for some fun things for him.

I have all my cut pieces laid out, except the airplane. This is a print and cut file but the chipboard plane that comes with the Magical Voyage line was too perfect.

 

Scored everything that needed to be scored.

Then I worked on the slider portion. It cuts in 2 pieces, you glue the 2 together for stability. Fold the tabs over on the end and pop them through the slits on your base.

Attach the little bar to your adhesive on the tabs that you have poked through the slits in the base.
The backside will look like this.

I took my circle that says “pull” and added adhesive and folded it over the end of the slider strip.

I have to pop everything with dimentionals so I added a few of those to the back of the base piece and placed it on the cardstock base.

I added my clouds and sentiment and the chipboard plane to the little bar we created on the slider bar and ended up with this adorable slider card.
The plane “flies” across the card when the strip is pulled.
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!

Chelsea

Box Card Birdhouse Flowers Tutorial

Hi there friends! Has Spring sprung where you live yet? It has where I live and I’m ready for it. I have loved all the springtime files that are showing up in Loris’s shop and knew I needed to make one. Today I am sharing an assembly tutorial for the Box Card Birdhouse Flowers (SVG, Silhouette).

This card is darling as is, but I needed to put a little spin on it with bees. I used the Bee Happy collection by Echo Park Paper Co. I also resized everything to be a little bigger.

 

 

I first glued all of the flowers together. All of the flowers have two layers and a center. I swapped out the paper centers for enamel dots. I then glued all of the flowers onto the green inserts. The middle insert has most of the flowers while the back insert has two flowers. For the first insert I trimmed off the bird and glued on the bee sticker.

Next, I glued on the decor for the birdhouse. (I forgot to take a proper picture) There are two sets of two roof pieces, two rounds for the doorway and a smaller round for decoration. There are also two base pieces for the bottom of the birdhouse and one for a perch. One of the completed roofs and bottom pieces are for the back. The base of the of the box card comes in two pieces that needs to be glued together. Line up the edge of large tab with the side of the house. With the front of the house facing down, I glued the inserts in. Be sure to have the right side of the insert facing you. All of the tabs are valley folds. I added glue to back of the right tab then lined the tab up with the straight edge of the front of the house and the top of the side of the box base. Then lined up the next two inserts up next to the back of the insert in front and the top of the side of the box card. I then carefully folded the inserts over making sure not to bend the leaves of the flowers so that the wrong sides of the inserts are facing up.

 

I had to trim the edges of the left tabs because they were overlapping the tab in front of it a little bit. Then I added glue to all of them and folded the base of the box card over making sure all the small tab lined up correctly. I then added glue to the large tab on the base and folded the back of the card over holding in place until the glue set.

 

I then added a bee sticker to the front on the card and tucked one into the back flowers.

 

 

 

I really like how this one turned out. I hope you all have a happy spring and thanks for being here.
Brandie

Butterfly Mini Album Tutorial

Hey friends! Traci here and today, I have a new project for spring. Last Thursday was National Butterfly Day and I realized … I’ve never made a mini album in the shape of a butterfly! So, with the help of two amazing Lori Whitlock cutting files, I created a super cute little butterfly scrapbook. Take a look …

 

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album Tutorial

 

I chose the first cut file titled Butterfly Set (Silhouette) because it had the perfect wings, however it didn’t have the separate body piece that I needed. So I found a second file called Shaped Card Butterfly (Silhouette) & used them both!

 

 

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Mini Album with cut-outs

 

I loved the delicate patterned cut-outs in the wings and thought it would be pretty backed with some colorful papers. I also added a few gems for sparkle. 

Let’s take a quick look inside, then I’ll walk you through the steps of how I made it …

 

Butterfly shaped scrapbook album page with hearts, flowers, and a bird

 

I used the file to cut white card stock pages, then covered them in a mix of 12×12 pattern papers from Bella Blvd’s Birthday Bash and Bella Besties Hearts and Ombre. 

 

Butterfly shaped scrapbook album page with stripes, flowers, a cake, and cupcakes

 

I created photo mats for each page in varying shapes and sizes, then decorated with lots of cute die cuts.

 

Butterfly shaped scrapbook album page with flowers and confetti

 

On this page, I made two round photo mats by punching a 2.5″ scalloped circle out of a pattern paper, then a 1 3/4″ circle out of white card stock.

 

Butterfly shaped scrapbook album page with lots of pretty flowers

 

Ok, time for the tutorial. Here’s how I made the album with Lori’s awesome cut file …

 

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Album Tutorial

 

1. I duplicated the shape first so that I would have a front cover, back cover, and pages.

 

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Album Tutorial

 

2.  I wanted the pages and back cover to be a solid shape so next I highlighted my second butterfly and clicked release compound path — this separates all of the little inside shapes.

 

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Album Tutorial

 

3. I moved the base butterfly shape off the the left, and deleted the little bits and pieces that were left behind.

 

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Album Tutorial

 

4.  Next, I created an internal offset of the solid butterfly so that I would have a smaller shape to cut pattern paper layers. 

I cut the cover pieces once, and then cut 5 solid pieces to use as pages.  Finally, I cut various pattern papers out of the smaller butterfly. 

 

Butterfly Shaped Scrapbook Album Tutorial

 

I hope this helps you to create your own shaped mini album with Lori’s butterfly cut files. She has so many great ones to choose from! Hop on over to her shop today and have fun exploring. Happy crafting!

 

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