Hi there friends! Today I’m sharing a tutorial for the new 5×7 Grid Pop Up Cards. I am using the 5×7 Grid Pop Up Card Butterfly (SVG, Silhouette). These cards have the pop-up wow factor of a box card but are much easier to make and they fold flat for mailing! These cards are also great scrap busters I didn’t need to cut into a new 12×12 sheet paper for any of the pieces.
Once I had everything cut out of 80lb cardstock I inked the edges of the treetops, flowers, and butterfly. This file also has a print and cut sentiment that is glued onto the back of the treetop (not pictured).
I then assembled the insets. For the small flower pieces, I used my sticker maker. When I glued the butterfly together, I only added glue to the center body portion to give the wings a little more dimension.
Now to assemble the card. There are three green base pieces two smaller and one large. Each one has three slits cut into them. The smaller bases are for the outside and the large one goes in the middle.
Starting with the trees slide each base into the slits at the bottom of the tree panel. The bottom edge of the tree panel and the bases should be level and touching the table. Now add the butterfly panel and the flower panel the same way.
To fold flat just push the base over to one side. The bases do not need to come apart to fold flat.
This card is fun and easy to make, and Lori has lots of versions. Definity go check them out! Thanks for stopping by!
This week I released a new video tutorial for the sliceform truck cards on my YouTube channel. This sliceform card truck has a different attachment mechanism using a glue tab that you may find easier to assemble than my previous sliceform cards. This new sliceform truck card style is on sale 25% off until Monday at noon. These new cards work for all sorts of holidays and celebrations throughout the year.
I hope you have a great weekend. Have fun crafting!
Hi everyone! I have a fun card to share with you today, just a few simple steps and you will have a card that pops up and delights your recipient. There are lots and lots of these pop-up box cards to choose from in Lori’s Shop and in the Silhouette Online Design Store. You can find the card here in Lori’s Shop or here in Silhouette Design Store. You can find the video assembly tutorial HERE.
The first thing that I like to do with Lori’s files is separate everything by color. She colors all of her files and it just makes it just so dang simple. So, I just take a few seconds to ungroup the file and sort my pieces by color for ease of cutting and then it is easier to assemble everything. Once you’ve got it all cut out, we are ready to assemble.
First, start with your red card base and do one peak and one valley fold.
It will look like this.
Next, add your blue panels.
Now it’s time to add the gray road, this is the piece that makes your card pop up. You are going to fold on the two score lines.
You can take a few minutes here to create your embellishments of the bus, apple, and pencil. I just used a glue pen to assemble these smaller detail pieces.
Glue your bus onto the gray road piece.
Now, we are ready to add our road to our card base. Remember, we want this to pop up….so we are only going to put adhesive on the left side and right sides…just like in the picture below. Just those two spots of adhesive.
Now you have your road added, you can see that the pop-up and where we are going to add are to other elements of the pencil and apple. Just fold the tabs on each and add adhesive. Here’s a link to Lori’s video on these pop-up cards on YouTube. Pop Card You Tube
With the adhesive on each tab, you can add both the little pop-ups in just seconds.
And bam, just like that…you have the cutest little bus card. Now I did leave the back-to-school saying out and added a little sun sticker that I had, just because it’s not back-to-school time. Thought my granddaughter might enjoy the little sun!
Hello friends! Traci here and today, I’m sharing a tutorial on how to make this fun envelope-style mini album! I love creating small scrapbooks so when I’m looking for a new idea, I know Lori will always have something awesome. For this project, I used her SVG cutting file called Silhouette, 4×4 Accordion Envelope Mini Album
I wanted this to have a dog theme so I chose the super cute Echo Park Pets Collection (also designed by Lori). I used the 6×6 paper pad, both sets of die-cut ephemera, and the 12×12 sticker sheet.
Here’s what this accordion-style mini looks like opened up. On one side there are envelopes where you can store photos and small memorabilia. On the back side, there are mats so you can add more pictures.
Here’s how I made it …
First, I cut out all of the pieces. There are 4 envelopes, 3 hinge pieces, 2 covers, and the pattern papers for embellishing. I used cardstock for everything except the cover pieces. I used chipboard for those.
Now that everything was cut, I created each envelope by folding the 2 sides in and the bottom piece up. I added
double-sided adhesive to the bottom portion to seal everything together, then adhered the colorful embellishment piece to the flap.
Next, I attached the 4 envelopes to each other using the 2.25″ x 4″ hinge pieces to create a row. Be sure to leave about 1/8″ in between the envelopes so that there’s room for the fold.
Now, it’s time to add the cover pieces to the first and last envelopes. Again, leave a little space in between for the pages to bend.
Once all of the album’s base pieces are adhered together … fold it, making sure to alternate the direction of each page to create the accordion shape. Now, it’s time to embellish!
On the cover I layered the stripe, polka dot, navy blue print, and the 3×3 card on
top of each other. These are all from the 6×6 paper pad.
Inside for the envelope pages, I added cute stickers from the 12×12 sticker sheet and die cut
pieces from both packages of ephemera.
For the other side of the envelopes, I created photo mats for lots of cute puppy dog pictures. I added colorful pattern papers and more embellishments.
Lori has a great tutorial that shows you how to put everything together here:
This would make a great mini album for your pet’s photos or a sweet gift for
ANY pet parent. The Echo Park Pets Collection even has options for
cats, birds, hamsters, guinea pigs, lizards, fish, and rabbits!
Thanks for stopping by the blog today. I hope you’ll try this cutting file and wonderful paper line for your next project. Have a great day!
Anita here with a tutorial on the application of vinyl to a travel mug. I wanted to make this for one of my friends for Valentine’s Day as one of her true loves is coffee. I used Lori’s SVG called I Only Need Coffee on Days with “Y” (SVG, Silhouette). I used some Cricut silver matte vinyl for my project. I selected matte vinyl for my cutting surface. You do not need to mirror the design when using regular vinyl on a project.
Here are the materials that I used for my project. You will want to pick up some transfer tape if you don’t have any as it makes these vinyl projects so much easier.
Here is the design cut out and that is my weeding tool from Cricut which is next to the design. It has a hook on the end which makes fishing out those tiny little pieces so easy. You can use a pin and I have used a seam ripper in the past too. You are going to want to remove all of the pieces of design that you don’t need to be there. I started in one corner and slowly peeled the excess away from my design. If there are fine elements to your design you might need to hold onto the design with one hand as you pull the excess away so that your design doesn’t tear.
Here is what my design looked like after I peeled away all of the excess piece which came off in one piece, Next, I needed to go in and grab those extra little bits to help define my design more. I used my weeding tool for this. You can use a pin as well.
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My design is now all weeded and ready for the transfer tape to be applied directly on top of the design. I cut a piece of transfer tape a little larger by 1/2″ or so around your design. Then I peeled off the white piece on the transfer paper leaving the sticky side exposed and then stuck that down on top of my design. I leave my design on my mat through these steps as it is easier to work with. At this point, you need to burnish the transfer tape onto your design. Essentially you want the tape to pick up just the vinyl from the backing paper so that you can adhere it directly to your mug and see exactly where it will go. I used my Cricut scraper that I bought but you can certainly use a popsicle stick for this step. Check to see if you successfully got the vinyl to adhere to the transfer tape. If not, continue to burnish until it all comes off the backing paper.
This photo shows the transfer tape on and the tool that I used to burnish the vinyl onto the transfer tape. And my well-loved mat, lol.
Lastly, I placed my transfer tape onto the mug. I started carefully at one edge laying it on and let it gently fall where it wanted to given that the cup is rounded. I then used my fingers to smooth out the transfer tape. Once I was happy with the placement, it was time to again burnish the design to get it to adhere to the cup. It came out great and I’m sure that she will love it.
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