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Gingerbread Man Christmas Present Box Card Tutorial

July 28, 2022July 27, 2022

Hello everyone! Marcia here today. Since it is July and Lori just came out with some new Christmas box cards, I thought I would get a jump on making my Christmas cards. Do you start making Christmas projects in July? My mother-in-law loves gingerbread, so I thought the Gingerbread Man Christmas Present Box Card (SVG, Silhouette) would be perfect for her. There are similar new Christmas Present Box Cards with Santa, Reindeer, Snowman, etc…

Let me show you how easy these box cards are to make.

Step 1. Decide on cardstock colors and/or pattern papers and cut out all pieces. I like to match the base cardstock as close as possible to the pattern paper I am using. The cut file comes with a tag and three different sentiments. You can use the print and cut feature of your machine to create the tag. Otherwise, a stamped sentiment works well too. Before assembling, I ink the edges of my papers to give the shapes dimension. Here I have the pieces roughly arranged in layers.

Step 2. Adhere the Flower together, the Mug, and the Gingerbread Man. To get the eyes and mouth just perfect, save the negative piece and use it as a guide. You’ll never again have eyes too wide apart or a crooked smile ever again! Adhere the ribbon and bow paper pieces onto the card base.

Step 3. Cut a piece of twine and attach to the tag. Using a sharp pick, poke holes in the bow using the dots as a guide. Thread the ends of the twine through so you can tie it off in a knot in the back of the bow. I secured the tag in place with foam tape. (Optionally, you could thread the twine through before adhering the bow front the the bow back.) Glue the side tab to the opposite side to form the card base. Using foam tape, add the flower to the front.

Step 4. Adhere the inserts into the card base placing the mug in front of the gingerbread man.

These cards do fold flat for mailing in a 5×7 envelope. Lori has lots of Christmas card ideas in her shop. Go check them all out and have some fun making your own cards!

Thanks so much for stopping by.
~Marcia

Flower Mason Jar

July 21, 2022July 14, 2022

Hello crafty friends! Aimee here today with a tutorial on a beautiful new SVG file called Box Card Flower Filled Mason Jar (SVG, Silhouette). This box card is really stunning and is a bigger card that measures a tad over 7″ tall and 4″ wide. So, whoever you give this card to, they will most definitely want to put this on display! And like I said, I am here with a tutorial to help you assemble this little beauty!

To start off, you will want to pull your papers together and cut out the pieces. For the base of the card, I used an aqua blue cardstock. The flowers, vine, and butterfly are from the Endless Summer collection and the lid is from the Birthday Boy collection, both from Echo Park Paper.

Next you will want to adhere all of the flowers, vines, and lid to the base pieces. Set the butterfly aside until the box card is completely assembled.

Next step is to take a bone folder and run it along the perforated lines. The 2 middle jar layers should have the flaps folded upwards.

Now comes the assembly part. Flip the card base over so that the front cover (with the lid) is on the right side. Now you will want to adhere the right flap of the flower layer to the base of the card making sure to line up the tab with the perforated line of the main card base.

To check that you have lined up the tab of the flower layer, flip the front of the card base back to see that it is indeed lined up. See picture below.

Next you will adhere the vine layer to the base card making sure to line it up with both the base card and the flower layer.

And the last step is to apply glue to the 3 tabs on the left side of the pieces and adhere the box card together.

Now that the main pieces are adhered together, you can adhere the butterfly to the front and then add some embellishments! For the birthday sentiment, I took this Happy Birthday piece from the Box Card Envelope Birthday Cake Girl (Lori’s SVG, Silhouette). I can’t tell you how much I love this card! I will have to make myself one because it will be difficult to give it away.

That’s all from me today…hope you enjoy all of these fun new box card files!

Aimee

Layered Heat Transfer Vinyl Tutorial

July 14, 2022July 12, 2022

Anita here with a fun and easy tutorial on how to apply layered heat transfer vinyl to your projects. My daughter got engaged recently and I wanted to make her a fun t shirt to wear. I used Lori’s SVG including Hand Lettered Bride and Groom (SVG, Silhouette) and Wedding Rings Card (SVG, Silhouette). I prewashed the shirt first and gave it a good press.

Here are the pieces that I cut out of Vinyl.

Here are the pieces laid out on the t shirt for placement.

I removed all the pieces from the t shirt except for the gold ring. I lightly pressed that down at 315 degrees for 30 seconds. You have to work from the bottom most design piece and build your way up. I have a Cricut Easy Press and if you don’t have one you can use a regular iron. The wool, silk and polyester settings on a standard iron are at around 300 degrees so if using a regular iron I would just increase the time a little bit.

Once the item was cool to the touch, I peeled off the protective plastic over the design. Next, I put on the white layer which is the background for the stone. I pressed that down at 315 degrees for 30 seconds. I removed the plastic layer from that piece once it was cool to the touch.

Lastly, I applied the top of the diamond stone and adhered that in the same manner. Once it had cooled to the touch I removed the plastic topping from the stone.

Next, I laid out the bride word and the decorative swirl. I like to put it where I think I want it to be and lightly press one edge to make sure that it did not move when I adhered the last two pieces. I pressed the bride and swirl for 30 seconds at 315 degrees and there was some overlap with the ring and it did not cause any issues. After waiting for it to cool, I peeled the last two plastic protective layers off, flipped the shirt over and pressed the back for 15 seconds.

I find that these t shirts are best cleaned and dried inside out and that they design holds up well.

And don’t forget, that there’s a sale in the Lori Whitlock SVG shop through Saturday. Get 30% off all SVGs, Fonts, Pattern Fills and Commercial Licenses when you use code JUL2022 at checkout.

That’s it for me today. Have a great day.

Hugs,

Anita

Pop Up Cards 101

July 7, 2022July 6, 2022

I love a good pop up card. Looks like a regular card on the outside, then open it up and you get a fun surprise. We get a lot of questions on how to assemble these cards, so I thought I’d put together a quick tutorial showing how easy they are to make! For my sample, I put together the Pop Up Card Birthday Present Hat (SVG, Silhouette). Take a peek…

That little hat is just so cute! Here are the basic steps for putting together this card, and pop up cards in general… First I cut the pieces of the file. I used Echo Park Paper’s new All About a Girl Collection to make this card.

I pieced together the present and the hat. I used pop dots for the 2nd bow layer and the hat’s pom pom.

Next, I folded the insert with the pop up mechanism. Below are 3 different views of how it is folded. For this card, and all pop up cards in general, there’s a bump-out section that you want to fold so it sticks out into the center of the open card. The last photo shows how it should look when folded flat. You want it to be inside the folded card.

Once you have the insert folded correctly, you want to glue it into the card base. On the left, you can see that I added adhesive everywhere EXCEPT under the pop out section. You don’t want any adhesive there, so it will stick out into the card when opened. Starting with one side, I centered the insert in the card base, and then folded over the other side to secure. Now when the card opens, the bump-out pops out into the center of the card.

Now you want to attach the hat to the bump-out so that it will pop up when the card opens. I added adhesive to the only the front portion of the bump-out. I then lined up the hat with the bottom score line on the side with the adhesive, centered it in my card, and pressed to secure. Now when the card is opened the hat pops up.

To finish my card, I added the print and cut sentiment to the bow with some twine. It’s all ready to send off now!

I hope this helped to show how easy pop up cards are to make! That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

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How to Change the Color of Stickers in Cricut Design Space

June 30, 2022June 29, 2022

Hi friends! I’m stopping in today to share a quick tutorial on how to change the color of your print and cut stickers in Cricut Design Space. I used the new Summer Stickers 2 (SVG, Silhouette). These stickers are so cute, but I wanted something a little less pink.

I uploaded the stickers into Design Space and ungrouped the large group of stickers and moved out the images I wanted to use for this project. Be sure to keep the individual stickers grouped together. Then I deleted the rest of the sticker I wasn’t using from the mat.

I then added a 5×7 rectangle and resized the stickers to fit my card.

Using the layers panel on the right side of the design mat select the individual pieces that need to be color changed. With the image selected in the layers column move to the Operations tab on the top left and select the colors drop down, pick the new color, and repeat for the rest of the pieces on the sticker. Be sure to keep the stickers grouped together.