Category: Tutorial

3D Backpack Assembly

Hi Everyone!  Corri here today sharing a quick assembly tutorial for Lori’s 3d Backpack (Silhouette, SVG).  This little backpack would make a great gift for a teacher or student for back to school!

When you get the pieces cut out this is what you will have.

First, apply the pattern paper pieces to the base layer.

Using small brads, attach the straps to the backpack.

Fold along all the score lines and apply glue to the long glue tab and glue into place.  Next, apply glue to 4 small triangle glue tabs and glue to form the slanted bottom portion.  Then, fold the tabs for the bottom and glue the rectangle shape to complete the backpack. Form the pocket shape by folding into a “box” and applying glue to the tabs and then glue to the front of the backpack.  To close the backpack, pinch in the score lines on the sides and pull the flap up and over the top and secure with the tab.

It turned out so cute! You could fill it with some candy and a gift card for a teacher or some candy and small school supplies for kids.   Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Circular Pop Up Card

Happy Summer everyone!  I hope you are all safe,  healthy and enjoying your summer!  I have a perfect little project to share with you, if you have gone camping or anytime you have spent in the great outdoors.  It’s Lori’s new circular pop up card,   you can find it  here in Lori’s SVG Shop or here in the Silhouette Design Store.

It was simply too much fun to make and I may have gotten carried away, but I adore how this little book/card turned out.  You can find Lori’s amazing tutorial here on You Tube.  I have five pages instead of four like she had in tutorial.  You can even add up to six pages.  The only thing I did differently was I notched the square pieces with a circle punch so that I could add tags, I made my own little pockets!  Just use adhesive on the sides and bottom so that your little pockets open to put tags inside.

When it pops open, it turns into the coolest little star book with 5 pages!  Love this!  It almost explodes!

This project was so much fun, and as you can see, I did get a bit carried away, but I love this so much and I can’t wait to make more.  Thank you for joining us today!

~Cathy

Hello Summer Bicycle Shadowbox

Hello all you crafty friends…and Happy Summer! I have an adorable craft for you today to make and set on your desk to enjoy Summer without having to endure the heat. This is the Hexagon Shadowbox Bicycle (Lori’s SVG Shop, Silhouette), one of Lori’s new svg files. It is soooo cute sitting here on my desk. I just love all of the different layers!!

If you’d like to make one of your own, I’m here to help! So let’s get started!

Cut out all of the pieces. I used a thick white cardstock for the frame (at least 80lb for sturdiness) and normal cardstock for all of the colored layers. Once I had all of the balloons, trees, and bicycle pieces cut out I adhered them to the layer pieces.

Here is a closer look at those pieces.

Next, adhere the tabs together on each piece of the main frame and let it dry.

Now we can start assembling the shadowbox. Adhere the light blue cardstock piece to the back of the base piece. Bend all of the glue tabs…solid base piece tabs fold upwards and the insert layering pieces along with the front frame tabs fold downwards.

Adhere the outside frame to the back piece of the box.

With the layered piece tabs folded down, insert and adhere them to the box. Tree piece is adhered first. Make sure you are adhering the layers so that the tabs are touching the piece behind it. You need to make sure you still have enough room for the top frame tabs.

Next adhere the balloon piece to the box.

And then the bicycle piece.

After all of the layers have been adhered into the box, there should still be enough room to adhere the top frame tabs to the inside of the box. Adhere the top frame (tabs go inside )on and wait for it to dry.
Then decorate to your heart’s content!! I simply added a Hello Summer title chipboard piece from the I Love Summer collection.
Hope you have fun putting this fun shadowbox together!!  And don’t forget, the July Sale is happening in the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop!  Get 30% Off All SVGs when you use code JUL2020 at checkout!
Thanks for stopping by!
Aimee

New 5×7 Pop Up Flower Cards

This week I added some fun new 5×7 Pop Up Flower Cards to my shop and to the Silhouette Store!  These cards have a pretty insert design for the front of the card, but when you open them you get a gorgeous 3D Pop Up Flower!  There are 6 new versions… take a peek…

5×7 Pop Up Flower Card 1 (SVG, Silhouette )

5×7 Pop Up Flower Card 2 (SVG, Silhouette)

5×7 Pop Up Flower Card 3 (SVG, Silhouette)

5×7 Pop Up Flower Card 4 (SVG, Silhouette)

5×7 Pop Up Flower Card 5 (SVG, Silhouette )

5×7 Pop Up Flower Card 6 (SVG, Silhouette Coming Soon)

I have a video tutorial for these new cards on my YouTube Channel here.

If you make any of these cards, be sure to tag Lori Whitlock on Facebook and Instagram.  I always love to see your creations!

Have a great day!

Bible Study Journal Tutorial

Hi Everyone:

Anita here with a bible study journal that I made for my father.  He has not been able to go to bible study for various reasons over the last several months and is eager to get  back.  I made him this journal so that he could take it with him to make notes.  I used the SVG cut file from Lori’s shop that is called Pray Hardest and you can find that file here in Lori’s SVG Shop and here in the Silhouette Design store.  I also used the file called 3 Christian crosses which you can also find here in Lori’s SVG Shop and here in the Silhouette Design store.  For papers, I used Lori’s Echo Park Paper collection, All Boy.

Here is a photo of the materials that I used for making this journal.

I measured the journal cover and it measured 7.5″ X 9.75″ so I cut my front and back cardstock to that size.  I decided that I wanted the spine cover to be 2″ wide so I cut that by the 9.75″ length as well.  I used my Silhouette Cameo to create this project and did resize it once I measured the size that I would have available to decorate on the front of the journal.  I resized it to 8.250″ X 6.767″.  I used a wet adhesive on the covers because then I would be able to move the paper around until it was perfect.  I then opened the journal and trimmed with small scissors around the rounded edges of the covers.

For the pen I took the end of the pen off and took out the ink shaft.  I then measured the length that would be able to be seen when the  pen was together.  I cut my paper 1″ X 3″ and rolled it around a paint brush handle.  You basically just need to get it started rolling in a circle.  I then slid it into the pen shaft, put the ball point ink shaft back into the pen and screwed back on the end cap and my pen was done.  I used 2/5″ diameter adhesive dots to adhere the pen to the spine of the journal.

I hope that it brings a smile to his face when he sees his new bible study journal.

Hugs,

Anita