Category: Tutorial

Pencil Shaped Box 2 Assembly with Brigit

The pencil shaped box 2 makes a great gift for a student or teacher, just fill it with some treats or small school supplies, even a gift card. You can also get the file here from the Silhouette Design Store. The paper used is from Echo Park’s Back to School collection designed by Lori.

I change all my score lines  to solid in Silhouette Studio Business Edition and save the file as an svg to bring into Cricut Design Space so I can cut it out on my Cricut Maker. The new scoring wheel works great and it’s worth the extra step to fix my lines. I really like SSBE better than Design Space that’s why I do it this way but you can change the lines in Design Space also.

I actually change the lines an easier way now, I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before. I release compound path all the score marks and delete all but one in each row, I select that one and drag it to make it longer, works great.

Here’s all my pieces cut out, you can see how nice a job the cricut’s scoring wheel does. I forgot I had to do a tutorial so I had put together my project already I cut out these pieces using solid color cardstock, that’s why the difference in the competed project photo.

I bent all my score lines and put some scor tape on each tab, it gives a nice strong immediate hold, but you can use any glue that has a good hold.

For the bottom part of the box I cut out two octagon pieces, one to put inside which helps to form the box easier and one for the bottom. You can make the inside a tiny bit smaller then the bottom for a better fit.

Here’s the bottom glued on, the two pieces make it very sturdy, you really can put a bunch of treats inside this box.

Next I put the top of the pencil on, I raised all the tabs up and put the piece on all at once, I just held it in place and then put my hand inside and gently pushed each tab to the top.

Last is the pencil tip, glue the whole inside and place on top. I made sure all my seams lined up.

It really is a super simple box to put together and so cute, I just added a piece of twine and tag from the Back to School collection.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Fall Shadow Box Tutorial with Brandie

Hi there friends! Brandie here with a fun project to get you in the mood for all the Fall things! Fall is my favorite season. I love the colors, smells, and most importantly the cooler temperatures! ( I live in the desert of Arizona)  For this months project I also challenged myself to use something from the August 2018 Kit of the Month. I picked the Shadow box 11.3×11.3 6 windows. (SVG, Silhouette)

Lori has a great video tutorial on how to assemble the shadow boxes here. I watched it a couple of times to get a good idea on how to assemble the shadow box.

I used Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock for the frames. This cardstock is extra thick and worked beautifully. I used Scotch tacky glue to glue everything together. (except for the outside bottom of the frame.)  After I had the smaller frames lined up in the correct spot I used my scissors to press the insides tabs down to get a good seal on the glue.

For the outside of the frame I added some dark brown twine  to the top of my frame so that I can hang the shadow box. I also used extra strong double sided tape for the last outside section of my frame. I wanted to be sure I had a good quick adherence for the inside tabs I wouldn’t be able to reach with my fingers or scissors.

The front and back of the shadow box is covered with papers from the Celebrate Autumn collection by Echo Park.

Once I had my shadow box assemble I went on to the embellishing. The flowers on top of the shadow box are a sunflower (SVG). I kept them pretty simple. I used a golden brush pen to draw some lines on each petal. I pinched each petal lightly then bent up the end of each petal. I then glued each segment down one on top of the other. For a little added bling I used a brad from the Echo Pack Celebrate Autumn collection for the center of the sunflower.

The paper pumpkins are from the Pop Up Box Card Fall Pickup. (SVG, Silhouette).  I resized them to fit into the window. I also used the tree from this card in the window with the hedgehog.

For the falling leaves window I used the trees, fence, and oak leaves from the  Flexi Card Fall Scene. (SVG, Silhouette)

All of the remaining windows are filled with stickers, tags, ephemera, chipboard, and papers from the Celebrate Autumn collection by Echo Park. The little resin pumpkin, pinecone, acorns, and berries are from floral picks I purchased from Hobby Lobby.

I love how this project turned out. I am so looking forward to Fall! Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Brandie

Instax Photo Banner Using Build A Banner Dingbats Font with Kathy

Hi Everyone!  Today I have a tutorial showing you how to create a fun banner using the Build a Banner Dingbats Font (Lori Whitlock SVG Shop, Silhouette)  My daughter is headed off to study in Scotland for her Junior year and I wanted to make her a little something to decorate her room, that wouldn’t take up too much suitcase space!  I thought a banner with some of her favorite photos would be fun.  She loves her Instax camera so I made the banner to hold some of these cute instant photos!

If you’re not familiar with Dingbat Fonts, they are fonts that have pictures and shapes in place of the letters.  Lori has a lot of them in her shop, and they really can be used for almost anything including vinyl, HTV and cutting projects like mine.  If you look at the picture below, I’ve typed out A through Z using the Build a Banner Dingbats Font and the Text tool.

To create my banner I started by choosing 3 of the banner pieces (A, X and U)  I resized each piece to be 5″H x 3.25″W so that each piece would be large enough to hold a picture.

I wanted to make the banner so that my daughter could swap out the pictures if she wanted, so I set out to add small cut lines on the banner pieces to hold just the corners of the picture.  To do this I needed first to know the size of the pictures being used.  Instax pictures are approximately 3.39″H x 2.13″W so I created a rectangle that size using the shape tool.

I placed the rectangle on one of the banner pieces and centered it using the Transform tool.

I drew a line 0.5″ long and then moved it to one corner of the picture.  Using the green dot, I slanted the line so that it covered one of the corners.

Next, I copied the small line, clicked on the copy, right mouse clicked and selected flip horizontally.  This gave me a line to add to the opposite corner.   I made sure the two lines were properly aligned by using the transform tool.  Once I was happy with the placement, I selected both lines and grouped them.

To create the bottom lines, I made a copy of the grouped top lines, right mouse clicked on the copy and selected flip vertically.  I positioned those lines along the bottom of the rectangle.

Again I made sure that all the lines were aligned correctly within the banner piece using the transform tool.

Once they were all in place, I removed the rectangle, and grouped the slot lines along with the banner piece to make them one.

I copied the lines before grouping and added them to the other banner pieces, centering them using the transform tool.

Once they were all ready, I sent them to cut!  I added the pictures to the cut pieces, and decorated them using some Rosettes from the Build a Rosette Set 1.5″ (SVG, Silhouette) and Build a Rosette Set 2″(SVG, Silhouette).  I strung all of the banner pieces together on a piece of twine, holding them in place with small clothespins.  Some quick hints: 1)  Hot Glue is your friend when making rosettes, and 2) before threading the pieces on the twine, add a little glue to the ends of the twine and let them dry.  This will prevent fraying.

That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

 

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Reindeer Petal Box Tutorial with Brigit

Hello everyone, I have a Silhouette Studio tutorial to share with you today on how I created this reindeer box. To make this I combined the Bunny Petal Box and Christmas Tag Reindeer svg files from Lori’s shop. You can also get both of these files here and here from the Silhouette Design Store.

I started with the box, ungrouped and did a release compound path to get rid of the bunny face.

I grouped the box together again and rotated 45 degrees, added the tag and resized it to fit one of the box flaps.

I ungrouped the tag and separated the black layer and with the knife tool I cut off the antlers. I also cut off the ears from the brown and dark brown layer. (I always duplicate my piece first before I do any slicing just in case I mess up).

I duplicated the box and cut off one of the flaps with the handle and enlarged the deer’s muzzle from the tag placing it over the box flap and selected both and cropped.

For the ear, I selected both pieces and subtracted under modify menu, I wanted the bottom part as a layer instead of the top so I could weld the top piece to the box, you will see that below.

If you have little points left you can double-click on the piece and delete points.

Last I rotated the ears and welded them to the box as shown below. Now when I put the box together I just have to fold the ears out. I did make new solid score lines, I have the Silhouette Studio Business Edition and save my files as an svg so I can import them into Cricut Design Space and cut them out on my Cricut Maker.

It seems like a lot of steps but it really went together very quickly, makes a nice Christmas treat box!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

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New Product Feature: Light Boxes

Hi Everyone!  Have you seen the new Light Boxes (Sailboat, Castle, Bird) in the shop this week?  These fun boxes measure 8″ x 6″.  They have clear acetate on the front and vellum on the back and look great set in front of a window or with a tea light behind them!  

 

The frame is nice and solid and stands well on it’s own!  I recommend using at least 80#-100# cardstock for these projects. I created an assembly tutorial to show you how to put them together on my YouTube Channel.  The new Light Boxes (Sailboat, Castle, Bird) are 25% off this week! I hope you enjoy working with these new files. Have a great day!