Tutorial – Page 59 – Lori Whitlock

Pop Up Birthday Cake Card Tutorial with Kathy

April 26, 2018April 25, 2018

Hi Everyone! It’s Kathy today with a tutorial showing how to fold and assemble the new A2 Pop Up Birthday Cake Card, which is available here in Lori’s SVG Shop and here in the Silhouette Store.

This card is really pretty easy to make, but I know a lot of people get intimidated by the folding. I started by cutting my pieces.

Next I started folding the insert or pop up piece. It’s easiest to start folding from either the very top or very bottom score lines. That way it’s a little easier to keep track. I put together this graphic showing which way to fold which lines. The V means a valley fold, the upside down V means a mountain fold.

Here is what it looks like from the side when it is folded:

And from the front. I do recommend you go slowly and have a little patience.

Once you have the pop up insert folded, it helps to open and close it a few times to sharpen the folds. Next step is to add adhesive to the back of the insert. You want to add adhesive only to the outer parts of the card. The blue area on the graphic below shows the pop up portion. You do not want to add any adhesive to those parts.

Once you have the adhesive added, I find it easier to fold the insert and center it onto one side of the card base. Make sure the outermost side folds are flush with the center crease on the card base. You can then fold the other side over to adhere, and it should be centered.

Lastly, add the presents with their bows to the front panels beneath the BIRTHDAY letters. I also added some enamels to the bows for some sparkle!

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

Pineapple Box Tutorial with Brigit

April 19, 2018April 18, 2018

Hello everyone, it’s Brigit here today sharing a quick tutorial on making this adorable pineapple box. I just added the criss-cross panels from the shaped card pineapple file. You can get both of these files from the Silhouette Design Store, here and19 here.

I used Silhouette Studio to edit my project, I have the business edition and use the files from Lori’s shop so I’m able to save my project as an svg and cut it out with my Cricut Maker.

I imported the pineapple shaped card and only kept the criss-cross piece.

I imported the pineapple box next.

I zoomed in really close and sized the criss-cross to fit inside one of the sides.

I double clicked on the criss-cross piece which brought up point editing and I selected the point in the corner and moved it so it would reach the score lines, I did that on all four corners.

I duplicated until I had 6 pieces, saved, imported into Cricut Design Space and cut out.

Added some twine, decorative brad from Echo Park’s For the Record 2 collection and some brown sequins. The sentiment is from My Creative Time and paper is from Doodlebug Design.

Hope you enjoyed this project, thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!

Decorative Cutting Board Tutorial with Brandie

April 12, 2018April 10, 2018

Hi there crafty friends! Brandie here with a tutorial for the decorative cutting board I made for my chicken loving aunt.

I found this cute shaped cutting board at Michael’s they also had a few other shapes as well. But I needed the chicken.

The Farm Fresh Eggs comes from the Farm Animal Dingbats Font. You can find it here in Loris shop and here in the Silhouette store. This type of file is uploaded like a new font to your computer that can then be used in your cutting software.

Once I had the font loaded to my computer I typed out the alphabet until I found the image I wanted. In this case it is the letter O.

I enlarged the image to 8 inches wide and sent it to my cutting mat. I cut the image out of chalkboard vinyl. I like how sticky it is and the texture it gives to the words.

When possible I like to weed my cut images while they are still on the cutting mat. So that when it comes time to place the transfer tape the image is flat and secure.

I centered my cut image on the cutting board using the jute hanger as a guide.

Pressing firmly I rubbed each letter then peeled up the transfer tape.

Here she is all cute and ready to ship. Enjoy the rest of your week and thanks for stopping by!

Brandie

How to Make a Shaped Card with Kathy

April 5, 2018April 3, 2018

Happy April Everyone! It’s Kathy today with a tutorial showing how to make a shaped card from a one-dimensional file using my Silhouette. I make a lot of these cards, and always get asked how I do them, so I decided it was time to write it all out! For my card, I started with Lori’s new Cute Dog File (SVG, Silhouette) I thought it would make a sweet card!

Start by loading the file into Silhouette. I then sized it so it was 6″ wide. ( I wanted my card to be able to fit into a 6.5″ square envelope when done)

Next, select the image by clicking on it, and then select the offset button. (the button that looks like a star with a line around it) The default offset is .125, which was fine for my project, click apply. This will create a shape around your original shape which is slightly larger.

Move the original file off of your mat, and copy the offset shape two more times.

Click on one of the copies, right mouse click and select flip vertically.

Move the flipped shape down so that it overlaps the other offset shape. Where they intersect will eventually be where the card folds. Select both the “top and bottom” shapes, click on the transform button then click on the left justify button. This will make sure your card sides are properly aligned.

Once the pieces are aligned, make sure they are still both selected, right mouse click and select weld. This will make them one solid piece.

To add a score line, select the line tool, and draw a line in the center of the intersect. Change the line to a dashed line.

Lastly, select the line and the card base, right mouse click and select group.

After I created the file, I cut all the pieces. I assembled the dog shape, then layered it on the single offset piece. This is then layered onto the folded base.

What you end up with is a cute puppy-shaped card! I used Lori’s Sweet Baby Girl collection for Echo Park paper for the card.

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

Flat Front Shutter Card Birthday

March 29, 2018March 27, 2018

Hello Everyone:

Anita here with a fun and easy tutorial for the Flat Front Shutter Card Birthday which you can find here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette Design Store. I used one of Lori’s brand new Echo Park lines called Sweet Baby Girl. It was perfect for a soft and feminine card.

Here are all the pieces. There are several that are small so remember to keep track of them.

I put together the pieces of the card and glued everything down before I started folding. It is much easier to work on the folds that way.

Your first step is to crease the fold to the right of the cake and you will be folding it so it pops up when lying flat.

I held the card in my left hand and pressed gently down on the middle score line with my left hand and held it in place while I used my right hand to score it across the fold. You will be creating a valley fold here. As you can see the folds on the top and bottom of that section just naturally pop up the way that they are supposed to be creating hill folds.

I folded up the right side of the card and used a bone folder to gently strengthen my score marks. On the smaller pieces you will be scoring through two of the folds.