Category: Tutorial

Thanksgiving Box Card Tutorial with Courtney

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!! Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts here today with a box card tutorial!

One of these tabs is not like the other. It doesn’t have scoring marks on it. Don’t fold it… You can see that I started to this time! eek! But it needs to stay straight. That is your back piece. Do not assemble the box part. It is so much easier to add the piece while it is flat.

I like to start by adding the panel pieces to the front and back of the box card like so… except for that tall yellow piece. Hold onto that. for a second. It turns out that covers up the “flap” of the box when you put it together. I had to tear mine off and put it back on.

Oh no! I forgot that I wanted to add this gorgeous background stamp to my yellow panels! Even designers make mistakes (ahem.. all the time…). Just add it on anyway! 🙂

Now assemble the “box” and add the back yellow layer to cover up the flap.

I embossed and inked the edges of the turkey and pop and glue all the pieces to their layers.

Add the layers in and a sentiment and you are done! 🙂 I got this sentiment from the “I Love Family” chipboard: a Lori Whitlock collection for Echo Park Paper.

No matter what happens today remember that the day is all about relationships and being thankful. If you burn the turkey, don’t sweat it. You have food to eat. If people fight, don’t worry about it. You have people who love each other enough to want to get together on a day – family, friends, loved ones. You aren’t alone. And if you are still feeling stressed at the end of it… well… leave the dishes to the morning and go get in your craft room! 🙂

This is Courtney Lee signing off and wishing you a VERY happy and full Thanksgiving.

Lori’s Store: A2 Box Card: Thanksgiving Turkey
Silhouette Store: A2 Box Card: Thanksgiving Turkey


How to Thicken a Font + Christmas Bundle + Freebie

I have a new tutorial for you on YouTube! Have you ever tried to cut a font with your cutting machine that is just too thin? What happens? The material can tear and the font just isn’t suitable for cutting. In this new video I show you exactly how to fix that problem so you can use those beautiful fonts that seem too thin to cut. Check my video on How to Change the Thickness of a Font in Silhouette Studio:

This technique is applicable to any font in your library. In this video I’m using a font called Stylistics that I downloaded from the new Christmas Design Bundle from Design Bundles. If you’re interested in the Christmas Bundle, it’s packed full of awesome Christmas fonts and design elements.
The Christmas Design Bundle contains OVER 900 design elements and FONTS for ONLY $34!! That’s a 94% savings. Whether you craft for fun, for a living, you are a graphic designer or are just starting out – saving $523 on this bundle is a fantastic early Christmas present.

These design elements were used to create The Christmas Design Bundle  cover graphic. They are all included in the bundle: 50 Chalk Christmas Elements, Christmas Flat Icons, Christmas Overlays Set from Santa, Christmas Overlays Set from Santa, Christmas Invitation, Hipsta Claus, Christmas Holiday Mockup Scene Creator & Vector Rustic Christmas snowflakes

Be sure to go pick up The Christmas Design Bundle before time runs out and it’s no longer available.

Before you leave, I want to give you a freebie file from the video. Download your FREE file HERE.

Thanks for visiting the blog today!


A2 Snow Globe Shaker Card Tutorial with Kathy

Hi Everyone!  It’s Kathy today with a tutorial showing how to assemble the new A2 Snow Globe Shaker Cards. (in Silhouette here)  I made the adorable Snow Globe Shaker Snowman Card  take a peek…

A lot of people get nervous when they see a print and cut piece on the card, but it really is easy.  I’ll show you how I did it using my Silhouette, but you can also see a print and cut tutorial for Cricut here.

First you want to go into Design Page Settings and set your paper size to 8.5″x 11″.  This tells Silhouette you’ll be printing and cutting a regular letter sized paper.  Add the Snow Globe Base piece with the sentiment to your mat.

Next, click on the Registration Marks button and select type 1 registration marks for Cameo or Portrait.  You’ll see the black lines and grids show up on your mat.  Make sure your design is inside the darker marks on your mat.

Once things are set up, click on the printer icon and send the design to your printer.

This is what the page will look like with the registration marks.  Place the paper on your cutting mat.

Once the design is on your cutting mat, load it into your Silhouette, and go back to the software and select send to Silhouette.  Make sure the cut settings are set for the type of paper you are cutting.

Your Silhouette will read the registration marks then cut the design around your printed sentiment.

Now to assemble your card!  Start by cutting all of your pieces.  The design calls for cutting 3 of the snow globe outlines from chipboard.  I used Silhouette Chipboard for this, but if you did not have chipboard, you could cut six pieces from a thicker cardstock.

You want to start by assembling your snow globe.

First glue the layers of chipboard together.  Set those aside to dry.  Next, add the blue background piece (with the holes) to the Snow Globe Base.  Add the Snow “mound” piece, making sure the bottom is aligned with the bottom of the blue background.

Add the chipboard layers over the whole base.  Next, add the print and cut Snow globe base piece.  While this is drying, assemble your snowman.  Just a hint, the black piece of the snowman is sandwiched between the white body and the brown arms piece.  Add your snowman to your shaker card as shown.  Let the pieces dry completely.  You don’t want your confetti pieces sticking to any leftover wet glue.

Once your base is dry, add in the confetti snowflakes.  I also added in a few white and silver sequins, but be careful not to add too much, you want things to be able to “shake!”  Once your confetti is added, glue the piece of acetate over the globe. ( I used overhead transparencies purchased at my local office supply store)  Don’t overdo with the glue, it will squeeze out and stick to your confetti pieces.  Add the red ring over the transparency piece and your globe is done!  Add the background piece to your card, and then add the snow globe to the background.

It really is pretty easy to put together,  and the results are so cute!  That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

 

 

 

 

 

Car Monogram Tutorial with Anita

Hi!  Anita here with a tutorial to make your own car window monogram. This is for my daughter’s car and she loves anything that is monogrammed.  I previously purchased one and it came off in the car wash.    I used Lori’s Monogram Set A-Z which is a lovely file set with so many different options for your personalization needs.  You can find this file here in Lori’s store and they are sold as individual letters in the Silhouette store.  Here is the M, here is the C and the L.

There are a few supplies that you will need for your project.  You will need some kind of vinyl and transfer tape.   I chose some glitter vinyl from Cricut.  You will also need a brayer, a craft stick or scraper and a weeding tool, or pick.

Open all three files on your mat, they will likely overlap but you can move them around.

Ungroup your monogram files one set at a time.  Move the three initial groups that you want to use onto your mat.

Ungroup the desired monogram files from the remaining files and leave them on your mat.  I am using  CLM.

I  decided that I wanted to use a round monogram so I kept that file on my mat.  The other files were off to the left and messy so you can highlight them all and delete them.

I made the circle and monogram large so that I could get the placement that I wanted within the circle.  I  measured the space on her rear window which would allow for the monogram to be positioned so that the rear wiper would not touch it when in use.

I resized it to fit her window.

When you put the vinyl on your mat,  you want to use a brayer or a pizza roller to make sure that the vinyl is stuck to the mat well and will not move.

Next, select the vinyl setting for cutting on your machine and adjust your blade.  This is very important because you want it to make what is called a kiss cut which is essentially to cut through the vinyl but not the backing.  This will make more sense as we move forward.

Once your design is cut, you need to weed out the pieces of vinyl that you do not want to have in your final design.

After weeding,  cut the backing with your design on it so that you have at least 1/2″ clearance on all sides.  Cut a piece of the transfer tape to the same size or slightly bigger dimension than your design piece.  Remove the liner from the transfer tape piece and gently place it over your cut image.   Use a scraper to burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl.

Now you might be wondering why my sample above is pink and my actual monogram that I put on the window is silver. Well, things don’t always work out and you might have to start again.  I worked hard at trying to burnish the pink monogram and just believe that the vinyl was old and the design was a bit intricate so it just did not work.  I moved on to plan B and it worked like a charm.

Peel the backing paper from the design,  leaving the transfer tape, with your design, sticky and exposed.  Be sure to clean the window first and then put the transfer tape with the vinyl images onto the window.  Use your scraper to make sure that it is burnished to the window.

Pull back a tiny piece of the transfer tape to make sure that the letters are sticking.  When you know they set, pull the whole piece of tape off at a 45 degree angle, slowly and carefully.  I’m so happy with this design!  I’m sure my daughter will love it!

Happy monograming.  You can monogram so many things, from clothing, to home goods, to a car window.  Lori has so many adorable files that would look so awesome in vinyl on a surface of your choice.

Hugs,

Anita

 


I Love Warm Hugs with Lezlye

Welcome Lori Whitlock Fans! Lezlye, here today with and adorable snowman card and a quick tutorial for you newbies to Lori’s files.

When you first import the file it is all together and black, if you were to size it all together and click cut using the cricut explore it would put all these on a black mat.

You need to click on the layers and un-group them once you have your desired size set.

Hit the layers button and each individual piece and then add the color you want to cut. Now it will cut them all individually on your desired colors.

This is just one way to do it. Now on to the card…

I used the I Love Winter 6 x 6 Pad that Lori designed for Echo Park Paper, along with the coordinating embellishments. I love to bling up my cuts with stickles and dimensional buttons or gems.

My card measures 5.5 x 5.5

Files and Products used:

Snowman

Nesting Banners

I Love Winter by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park

Have a great Day!

 

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