Category: Tutorial

Bee Happy Tutorial with Guest Designer Lorrie Nunemaker

Hello everyone!

It’s Lorri Nunmaker, and I’m so excited to be a guest on LoriWhitlock.com.  I was a part of the Lori Whitlock design team for a couple of years, and was so excited to be offered a guest blog post.  Lori’s products have always been super inspiring!

Today, I am happy to share with you a tutorial for this “Bee Happy” card.  When I started thinking about what I would like to create for this post, I instantly knew I wanted to use the Lori Whitlock “Fine and Dandy” paper line for Echo Park Paper, which led me to this card.

I created this card in Cricut Design Space, and then cut the card base and elements with my Cricut Explore.  I just love how the papers went with this theme.  Here’s a video tutorial for the card set up in Design Space.  Have a great day!

Files Used:

2 Nested Shapes
3 Bugs
Mega Flower Collection
Nested Scalloped Circle
Square Center Step Card-School


Star Box Tutorial with Corri

Hi everyone!  Corri here today sharing an assembly tutorial for the new 2 Compartment Star Box.  This fun box is so easy to assemble.

When you cut your box, this is what you’ll end up with.

First, you will form the two compartments of your box.  On the two large red pieces, fold along all the score lines.  Apply glue to one tab at a time and line up with the edge of the star base.  Give your glue a few seconds to dry before forming the points on the star so that the edges don’t slip.

Once your have the two halves formed, apply glue and press them together.   Hold them together for a little bit until the glue holds tight.

Now its time to form the lid.  Glue the two thin, long red pieces together to form a long strip.  Fold along all the score lines.  Match up the edges to make sure the line up to the star shape and then apply glue to one tab at a time and form the edges around the star shape.

Here’s how it looks from the outside.

After you from the lid, you can add the decorative cover piece (larger slit) and the trim pieces to the edge of the lid.

There you have it!  Super easy and so much fun!

Check out all Lori’s new compartment boxes in the SVG Shop.

Fonts are Awesome!

Many of you saw my post a few weeks ago HERE showing you how to use glyphs in Silhouette Studio. I wanted to make you aware of another great font bundle for just a few more days called “The Font Collection.” FontBundles.net has done it again with this offering of $571 worth of gorgeous fonts for just $29. Yep, you read that right just $29. This is an amazing way to collect several great fonts for under a dollar each and most of these fonts include glyphs which will cut beautifully on your Silhouette CAMEO or Cricut Explore machines. But, this deal won’t last forever, it will be gone in 14 days.

Be sure to go visit THIS video to learn how to use Glyphs on a Mac in Silhouette Studio. And, if you’re on a PC THIS video will teach you what to do.

Now a gift for you!  I’ve created this fun file for you with the Summter and Lightening Sans Fonts which are part of this new collection!

Click HERE to download the FREE Silhouette Studio and SVG file for the “Fathers Hero Love”  phrase.   I hope you enjoy this FREE file… and be sure to go pick up the The Font Collection while it’s still available.

And be sure to check out these other bundles over at FontBundles.net!  They are the perfect way to add to your font library!

Auction Style Fonts Bundle

Sandy Font

They also have FREE Fonts available HERE.

Have a great day!

Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card Tutorial with Courtney

Hey all! It’s Courtney Lee from Court’s Crafts here with your Thursday tutorial!

Okay, so this is both a tutorial and a “what you can do with the product” tutorial so I am going to show you the traditional way this is put together, but I am going to then deviate slightly by making the stars into mini shakers.. so hang with me.

Before you start anything when you import to the Cricut Design Space software you want to right click and ungroup everything. Then you want to highlight a whole segment and “attach”. The reason you want to do this is so that the scoring lines actually end up in the correct places. It’s a weird funny “glitch” but if you don’t then the scoring lines think they want to cut out of black and even if you make them white they still will try to “cut” as a different object. This took me quite some “you-tubing” to figure out. 🙂

First of all I duplicated both the mirror looking layer and the background rectangle. The extra mirror looking layer is for the front of the card and the extra background rectangle is for acetate to make this a shaker-shadow box. Those are shown as a red piece and a black piece (not pictured) respectively on my screen shot. I’m so sorry I cannot get all of it into view! The Cricut software doesn’t put it on different mats it just puts it in different colors (or you choose them) and it divides it onto different mats accordingly. I LOVE it for saving me time, but it’s not super for pictures for a tutorial. 🙂

Step 1: I adhered the red polka dot panel (the extra mirror looking layer) to the front of the card.

Step 2: I adhered the red polka dot rectangle to the back middle of the card.

Step 3: Adhere the acetate to the back of the tan and white polka dotted panel.

Step 4: I added the foam dimensional tape around the stars and then added a second layer of tape to increase the thickness and then fill the stars with sequins.

Step 5: Put the cream layer upside down onto the foam dimensional tape. Line it up by using the top and the bottom line of the bottom panel.

Step 6: Put liquid glue on the skinny sides of the cream layer, the outside of the whole panel you have been working on, and the top and bottom of the “box”.

Step 7: Tuck the top and bottom of the box in between the cream layer and the rocket layer.

Step 8: Adhere the panels to the sides of the frame and decorate! 🙂

Recipe:

Lori’s Shop: Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card: Birthday

Silhouette Shop: Tri-Fold Shadow Box Card: Birthday

Lori Whitlock’s Pinstripes collection for Echo Park Paper

Pinstripes: Boy Bingo Cards (PS104010)

Pinstripes: Rocket Ships (PS104005)

Pinstripes: Alpha Stickers (PS104015)

Pinstripes: Adhesive Chipboard (PS104022)

Pinstripes: 6×6 Paper Pad

acetate

liquid glue

tape runner

Chalkboard Card for a Teacher Using Cricut Design Space with Karin

I made this adorable chalkboard card that you can use to give a special teacher a gift card.

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To make the card, I brought the files into Design Space by choosing Upload Image.
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I opened the image of the cutting file (JPG) in Preview on my Mac and just moved that window onto the screen next to the cutting file pieces so I could see the colours used in the original project. In this case, I loved the colours because they are nice and bright so I used all the same colours for my card. I even had a great piece of wood grain patterned paper.
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To change the colours of the components in Design Space, all I did was click the piece, that piece is highlighted in the Layers panel, then I clicked the scissors icon and then the colour I wanted for that piece.
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Here you can see that I changed the colour of these tabs to red.
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Before clicking Go, I selected the individual pieces by drawing a rectangle around them and then I right clicked and chose Attach. This is so that the little circular cuts and scoring lines stay in the right place on that particular piece.
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After I cut and assembled the pieces, I used some baker’s twine to string the banner pieces along.
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I put knots in the baker’s twine to attach the legs at the front and back.
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I just used my ATG gun to put adhesive on the back of the iTunes card and attached it to the back of the card.
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I stamped a sentiment on the front of the card. The You Rock stamp is from the Avery Elle Celebrate Stamp set. I used American Crafts Zing Embossing Powder in White Opaque Finish, my VersaMark watermark stamp pad and my Ranger Black Heat Tool for the sentiment.

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