Category: Tutorial

Easter Bunny Flip Card with Karin

Hi everyone!  Karin here today sharing a video tutorial for Lori’s adorable Flip Swing Card Easter Bunny. I dressed up the Easter bunny a bit to give him a cotton tail, pink ears and nose. These flip cards look complicated, but they’re not at all. They are super simple. Watch my video below to find out just how easy they are.

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Here is my tutorial video showing you how to bring the SVG file and pattern paper into Cricut Design Space and set everything up for cutting with your Cricut Explore.  Have a great day!

 

Easter Egg Shaped Box with Corri

Hi everyone!  Corri here today sharing a quick assembly tutuorial for Lori’s new Easter Egg Shaped Box.   This is such a great box and it’s very deep so it could hold a lot of candy!

When you cut the file these are the pieces you’ll have.

 

I cut the pieces for the top of the box in pink and the bottom in the floral.

First fold in all the glue tabs on the long pieces (sides) of the top and bottom of the box.

Apply glue to the glue tab on the end of the long panel and glue ends together.  Do this for the top and the bottom of the box.  It will look round at this point.

Next, insert one of the egg shaped pieces inside the base of the box.  Form the sides around the liner to create the egg shape.  Apply glue under the glue tabs and glue in place.  This part doesn’t have to be super neat since the next step will hide any excess glue that bleeds out from the edges of the tabs.  Repeat this step with the lid.

Finally, glue the cover panel for both the top and bottom in place to hide the glue tabs and give your box a finished appearance. I cut a piece of acetate by hand to fit behind the egg shaped window before applying the lid cover panel.  I like to apply the glue, put the panel in place and then press down from the inside to help adhere all the way to the edges.

Now you can embellish your box with stickers or additional die cuts.  

Check out the shop for more fun Easter treat containers.

A2 Pop Up Cat Tree Card with Kathy

Hi Everyone!  It’s Kathy today with a quick assembly tutorial for the A2 Pop Up Cat Tree Card!  (available here in the Silhouette Store) This card is adorable, and really easy to put together.  This tutorial should also help you with the other Pop Up cards in Lori’s Shop, as the mechanics are basically the same!  Take a peek at my card…

I love the dimension of the pop up cards, it reminds me of those fun pop up books I had when I was little!  They really are pretty easy to assemble…

First, cut all of your pieces.  I like to line them up to make sure I have everything!

Next, I folded the card bases along the score lines.  Hint:  to best fold the pop up piece, start with the pop up strips before you fold the card in half.  This will eliminate any unintentional creases.

I then added the sky and grass pieces.

The next step is to adhere the pop up piece to the card base.  Make sure you do not add adhesive under the strips.  You want these to pop up.  The easiest way to get things centered is to first align the center creases of each layer, then smooth everything down.

It’s now time to add the decorative elements.  You want to make sure you only add adhesive to the lower section of the pop up strip.

When adding the cat and the tree,  make sure to align the bottom edge of each element with the bottom crease of the pop up strips.

The only things left are to add the clouds and stamp your sentiment!  That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!  And don’t forget, all designs in Lori’s SVG Shop are 30% off this week!  Use code MAR2016 to get the discount.  It’s the perfect time to get those items on your wish list!

Rolled Flower Tutorial with Corri

Hi everyone! Corri here today with a quick tutorial for the rolled flowers.  I love these flowers…they look great on everything!

Let’s get started…

Here’s how the flower looks when you take it off your mat.  I like to ink up the edges with some distress ink.

Next, hold the end of the spiral with a pair of tweezers.

Wrap the paper spiral around the tweezers until you have it all coiled around.

You can let the flower go now. It will uncoil slightly….apply hot glue to the center of the flower and press the spiral down on to the hot glue.  You could also use a quick dry glue but will have to hold the spiral in place while it dries.

You can use a paint brush to curl the petals.  Just roll the petals around the brush to give them a more realistic appearance.

There you have it!  Super simple and so fun to make!

You can find several different flower types rolled flowers in Lori’s SVG Shop.

Do Something Every Day that Makes You Happy

Hi everyone! It’s Karin and today I’m going to show you how to place permanent vinyl on a travel mug using this cutting file by Lori Whitlock below.

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I made the decal for this travel mug using Cricut’s brand new Premium Outdoor Glossy Vinyl.

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After downloading the file from Lori Whitlock’s store, I uploaded the image into Design Space.

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I resized the image to 5 inches tall to fit my travel mug.

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After resizing, I ungrouped the elements so that I could change the colour of the banner.

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I selected the banner, clicked the scissors icon in the Layers panel and then changed the colour of the banner to white.

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I pulled the white banner away from the text so that I could attach the text.

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I selected all of the text, right clicked and selected Attach. You must do this if you want everything to be cut as displayed on the screen.

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When all of this was done, I clicked Go and Design Space arranged my cut files onto mats by colour.

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I placed the two colours of vinyl on mats and cut them with my Gold Cricut Explore Air one after another.

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This was a really fun project. Lori’s inspirational quote is a great reminder to find time to do fun things (not that I need reminders to craft). Also, Cricut’s new vinyl was great to work with.

See you again in two weeks!