Hi there! It’s Mendi here and I’m super excited to be sharing a Silhouette technique that I’ve been having a lot of fun using lately on all sorts of cards and layouts: Creating journaling and sentiments around the edge of a circle using Silhouette’s print and cut features!
Unfortunately when preparing for today, I realized the hard way that this print and cut technique really works best when using circles that fit within the registration marks so for those of you that have a 12×12 printer, that means your circles can be up to 10.5″ wide and sadly for me (whose wide format printer recently bit the dust) that meant I was limited to a circle 7.2″ wide. I had planned a layout using a 11.5″ circle but as hard as I was trying to find a way around it, I decided I needed to set that aside for another day and come up with a new project that would be easier to share with all of you.
As an alternative I settled on a fun spinner style birthday card for my nephew which can double as a rainy day activity spinner (or with the addition of numbers can be a great game piece for any game a child can dream up). I think this would also be darling idea for chores too (although I’m not sure children would agree). 😉
My papers are from Lori’s fun new 6×6 “That’s My Boy” paper pad which she designed for Echo Park.
Without further ado, here’s my video tutorial sharing how I created it:
On a side note, I layered and glued 3 of the black arrows together to give it extra stiffness and make it easier to flick for spinning. I also enlarged the center holes a bit and made sure to not tighten my brad too much so that it can still spin freely.
To complete my card and tie my theme together, I decided to run the back of my card through my printer for a quick sentiment (using temporary adhesive on a piece of printer paper).
For my project I used the following cutting files available in Lori’s shop:
I have a link to another example using this same technique at my blog today. I hope you’ll give it a try! 🙂
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