Tag: Anita Mulcahey

Flag Day Banner Tutorial With Anita

Hi Everyone:

Happy Flag Day.  Anita here with a banner that you can use for Flag Day as well as for the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and any other day that you want to celebrate our great country.  I used several different cut files of Lori’s to create this banner.

Happy Birthday Banner – 2   SVG,  Silhouette
Layered Pinwheel     SVG,  Silhouette
3D Lori Whitlock Spiral Flower   SVG,  Silhouette
5X7 Box Card 4th of July   SVG , Silhouette
American Flag   SVG,  Silhouette
3D USA Décor Blocks   SVG, Silhouette

I love mix and matching Lori’s cut files to create new projects.  I am going to show you how I prepared the fabric for cutting in my Silhouette machine. 

Here are the supplies that I used for this project.  Terial Magic is a wonderful product that comes in a spray bottle and you can get it on Amazon or at your local quilt shop.  I sprayed the fabric liberally and checked the back side to make sure that it was soaked on both sides.  I hung the pieces on my shower rod  to let them drip to just damp.  I recommend you put something under where you hang the fabric so that it doesn’t make a mess.  It’s sticky, and rubber gloves might have been helpful to use as well.

 

Here is a photo of the fabric as I was in the process of ironing it.  You can see the bottom left looks still darker and wet and the right part is done and the fabric feels like paper.  I ironed my fabric on a towel to absorb any extra of the Terial Magic Fabric Stabilizer.

You can see how this fabric stands up once it is ironed.

I used the strong grip mat from Cricut and a brayer to make sure that the fabric didn’t move.  You will want to slow down your cutter in addition to choosing fabric as your material to be cut.

I laid out the blocks to see how they would look and switched around the banners and embellishments.

Earlier in the week on Tuesday we had our June blog hop and I have included a photo with the quilt block centerpiece and the banner that I made.  I am going to put this out for the 4th of July.

Hugs,

Anita

 

Father’s Day Tool Box Card Tutorial with Anita

Hi Everyone:

Now that we have celebrated Mom it is time to start thinking about the Dad!  I made this sweet card which was so easy to put together for my hubby.  I used the A2 Father’s Day Toolbox Card cut file which you can find here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette store.  I used two of Lori’s wonderful Echo Park lines, Wish Upon a Star and I’d Rather be Crafting.

Here are the cut out card pieces and the embellishments that I used from her Wish Upon a Star collection for the bolts on the front of the tool box.

You are going to want to fold your score lines.  Lori’s file includes holes for the brads.  I didn’t punch them out because I wanted to use the enamel dots instead.  You will have a nice pocket in the front to fit the tools when you are done.

I wanted a more plain design to show on the inside so I cut extra  inserts and glued them down.

Here are all the pieces ready to be glued into the pocket.  I popped three of them up to give the card some more dimension.

That’s it for me today.  Lori has lots of wonderful Father’s Day cards and gift boxes for all your celebrations.  This card came out really wonderful and I’m sure that one of the Dad’s in my life are going to love it.

Hugs,

Anita

Mother’s Day Card and Gift Card Box Set with Anita

Hi Lori Whitlock Fans:

Anita here with a pretty card which was so easy t make and a gift card box.  It’s time to start thinking about the mothers in our lives.  I am impressed and amazed every day by the strength, humor and resilience that I see in the mothers around me.  For this set I used several different files.  The card is part of Lori’s Center Box Card series and it is called Center Box Card Mother Flowers and you can find it here in her store along with a tutorial to put it together and here in the Silhouette store.  I am in love with the soft sweet colors in Lori’s new Echo Park line called Sweet Baby Girl. I used some pearls for the flower centers and some twine to finish off my card.

The box is called Gift Card Wrap Box and is simple to put together.  You can find that file here in Lori’s shop and there is a tutorial there as well.  You can find it also in the Silhouette Store.  I didn’t want my box to have the same sentiment so I used the sentiment from the A2 Tea Shaped Box Card  Teapot which you can find here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette store.

Here is a photo of the card folded flat.  It folds into a 5 1/2″ X 6 1.4″ almost square.

Here is the open box.

Finally, here is the completed box.

That’s it for me.  See you soon and enjoy your week.

Hugs,

Anita

Flat Front Shutter Card Birthday

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.

Here is a view from the top so you can see exactly what it should look like.

Lastly, here is the closed card and as you can see it lays flat and can be popped in an A2 envelope to be sent off to someone sweet.

Thanks for looking and be sure to check out Lori’s shop for more great cards of this type.

Hugs,

Anita

Baby Mini Album with Anita

Hi Everyone:

Anita here with a fun tutorial to make this mini baby album.  My brother’s girlfriend just became a grandmother of a beautiful baby boy and I made this album for her to fill and to share with her friends.

This is a photo of the cut file.  It is called Baby Layered Mini Album and you can find it in Lori’s store and in the Silhouette Store.  I mixed and matched some wonderful collections  from Echo Park to make my album including A Perfect Winter, A Perfect Autumn, A Perfect Christmas and I Love Family.  I bought 1.5 inch colored rings from Amazon for the album.

I decided that I wanted each page the same print/color so I used the replicate function on my Silhouette to mirror the left tabbed page to the right so that I could glue them together to create a heavier page.  I then cut both pages from the same paper and adhered them back to back.

I then  used the rectangle tool on the left side bar to create a white piece to be a photo mat.    I like to put the item I am trying to match the size on my mat.

Here is the sized rectangle on my mat.

Here is a photo that shows the other rectangles that I created for the pages of my album.  I then cut two of each for each page of the album.

 

I used Lori’s font called Wide Marker at the 56.0 font size and moved them on to the bottle to see how it would look.

 

Here are the pieces for my album.

There you have it.  This worked up very quickly and it so cute.  Can’t wait to send it off to it’s recipient.

Hugs,

Anita