Bunny Head Box Tutorial

Anita here with a tutorial to make Lori’s Bunny Head Box (SVG, Silhouette).  I used some of Lori’s Echo Park Paper collections for this box including Wish Upon a Star and Celebrate Spring.  I am going to make these to give to each person who comes for Easter dinner! They will look so cute on my table and will be filled with yummy sweets.

Here is a photo of the pieces that you need to cut out for this box.

The next photo shows the face and ear pieces glued on as well as the direction the score lines need to be folded.

This photo shows the sides of the box glued together which was the first step in putting the box together.

After the sides are glued together the bottom hexagon piece gets folded up and glued in to cover up the tabs.

Lastly you can see how cute the box looks with a little Easter grass in it and some chocolate.

To close the box, fold in the short sides first, then gather the ears together and secure with some ribbon or twine.  You could even add a bute little pom pom for a tail!   This went together quickly and easily.  Hope that you have a chance to try this one out.  Be sure to look at all of Lori’s SVG files for your Spring celebration needs.  That’s it for me today.

Hugs,

Anita

Pop Up Box Card Birthday Age 60

Hello:

Anita here with a fun card that I made for a good friend who just turned 60.  This card is so easy to put together and really makes a statement.  It is called Pop Up Box Card Birthday and you can find it here (SVG, Silhouette) as well as here you can find Lori’s tutorial for putting together her pop up box cards.  I used one of Lori’s new Echo Park Paper collections called Birthday Boy.  She has many different ages to choose from for the wonderful card.  Below is the card folded flat for mailing, it will fit into a 6″ square envelope.

Have a great day.

Hugs, Anita

Hello Friend Easel Card

Hello Everyone:

Anita here with a really fun and easy to make easel card.  It is called A2 Easel Card Hello Friend and you can find it here in the Lori Whitlock shop and here in the Silhouette Design store.  I used one of Lori’s new Echo Park lines called I Love Summer.  This card will brighten my friend’s day for sure.  Be sure to check out all Lori’s designs for your friendship cards.

 

That’s it for me today.  Have a crafty week.

Hugs,

Anita

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

 

Anita here with a fun tutorial to make this gift set.  I love to quilt and embroider as much as I love to paper craft and I was thrilled to recently discover that Lori Whitlock has embroidery files that she has designed, many of which mirror her paper craft SVG files.  You can find her gorgeous embroidery files at Embroidery Online.  I will give you all the links in the post .

I bought shrink film from Amazon and used Lori’s Print & Cut Stamps Christmas Cookies which you can find here in her store .  I resized the image of the gingerbread man so that it would come out the size that I wanted.  I then printed the image onto the shrink film through my laser printer.  Just let it dry for a few minutes before coloring it.

I then used my Copic markers to color the shrink film.  I knew that the colors would deepen once I shrunk the image so chose my colors with that in mind.  I used R37, E11, G14, G07, E99 for the gingerbread man and Y08, E99, R37, G07 for the Gingerbread house.  Be sure to punch a hole in your shrink film before you put it in the oven and remember that the hole shrinks also.  The directions say to bake the film on parchment at 300 degrees for 2-3 minutes but I found that my heat gun worked much better as I could control the plastic as it shrank.  Below is the before picture.

Here is the photo of the shrink plastic after it was  done.

I went to Embroidery online and bought the bundle which had all the Christmas embroidery files that I wanted to use for this project.  It is called Christmas Time by Lori Whitlock.  You can buy the collection or the individual embroidery files.  I embroidered the phrase It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas on a piece cotton.  I then finished the edges and glued it to the front of my tote.  I also embroidered my daughter-in-law’s name on the top of the apron as this set is for her.  She is an amazing baker.

I then strung my two adorable gingerbread embellishments on some yummy twine, added a bell and glued that down as well.

I really love to match things and  have been so excited to make this project.  Here is a close up of all the goodies that I put inside the basket.

The last thing that I did was made a card that used the SVG cut file which matched the embroidery.  I used Lori’s new Christmas collection called Celebrate Christmas.  The cut file can be found here in Lori’s store and here in the Silhouette store and is called Look a lot Like Christmas Phrase.
That’s it for me.  Hope that you have a wonderful holiday season.

Hugs,

Anita