Tag: die cutting

Teacher Thank You With Anita

Hi Everyone:

Anita here with an adorable lunch bag teacher treat holder.  I used Lori’s cut file called Lunch Bag Thank You Teacher and you can find it here in her store and here in the Silhouette Store.  I used Lori’s brand new collection from Echo Park called Celebrate Autumn. I used her wood grain embossing folder to give the bag some dimension.

This was so easy to create and would fit a gift card perfectly as well as some chocolates.  A little gift to the teacher to get the year off to a great start.

I love the print and cut little chalk board that is part of this set.  Hope you have a chance to check out this cute and so easy to put together gift set as well as many other wonderful fall and back to school designs.

Hugs,

Anita

Ooh La La Birthday Card with Anita


Happy Monday Everyone:

I have a dear friend who has a birthday coming up and she loves Paris so I made this sweet birthday card for her.  I used Lori’s file called Pop Up Box Card Eiffel Tower Birthday and you can find it here in her store and here in the Silhouette store.  It is so easy to put together and Lori has a a great tutorial for her pop up box cards here.

This showed the card folded flat.  It slips nicely into the envelope. Be sure to check out all the different Pop Up Box cards Lori has in her shop!

Hugs,

Anita

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