school – Lori Whitlock

Believe in the Magic Card–Back to School Style Tutorial

August 10, 2023August 9, 2023

It’s that time of year around here when kids are heading back to school. Is it a magical time for them? I hope so. In the spirit of Back to School and the magic of a new school year, I’m sharing a card tutorial using vinyl. I’m using this Believe in the Magic card found in the SVG shop, and Silhouette store.

First, cut all the pieces in vinyl. And then weed the designs.

Now we start building the card. It is helpful to have a picture of the card to help you layer the pieces. I used transfer tape for some of the pieces, but for many of the pieces I just places them like placing a sticker. It was really fast since all the vinyl is adhesive.

Tip: After this first luggage outline piece, you should place the bird cage.

Add the details to the suitcases.

Keep layering the pieces.

What a fun card to put together. When placing vinyl on paper, you want to use transfer tape that isn’t too sticky. That way it comes away from the paper easily. Hope you enjoy trying out making a card with vinyl.

Have a great day!

Ashley

Box Card Crayon Back to School Tutorial

July 27, 2023July 26, 2023

Hi there! Are your kids already headed back to school? Mine starts next week and I have nieces and nephews who have already started. Crazy. With school starting soon we also have “meet the teacher night” and I like to give a card to our new teacher. This year I made the Box Card Crayon Back to School (SVG,) card. Here is how I made it.

This box card only has one insert, but I cut two of each of the crayons. The pieces are kind of small but manageable. I used a sticker maker for some of the really small ones and I fine tip glue bottle for everything else. I folded all of the score lines as mountain folds. I inked the outside pieces with like colors and the smaller detail pieces of the crayons I used black ink.

I glued the crayons in ROYGBV order on the insert and glued the second set of crayons in the reverse order on the inside of the back of the box card (I did this after I glued the box together). I also glued the front details of the crayon box on as well as the sentiment.

With the crayon box open flat, I glued the left tab of the insert onto the left side of the box card lining up the tab up with the innermost score line. I also folded the front of the box card over to help line everything up.

With the box card open flat again I folded the left outside edge tab in and added the glue. Then I added glue to the right-side tab on the insert. The tab should be lined up with the score line on the inside of the box card.

I folded the front of the box card over and held in place while the glued set. Also making sure everything was lined up correctly.

I glued the second row of crayons in and added a few stickers from the School Rules collection by Echo Park Paper.

This card turned out so cute. Thanks for stopping by today and Happy Back to School!

Brandie

NEW Magical SVG Files 25% OFF!

June 28, 2023June 27, 2023

This week I designed a magical collection of SVG files. These projects include the most enchanting cards, invitations, party decorations, and a gift card holder. These new files are available in the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop. And, the best part is that these new SVG files are all 25% OFF this week. Check them out….

Wouldn’t these make the cutest SVG projects for a magic themed party? Thanks for checking out the NEW FILES and be sure to go grab the cute 3D House Patriotic SVG file freebie of the week.

I hope that you all have a wonderful day! Have fun crafting!

Lori

New Style Card Released Recently

May 22, 2023May 19, 2023

In the last few weeks, we’ve released this new style, the A2 Curved Pop-Up Card. Have you seen them? They’re super easy to assemble and lay flat for mailing. I’ve also made a tutorial video for them. They come in several styles including Father’s Day, graduation, birthday, summer, and even a simple everyday style. They come individually and in the A2 Curved Pop Up Bundle. Here is the link for the tutorial

Thanks for stopping by! Happy crafting!

Lori

Pop Up Box Card School Bus Tutorial

February 23, 2023February 22, 2023

Hi everyone! I have a fun card to share with you today, just a few simple steps and you will have a card that pops up and delights your recipient. There are lots and lots of these pop-up box cards to choose from in Lori’s Shop and in the Silhouette Online Design Store. You can find the card here in Lori’s Shop or here in Silhouette Design Store. You can find the video assembly tutorial HERE.

The first thing that I like to do with Lori’s files is separate everything by color. She colors all of her files and it just makes it just so dang simple. So, I just take a few seconds to ungroup the file and sort my pieces by color for ease of cutting and then it is easier to assemble everything. Once you’ve got it all cut out, we are ready to assemble.

First, start with your red card base and do one peak and one valley fold.

It will look like this.

Next, add your blue panels.

Now it’s time to add the gray road, this is the piece that makes your card pop up. You are going to fold on the two score lines.

You can take a few minutes here to create your embellishments of the bus, apple, and pencil. I just used a glue pen to assemble these smaller detail pieces.

Glue your bus onto the gray road piece.

Now, we are ready to add our road to our card base. Remember, we want this to pop up….so we are only going to put adhesive on the left side and right sides…just like in the picture below. Just those two spots of adhesive.

Now you have your road added, you can see that the pop-up and where we are going to add are to other elements of the pencil and apple. Just fold the tabs on each and add adhesive. Here’s a link to Lori’s video on these pop-up cards on YouTube. Pop Card You Tube

With the adhesive on each tab, you can add both the little pop-ups in just seconds.

And bam, just like that…you have the cutest little bus card. Now I did leave the back-to-school saying out and added a little sun sticker that I had, just because it’s not back-to-school time. Thought my granddaughter might enjoy the little sun!

Thanks for checking out this tutorial!

Cathy