School Clipboard Card with Anita

Happy Monday Everyone:

Anita here with a quick and easy fun back to school card for your favorite student.  I just love how cute this is and how easy it was to put together.  The night before the first day of school I used to give my kids a card and a treat to wish them well in the coming school year.  This card would be perfect for that.  I used Lori’s cut file called School Clipboard Card and you can find it here in her store as well as here in the Silhouette store.  I used her awesome new Echo Park line called Celebrate Autumn and her Perfect Princess line as well.  That’s it for me today.  Be sure to check out Lori’s store for all your back to school and fall card and gift giving needs.

Hugs,

Anita

Teacher Gift Set with Corri Garza

Hi everyone!  Corri here today and I’m so excited to be designing again with Lori’s awesome files.


It’s back to school time for my kids so I made a cute gift set for my daughter to take her teacher on the first day of school.

I created my card by cutting the “Best Teacher Ever” (SVG, Silhouette) file and then backing it with black card stock.  I added a couple of stickers and Pufffy Heart stickers to finish it off.

To complete my set, I cut the Apple of my Eye Favor Box.(SVG, Silhouette) This quick and easy box will make a great gift filled with either a some candy or some small school supplies for the teacher.

I hope you enjoyed with cute project today.  Be sure to stop by Lori’s SVG shop to see all the new files that were added this week!  Thanks so much for stopping by.

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