Leprechaun Gable Box - Lori Whitlock Creative Team Project

I love boxes or bags with cute little character faces on them and with St Patrick's Day coming next month I thought I'd make a little leprechaun one using the Tall heart gable box (svg, silhouette) and bobblehead card leprechaun (svg, silhouette).

Check out my tutorial over at Lori Whitlock's Blog!

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Teacher Thank You Cards - Lori Whitlock Creative Team Project

Hello there, here's a quick tutorial on how I print n cut these Teacher thank you sentiments for cards from Lori Whitlock's shop using Cricut Design Space.

For the A2 shaped box card pencil I ungrouped the whole project, selected the thank you teacher and flatten it.

When it's unflatten the outlines are gone, but it will still cut out just the oval.

When you make it, you will send to printer first and then place on mat to cut.

The A2 chalkboard teacher card I added one of the teacher thank you tags to the chalkboard piece. When I imported the tags they were black so I ungrouped, deleted the ones I wasn't using, selected the top layer of the one I wanted, selected arrange at the top and moved to back and changed the color to white.

So now you can see everything on the tag.

I just wanted the thank you to print out on the chalkboard so I moved the apple and deleted the tag, selected the thank you and attached, and changed one of the letters on the thank you to white which changed all of the letters.

I ungrouped the chalkboard card, deleted what I didn't want to use, resized and center aligned the thank you over the chalkboard leaving room for the apple. I selected both and flatten, now it will print n cut.

I cut out both projects together so I could print both at one time. You can see the two print n cuts below.

I love the ability to print n cut sentiments for my projects, you can create a nice custom fit and it's super quick and easy.

Here's a closer look at both cards.

Get the A2 pencil shaped box card at the Silhouette Design Store.

Get the A2 teacher chalkboard easel card at the Silhouette Design Store.

Get the thank you teacher favor tags from the Silhouette Design Store.

EEK! Happy Halloween - Lori Whitlock Design Team Project

Hello, everyone and Happy Halloween, here are a couple of projects and tutorial on how I replaced the score marks on the Gift Bag 2 file from Lori’s shop using Silhouette Studio Business Edition so I could use the scoring stylus tool on the Cricut Maker. 

You can get the file here from the Silhouette Design Store, but for this purpose, I’m using the svg from Lori’s shop and I’ll explain why. I use Silhouette Studio Business Edition to design my projects even if I’m going to cut from one of my other cutting machines. I really like the Silhouette Studio software and with the Business Edition I’m able to save my projects as an svg which I can then upload into Cricut Design Space or Brother Canvas, you can't do that with the Basic or Designer Editions and you can't open svg files with the Basic Edition. What you can't do with the Business Edition is use an image from the Silhouette Design Store and save it as an svg, the lines around the whole image will save as score marks so that’s why I’m not using the bag from the Silhouette Store.

After opening the bag the first thing I do is change the fill to a lighter color and the lines to black, this way the new lines I put in will show up as red, makes it easy to line up.

I just quickly add lines over the score marks, I'm not exact here, I fix them and add the diagonal lines when I zoom in.

Zooming in I draw the diagonal lines and align all the other ones as close as I can get.

When I'm done I select the new lines and make a compound path, if I don't do that when I upload to Cricut Design Space the score lines are off from the project.

I finish by ungrouping the bag, deleting the original score marks and group with the new score lines. I select all and go to file and save selection to hard drive and in the save as type select svg.

When I upload the bag into Cricut Design Space the size is much smaller, so I resize to match what it is in Silhouette Studio and change the new lines I created to score.

Here's a closer look at each bag, I dressed them up with the characters from the Cute Halloween Set from Lori's shop and here from the Silhouette Design Store.

The paper I used is from Doodlebug Design's Booville collection and Gingham-Linen Petite Prints.

The eyes I believe I bought at Michaels and the sentiment is a stamp from My Creative Time.

Sunburst Card - My Creative Time Tutorial Thursday

Hi Everyone!

I have a really quick and easy tutorial for you today using a couple of dies from My Creative Time.  I love these sunburst cards using scrap paper but I hate measuring out the pieces, plus I like the stitching all around each piece.

I used two sets to create this sunburst backgrount, the More Stitched Rectangular Dies and the More Stitched Edges, both of these sets are a must have!

I started by cutting out 6 pieces using the third largest die in the Rectangular set.  These are all scraps I had from the same paper pad, bought from Michaels a long time ago.

I took the straight stitched edge die and cut each rectangular piece diagonally.  I wasn't precise at all with my cutting, just eyeballed it.  Using this die gave me stitching on both sides of the cut!

I cut the largest rectangular die out of white cardstock and used my tape gun to put strips of tape down vertically and horizontally.  Start adding the pieces, you'll need 11 of them.

You can see that the center isn't perfect and it doesn't have to be it will be covered, just make sure your pieces touch each other.  I didn't press down so I could move some of my pieces until they lined up nicely.

I ran the piece through my die cut machine with the largest rectangular die.  You don't have to line it up with the bottom piece, that's just for the pattern pieces to be glued to.

MCT Project's Used

More Stitched Rectangular Dies

More Stitched Edges

Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies and More

Bunch of Fun Circles

Stitched Starburst Dies

Hey There Little Lady Stamp Set

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!!

Snowman Tealight Ornament - Peachy Keen Stamps Tutorial

Hi everyone!!

It's Brigit here from Brigit's Scraps sharing a super simple tutorial using the

PK-1411 Christmas in July 1 1/8 Faces and

PK-1412 Snow Hugs Snowman sets.

This adorable tealight ornament makes such a cute gift for family and friends or even Christmas gifts for Teachers.  You can make a bunch in no time at all with just a few craft supplies that most of you have already and some adorable Peachy Keen Face Stamps!

Here's a photo of some of the supplies I used...

PK-1411 Christmas in July 1 1/8 Faces

PK-1412 Snow Hugs Snowman

Punches 1 1/2", 1 3/4" and 2".

White Cardstock

Tealight

Paper Punch 1/4"

Ink

Ribbon

Twine

Gems

Label Die

Markers

Hat Cut File

Chalk and Chalk Brush

I punch a 1 1/2" circle and folded in quarters and use the 1/4" to punch a hole directly in the center, I use this one as my template, it helps when you're making a bunch at a time.

Punch your three circles using the different size punches.  Now use your template to punch a 1/4" hole in the 1 1/2" circle.  Stamp your face image onto that circle lining the nose up in the center hole.

Chalk the cheeks and ink the edges before putting the face on the tealight. 

Gently push the face over the tealight, it's tight so go slow, will expand a little.

Glue the snowman together and decorate, I added a top hat that I cut with my silhouette.  Some ribbon as the scarf and black gems for buttons.  Tie a piece of ribbon around the tealight so it can be hung.

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and get to make some of these ornaments!

Have a wonderful day!!

SSDE - Filling Pattern Paper Tip

Hi Everyone!!  I have a great tip over at Lori Whitlock's blog today, it's on how to keep your pattern paper the same size in different size shapes.  Here's the box I created using the tip!

The flower is from the 3D flower Set 8 and digital paper is Lori's Maggie collection.

Stamp sentiment is from Jaded Blossom Stamps and Trendy Twine is Tickled With Teal.

Card Tutorial Using the Sketch Option and Pens In SSDE

Hi everyone I have a fun tutorial using the sketch option and pens in the designer edition of the Silhouette Studio software over at the Lori Whitlock blog today

Hop on over and check it out, here's the card I created using this feature.

I used the love birds file and the kiss me which is from the photo props set, both are from Lori's shop.

I added some of the new Totally Sky Trendy Twine which goes so well with Echo Park's Head over Heels paper.

I hope you find the tutorial helpful.

Filling Cut Files With Digital Paper In SSDE

Hi everyone Brigit here with another SSDE Tutorial.  I love to fill my shapes with digital paper and then do a print n cut with my Silhouette Cameo.  It does such an awesome job cutting out the pattern filled shapes as you can see in the card below.

For this project I used one of the cards from the Christmas Card Set 2 and Lori's digital paper collection Sweet Life.  I only used the card and the two front layers, you can delete the other pieces.

If you need help with ungrouping and making compound paths check out my tutorial here.

I do not import my digital paper into SSDE, I have it all organized by designer in a folder on my computer.  You can see in the photo how I have the folder opened on the right-hand side next to my program.

I just dragged the pattern paper from the folder and dropped it into the shape.

Notice on the card the owl design is to the left and cutoff.

Select the card, go to the Fill Pattern and Advanced Options, click on the Pan Pattern, a circle with crosshairs will appear in the middle of the card, click on it and move the paper around.

I wanted my owl on the opposite side with the white swirls to the right so I clicked on the Horizontally under the Mirror Pattern.

I line up the card fronts so when panning I can see exactly where I'd like the owl to be.  I used the Scale Pattern and enlarged the paper to 110% so the edge of the paper wouldn't show.  The scale pattern is great to make your pattern paper designs larger or smaller I use it all the time.

Lori has a cute owl and tree cut file that matches this collection in the owls set, I used the eyedropper under the Fill Color and selected colors from the collection so everything would match or you can fill them also with the digital paper.  The sentiment is an element from the Sweet Life collection, to cut that out you need to first do a trace, that will be covered in another tutorial.

All my pieces fit on one 12" x 12" piece of cardstock, registration is checked under the Registration Marks and I make sure all my cuts are selected under the Cut Style.  Now I'm ready to do a print n cut.

Other Supplies Used

AC White Textured Cardstock

In the Navy Trendy Twine

Brads

Thanks for stopping by, I hope this tutorial has helped, Lori has such wonderful digital paper and elements at JessicaSprague.com, have fun!!

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