Angel Card

About a month ago someone had asked for an angel to put on the cover of a memorial booklet. I quickly found a drawing and converted it to an SVG file for them. I am just now putting the angel SVG to use for myself. I am thinking that this might make a good Christmas card (maybe I'll try red for the next one). The gold lines are drawn in by hand using a gold metallic paint pen.

Here is the SVG for the angel card.

Halloween Treats

Here is yet another Halloween Treat Box. This one was not made using a Cricut machine - yes it is hard to believe, but I can make things with out a cricut. : )

Instructions

I used a spellbinder 3" circle and matching scalloped circle to cut out the top and bottom of the container. At this point you need to decide which scallop circle is going to be the bottom of the box or the top. Then I used a pencil to draw a circle on the back the 2 scallop circles. These pencil circles will be a guide for the sides of the box. Note: for the bottom of box you need to draw the circle slightly smaller than the circle you draw for the top of the box. This is so the box top and bottom can overlap!

Then I cut 2 strips of paper 3/4" wide and about 10" long. Then I used some 'Diamond Glaze' to glue the long strips of paper to the top and bottom to form the sides of the box. I like the Diamond Glaze because it dries fast and clear - the clear is important so you can see the penciled circles and get the sides glued down in a perfect circle and placed exactly where you want.

Hope that makes sense!

Pillow Box Svg

If you would like to have the SVG cutfile, you can download it here pillow box.

Halloween Pillow Boxes

Here is a pillow box that I made for my son's teachers for Halloween treats. The orange fringe is made out of streamers, I used my dot'n'roller adhesive to layer 5 streamers on top of each other and then cut fringes. The black ' halloween web' is a Flocked Lace and is self adhesive.

I made an SVG cutfile so I could make various sizes of these pillow boxes. I made about 10 smaller pillow boxes for the students. I wanted to make them as simple as possible -- as preschoolers care more about the candy inside!! I used a white gel pen to highlight the Changito 'Mummy' (I love changito, such a cute monkey).

Embossing without an embossing folder

I had gotten a few questions about how I embossed my die cuts with out an embossing folder - hopefully the next few pictures will explain.

1. Make Template. Cut out 2 identical images in heavy cardstock (I used heavy Kraft paper). Glue the images together (I ran one thru my xyron). At this point you could use this 'template' to emboss by hand with a stylus and lightbox.

2. Make Die-Cut. Cut out another image (I used a heavy vellum) with the Sure Cuts A Lot 'Shadow' feature (I used #2). Basically the 'Shadow' feature will cut the image out slightly larger.


3. Place the die-cut on top of the template. I used a very small piece of painter's tape to keep the pieces together and in place.

Important - the template needs to be on the bottom and the die-cut on top!

4. Run through your Cuttlebug with 2 Spellbinder Embossing Mats.

Cuttlebug Sandwich -- B plate, A plate, template & die-cut (template on bottom), Spellbinder Embossing Mat, B plate

5. Done, your die-cut is now embossed.

Here is the finished pieces embossed and glued together to complete the 'Angel Wings.'

Angel Wings SVG file

Here is the svg for the angel wings.

Angel Wings

The above card was made for a yahoo card group that I belong to. The angel wings were my own design! I made the design in Inkscape and cut it out on my cricut machine using Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL).

In order to emboss the wings, I cut out the design twice in heavy cardstock and glued them together. I then cut out a piece of vellum using the 'Shadow' feature (2) in Sure Cuts A Lot. The Shadow feature basically cuts out the design slightly larger. To emboss - I placed the vellum piece on top of the smaller cardstock piece, and ran it thru my Cuttlebug with an embossing mat.