Design of the Week - Hope, Believe, Fight - 2nd October 2018 (A Comedy of Errors)

Happy Wednesday to you and today I have some keyring charms that I made with this week's Design of the Week - Hope Believe Fight

I decided to use the design as a print and cut file so changed the cut line colour to 'no colour' and  turned all the cutting lines off in the 'Send' option.   I then gave it an offset so that there would be a little margin around the design.

I also used this file, as I do love feathers, which I also gave an offset and added a small circle to each of the elements to enable me to attach them to my keyring.

I printed the design onto white shrink plastic, the first time I printed it on the shiny side, which was the wrong side and had to wipe all the ink off and use the matt side. I then cut it out using the recommended settings.  Unfortunately, this was my last sheet of shrink plastic and I tore the large design when removing it from my cutting mat, this meant that it didn't shrink as I would have hoped once placed in the oven.

 I had hoped that the tear would repair or at least not be visible, once heated, but alas that wasn't the case.

I love my keyring charms and, as always we would love to see what you make with this week's free design.

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Faux leather Bag Tassel Accessory

Hi everyone. It's Verity here from Pretty Little Button bringing you another project. For the post today I am using the leatherette sheets from Silhouette. When my first Design Team parcel arrived and I went through all the items I had been sent, I can assure you I stopped and looked at the leatherette for quite some time! It's a gorgeous media and the colour of the gold is beautiful. For me, it is almost a rose gold. As soon as I saw the sheets I knew I would need to make some tassels out of them, perfect to hang on your keys. The post today is very quick and easy, so you'll be making tassels galore!

Faux leather Bag tassel details:

Start of by drawing a rectangle and changing the size to your desired dimensions. I went for a 7 cm by 5 cm rectangle. As these were going to be attached to my keys, I didn't want them to big and bulky. 

To create the tassel threads, draw a straight vertical line using the line tool with ctrl selected. Adjust the line so the length is 1 cm smaller than the height of your rectangle. Next, replicate this line several times using the replicate panel. They will appear directly next to one another, but we can easily space these out.

Move one of the replicated lines to the opposite end of your rectangle. Selected all the lines, including this lonely one, but do not select your rectangle. Using the transform panel and spacing section, selection the horizontal spacing button. This will now space your lines out from were the bulk is to where the lonely line is. You can keep repeating this until you have your tassel threads as thing as you want.

When you are happy with the tassel shape and width, send this to your machine and cut it out. My tassels ending up being just under 2mm wide and the machine had no problem cutting this thin.

For my tassels, I used the cutting settings in the pre-programmed 'Leatherette', though I adjust the speed a little. This was ok with the design as it was all straight lines, but you may not want to do this with other more intricate designs. Remember, always do a test cut!

Assembling the tassels:
Before I had assembled my tassels I added some foil to my tassel using some transfer gel and heat reactive foil in a laminator. Cut a thin strip of extra leather to loop through a hook or clip, you will want to fold this over and glue up near the clip to make it more secure.  Add a little glue to one end of the underside of your cut out tassel - a glue gun works well for this. Attach the other end of the leather strip. Add glue along the top edge underside of the tassels (the uncut strip at the top of your rectangle), and roll around the thread.

Until next time,

Verity






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