Wedding favour boxes

Hello, it's Verity here from Pretty Little Button. I have a lovely wedding favour box where I added a word knockout to the box design to add an acetate window with a floating sentiment. The sentiment was added using gold adhesive vinyl - this makes it so easy to apply and no mess adhesive showing on the inside, win-win! Whatsmore you can easily change the sentiment so you can have a variety dotted throughout your wedding tables.

Wedding favour boxes process: 

Start off, load up the Polygon Petal top box into your design space (design ID located at the end of the post). Write the sentiment of your choice and change the font accordingly; I used Nobita Script font.

Using the square handles when the sentiment is selected, drag the design whilst holding control and adjust the size so it is not wider than one of the box panels. 

To create the knock out we need to add an offset. With the sentiment selected, open up the offset window. Apply an offset measurement of your choice; I used 0.7 for this offset. 

Next position the offset shape over your box panel and centre; make sure it is not positioned on any of the flaps. Group this together with the panel shape and cut out as one piece. You can cut the remaining sentiment out of gold vinyl.

To assemble the box, cut down a strip of acetate large enough to cover the knock out sentiment area. Align this behind the window, and mark with a removable pen, the points at which the box panel folds (dotted cut lines). Using a scoreboard, score along with these points on the acetate sheet and fold to reinforce the score. Apply double sided tape along the inside of the box panel and adhere the window in place.

Before assembling the box, use transfer tape to apply the vinyl sentiment to the window. Make sure you have weed the excess vinyl surrounding your sentiment before applying your transfer tape. To assemble the box, fold all the scored lines (dotted lines) and apply double-sided adhesive to the flaps.

You will find it easy to adhere to the two side panels forms, before applying them to the hexagon base. The top folds in on itself and closes; it does not require adhesive on the top.

Add a few thin strips of matching gold vinyl around the top and bottom for added decoration and finish off with a few clear sequins. 

Wedding favour boxes photos:

If this has inspired you to try this out, please post below. I would love to see it!

Until next time,

Verity




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FONTS USED:

NOBITA SCRIPT FONT by Genesislab design id #240205

DESIGNS USED:

3D POLYGON PETAL TOP BOX by Lori Whitlock, design id #24308

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Faux Pearlised metal bear cushion

Hello, it's Verity here from Pretty Little Button. This week the design team is using reflective heat transfer vinyl. This vinyl is great to use on clothing to increase your visibility in low light conditions. However, I love the look of it normally. It has a pearlized look to it as though it is burnished metal and thought it would look great as a modern style cushion. Even when it does catch the light, it still looks really amazing and such an interesting cushion and currently takes pride and place on my craft room chair!

Faux Pearlised metal bear cushion process: 

Insert your design into your design space, for this design see the end of the post of the design ID.

Now the reflective HTV comes in rolls of 9"wide by 12" and you can cut this without your Silhouette mat.  To ensure your position is correct, open up the page set up window and adjust the page size using the width and height settings. 

Next, open up the transform window. In there, select the rotate tab.

You can either use the green button on the design to rotate the design freely, or you can use some of the pre-programmed rotate options with the rotate tab. This allows you quick and straight rotation to align with your media. 

If you still want to work with your design, but the orientation of it is a bit confusing, you can orientate the viewpoint of your design space to continue working with your design. In the page setup window, select the best suit option in the 'Rotate view' section.

Lastly, when you are ready to send, remember you are working with HTV. The software comes up with a friendly reminder asking whether you wish to mirror. If you have already flipped your design prior to this, press send-ad. As I hadn't flipped my design, I selected send mirrored. Remember, if you select this option it will mirror your design, but it will the flip design to cut from the opposite side of the mat, so you need to be aware of where it will cut in relation to where your media will be in the machine.

Once cut, weed all the excess vinyl to leave the bears on the backing sheet. I used a hot iron on cotton setting to heat set the vinyl. I didn't end up using the writing in the end as I loved it just with the bears. 

Faux Pearlised metal bear cushion photos:

If this has inspired you to try this out, please post below. I would love to see it!

Until next time,

Verity




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DESIGNS USED:

MAMA BEAR by Tommy and Tilly Paper Design, Design ID #289771

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Leaf motif earrings

Leaf Motif Earrings | Leather Sheets

Hello, it's Verity here from Pretty Little Button. Today's project features leatherette sheets from Silhouette and a lovely leaf motif design by Kristen Magee to create a lovely pair of earrings. I'm showing you how to use the edit points to adapt the design to add in enough space to cut a hole to attach the earring holders. This was so simple to do and you could create a pair of earrings out of a variety of designs from the design store.

Leaf motif earrings process: 

Locate the leaf design in the design store and download. Open up the design into your design space. The designs come as pair so decided on which design out of the pair you want to use. 

Next, right click on the design and select edit points. Alternatively, with the design selected you can also press the edit point icon in the left-hand toolbar (third from the top). This will add a lot of little squares to your cut lines - these are the 'points' to edit. 

When you have one selected, you can move the edit point about - from side to side, up and down etc. In addition, each point has a little handle. Moving this handly around can change the direction of the path line from the previous point to the point you are on.

When you are happy with all the changes you have made to the points, select off of the design and the points will disappear showing your design in its changed format. 

Draw a circle with the circle tool from the left-hand toolbar. If you hold shift down whilst you draw the circle, it will draw a symmetrical circle, and will continue to keep the circle symmetrical whilst you enlarge it as long as you continue to hold shift down. 

Insert the circle into the design, and make sure you group the two items together - with both items selected, right click and select group. 

You need to copy the design to create a pair of earrings - but depending on your design, you are more than likely going to need to mirror the design. With the second design selected, right click and select flip horizontally. 

You should have two mirrored designs to cut from leatherette sheets. Make sure you do a test cut for your machine and blade to ensure you get the best cut possible. 

Leaf motif earrings photos:

To add a little more to the earrings, I decided to add some foiling to the pair. 

I added some Heidi Swapp Minc reactive paint to the earring with a paintbrush (make sure you wash this well after use). 

Once the paint was dry, I covered them with Gunmetal Heidi Swapp foil and ran this through my Minc machine on heat setting 3.

I added a couple of fish hook earring holders through the holes to complete the look. 

If this has inspired you to try this out, please post below. I would love to see it!

Until next time,

Verity

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DESIGNS USED:

LEAF by Kristen Magee, Design ID275205 

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Dotty stencilled painted cup - Adhesive vinyl and warp tool

Hello, it's Verity here from Pretty Little Button. A few weeks ago, I went to the Creative Craft Show at the NEC. Whilst I was there I won a mug making kit which included two mugs along with porcelain paint. As they were blank mugs, I thought they were perfect for adding a 'Silhouette' touch to them. Adhesive vinyl can act as great stencil material on surfaces like this, and as long as you don't use permanent adhesive vinyl you can easily create a positive paint effect like this.

Dotty stencilled painted cup process: 

For this cup, I went with a simple design using '#crafter'. Change the font style to a font of your choosing; I used 'Sweet Mia' from the Silhouette store. 

Next, you need to make sure all your letters in the design is welded together. With the text selected, right click and select weld. 

If you have more than one word, then these will not weld together, for example like the # in my design, you need to group all of the parts together to adjust the size of your design. Right-click again with all the elements selected and click group.

To adjust the size of the design, use the object size options in the top toolbar.  Make sure the little padlock appears closed as this will adjust your design proportionally and if you change the width, it automatically changes the height proportionally. 

To use the arp feature, you need a designer edition of the studio software or higher. The icon that appears warped in the right-hand toolbar opens up the warp window. 

There are two tabs to the warp feature, the second tab has template warp shapes - allowing you to take out the guesswork for you. Select the shape most appropriate one for your object. 

When it applies the warp, you will notice additional adjustments lines around the design (in green, blue and grey).

For a bit warp fit, you can adjust these to suit your object. My cup gets thinner as it gets near the bottom. Therefore adjusting the bottom right square allows me to move the bottom of the design in and thinner in width. 

Remember to do this the same on the other side for symmetrical warp. 

When you are happy with the warp, you are ready to send your design to cut. 

For the cup, I wanted the word to be left bare for the cup but the dotted paint to appear around the words to negative dotted design. Therefore, I weeded all the negative vinyl to leave a positive design on the back sheet. Use transfer paper to adhere the vinyl to your object. 

To apply the porcelain paint, I used a cotton bud and varied the pressure and size of the dots. However, you could use any shape to apply the paint. 

This was left to dry for 24 hours before removing the vinyl from the cup. To heat set the paint, the cup was baked at 150C for 35 mins to set the paint.

Dotty stencilled painted cup photos:

 If this has inspired you to try this out, please post below. I would love to see it!

Until next time,

Verity




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FONTS USED:

Sweet MIA SCRIPT FONT by Skyla Design, Design id#229372

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