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. 

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

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Using Reflective HTV on Card - Coming to America cake topper.

Hello, hello - Karen here with my Wednesday post but this time I am not using the DOTW.  It is a 3D Delphinium design and not something I would normally make so I will show you the design but have opted to do something different this week. 

Now, on to what I have made this week.  Previously I have seen the DT using HTV on cards and I thought I would have a go.  I was sent some really lovely red reflective HTV.  This comes in a roll 9ins wide and 3feet long.  I only used a tiny bit so have loads left, after making my project, I am soooo pleased as I absolutely love it and will be using it to make a summer t-shirt!

One of the men, where I work, is going on a three month road trip around America and as today is his last day.  As I am the resident cake maker in the office, I decided to make him a cake and needed an appropriate cake topper.

I looked in the Silhouette Design Store and found this one - perfect as he loves music and he is 'Coming To America'

I rearranged the words and added a musical note at the beginning and end of the phrase. 

Finally, I added three stars with the American flag on them.

I used the colour picker to colour the notes and 'Coming to' the same colour blue as the stars and then changed the cut line to 'no cut' in the Send window.   Next I added an offset to the whole design and removed the word America.  I sent it to print and then cut out the design. 

I cut just the word 'America' from the red reflective HTV, remembering to flip the design horizontally before sending to cut.

I aligned the red letters onto the card and popped it under my heat press for 16 seconds.  I was absolutely thrilled with the result.  I just needed to add a couple of sticks and it was ready for my cake!

Just look how lovely that HTV is, shimmering in the sunlight!

When I took a photo with my flash on I realised how reflective the HTV is.

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