Easter Egg Luminary (60s version)

I loved making this Easter Egg Luiminary from SVG Cuts. It was so interesting. It seems a bit complicated to make at first, but just following the tutorial will show you how easy it really is. There's no guessing what gets glued to where, especially if you're using patterned paper panels. 

There are small tea lights that I set underneath where there is a hole. They are battery operated and constantly changing colors. You can see some of the colors the petals changed to in the following photo.

There's a larger panel around the bottom edge (five total panels), so I saved it as a png file, took it into my photo editing program (Affinity Photo). I designed the panel with a tie dye pattern, and put a different word on each one. When I finished, I opened it up in my cutting machine software and traced it. Then did a print-2-cut.

Thanks to Mary Bonk of SVG Cuts, who designed the egg so intuitively. I loved attaching the panels by an entire triangle, rather than regular tabs. It helped so much. It also helped that my egg had patterned paper, so there was no guessing when matching the triangle areas for gluing.

The top notch on the egg were individual images. I cut two of each (the ones with wording needed to be flipped and the words re-inserted so they'd print correctly). I got a very thin dowel and used floral tape to attach the floral wire.  I inserted it from the bottom into a small hole I made in the top. I glued the bottom of the dowel to one of the edges in the bottom to stabilize it, and let it dry thoroughly. The top of the dowel just barely came through the top hole. I cut the images using print-2-cut, and then cut the floral wire as I added the images so I'd get them at the proper height.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this. I'm sort of in love with it. It's so cheery that I get a little smile each time I look at it.

PEACE OUT, FRIENDS!

Mini Wallet Album

This mini wallet album was designed by Lori Whitlock. I made it for my niece's birthday. This was really a fun project to make, and used svg files and my new Starcraft Solo cutting machine (so cool!). I love the way it folds so efficiently. Many folios like this end up bulging and being too full to lay flat. But, this is compact and closes so cleanly. It is closed with an eyelet closure and twine.

I believe there are 17 photos in the wallet, but could be more if made like the cut file intended. There are mats for placing the photos, but I chose to put my photos in various frames that I put together in Affinity Photo. I then cut them using Print-2-Cut.

The digital paper I printed is B-Side from Basic Grey. I printed it with my wide format printer onto white A/C cardstock.

The accordion flaps fold into the wallet, the photos being placed on both sides.

Most of the photo frames came from the same B-Side digital papers/elements, and a couple from other paper packs.

The inside bottom flap has two pockets for which I made two tags with photos on both the front and back. Again, I designed these in Affinity Photo and p2c.

Ephemera was inserted from the same paper pack.

I will definitely be making this again. It's easy, fun and turns out just darling. You can find the cut file at Lori Whitlock Wallet Mini Album and the video tutorial on YouTube at Wallet Mini Album.

Hope you get a chance to make this fun project.

Pack a Lot of Fun in One Small Wallet!