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Tutorial/Free Cut File
Happy Mother’s Day Lattice Card
Hello!
Mother’s day is fast approaching! (Sunday the 14th March 2021) We thought you may like something a little different so we created this lattice effect card, which could be turned into a box frame picture, or gift bag labels, we have made a few different ideas and hope to inspire you with them! Why don’t you mix and match this with last weeks box frame Roses to make a combined project?
We would love to see what you make! Have you found our You Tube channel yet? The video showing this and all of our other tutorials are available on there, as well as exclusive demos, inspiration and more! Join us on Facebook , Instagram or Tiktok or send us an email to [email protected] we would love to hear from you!
***watch this being made here***
What you’ll need:
- Silhouette Cameo 4. Available here
- A4 Mirror card. Available here
- A4 Glitter mixed pack . Available here
- Squeegee. Available here
- Weeding tweezers . Available here
- Scissors, glue from your own stash and double sided red application tape. Available here
- Cut files, which are free below! Including, Cricut, Silhouette and Brother cut files.
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Instructions:
Before you start, you need to download the cut file below. You may need to increase your force or pressure more when cutting the top layer due to its detail to get a clean cut, and it will not suit all card or material types, or too small resizing.
1. Upload the cut file into Silhouette Studio and resize as necessary, (when resizing bring all layers into the design software and select all at once to get the correct offset layers and save the adjusted file, so you can cut layers individually at that correct scale you have chosen). We resized ours so that the card Base fitted 1 A4 sheet But you can choose to use the biggest top layer over a ready6 made blank and then make a full size to suit. Save the resized file back to the Library so you can choose each layer in the proportion you have chosen for that project.
Cut settings: (**please test cut)
Auto blade: 3 (you can also use a ratchet)
Speed: 2
Force: 30
Passes: 2
**A reminder that these settings, including the blade setting, are specific to the materials and machine we’re using, adjustments may be necessary if using different materials and machine**
We always recommend before proceeding, you test cut your materials when first using so if you have not recently cut our Glitter or Satin Gloss A4 cardstock please test cut for your chosen machine found on our Application guide, and also Blog, Silhouette Cameo is here and portrait is here.
2. When happy with the size of the design, select ‘SEND’ in the top right corner of your screen. In the next window make sure your settings are all set to the successful settings from your test cut and ensure your machine is linked before proceeding to cut.
3. Position the A4 card on the cutting mat and apply pressure with the Squeegee to it to make sure it is secure. The Glitter or Holographic side should be face up on the mat
4. Load your Mat using the up arrow on the machine , select ‘SEND’ in the bottom right of the screen after making sure your machine is connected.
5. When cut, unload the mat by pressing the machine’s down arrow, Weed the topper whilst on the mat to make it easier to then peel the card off the mat, flex the mat away from underneath at the same time to reduce the risk of damaging the delicate cuts in the A4 card. Then, remove any excess material and scrape the mat clean with your squeegee.
6.Repeat the process as above (1-5) for the A4 Base and middle layers, and adjusting the settings as per the guide and test cut as advised above if you have not previously used this card.
7. Once you have cut and removed the waste on both the base and layer bring them together, turn middle layer over and apply double sided application tape to the reverse side, ready to layer, using your squeegee to burnish, fold the card base in half.
8. Place your layer on top of the card base, making sure they are aligned correctly, before finishing with {dry clear} glue on the reverse of the lattice topper and align on the front, press gently to ensure it sits correctly.
9. Don’t forget your finished design can be matched by using the front layer for any material cut using a cutting file, card, self adhesive vinyl or even HTV. We’d love to see your makes on our social media pages! Or email them in!
Cricut Cut Files
CRICUT LATTICE MOTHERS DAY PNG
To import these files into the Cricut Design Space:
Click “Upload Image” on the left-hand Design Panel, and navigate to the cut files you want to open. Select ‘Insert image’ and select image type ‘simple’ when prompted. Next you’ll be asked to delete any space that does not get cut, you can skip this part by pressing ‘continue’. When asked if they’re print-then-cut images or just cut images, select cut images. Click save and do this for all cut files. When all have been uploaded, Insert all the images onto the canvas and resize to suit your project. Save the resized file back to the design space so you can choose each layer in the proportion you have chosen for that project,
Reminder – if you’d like to add score lines instead of scoring by hand, these will need to be added in the design space. To do so, select ‘Images’ from the design panel on the left, search ‘score line’, select the free downloadable score line and insert the image. Place where appropriate or add dashed cutting lines if you would prefer as this too will act as a neat fold line..
Cut settings are found here for JOY, AIR2, MAKER
Brother Cut File
To import these files into the Brother Canvas Workspace:
After downloading, please log in as usual to your design space account, open a new project mat, then left click on the SVG icon in the top left bar in canvas, this will then allow you to import your files. Once you left click this icon, a pop up box appears with you to choose where to import file from, choose to import the file from your downloads list or where you have chosen to save when unzipped.
Reminder – if you’d like to add score lines instead of scoring by hand, these will need to be added in the Canvas Workspace. To do so add dashed cutting lines as this will act as a neat fold line.
Cut settings are found here
Just incase you need the link CanvasWorkspace (brother.com)
Hope you’ve enjoyed this week’s blog post, are you wondering yet what tutorial we have in store next week? 🙂