Valentine's Card Boxes

Machine Used: BossKut Gazelle
Software: Funtime Scrapbooking IV
Files Used: Eyelet Scalloped Heart by Phyllis Parkins 0960
Materials: Card stock, embroidery thread, special treats

Here's a simple project that can be done in quantity and quality!  A simple design to make as many as you need or just a few in a short time.

The template for this card and gift box can be found in the Score, Fold, Create! The Ultimate Guide to Crafting With Scor-Pal on page 76.

The front of my box card is decorated with the eyelet scalloped heart.  I first used a white gel pen to write out the names of the recipients.  I LOVE the fact that you can place just about any pen into the Gazelle and have her "cut" out the names.  Makes it really easy to center the names!  I replaced the pen with the blade and cut the heart out around the names.

The eyelet scalloped heart was sized to 2.5 x 2.5, making those eyelets pretty small.  Those small holes made it perfect for threading embroidery thread.

I threaded some of the hearts different, mainly just because I wanted to see how they would all look.

I attached the hearts to the front of the box using pop dots for a little added dimension.

For the inside of the card, I choose to keep it simple by adding a hand written note.  The cutie Mickey and Minnie Valentines were available for free download.

I added some of our favorite treats and now these very simple Valentine's are ready for that very special someone!

Thanks for looking!!
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Thank You Cards

Machine Used: Fiskars Fuse
Files Used: Scalloped Circle Die
Materials: Card stock, rhinestones, ribbon

This is the card that my daughter and I worked on together.  We sent these out to those who gave her a birthday present.  This was the first card I made utilizing my new Fuse.  I inked the die and my daughter turned the crank.  She's only 4 and it was easy enough for her to help!  LOVE THAT!!

 

My daughter helped me pick out all the papers and we layered them together.  I really like the fact that she enjoys helping me make her thank you cards.

Thanks for looking!!
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Heart Explosion Card Funtime Tutorial

Machine Used: BossKut Gazelle
Software: Funtime Scrapbooking IV
Files Used: Heart file in Funtime, Scroll by Phyllis Parkins 0986
Materials: Card stock, ribbon

I was inspired to create a cut file from this video.  It's funny how you see a project that someone else has done and are then able to create a cut file in Funtime!  As always, there's a learning curve but once you start getting the basic concepts down nothing is off limits!

Once you've created your heart explosion, you can adhere it to the inside of card or simply a larger heart and use a ribbon to tie it shut.

This project utilizes basic shapes and the very basic alignment tools in Funtime.  With a few instructions you'll be well on your way to creating beautiful Valentine's cards for your family and friends!  Let's get started.

With a new 12 x 12 page open in Funtime start by clicking on your shapes button on the right of your screen.  Scroll to the heart and click on it.

This next step is more of a personal preference, I change the weight of the outside line to 0.003 and turn off the fill color.

With the heart selected, hit the "C" on your keyboard.  This will bring up your transformation box.  Select the width and enter in 4.8.  Why 4.8, because after playing with this multiple times and remaking it, that's what I found to work best.  :o)  For different looks don't be afraid to play around with sizes, you'll be amazed at what you'll create!

Note: By selecting the width you maintain the ratio of the heart.  If you were to select the Condense and then change either the height or width, it will only change that dimension and you'll lose the original shape of the heart.

Now we'll need a total of 4 hearts to create our heart explosion card.  There are several different ways to create more of the same heart.  What I did was select the heart, and hit Ctrl C on my keyboard and then Ctrl V.  This will place a duplicate heart in the lower left hand corner of your mat.  I moved my heart off the mat on the bottom.  Do this 2 more times for a total of 4 hearts.

So that you can see everything I'm working with, select the button at the bottom with the magnify glass and ALL.  This will zoom into the whole page with all your cut files.

To  make this easier in getting the hearts lined up where we want them, create a perfect square but selecting the draw rectangle button on the right of your screen and hold down Ctrl button on your keyboard at the same time.  At this point it doesn't matter how big it is because we are going to use the transformation box to resize it.

Select your square, and in the transformation box make sure that the square measures 8.5 x 8.5.

Let's start putting all this together now!!  Select one of the hearts, in the transformation box scroll down to rotation, and select it.  Change the angle to 45 degrees.

Select both the rectangle and the heart.  On the left of your screen is the justification, 4th button down.  Click on the align left AND the align top buttons at the top of your screen.

In order to maintain this justification as we work on the other hearts, group the square and the heart together.  Select shape at the top of screen, and then select group.

1 down and 3 more to go!  :o)  Select another heart and in the transformation box rotate it 135 degrees.  With the heart still selected, hold the shift key down and select the square.  With the justification selected again, align left, and align bottom.  With everything still selected, group them all together.

Select another heart, in the transformation box, rotate it 225 degrees.  Hey we're cooking now!!  With that heart selected, select the square and justify it by aligning it right and bottom.  Don't for get to group them together!

One more to go!!  Select the heart, in the transformation box, rotate it 315 degrees.  Justify the heart by aligning it right and top.

Now you should have all the hearts in the square and overlapping in places.  We only used the square for placement of the hearts and we now need to delete it.  With ALL items selected, select Shape at the top of the screen and click on Break all.

Select ONLY the square and delete it.

It's time to weld all the hearts together so that we can get the shape we need for the card.  Select all the hearts, and on the left of your screen select the weld button.  At this point you'll have several cut outs in the image.  It's up to you if you want to delete them or keep them there.  I kept mine because I personally like the way it looks when you open up the card.  If you do decide to keep them, I suggest selecting everything and grouping them together.

One last suggestion, create another heart the same size and keep this on the page when you save it.  That way in the future when you go to make something with this file, you'll have a starting point to making layers on your card.

Please be sure to stop by the Boss Kut Forum and share your creations!  We'd LOVE to see what you've done with this cut file!  Or if you have any questions, I would love to be able to help you maximize your use of Funtime and the Gazelle.

Thanks for looking!!
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Jamie*´¨)
BossKut Design Team Member

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Wine Glass Lamp Shades

Machine Used: BossKut Gazelle
Software: Funtime Scrapbooking III
Files Used: Heart Doily by Phyllis Parkins BKD 092, Heart Doily by Judy Stark BKD 081,
Materials: Vellum, computer printer

I've seen lamp shades on wine glasses circulating on Pinterest and other craft blogs.  I immediately loved the look of them and knew that I had to create my own.  Seemed simple enough, until I decided to create my own cut file instead of importing an already existing template available.  I started with trial and error and ended with a lot more error.

 

I really wanted to be able to make my own cut file for the simple fact I wanted to be able to share that within the Boss Kut Forum and I wanted a custom fit for the specific wine glasses I was using.  With little success on my own, I commissioned my dearest husband for the math part that I was missing.  He figured out the size of the large circle, small circle, and how much I needed to cut away from it to create the size cone I wanted to end with.  He did explain it to me and I honestly tried to understand but I'm thinking that if I need help again I know just where to go.  :o)

These beautiful wine glass lamp shades would be perfect sitting out on the table for that romantic dinner.  With a battery operated tea light, these little shades are perfect to create a personalized dinner.
 

 

For the these 2 lamp shades, I used the embossing tool and embossing mat to emboss the vellum with the Heart Doily by Phyllis Parkins BKD 092 and the Heart Doily by Judy Stark BKD 081.  For both of these, I chose a lower force setting of 2 and did multiple passes (4) to get the look I wanted.

 

For the Heart Doily by Phyllis Parkins BKD 092 (pictured above on the right) I increased the size to match the size of the shade and cut it in quarters.  I only used 1/4 of the heart doily because I wanted to large swirls for this shade.

 

With the Heart Doily by Judy Stark BKD 081 (pictured above on the left) I used multiple copies of it at different sizes and just placed them over the lamp shade cut file in different places.  Another idea for this would be to emboss just the outside of the heart doily and then cut out the smaller pieces inside.  I think that it would make the lamp shade look like it was made from actual doilies.  Sometimes it's amazing what you see and can come up with after a project is complete!!

 

 

The lamp shade above was easily done using the scissors available in Funtime.  I had to start over with the cut file by creating the 2 circles.  With the largest circle, I chose the type of scissors I wanted and used the largest setting for the cut.  Then I multiplied that circle by 2 and changed the sizes.  I cut the circles in quarters and kept only 1/4 for my cut file.  I embossed the middle 2 and cut the shade.  This could be easily embellished with adhesive pearls, rhinestones, or whatever else you can think of.
 

 

I love the way text looks on vellum, just one of those things I guess.  For the shade above, I started in Funtime on my lamp shade file.  Then depending on how many lines of text I wanted on my shade I created that many circles, all various sizes.  I typed out the text and then fit the text to path.  After I had all the text typed out, I grouped it all together and mirrored the image.  I did this because I think that having the text printed on the "back" of the vellum gives it a softer appearance.  After doing that it completely displaces the text on the shade, so I had rotate the text back to the original placement.

My children will be with their grandparents this year for Valentine's Day, so I wanted to make something that they would enjoy from us.  For my 2 1/2 year-old son, I made the shade with the alphabet with the "I" "O (replaced with a heart)" and "U" for him to enjoy at dinner.  My 4 year-old daughter will enjoy the one with the song "You Are My Sunshine" on it.  She absolutely loves to sing that song.  My parents have assured me that they will put those out on the dinner table for my babies. 

While I tell my family I love them frequently, I love celebrating Valentine's Day.  I love making sure they know just how very much I do love them and how very special they are to me.

Please be sure to check out the Boss Kut Forum for the wine glass lamp shade and if you have any questions please feel to post a question or private message me and I'll be happy to help you personalize your lamp shade!
 

Thanks for looking!!
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Jamie*´¨)
BossKut Design Team Member

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Love Bug Card

Machine Used: BossKut Gazelle
Software: Funtime Scrapbooking IV
Files Used: PopKut Love Bug by Judy Stark BKD 080
Materials: Cardstock, ribbon
Challenges: The Outlawz Paper ala Mode - Anything Goes

This project was complete because of a request that I to make a tutorial on how to weld letter to a card base.  After creating the tutorial and making the cut file I just had to make one!  :o)

The heart behind the love bugs I created in Funtime by using the scissor feature on a heart that was already available.

Those adorable little love bugs are available through Boss Kut Designs.  ADORABLE!!

 

Thanks for looking!!
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Welding Letters to a Shape in Funtime

Machine Used: BossKut Gazelle
Software: Funtime Scrapbooking IV

I've had a question how I welded the tops of the letters to my card.

Start by opening up a new page in Funtime.  It helps before you get started to determine the size card you want to end with.  For this tutorial we'll end with a 4.5 x 6.25" card.  With that in mind, start by creating a rectangle.  With the image selected, hit "C" on your keyboard.  This will bring up the transformation box.  Scroll down to Condense and change the size of your rectangle.

We'll used this as a guidance as we're creating our letters to weld to the bottom.

Since it's so close to Valentine's Day, I'm going to use the word "LOVE" to weld to my card base.  In Funtime, click on the Text button.  I selected the font Windsor Bold, available in the Funtime font selections.  Make sure to use all capital letters.  I set the height of my font to 1" but it doesn't really matter at this point because we'll need to see how it lines up with our rectangle.  We can always go back and adjust where we need to.  Hit OK.

Looking at the letters and our rectangle it looks like 1" is a good size.  I based this on it's just about the same width.  There are 2 things to consider here: Is it OK of the letters are touching a bit after you create an outline?  Or would you prefer each letter to stand independently?  Since the original card I created has the letters independent of one another we'll go with that.

 

Double click on "LOVE" and this will bring up text creation box again with the word "LOVE" in it.  Check the box Edit spacing after creation.  Click OK.

 

Click the up arrow to change the spacing, left to right, once.  That changed my spacing to 4.792.  At this point it's not too long for our card but we'll work with that after we've created the outline.

Now create another copy of your word by selecting it, copy it, and paste it.  Funtime will automatically place the second in the lower left corner of your mat.  Put it off to the side for now.

 

NOTE : Please don't get to hung up on the numbers if they aren't exactly as mine.  The procedure is the same.  Keep playing with it if it's not giving you what you want.  Or PLEASE ask questions, either send me a message or you can visit the Boss Kut Forum!!  There's always LOTS of help.  :o)

 

With "LOVE" selected, click on the Special Effects button on the right of your screen at the top.  Click on Outline, then Advanced.

 

In the transformation box that pops up, change the Thickness to 0.05, select outline, and then click on the check mark button.  Go ahead and close that box.

 

With the letters done, let's resize them so that they'll fit on the width of our card.  Select both the outline and the original letters.  In the transformation box, select Width, enter in 6.25, and click Apply.  Make sure you've selected Width and NOT Condense.  Selecting the width will maintain the ratio aspect of the word.

Make sure to change the width of your other word as well!!

Time for a little math.  After you've changed the width of your letters, make a note of the height.  You are going to need to subtract this number from 9.  Why?!  Because that's the height of our rectangle and to maintain the end card size we need to make the rectangle smaller to accomodate the letters.

 

My "LOVE" turned out to be 1.52.  9 minus 1.52 equals 7.48.  Now I'm going to select the rectangle and change the height.  Select the rectangle and in the transformation box click on Condense, change the height to 7.48 (or whatever number you worked out).

 

Select your word again and move it till it's just barely touching the bottom of your rectangle.

 

Select both the rectangle and your word.  Click on the Justification button on the left side of your screen.  At the top a row of justification options will appear, click on the Center one.  This lines up your rectangle and the letters.

 

Before we weld them together turn on the WireFrame by click on the button at the bottom of your screen with the big "W".  This will make it easier to see how much is overlapping between the rectangle and the letters.

 

Now zoom into the word by selecting the word and the magnifine glass at the bottom.  Once you've zoomed in you will have a close up and will be able to see how much is overlapping clearly.  You don't need much overlapping but you'll want enough that the letters won't be too flimsy on the card.  I use the up and down arrows on my keyboard to move the letters.  This will keep the justification of the words centered with the rectangle.

 Once you're happy with the placement of everything click on the Zoom All button at the bottom.

 

Let's get to welding!!  Select your rectangle and the letters and then click on the Weld shape together button on the left of your screen.

 

Almost done!  Because we moved the letters up a bit our card is no longer 9 in height.  There won't be much of a difference and if you wanted to leave it like that you can.  I'm going to go ahead and change it really quick.

 

Select the image, and once again in the transformation box I'm going to select Condense.  Change the height to 9.

One last step, select your image and at the top of your screen select Shape, then Break all.  This will release your original letters from the rest of it.  Select each of the individual letters (careful to select the center of "O" for example) and delete.

You have the second copy of the letters that you made in the beginning for layering.  :o)

If there are ANY questions, please feel free to ask!  I will update as I need and add anything that would be helpful for you to learn your way around Funtime.  :o)  Happy crafting!!

Thanks for looking!!
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Jamie*´¨)

Single Sheet Bag and Paper Bow

Machine Used: BossKut Gazelle
Software: Funtime Scrapbooking IV
Files Used: Paper Bow (available in the Boss Kut Forum)
Materials: Cardstock, ribbon, pearl heart brad
Challenges: The Outlawz Twisted Thursday - 2 of the following: Designer Paper, Brads, and Embossing

I was inspired to create this project based on a tutorial I found here.  Here are the measurements for the score lines in her tutorial:

 

I found that you won't necessarily need the 3/4" and the 10 1/4" score lines.  It depends on how you want you are going to embellish your bag.

 

The bow is a cut file that I created in my Funtime software and made available in the Boss Kut Forum.  I am currently working on setting up my blog to be able to offer templates and cut files for those interested.  Hopefully I'll have that up and running soon!

Here's a close up of the bow.  Although I did use a little adhesive to the bow to attach to the bag, I also used the heart shape brad.

Here's a view of the bag open.  I ended up using 2 velcro but I think that one would have worked just fine as well!

  

Thanks for looking!!
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