Silhouette tutorial: Purse Cards

New in the Silhouette Design Store...

An updated version of my gift-card purse/money- pocket card. Yes, it's a mouthful...but it's a great practical and fun design, that has two special pockets that can hold a gift card (outside pocket) and/or money in the inside pocket.

It will appear in the Silhouette design store shortly. I'll post the link here.

This variation of the design has a St. Patrick's day theme. Watch for more themes on this new variation of the purse card in the coming weeks. You may be directed to this post for the tutorial on similar designs, that go together in the same way. 

Since the card has some new improvements, I thought I'd update the tutorial as well. 

First cut out all the pieces on the coordinating colors in the Silhouette studio software. You will have to ungroup all the pieces, and move one color group at a time, onto the cutting mat in the software.  You will work through each color group, moving it onto the live cutting area, and sending it to cut. 

Side note...If you are using the Cameo 4, and the autoblade resets to 0, when you start a new color, you may have to remove all excess design information that is not on your page/to be cut. (Meaning creating a separate file for each color.) Sorry for the extra step here, it's the only work around I can find right now. 

After you have cut each color group, lay out your pieces, so they are ready for the gluing steps.

Locate the main card piece and the contrasting bands at the bottom of the purse. Attach with a good paper glue like Tombow mono adhesive, to prevent your paper from warping. It also dries really fast.

Fold your pocket piece accordion style.

Glue the darker green contrasting piece under the decorative clover piece. Add a brad to the point, where the hole is already cut. The little green tab will help close this pocket in a tidy way.

Locate the interior "money"pocket, fold the tabs, and attach it to the inside of the card with glue. You do not have to attach it if you don't want to use it. Instead of money, you can use the dollar sized note card, provided with the cutting file, to insert a note here. 

The above shows the pocket being used with the provided dollar sized note card.

Now we will fold the "leather straps" around the card, be sure to thread your decorative buckle onto the strap, before attaching with brads. Do this for all 4 parts of the card. Brad holes are already cut...just line things up. 

This photo shows the buckle straps fully assembled. It also shows a previous prototype of the pocket before I added the tab and slot. It bugged me, that I couldn't keep it closed, and taping it, would have been clunky. I thought you'd think so too...so I redesigned it with a tab and slot, in order to keep things neat. ;)

Now we will center the pocket onto the face of the purse card. Use a touch of glue on the tabs and press it into place. Then add a dab of glue to the triangle flap, and slide it into the pocket and press. 

Time to add those adorable circle handles! Add a dab of glue to the bottom third of the gold side of the circle. Center the first one using the "dip" in the purse as your guide to line things up.

For the second circle, same thing...add a dab of glue to the bottom third of the circle. Now we will align it with the circle handle, that is already glued. Fold the card onto the circle handle, once you have it aligned. 

Now we will add the other additional feature, that I decided to redesign with this version. A closure strap, with a slot to slid it into! Attach it with a brad, then fold it, and slide it into the slot on the other side. It closes and stays closed so nicely now. 

Happy Crafting! 

Circle Handle Purse design and Circle Pouches

This design can be found here. Silhouette Design ID 308288.

This design can be found here. Silhouette Design ID 308319.

This week in the Silhouette design store I'm releasing a few new versions of my circle handle purse. One mimics the look of tooled leather, another features a fall spray of foliage. You can follow along the directions of my original circle handle purse and here, and just add the "tooled-leather" look layer. I do recommend attaching this layer with a fine tipped paper glue such as Tombow Mono liquid adhesive. Another great way to attach this detailed layer would be to use adhesive backed paper.

Links to these designs will appear as soon as they are loaded into the Silhouette design store.

This design can be found here. Silhouette Design ID 308289.

These new circle pouch designs are simple to make and only require glue to attach the contrasting background that highlights the front design. You can easily assemble multiples of these and are recommended as party favors because of their simple assembly. Just simple fold and interlock tabs! Fill them with small gifts such a scented bars soap, hand sanitizers, little chocolate boxes, bags of candy or more.

This Design can be found here. Silhouette Design ID 308291.

Summer Gift Card And Basket Set with Pinky!

Hey friends, it's Pinky today with a fun summer project-

I have so many reasons to give out small gifts in the summer and beginning

of the school year. Here in TN we start school in the very beginning

of August so the line is blurred for summer and school. 

The Samantha Walker digi cut files make fantastic gift giving ideas.

This one I created with a gift card holder and a basket for treats!

Using your Silhouette and the Samantha Walker Basket Scalloped Circle With Daisy 

file with the SW Carta Bella Summer Lovin' paper CUT  one- I use the deep cut settings. 

Using the Samantha Walker Gift Card Holder Coin Purse file 

with the SW Carta Bella Summer Lovin' paper CUT one making sure paper is

in the right direction. 

Before folding and assembling basket and card holder- add Liquid Pearls

around edges wherever desired. 

 After allowing to dry assemble basket. 

On this one I did not have coordinating brads so I rubbed Liquid Pearls on

the brads themselves to make them match. 

 For the daisy- I cut the daisy as you normally would with the 

Silhouette however I took the largest one apart and individually assembled 

the petals to add dimension using glue dots. 

 Then I layered the daisy with foam dots. 

Add large wired bow.

 Layer on daisy floral creation.

 Assemble Coin Purse Gift Card Holder- add pearls onto brads. 

 The only thing I diverted from on the Gift Card Holder- was I added a ribbon handle to 

like a purse which i thought was pretty darn cute!

Add sticker embellishments from the SW Carta Bella Summer Lovin'

and your teacher or friend is ready to receive cookies, or candy with a gift card!

Love the summer vibe and feel too!

Pinky Hobbs- Samantha Walker Creative Team

Hello Sunshine Trapezoid Purse with Cathy

Hi Samantha Walker fans!  Cathy sharing a spring project with you using Samantha's purse and purse gift card Silhouette Files.  I have a friend who has been a little blue and under the weather, I wanted to create a little gift for her that would brighten her day like the sunshine.  

I knew when I saw this 

Trapezoid Purse with Circle Handle and Pocket

that it would be perfect.  I knew that I could add the Hello Sunshine into the pocket, I simply backed the negative cut with some yellow dotted card stock!

First, ungroup all of the purse pieces and just cut the four sides of your purse.  I used Samantha Walker's 

Carta Bella Giddy Up Girl Collection.

 Next, cut your pocket with you choice of paper, I chose to work with the same pattern.  I just reduced the Hello Sunshine file to fit inside the pocket.  I just eyeballed it to center it!  Once you have this cut, cut a piece of card stock to fit and back your negative cut.

 I then cut four handle pieces, since I was using a textured card stock, I wanted to have the same appearance and texture on the inside and outside of the purse.  Just glue two piece together for each handle!

 Now on to the assembly of the purse..I followed Samantha's awesome instructions.  You can find the instructions for all of her Purse Silhouette Files here.  I used Scor-tape and a bit of hot glue to adhere mine...I really wanted the sides to be super strong as I filled it with all the goodies below. 

 I filled it with everything I could find that was yellow to represent the sun and things I know that she will love!

And just as luck would have it, the day I finished creating the purse, Samantha designed matching gift card purses and envelopes to go with all of her super cute designs.  Of course, I had to make 

Trapezoid Purse with Circle Handles & Pocket 

to match!

 How cute are these envelopes that the handle sticks out of the top.  Seriously, she thinks of every little detail.  Love that!  I added one of Samantha's new Layered Flowers to the front of the envelope!

Supplies: Trapezoid purse with Circle Handle and pocket, Hello Sunshine Title, Circle Handle Trapezoid with pocket gift card holder and envelope set, Flower 3 (links below). Carta Bella Giddy Up Girl collection, Scor- tape, Hot glue gun, Textured dot yellow card stock, Brads,

Petaloo Flowers, white twine, blue chalking ink.

Just click on the pictures for the links to these files!

Hoping that you have a sunshine filled day and thanks for joining us today!

Spring Treat Purse Bags by Pinky

Hey there SW friends, 

It's Pinky today and I am so excited about these new Purse Files from Samantha!

I decided since it is spring and Easter is also approaching, 

I wanted to make my girlfriends gift "purses" with candy in them.

Because I am super rad like that~ 

I fell in love with this Purse With A Circle Handle and knew

I wanted to make my "baskets" out of them. 

Now you can see I stitched mine on the tooling....when I say I...

I mean I bribed a friend to do it! 

I drug her to a really boring event and put a needle in her hand...

then bought her pizza- so thank you Melissa Cook, you all

can appreciate what a great job she did!

The perforations are perfect to stitch with needle and thread. 

 After the front and back were stitched, I folded all the edges over and

covered them with strong adhesive. 

 Then I also covered the sides with adhesive for extra sturdy 

sticking since I was going to put candy in it. 

 You can find Samantha's awesome tutorial HERE.

I attached the sides. 

 Then followed the same ideas with the adhesive for the button flap. 

 I pressed inside with my fingers making sure everything was adhered. 

 Then I attached the circle handles and added this bow.

Now there are flowers but I loved the bow so much, I just

couldn't put anything else on it.

 Except a strand of pearls around the handles. 

After it was completed I filled it with lace and candy- 

Now who doesn't love lacy and candy!

I hope you enjoyed my project today- 

I used the following products:

Samantha Walker Paris Girl Papers, 

Samantha Walker Purse With A Circle Handle Cut File,

Xyron Adhesive, Ribbon.