By Terisa Bostic
Forward by Jamie Omahen: Craft Chamemleon is excited to start off 2018 blogging with some of our best and brightest creative facebook group members. We are blessed to have a talented, sharing community there. When I requested help on our blog, these skilled and brilliant people stepped up to the task!
I hope you enjoy this blog post tutorial and those to come as much as we have enjoyed/will enjoy bringing them to you. Now, let's start with our intrepid Terisa's tutorial. the first of many!
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| Supplies from Craft Chameleon- Click the listing below for more information. |
1. Open the bookmark template ( 1.5' x 4" rectangle) provided by Craft
Chameleon. Create a Text Box in Silhouette Cameo Studio.
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| Template links are available for download from your shipping confirmation email. |
Type the name to run vertically down the bookmark. The font I used here is called LW Lucky Hearts. Adjust your name so it fits in the
bookmark template.
2. Open the templates provided by Craft Chameleon
for the 1” heart and the 5/8” circle. Add them to your working area.
I used heart designs from another file I had in my silhouette library, but you can use any heart you like. Adjust to fit in the templates until you like the way they look.
For the initials, you
can use any font desired and adjust the letter to fit the circle template. For this design I used ED Chunky Paperwork
and LW Sweetheart.For the name in the hearts, I used the LW Doodle Font . I used the same hearts from the 5/8” circles in
the previous step to design the other heart.
3. Cut and weed your vinyl designs. Place transfer tape on vinyl and burnish so that the vinyl will stick to the acrylic.
4. All the acrylic shapes come with a thin brown or
clear plastic covering that must be removed before placing any vinyl onto the
surface.
5. Remove paper backing from vinyl. Place the vinyl on each shape in the desired
way, and burnish again to adhere the vinyl to the shape.
Assembly
6. For this step you will need pliers, triangle
bails, and jump rings.
Using pliers open
the triangle bail as shown, insert it through shape, and close with pliers. Do
this for the acrylic heart shapes, the heart charm, and the lobster claw.
7. Using pliers, open the jump rings, and attach
through the hole of each of the 5/8” disks.
The triangle bails are too large to fit through the hole on the disks.
8. Insert the triangle bails attached to the lobster claw into the hole at the top of the bookmark, and close the bails with pliers.
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Insert the triangle bails attached to the hearts
into the hole at the top of the bookmark, and close the bails with pliers.
10.
Slide the jump rings attached to the 5/8” disks
onto the lobster clasp.
Finished!!
Afterword from Jamie: Thank you Terisa! Our first post for 2018. I love the way the 5/8" disks fan out when put at the end of the lobster clasp. I would never have thought to do that and it's perfect!
Ideas like Terisa's and so many others are the reason to subscribe to our new blog! We are endeavoring to bring at least 1 post a week and some weeks possibly 2 or more.
Have you made a Craft Chameleon bookmark and want to share? Comment below we'd love to hear from you!
