LeighSBDesigns: "Happy New Year" Paper Piecing SVG Cutz Slimline Card Tutorial with Leigh

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

"Happy New Year" Paper Piecing SVG Cutz Slimline Card Tutorial with Leigh

🎉 From all of us at LeighSBDesigns, we wish you a Happy and Creative 2024 🎉 This year is going to be filled with inspirational fun, lots of fabulous releases and crafting adventures!

Welcome to my first tutorial for 2024! Woohoo, let the creative fun begin!
Did you see my 3 part series of SVG Cutz tutorials shared throughout Christmas Week demonstrating how to cut and assemble my Majestic Bow, my pretty Poinsettia and then finally my tutorial on how to make a fabulous Christmas Wreath? Pop on over if you missed seeing them after you enjoy today's tutorial!

Happening in January

See you all here Friday the 5th for the start of our January creativities with Challenge #25 Winter Wonderland, then stay tuned for a wonderful new digi release and then join us January 19th for our fabulous annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop!

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"Happy New Year"
Paper Piecing Tutorial
Poinsettia and Holly SVG Cutz
Slimline Card with Leigh

Today I'm showing you how I made this fun "Happy New Year" Poinsettia and Holly themed slimline card using SVG Cutz with my Silhouette Cameo 4 to do the fun paper piecing technique! It's so easy to do and the results are gorgeous!

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You can use this paper piecing technique with all of my SVG Cutz designs and for today's make I used the beautiful Poinsettia and Holly Slimline Card Make-a-Card SVG Cutz set from my new Poinsettia and Holly Christmas Collection.

The Poinsettia and Holly Slimline Make-a-Card SVG Cutz is a 2 piece set of a beautiful cut-in design of poinsettia, leaves, holly and berries that makes a slimline card from start to finish using your electronic cutting machine. You'll have so much fun customizing your Christmas slimline cards with this set by cutting out the cut-in window slimline base card that has score notches indicating where you must score and fold and the included mat layer that you can place behind the cut in window as well as decorate the inside of the slimline card.

Step 1
Cut the Poinsettia and Holly Slimline Card from heavy weight white cardstock and carefully remove the card so the cut out pieces are left behind on your cutting mat. If some pieces come off with the card then just remove them and stick them back onto the sticky mat as you remove each piece to ensure you put them back where they generally came from!

Step 2
Paper piecing colouring can be a wonderful meditation technique so grab your favourite colouring supplies and enjoy the process! I started by colouring all the Holly leaves with Copics.

Step 3
I then moved on to colouring all the Poinsettia petals and leaves with an ombre effect by alternating the shades of red and pink for each flower, green with touches of red for the Poinsettia leaves and also coloured the flower centers yellow.

Step 4
Lastly I coloured all the Berries in a different shade of red to the flowers.

Step 5
Cut 2 mat layers included in the set from your choice of coloured cardstocks or decorative papers to decorate the inside of your card but also use it as a template to cut a panel from a sheet of double sided adhesive. Peel the protective layer from one side of the double sided adhesive panel and adhere it to the decorative mat, then peel off the other side and adhere it to the back of the card front so the adhesive is exposed through the cut out design.

Step 6
Stick the slimline card to the sticky cutting mat right next to the coloured pieces to make transferring them over super easy to do!

Step 8
Now for another session of meditation and enjoy adhering all the pieces in place! Once finished burnish each piece with your finger or a bone folder to ensure they're stuck down nicely.

Step 9
For this step I decided to carefully add magical shimmer to all the flowers and leaves with a Spectrum Noir clear glitter brush pen and metallic gold shine to the flower centers with a fine point paint pen afterwards but you can most definitely do this before adhering all the pieces in place. For a touch of dimension I applied glossy accents to all the Berries which I recommend you do after adhering all the pieces to the card.

Step 10
The paper pieced slimline card is dramatic all on it's own and makes fabulous Christmas cards. I then embellished mine further with a single fancy Poinsettia and greenery from the Poinsettia and Holly Botanicals and Bow "Colouritze It" SVG Cutz set.

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Step 11
In your electronic cutting machine's design software resize one of the fancy Poinsettia overlays and Pine Springs to fit the slimline card. I cut everything from white cardstock and embellished the Poinsettia with Diamond Stickles glitter and painted the Pine Sprigs with a metallic gold paint pen. I then adhered them to the card and added a single metallic plum flat backed pearl to the flower center.

Step 12
Finally, I turned my card into a festive New Year themed card with the addition of the die cut "Happy New Year" (Scrapbook.com) sentiment which I cut from adhesive backed cardstock and then painted metallic gold with a paint pen.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing how gorgerous paper piecing with LeighSBDesigns SVG Cutz can be and will have lots of fun playing around with the technique!

Share your Winter themed paper pieced makes in LeighSBDesigns January Challenge, #25 Winter Wonderland, starting Friday Jan 5th! Hope to see you there😉

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Check out my fabulous new

Poinsettia and Holly Collection

The Poinsettia and Holly 2023 Collection of 3 festive Digi Stamps, 3 packs of Decorative Digi Papers and 5 SVG Cutz sets are here to fill you with festive warmth and the spirit of the season!

Poinsettia and Holly Wreath - Digi Stamp
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Festive Robin - Digi Stamp
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Poinsettia Holly Snowflakes Festive Garland - Digi Stamp
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