Gift Box inspired by Create and Craft

So this morning I sat down and watched some TV as I was on my own and on Create and Craft a lady made a little gift box for a bottle of nail varnish.

I’ve had these two OPI hand creams for a while and have been wondering how to give them as a gift.

So I came up with this all done in Canvas and cut on the ScanNCut, I need to perfect it a little more but think it would be good for those little bottles of hand sanitizers too and obviously could be made smaller for nail varnish.

I used the ScanNCut to cut the little gift card too and the matting layers, which have been cut from K & Co card stock I’ve had for years. The scollop is a shape from within the ScanNCut machine and I used the pen to write the sentiment.

I think they have turned out ok.

Appliqué Cushion

I’ve made this as a gift for someone, all the appliqué was cut with the ScanNCut all the shapes are my own except the bird which was something I had already and the grass is from the borders in Canvas.

I’ve added two embroidery butterfly’s and free motion quilting.

I love how this has turned out.

Embrilliance Essentials Appliqué

So I’ve had the demo version of Embrilliance Essentials now for a while and I have been waiting for them to bring out a digitiser add on to their software, but last week they did a free update which allows users to make a ScanNCut cut file whilst in their software for appliqué.

So I decided it was about time I bought the full version. I also bought a great split monogram front from Rivermill Embroidery and thought I would try it out.

Rivermill provide a BX version of the font within the font folder which basically means once it’s installed in Embrilliance you just type a word as you would in any other programme and choose that font and it appears on screen as you would expect, which is different from other fonts that you use, you usually have to type each letter separately and then align them which can be a bit of a pain.

So here is the results of my first experience of using a stitch file and cut file directly from Embrilliance, I would add I cut the calico with no backing what so ever. I had a very sticky mat and applied a liberal coating of reposition able spray adhesive only to the back of the calico as you can see from the photo of it still on the mat it cut perfectly.