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North Pole: Santas Workshop

FREE IN SHOP TILL DEC. 25th 2019! Here it is . . . the North Pole Series "Santa's Workshop"!!! The kit includes 23 printable sheets with lots of extras for you to decorate your workshop. The top flips backward, allowing you to add a tea light inside and the roof comes off so you can add a second tea light in the bottom half. PDF Tutorial is included with step-by-step ... View Post

O Christmas Tree

It's that time of the year once again! If you are a crafter then you look forward to the upcoming holidays with anticipation of new craft projects like myself. You may have tons of Christmas decorations but let's face it ... we can always use more right! This year I've decided to use a theme of Gingerbread and tree groupings around the house. Bookmark this post and keep checking back weekly as ... View Post

Text in CDS

Working with text in Cricut Design Space Check out these tutorial videos and have some FUN! Check back now and then for additional content! https://youtu.be/kkun0pQ0EuI https://youtu.be/YJFC0NDgVJ4 https://youtu.be/kRQTtVTvtXc Here's an article about using text that you might want to take a look at as well. Now .... go make something!! Happy Crafting, Teri ... View Post

Tiny Village Finishing Ideas

by Teri Hanson for The Covered Chipboard As promised I will be adding some finishing how-to's for each of my Tiny Village projects. Bookmark this post as it will update for each additional building. I will also be adding some free downloadable SVG files for various items. Creating Dirt or Flower Beds . . . Materials . . . Quick dry glueOld tea grounds or coffee groundsHeat gunPlastic ... View Post

Miniature Schoolhouse

by Teri Hanson for The Covered Chipboard PURCHASE HERE Every tiny village needs a Schoolhouse just like this one. With your Cricut or Silhouette cutting machines you will find construction easy and fairly quick depending on the options you choose. The Schoolhouse was created to compliment the tiny Church with a finished size of 4.5" by 6" by 7" and the option of using mini LED ... View Post

Tiny Church Finishing

by Teri Hanson for The Covered Chipboard At your request I've taken the full size Church and sized it to a Tiny Church! I've also added a single Church window to the existing download files that you can use as a print and cut in Cricut Design Space. If you have previously purchased the Church, please log back into your account and look for the added folder: "TinyChurchFiles" . Download that ... View Post

Miniature Church

by Teri Hanson So who doesn't love a pretty country style church? The best part of this one is it's versatility and size. You can build it with or without lights, change the size, and even make it as a gift or album box. If you have purchased the SVG file from our shop, THANK YOU for your purchase! I do hope you enjoy the build and please don't hesitate to get in touch with me should you ... View Post

Mom’s Mini Album

This tutorial should be used with my SVG 10 page Mini Album files. You can have more pages if you like but you would need to alter the spine width based on the number of pages you want to use. You would also need to alter the width of the spine cover and inside spine as well. About Chipboard . . . Cricut Air, Air 2 and the Maker can all cut the medium weight chipboard. I'm not sure about ... View Post

Valentine to St. Pat’s Day

Take a look at the video below and see how we converted the Valentine's Day Truck to a St. Patrick's Day Truck! Using Cricut Design Space images it's easy to swap the truck around for various holidays! Here's our St. Pat's Day version .... And here's how to convert the card .... https://youtu.be/YXsoU6LZrBE If you have not purchased or created our Valentine Box Card, here's a ... View Post

Easy Sign Making

Cricut Crafty Friday by The Covered Chipboard DOWNLOAD THE CRICUT MADE SIGN SVG FILES HERE This weeks Cricut Crafty Friday features a quick and easy way to create a sign for use in your home. When I first saw these on Pinterest I fell in love with them for our guest bath and knew I had to have them. The beauty of the Cricut Maker is that we can make justs about ... View Post

Let’s Talk Cricut Materials

Let me start by saying that over the past year, since the Cricut Maker machine was released, I’ve become a huge fan! Not only of this amazing machine but also of the awesome new materials Cricut has been releasing. If you have followed me from way back when you know that I love my medium weight chipboard. That said, since Cricut introduced their own version of chipboard I’ve been ... View Post

Paper Frame Tutorial

Purchase the Paper Frame here. Hello Friends! Over the past month or two as I've been working on our quilt block series I've made up more than a few of our paper frames. Without thinking about it I've constructed each one in a different manner in hopes of making it as simple as possible. Well today I managed to find what I think is a super easy method for construction. So here's a ... View Post