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Capture the elegant, rustic style of the contemporary farmhouse in an interactive card made with your Silhouette Cameo!

My friend just recently purchased her first home, and I couldn’t be more happy for her. Such an exciting “adulting” moment! So, I jumped at the chance to create a special card design just for this very occasion – an interactive card with beautiful farmhouse decor that you can make with your Silhouette Cameo or Cricut!

Get the free template for this card!

You can download the free SVG/DXF/PDF file for this Modern Farmhouse Door Card in my Resource Library.

And now, I’ll show you how you can make this card yourself!

Let’s Get started!

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Quick Links to Information in this Post

1. Supplies
2. How-to Video (click here to watch on YouTube)
3. How to Create Score Lines in Silhouette Studio
4. How to Add a Wreath Design with Sketch Pens
5. How to Create Faux Wainscoting
6. Free Modern Farmhouse Door Card Template

Supplies

How-to Video

You can watch the How-to video below or on my YouTube channel:

Step 1: Download, Cut, And Score template

You’ll first need to download my free Modern Farmhouse Door Card template from my Resource Library (you can get the password to the library at the bottom of this post).

In my Resource Library, click on the Modern Farmhouse Door Card link to download the file. The file is a zipped folder so you’ll need to upzip the folder first. In the folder you’ll find the template in SVG, DXF, and PDF format.

If you’re using a cutting machine like a Silhouette Cameo or Cricut to cut out the template, open the SVG file in your design software. Here’s what the basic door SVG template looks like in Silhouette Studio Designer Edition:

If you are using Silhouette Studio Basic Edition (the free version of the software), you will need to use the DXF file. This file will look a little different from the SVG, but you should be able to cut it out pretty much the same way.

If the DXF file isn’t opening at the correct size, try updating your Import Settings. In the top menu, click Edit, then click Preferences. Then, click the Import tab and make sure that in the DXF section that the Open menu isn’t set to Fit to Page. The setting I use is “Centered.”

For more tips with working with DXF files, read the blog post I wrote by clicking HERE.

How to create score lines in Silhouette Studio

THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT because if you don’t tell your machine there are score lines in the design, it will cut them (which means your doors will fall off!).

To create score lines, click the “Send” button in the upper right-hand corner of Silhouette Studio. Then, click the “Line” tab in the menu below it.

This screen will display a table that shows this design consists of mostly black lines, but also two red lines on the doors. The black lines are intended to be cut, and the red lines are intended to be scored.

The default Action in Silhouette Studio is to cut all lines. So, you NEED to tell your machine NOT TO CUT the red lines.

So, find the red line row in the table, and under the Action column, click the black down arrow. This reveals a drop-down menu, and click the “Score” option from that menu.

Verify in the section below the table that the red line’s Action is set to Score.

Score Settings for Door

Here are the other settings I used for the score lines:

• Material: Cardstock, Plain (even though I actually used heavier weight card stock)
• Action: Score
• Tool: Auto Blade

Cut Settings for Door

The Action for the black lines should automatically default to Cut, but verify in the table to make sure. Here are the other settings I used for the black cut lines:

• Material: Coverstock, Heavy (105 lb – 122 lb)
• Action: Cut
• Tool: Auto Blade

Then, with your card stock on your mat, load it into your machine, and press “Send” to cut and score.

cut out the door details

Open the Modern Farmhouse Door Card Details file for the fun farmhouse elements to decorate your door. There aren’t any score lines in this file so you can just cut them out in any color card stock you like. Here’s what the SVG file looks like in Silhouette Studio Designer Edition:

When you first open the SVG file, all the pieces are grouped together. To ungroup them, just right-click on the design and click “Ungroup” from the drop-down menu.

Cutting little details like this is a great time to use up your card stock scraps! I save all my scraps in a box. That way, I can pull them out for projects like this when I only need a little bit of one color.

Here are the card stock colors I used for the door details:

• Door accents: Kraft 110 lb Cardstock Paper by Recollections from Michaels (cut 2)
• Picture frame: Gold Foil Matte Paper by Recollections from Michaels (cut 1)
• Wreathes: 2 wreathes in dark green and 2 wreathes in light green 100 lb card stock (for 4 total)
• Door hinges: black 100 lb card stock (cut 4)

cut settings for door details

Here are the cut settings I used for the door details:

• Material: Coverstock, Heavy (105 lb – 122 lb)
• Action: Cut
• Tool: Auto Blade

How to Add a Sketched Wreath Design (optional)

To add the wreath design, open up the file named Modern Farmhouse Door Card WITH Sketch Pen Details.

I used a black Sketch Pen in my Silhouette Cameo 3 to do the sketching for me, but you could also freehand draw or even trace the design from the PDF file onto your project.

This is what the SVG file looks like in Silhouette Studio Designer Edition:

There are two doors to choose from – each has a bough on it, but one has a heart in the middle and the other does not. You can choose what you like the most!

This file also contains the “Home” sign you can put behind your doors if you want.

When you first open the SVG file, all the pieces are grouped together. To ungroup them, just right-click on the design and click “Ungroup” from the drop-down menu.

The green lines in this file are sketch lines, the black lines are cut lines, and the red are score lines.

You need to tell your machine that some of the lines in this design are NOT cut lines. There are both score lines AND sketch lines.

Silhouette cameo 4/single carriage Sketch and Cut settings

If you’re using the Silhouette Cameo 4, Cameo 1, 2, or Portrait machine, you’ll need to tell your machine to “pause” after it does the sketching. This is so that you can switch the Sketch Pen in your machine to your cutting blade. This is super easy to do, and this is what it looks like in Silhouette Studio:

I recommend doing your sketching first, so if the green line is not in the first row of the table, click on the green box and drag it to the top.

Then, change the Action for the green lines to Sketch. Then, with the green line still selected, click the “Add Pause” button, and the table should look like this:

Here are the other settings I used for sketching:

• Material: Cardstock, Plain
• Action: Sketch
• Tool: Choose Sketch Pen or Pen Holder (I chose Sketch Pen because I used a black Silhouette Sketch Pen for this project)

AND PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ALSO CHANGE THE RED LINES TO SCORE LINES! (see above for instructions)

I used the same Cut and Score settings as the basic door for the black and red lines.

Double check your Material, Action, and Tool settings are correct (always a good habit!). Then, click the “Send” button at the bottom of the screen to begin sketching!

When your machine is done sketching, it will pause. This is when you take out the Sketch Pen and put your cutting blade in your machine. You do not need to touch anything else on your project or machine.

Then, after making the switch, click “Resume” on your computer to continue.

Silhouette Cameo 3 Dual Carriage Sketch and Cut Settings

If you’re using the Silhouette Cameo 3, you have the advantage of the dual tool carriage. So, you actually don’t need to add a pause to switch out your tools. You can put both your Sketch Pen and cutting blade in the dual carriage, and press “Send.”

However, you do need to tell your machine which tools are in the different carriages and what actions you want it to do with each tool. Here are the settings I used with my Silhouette Cameo 3:

Make sure to put the correct tool in the correct carriage in the Silhouette Cameo 3 machine. For instance, in the example above, you’ll put the Auto Blade in Tool Carriage 1 (left carriage) and the Sketch Pen in Tool Carriage 2 (right carriage).

I recommend doing your sketching first, so if the green line is not in the first row of the table in Silhouette Studio, click on the green box and drag it to the top.

AND PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ALSO CHANGE THE RED LINES TO SCORE LINES! (see above for instructions)

I used the same Cut and Score settings for the black and red lines as the basic door.

Home Sign

To create this popular farmhouse sign for your card, I used a black Silhouette Sketch Pen on a piece of white card stock. Use one of the sketch and cut methods listed above.

There aren’t any score lines in the Home sign so you don’t have to worry about the settings for the red lines.

You can also print this Home sign from the PDF file. Or you could draw your own sign or even create your own image on your computer and print it out. A picture of you and the recipient would also be a really cute idea too!

Step 2: Fold the score lines

To make the doors open, GENTLY begin bending one of the doors back, right at the score line. I suggest working slowly and carefully. If you try to fold it back all in one go, you risk tearing the card stock. Just continue gently folding the card stock back, all along that score line, until you can completely fold it back.

Then, once the door is completely folded back you can reinforce the fold with a bone folder. Then, return the door to its closed position, and gently fold it back and forth to “work in” the fold. This will make it easier for the recipient to open the doors.

Next, repeat with the other door!

Step 3: How to Create Faux Wainscoting

To create the wall behind the door with the illusion of wainscoting, cut a piece of white card stock to 6.25 inches by 4.5 inches.

On the 6.25 inch side, faintly draw a pencil line at 1 inch and at 2.5 inches.

Next, put this card stock piece into your score board with the 4.5 inch side at the top. Then, you’re going to score at the following measurements, but ONLY in the section between the pencil lines:

• 0.5 inches
• 1.5 inches
• 1.75 inches
• 2.75 inches
• 3 inches
• 4 inches

Now, rotate your paper 90 degrees counter-clockwise in your score board. Then score at 1 inch and 2.5 inches (these score lines should be along your pencil marks). But again, don’t score the entire length of the paper. Only score to connect the following:

• Connect your 1st score line to the 2nd score line
• Connect the 3rd to 4th
• Connect the 5th score line to 6th score line

Remove the card stock from your score board and flip it over. You should now have created three rectangles with the score lines. You may need to reinforce the score lines to add more definition.

Baseboard, trim, & wallpaper

To create a baseboard and trim, cut 2 pieces of the kraft card stock – one piece to 4.5 by 0.75 inches and the other piece to 4.5 by 0.25 inches. You can put a score line down each of these pieces with your score board to give it more detail if you want.

Apply Scor Tape or other adhesive to the back of the baseboard (the larger kraft piece). Attach it to the wainscoting wall by lining up the bottom edges.

Now, take your piece of patterned paper (this is the wall paper), apply adhesive to the back. Adhere it to your wainscoting wall by lining up the top edges.

Lastly, apply adhesive to the trim (the smaller kraft piece). Then, adhere it directly below the patterned paper – their edges should be touching each other.

Step 4: put it all together

doors

Glue the door accents down first, then the door hinges over top, and let dry completely. Once dry, gently fold back the doors to put a gentle crease in the hinges so they will fold back with the doors as well.

If the hinges pop up, add additional adhesive to keep them down, and apply pressure to the crease in the hinge created by the door to get it to stick down really well.

Next, flip over the door piece and apply foam tape (or other adhesive) to only around the edges of the door. I had to cut a piece of 1/2 inch foam mounting tape in half to fit along the two long sides.

Foam mounting tape is optional. You can just apply regular adhesive if you want. The foam tape just pops-up the doors from the wall behind it to add some dimension.

Next, adhere the door to the front of the wall. I used the lines on my craft mat to help me put it on straight.

Then, apply adhesive to the back of the wall and adhere it to a 5 x 7 inch card base. There should be a thin border around the doors from the card base.

wreathes

To assemble the wreathes, I layered one light green wreath on top of a dark green one. But, I slightly rotated the wreathes so the leaves were offset, and so it looked more full.

Then, I added a bow made from jute rope. I used a tiny glue dot to adhere the bow to the wreath, but liquid adhesive would also work as well.

To adhere the wreathes to the door, I applied a very small amount of liquid glue to the doors where the wreathes would sit. Then, I pressed the door and the wreath together.

I found it very helpful to put a piece of scratch paper behind the door while I pressed the wreath down – that way if glue seeped out the sides it wouldn’t get all over the wall behind it.

Home Sign

Next, I applied a tiny amount of glue to the back of the picture frame and glued it to the front of the Home sign.

Then, I applied glue to the back of it and centered it on the patterned paper of my wall.

And last but not least, write your well wishes on the inside of the card to the recipient!

Complete!

I just love using my Silhouette Cameo to make cards like this – ones with cute little details! I think it’s so fun putting all the little pieces together – I feel like I’m actually decorating the house!

Did you make it? I’d love to hear from you!

If you made this card, I’d love to see it! Post your project on social media and tag me on Facebook or Instagram using #lindsayddesigns or you can email me at hello@lindsaydickason.com.

And if you give me permission, I’d love to share a picture of your card on this blog post!

Happy crafting my friends,

Make your own Modern Farmhouse Card – with doors that open!

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