Well the weekend was a wash-out! Oh my once it started to rain
(along with a thunderstorm) Saturday afternoon it didn’t stop until Sunday
night. There are lots of flooding in low lying areas too. Not as bad as Texas mind you but still
a lot of rain fell. And cold….brrrr….we were tempted to turn the A/C on a
couple of days last week and yesterday morning I had to turn the furnace on
just to get the damp chill out of the house. Same thing this morning and likely
tomorrow as they are calling for the chance of frost in some areas. Crazy
weather!
Today’s card is the first one that actually got finished using
the new Fiskar’s fuse things I bought. Here is the package of them so you will
know what I’m using.
See it says “die-cut and letter press in one pass”! Well, maybe
it does if you own their letterpress machine but I don’t. First thing I did was
check out YouTube to see if anyone else had tried these on a Big Shot and I got
some ideas. The first few things I tried ripped the paper and they went into
the garbage. I tried the fun foam that one lady said worked best but it ripped
the paper and it really indented the foam to so that would be very expensive to
use. Finally I hit the right combination: The Big Shot platform but no tabs;
then the cutting pad; then a piece of quilt batting; the Fiskar’s die(?)(not
sure what to call these); the second cutting pad and run it through. Accceptable.
Here’s the card.
I just used a piece of white cardstock as the trial and as you
can see it die letterpress the flowers quite nicely. What's really nice is you can use as many flowers as you like and you can place them anywhere. Because it actually worked
I had to then make something out of it. Into the stash I went and found that
lovely pink polka dot paper and the darker plain paper. The polka dot paper was
just glued on and then I ran two gold peel-off lines on either side to hide the
edge. The card was inked around the edge with dark ink. The sentiment and
little flowers came with a Cuttlebug alphabet set. More experiments to be shown
as the week goes by!
Cheers
Violet
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