Laser-Cut Cards Are Elegant And So Easy To Create
Laser Cut Cards with the Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards & Tin are so easy to create. The card bases are beautiful and delicate and come in Very Vanilla with matching scalloped flap envelopes.
Friend Laser Cut Card Recipe
Stamp Sets: Free as a Bird, Itty Bitty Greetings
Ink: Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pretty Peacock.
Paper: Pretty Peacock, Very Vanilla, Pool Party, Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards & Tin.
Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Sponge Daubers, Pretty Peacock/Old Olive 3/8″ Reversible Ribbon, 2019-2021 In Color Faceted Dots, Post-It Notes for Masking.
How-To Details
Why do I say “so easy to create”? Using the laser-cut cards as a base, allows you to have minimal embellishments on the project, because the card base is the embellishment. All you need to do is concentrate on the focal image.
- Cut Pretty Peacock cardstock 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2 and score at 4-1/4″. Trim 1/16″ from each 5-1/2″ side. Apply adhesive to the inside of Laser-Cut Card and attach the Pretty Peacock cardstock. ** The reason for trimming the Pretty Peacock is to allow the edges to line up with the card base and allow all the pieces to lie flat.***
- Use largest circle from the Stitched Shapes Die cuts. Cut circle from Whisper White cardstock. Create a mask for the 2 flower stamps. Stamp on the Post-It-Note and cut out. Randomly stamp the large flower, small flower and leaves on the circle. Remember to stamp a few flowers that fall off the circle.
- See below for the Masking Technique.
- Once you have the stamping completed, use a sponge dauber and matching color ink pad to color in the centers of the flowers and the leaves.
To Use the Masking Technique
- Stamp the flowers that you would like to have in the foreground (very front) of the scene on your cardstock.
- Stamp the same images on a Post-It Note™, making sure that part of the stamped image is on the sticky part of the paper.
- Carefully cut the flowers on the Post-It Note™ out with your scissors. Cut right on the line or even slightly inside of it.
- Layer your Post-It Note™ flowers over the ones stamped on your cardstock. Stamp the leaves or other flowers over your mask. This step gives the illusion that the stamped image is in the background.
- Once you have finished stamping over one image, remove the mask, place it over the next foreground image and continue to stamp. Color your image if necessary.
Complete the Card
- Layer and attach the circle so that it is framed on one side with the inner lace circle.
- Stamp the sentiment on Pool Party cardstock with Pretty Peacock ink. Use the 2nd smallest Stitched Nested Label dies and attach a length of ribbon which has been doubled to the back of the label.
- Attach to the stitched circle.
- Put the card in the matching envelope and send in the mail or hand deliver to someone special.
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