I have one particular large QuicKutz die that I could never get to cut in my cuttlebug and the only thing that has worked was using the regular sandwich for thin metal dies but putting a piece of fun foam between the cardstock I was cutting into and the cutting plate. Worked a treat and I never thought it would!
Fun foam is my last resort on any misbehaving die - thankfully only have two of them and not a whole load...
Backing paper is pale blue with sailing dinghys on and was a freebie.
The boat is cut from semi gloss photopaper using a Marianne die, and the sentiment also uses Marianne dies. The reef knot is just ordinary white household string !
I bought three sets - In the Garden, Wonderful Day, and Christmas Critters ! Aren't they delightful ? Now I need to start collecting promarkers or copics ! See what you have started !!
Just went back to buy another set of Christmas Critters for a friend and they are temporarily out of stock - already ?? !!
Good choices - I use In the Garden a lot and it is a lovely set for Easter cards. Christmas Critters was my first Penny Black Christmas purchase and I used it a lot for a couple of years - I think I need to dig that set back out and use them again over the summer for this year's Christmas cards. Wonderful is a recent purchase and I have barely used them so far so need to remedy that. I will pm you the supplier that I use for most of my Penny Blacks - they do have Christmas Critters in stock.
I recently did a blog post on my favourite Penny Black's here
I thought my Red/White/Blue effort lacked a little something - so I have added some Candi and a couple of anchors. I think it looks better - what do others think ?
I have still to do a card for week 22 but have just made a card for week 23 using a craft papers from May's edition of 'Making Cards'. I don't usually buy this sort of magazine but couldn't resist the pastel Union Jack papers I have used for this card.
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