This upload is focusing on just one of the eight dies in the Marianne Craftables Silver Selection (CR1268 is used here).
Now I have to explain something about these dies. The top part has a continuous cutting line, while the bottom has a broken cutting line. There is a notch on each side of the die that you use to line up with your score lines or center point.
For this card, I scored down 1" from the top and 1" up from the bottom at the 5.5 mark (where you would score to fold in half). Line up the side notches with the score lines and die cut.
After you take your die off the c/s you still have one more die cut to make. This is with the Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large die. You line the die up horizontally with the center score marks or the end of the top cutting line. To cut only to that point, you place the edge of your top cutting plate at the score lines or where the top cutting line ends. So you are only going to cut half of the oval. You will snip just a small part on each side, then remove that part. You will have an opening giving you the look you see here.
There will be more cards posted to show this as a window.
I used the die as a tracing stencil on the vellum to get the same cut pattern as the die.
To attach the vellum, I punched 2 holes on each side of the card and vellum, and threaded the ribbon through and tied knots.
The darling cupids were cut twice and adhered with dimensional tape. The cut out hearts were used for embellishment.
Some precision cutting is needed to do this type of cut, thus the 3 for difficulty.
Date: Monday, February 9, 2015 GMT Views: 811
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Wed, Feb 11, 2015 @ 1:51 PM
I got SO lost in trying to figure the details of how you made this, but it does not matter as this is just incredible. I love how you designed this amazing Valentine!
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Sun, Feb 15, 2015 @ 5:49 AM
WOW - this is a beautiful card. I am reading trying to follow along, but I think one needs the die to get an idea, and this is so fabulous - hmmm - more on the wish list! tfs
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