In case y'all wondered about the scraps used here out of yesterday's scraps, here is my little secret. I took a pic before I put it all together so y'all could get an idea of what I did.
Yesterday's card was a 6" square. After I had all my layers cut, I stack them and flip them over to the back side. I draw a line on the largest layer around the next smaller layer and keep going thru all of the layers. Then I cut out inside the lines of each layer. I end up w/ a set of frames that I then attach together and they look like the layers they are supposed to be.
So today's card is 5" square which is what I had left after cutting out the insides of the 6" squares yesterday. As you can see, I cut these insides out, too and used them to cut the circles which are layered on top of the frames.
So I have a lot of usable scraps and my cards don't weight a ton w/ all the layers. I started this about 10 yrs ago when someone said "How come your cards are so heavy?" Obviously this person is a relative and doesn't know about card making. This also helps w/ postage rates since they usually stay under the limit this way. Thanks for reading my ramblings and remember, this is just between us. TFL
Date: Friday, May 2, 2008 GMT Views: 568
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Fri, May 02, 2008 @ 2:05 PM
Very smart. I'll do that from now on!! Thanks!!
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Fri, May 02, 2008 @ 4:32 PM
WOW! So smart! What a clever idea. I can see how much weight it saves looking at all those layers! Thanks for the tip and I'll keep it under my hat.
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