You can make an easy fancy card with this new laser cut specialty paper. You barely have to do any work to make this beautiful card! All you have to do is purchase the Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Paper. This paper is White on one side and Vanilla on the other side so you have a choice! This paper s 12″ x 12″ and comes in eight sheets, four each of two designs. It can all be cut apart to use as you wish as accents on cards and projects. The paper is delicate and each sheet is separated by a piece of tissue paper so that it doesn’t all get tangled up!
On this card, the card base is the new In Color Grapefruit Grove. I think it photographed a little darker than it really is. I just chose one of the sheets of the laser-cut paper and placed it over the top part of my card. Be sure to turn the paper to another area, another side if you don’t like what you see if you are doing your card this way! I chose to leave the border edge on my card since it would appear natural on the bottom portion on this card, but the one that would have been on the left side has been cut off.
Once I knew which section of the paper I wanted to use, I lined it up over my card using my Grid Paper to help. I cut the laser-cut paper just a bit larger in case I messed up on sizing. I just eyeballed it and cut with scissors to remove that piece.
Next, I placed that cut out piece over the top section of my card, lining up the bottom line according to my Grid Paper, held it tightly, and trimmed off the little bit of excess from the edges of the card.
When you are ready for gluing, there are a couple things you can do. You can put tiny dots of the Multipurpose Liquid Glue or the Fine Tip Glue Pen on whichever portions of the paper that are large enough for a tiny drop of glue! Or you can sponge some Liquid Glue onto the back of the laser-cut paper on the Silicone Craft Sheet, wax paper, or scrap paper. The most important thing is to hold the paper down tightly so that it won’t pick up glue in the “holes” that got sponged. You don’t want the laser-cut paper to move while you are sponging it. Pick it up equally carefully and then adhere to the card base.
For the greeting, I chose one from the Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set. It is stamped in Grapefruit Grove Ink and die cut with the Big Shot and the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies. To help it stand out, I also die cut a piece of Grapefruit Grove Cardstock with a scalloped edge in the same set of oval dies.
That’s all there is to it! This Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Paper is really beautiful and easy to use! Try some!
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