Here is my entry for the MFT June guest designer contest. The challenge was to Get Personal (personalize something). Right away I knew I wanted to make a baby card for our former neighbors, I just had to make it work with my limited MFT stash! So I thought Fred Bear would do the trick. I did have to use non-MFT alphabet and sentiment sets, though.
I cut out the daisies and popped them up, then created a name banner with the Perfect Posies die. The flowers are strung together with crochet trim that I cut in half so it was skinnier. I put a dimensional on the back of each flower to hold them in place.
So the bad news is MY BIG SHOT BROKE before I finished cutting out the flowers/centers!!!!! The shaft (where the handle connects on the inside) snapped in half!
I couldn't believe it! I bought it when I was an SU demo, so I called them right up. GOOD NEWS, it was still under warranty so they are sending me a brand new one! If you bought a Big Shot from SU the warranty is good for 3 three years, and mine would have been up in October, so the timing was pretty good, phew! Now, how to finish this card WITHOUT the one thing I use on every card. I thought about tracing the die and cutting them out, I thought about running to my friend's house to use her machine, and then I tried something:
I turned the die cutting side up, put my scrap paper on it, and then did a "rubbing" with the metal edge of one of my small hand held punches. That created a nice groove for my scissors (I used paper snips) to follow, and so I was able to finish the card. So yes, all 5 flowers PLUS their sunburst-y centers were cut out by hand. You would never know if I hadn't told you, not bad, huh?
Thanks for stopping by, hope your week is off to a great start!
4 comments:
This is flippin' ADORABLE!!! Hooray for you being able to figure out how to cut out the flowers!!!! So glad you're big shot was still under warranty!!
A broken Big SHot is very bad news but I am glad you are getting a new one!! Love your gorgeous card! Perfect hand cutting!!
wow! I can't get over how CUTE and sweet this card is. that flower banner is wonderful....and I would cry if my big shot broke...so glad to hear SU stood behind their prodcut!
Becky, I {heart} this card!! And after I read what you went through to complete it, I love it even more. I would've probably cried if my Big Shot broke, holy wow. Glad you got a new one and at no cost, yeah! :)
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