MFT June Guest Designer Contest and BAD Stamping News!!!!

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!