I hope you all, those who celebrate it, had a great Christmas, safe travels, good times with friends and family.
Get any new dies under the tree?
Today's challenge is going to give you a chance to play with them - we are doing Partial Die-Cutting, where you only cut part of a die. Simple to do to create several different effects - and there's a great tutorial from Limedoodle (Debbie Hughes) in our Tutorials section
HERE.
:arrow: Note, at Step 3 in the tutorial, you run it through the die-cutting machine with your regular CUTTING sandwich and then, if you wish to emboss the remaining part of the die (I didn't, since I was covering mine up with the image panel), continue as shown with Step 4 and use your EMBOSSING sandwich.
Since we have an SCS tutorial - please remember to upload to the associated gallery!! Choose Technique Spotlight from the first drop-down menu, and Partial Die-Cutting from the next set of drop-down options.
I'm attaching two samples - the one I made especially for the challenge, where I created a snowy border along the top of a tent-fold card, and the one which inspired the challenge, which I made a couple of weeks earlier for an Advent-inspired MIX challenge.
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Here's a link to our TLC566 Partial Die-Cutting gallery
Here's my card:
TLC566 Snow and Snowman
And for a recent MIX challenge, I used this technique to create a little door in my tree trunk:
MIX 150 Count the Special Day.
For this, I lined up the left side of the tree trunk with the edge of the cutting mat, so that the oval die only cut a door in the tree-trunk and not the full oval.
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Remember to use the keyword TLC566 when you are uploading. It's helpful (to the hostesses for sure!) if you come back and leave a link on this thread .
If you're not sure how to link your card on the thread here, here's how:
1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one window for your card and one for this thread.
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
3. Go to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on)
4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE.
TLC566 ~ Partial Die-Cutting {12/28/2015}
