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Sunday, August 18, 2013

A batch of HERO MAIL cards.. and a tip for useful scraps





I started on these earlier today..  I made one card, liked it, so I cut enough to make 12 more.   I stamped the stars in yellow after the first card.. I noticed the ink pad laying on my desk and thought I'd try it and I liked the way it looked.

These are not really hard to make.. after cutting everything, stamping everything.. I just made an assembly line and they were done before I knew it.


I wanted to share a tip on some scraps.   The Star panel measures 1" x 5" and I was cutting these from a 12 x 12 piece so at after cutting the 5" pieces, I was left with a 2" piece on each strip...  I still used them.. just put them on the ends of the red layer and when you put the navy  blue die-cut on top that has the sentiment.. you can't even tell that it doesn't go all the way across.  I do this a lot when I have smaller pieces.. if something is being layered on top of it.. I'll cut something in half to "stretch the paper" to fill the space.



thanks for looking ~

have a great airborne day!
God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

3 comments:

  1. The cards are great Pam... and thanks for sharing your tip. I've actually done that before when I only have a smidgen left of something I loved.

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  2. Your cards are fabulous and thanks for sharing that great tip! Sometimes I think I should figure out how to do that on all my cards to conserve paper, but then it just seems easier to cut the whole strip. LOL

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