The backgrounds were ready to go. They were one layer of paper napkin that had been painted with clear acrylic finish (Future Floor Wax) and dried on wax paper while I was cleaning up my studio before we moved. They are beautifully translucent and I really wanted to show off their colour. I layered them onto white, added three snowflake punchies (MS) in graduated sizes over the printed one and attached them with a white mini brad. These colour printed greetings from my stash coordinated perfectly so I trimmed them with my new label framelits (SX) from the set I bought in Maui. The little framelit is actually shorter than these but I wanted the shape so I trimmed my greetings to fit inside the width (5/8"), lined up the front of the greeting on one end and ran it through the Big Shot only until I could tell that the end had been cut. I backed it out and removed the greeting. I flipped it over and lined up the end of the greeting in the framelit and ran it through the Big Shot until I could tell that the end had been cut. Voila! A label that looks just like I wanted it to!! I attached it to the snowflake layer using two white mini brads and adhered the whole element to my soft sky card front. Another ten of these brings my total to 44 cards.
In one of my groups we were discussing making washi tape and I suggested that you could easily make your own using double sided tape and tissue paper. I can certainly see using this technique to seal paper napkins before applying double sided tape to make washi tape!!
Therese
