Challenge, Step by Step
Monday, 31. March 2008, 18:58:46
One of my stamping buddies like the completed sketch cards I did, but didn't think she could do them herself. So, here's a quick how-to (it doesn't seem complex enough to be called a tutorial). Cut a 3x3 piece of paper. on the reverse side, draw, lightly, in pencil, a 1 inch grid so you can cut it apart easily later. To make things even easier, number the squares so that you can match the squares later.
Flip the paper over and stamp on the front. This part is like a one sheet wonder, if you've ever done one of those. Just stamp enough to fill all of the empty spots.
Cut the sheet apart. I use an X-acto and a metal ruler, but you can use whatever you're comfortable with- a slicer, scissors, Fiskars cutter, scissors. Flip the squares right side up again and reassemble so that the patterns match on all sides. Put aside the squares you don't need. You can always use them for accents later. (Yeah, I say that but all of my extra squares are sitting in a bowl on my stamping desk- none of the have been used yet...LOL)
Now the squares need to be matted. I start with a corner, the eyeball my way around the 5 squares. If you needed things absolutely even, measure out 1/16-1/8 inch orders and draw out the grid lightly with a mechanical pencil.
When you get them all down on the mat cardstock, cut it out. This is going to be hard to do with a line cutter. Again, I use an X-acto, but scissors would work, too. If you really needed to use a cutter of some sort, you could cut out individual squares (I'd try 1 1/8 or 1 1/4 inch for 1 inch squares) instead of matting all of the squares on one sheet of paper. You could also use different colors that way.Here's the final card. I added sparkles to the squares and simply repeated the colors I used on the squares for the background of the card and for the greeting.
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