ALTERNATIVE 1: CREATE A FRAME ON NEGATIVE CARDSTOCK PIECES
1. Cut a piece of cardstock to the size you need as is determined by the layer (i.e., 1st, 2nd, etc.) of your planned greeting card.
2. Place your selected heart or label framelit onto the center of this piece of cardstock ( from step 1) for cutting out the framelit using the Big Shot. (A heart framelit is used for this demonstration).
3. Prepare a Big Shot sandwich with the cardstock and framelit in this order, and run the sandwich through the Big Shot:
- Multipurpose Platform, Tab 2
- Standard Cutting Plate (Acrylic)
- Piece of Cardstock
- Framelit
- Standard Cutting Plate (Acrylic)
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5. Place the framelit into the negative piece of cardstock, with the framelit cutting side face up and underneath the cardstock.
(You can see the metal cutting part of the framelit sticking through the cardstock.)
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6. Create another Big Shot sandwich according to the following:
- Multipurpose Platform, Tab 2
- Standard Cutting Plate (Acrylic)
- Framelit
- Negative Piece of Cardstock (framelit inserted inside according to above)
- Standard Cutting Plate (Acrylic)
- Paper Shim
- Run the sandwich through the Big Shot two or three times.
9. This is the result:
Can you see the 1/8" frame that has been created around the heart?
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10. You can insert into the negative another framelit cutout (in this case, a heart shape from the Stampin' Up! Twitterpated DSP). Now you have a heart cutout from a framelit with a heart-shaped frame created around the inserted heart.
Isn't this cool?
You may choose to embellish the frame around the heart as I did on a previous card share on which I added Crystal Effects. Here's the card.
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