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Aperture Card
July 5th, 2008 by Sandy McCauley

One of the members of the Design Master Fun Yahoo group needed a reminder of how to create an Aperture card. So, today’s post is a video on this procedure. A few reminders to everyone about this entire process:

(1) You must create a frame from two shapes so that you can do your welding. Now, I kind of made it complicated by using the Transform>Outline tool in the video. You could actually just draw your oval and then draw anything around it… a rectangle, for example. Do the Arrange>Make Path and then later, after welding, delete the outer rectangle. It’s irrelevant what you choose for that outer path since it will later be deleted.

(2) The frame and the interior images must be the same color before welding.

(3) And don’t forget that Arrange>Text to Graphics will break up a typed title so that you can arrange the individual letters in any manner you choose!

Have fun with this! Here’s a link to the video: Aperture Card


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Stencilling Using the Basic Weld Tool
July 3rd, 2008 by Sandy McCauley

Thanks to a clever Design Master tutorial I read at the UK Scrappers message board, I came up with the following two videos. In the first one, I show how to take any image and…. well… die cut it from another. This will provide you a new technique to design some REALLY unique files! I then used the same method to show how to easily stencil an alphabet when you need to keep the interiors of letters attached to the rest of the letters. Enjoy! And I hope all of my American readers have a wonderful 4th of July!

Stenciling an Image

Stenciling an Alphabet

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Paper Piercing Samples
July 1st, 2008 by Sandy McCauley

This is a flower piercing created with a Klic-N-Kut using the punch tool on Worldwin Colormates cardstock.

Front of image:

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Back of image:

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Image held up to the light:

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