We’re so excited to share this fabulous card with you! We saved it for last, because it’s kind of the coolest (and, cards on the table here, it’s kind of the most difficult). But, read on, fearless crafters, because help is on the way!
Tip #1: The first challenge on this card is gluing that snowflake without creating a huge glue mark that screams, “LOOK HERE! THIS IS WHERE I GLUED THIS SNOWFLAKE DOWN!” Well, if you’ve been reading carefully (and we know you have), you know from the previous post that you have two options: either (1) place your glue dots or tiny spots of Tombow in the circles of the snowflake to minimize the mess or (2) hide the glue mark behind another element. In this case, the banner isn’t much to hide behind, so we recommend the first option. DO NOT do what we did. You can see that we went a bit nuts with the Tombow (Sometimes we do that. We love us anyways.) and now there’s a yellow spot above the “Y” of Merry.
Tip #2: The directions tell you to just run a line of glue along the top of the letters before you punch them out, so they are all spaced prettily. And that’s what we did. BUT this creates a bit of a problem when you want to remove said letters and they are, essentially, glued tight in place. So we recommend, instead, that you just place a dot of glue at the top of each letter, rather than running a solid line of glue. This way there is only glue on the letter itself, and not the surrounding paper, so the letters remove much more easily.
And…..TA DAAA! Now you have four beautiful cards! Good on ya!
Thanks for visiting. Be sure to pop back on Thursday and see an alternative Watercolor Winter project. Here’s your hint: a bell will ring.
Toodles!
Supplies:
| Watercolor Winter Simply Created Kit | 135869 | $24.95 |
| Tombow Multipurpose | 110755 | $3.95 |
| AquaPainter | 103954 | $16.95 |
| Cherry Cobbler Refill | 119788 | $2.95 |
| Smoky Slate Refill | 131159 | $2.95 |
| Old Olive Refill | 100531 | $2.95 |
| Bermuda Bay Refill | 131156 | $5.95 |
| Bermuda Bay Ink Pad | 131171 | $2.95 |
| Stamp-a-ma-jig | 101049 | $11.95 |