Sweet n Lacy

 

SWEET N LACY WITH LOVE

A friend of mine did a lovely card using a layered lace technique with the same border punch and I couldn't resist making something of my own!  It's a simple and effective card to throw together in a hurry!

• Fold your base card in half and set aside
• Select your four pastel coloured papers and cut them to be about 4 centimetres high and 3 centimetres wider than your card
• Using a lace design border/edge punch (Mine is a Fiskars one), punch out the lace design along a long edge of each colour piece (quick technique at the bottom of this page for getting an accurate continuous pattern)
• Layer the four colour lace pieces as you see above - this is why you made them too long for the card, so that you can have enough "give room" to line the alternate the lining up of the design
• Cover the top edge of the paper lace with ribbon, using double sided tape
• Embellish with a big pretty flower and skeleton leaves
• Stamp your greeting
• Done!

BORDER PUNCHING TECHNIQUE:

First of all, punch in the centre of the edge, as per standard instructions.  Now we do things a little bit differently - flip the punch over!

Maybe I don't have that special touch but everytime I try to follow the guides on the punches, it comes out looking all hacked up and horrible, things just don't line up as they should.

If you flip it over, you can still effectively punch and this way you can line up your previous punch with the actual punching mechanism!

See in the punch how there is a gaping blackness?  That's because that's where I've lined up my last punch!

Happy Punching!

Dani :)