Three Paper Candles

Here's another quick card idea. No stamping required, unless you want to stamp something inside. All you need is a piece of patterned paper that has large images on it. In this case the paper was nothing but a repeating pattern of these candles in a few different coordinated colors. Since the images all coordinated, all I had to do was cut them out to the same size with the paper timmer, mat them and then mount them using dimensional foam to make it look like I really did something.

Some, like the one on the left below, where made with different images. Others, like the one on the right where, made using the same repeated image and colors that coordinated with it, which gave the card a different look.

  
As always, click on the images for full directions. There are some additional assembly tips on there that I didn't repeat here.

What do two Xryon machines, a Cuttlebug and a heat gun equal?

They equal this really quick amazing card that never made it online last year. I don't know why. The images were done for it. I just needed to find the name of the embossing folder and the cutting cartridge. It would have been easy to finish but it never gone done until now.





There's no stamping involved, but it uses 3 different machines, 4 if you count the heat gun, and two different embossing techniques - dry and heat.

Anyone remember the Xyron Personal Cutting system? It was one of the first generation electronic cutters and used 6x6 mats with LeapPad like books to select the image. It's discontinued now but that's where the large purple flower shape came from. It had some really nice shapes you're going to see coming up in some of the nicer simple cards that I made years ago that I'll be mixing in with some of the more complicated newer stuff in the coming months. I should probably update the card to use one of the newer cutting machines or mega sized punches but since I don't have a commercial sponsor to promote, I'll just stick with my original Xyron PCS flower since its got nice chunky petals that fill the card front.

The large purple flower is heat embossed with a rather unconventional technique that I came up with up that actually created a large glittered image that did not shed glitter all over the place. Essentially I made my own glitter paper, but just out of the image so there was no waste. How do you that? I'm going to leave that as an evil teaser. It's all explained in full on the direction sheet you can get by clicking on the image.