Piercing and Shaping Flower Petals

A handmade enclosure card makes any gift just a little more special. For this 3″ square card, the pansy was watercolored, photocopied, scaled down, and then printed twice. On the top layer, the pansy’s petals have been pierced, trimmed, and shaped for dimension. See the how-to photos, below.

Materials for 3″ pansy gift enclosure card: Pierced [...]

Print – Color – Pierce – Cut

Some of the new Angels Landing™ digital stamping images combine printed elements with piercing. The process is simple, but the order of the steps can make a difference.
1. Print. With any digital image, the obvious first step is to print it on cardstock or other paper. Select the “Best” print quality setting. When possible, [...]

Save Paper: Print Half Sheets

When you only need a few small digital images, there’s no need to print them on a full sheet of cardstock. Instead, you can cut it in half and print on smaller sheets — as long as your printer will handle that size. Notice how this project only takes a few pieces of each color?

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