Sorry it has taken me so long to get this post up. I’ve been really busy at the Orchard this week with all of the popular variates of apples coming in – Honeycrisp, Haralson, McIntosh, Cortland, etc. – so I haven’t had a whole lot of time to stamp.

I also need to clean up my stamp room because a missionary friend is coming to live with up for a few months and she will need the basement kitchen and dining room – which is my stamp room.

Now that you’re updated on my life….here’s the card from last week using the cuttlebug technique.

Since the JustRite stamper doesn’t have enough space on the block for three large font letters, I had to stampe each of them individually. But then they were not all straight, so I devised a way to cut them out using a lable nestabilities die.

As seen below, I cut out each letter with the large label die, and then trimed off the top and bottom to create the little rectangle letters. Quick, easy and no hassle with liningup the letters with the edge of a cutter.

To create the background, I used a Brilliance White ink pad to cover the negative side of the embossing folder (that’s the side with the dots going in, rather than bumping out.

Then just like in the “inking the negative” technique, I run it through the cuttlebug to apply the ink onto the cardstock.

You then get an embossed image that has the negative (or non-raised) part of the image inked with white ink.

You could stop there, but I wanted to tro something a little different. I decided to squish the paper flat again and get rid of the embossed image, so I arranged the cuttlebug “sandwich” like this: A plate, B plate, 4 peices of cardstock, Embossed image, C plate.

This may be a little difficult to crank through the bug, but the resulting look will be a smooth piece of cardstock with little white-ringed circles dotting it.

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