Up until just recently, I have never created a card using my machine. I decided it was about time to give it a go. On Jennifer Maker's site, I stumbled upon the "Impossible Card template". After reading through her tutorial I thought that it would a fun card to create for my Dad's birthday. I downloaded the template, closed my browser, and went to work making it.
The first struggle I had was finding the right color cardstock in my stash. I simply did not own primary color cardstock. The good thing is that I have a lot of permanent vinyl in many colors, including the colors I needed for the card. I applied some shiny gold vinyl to white cardstock to use for the background pieces. I created the red, yellow, and blue from vinyl applied to cardstock.
The next roadblock I had was weeding the extremely small letters. The blue and white letters shredded so badly that they weren't useful. I tossed them and simply cut out the lettering in just vinyl.
Remember that I mentioned that I had closed the browser? Big mistake. While gluing things together, I discovered that I was short two red circles (they go behind the cut out white to make the word "happy"). I wasn't actually short any red circles - I had started gluing the red circles on from the leftmost location, even though the first and last spot (with the * in them) were supposed to be backed with gold. Oh well, Dad won't know the difference, right? I cut another pair of circles and filled that in.
Lesson learned: always keep the tutorial open when making something for the first time.
HAPPY CRAFTING!!
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