Good morning and happy Wednesday SCT friends! Have you had a good week so far? We sure have! Today we have our new (and fabulous) design team member Christa Paustenbaugh joining us with a great tip using her Silhouette!
“I’m back today and we’re going to take a look at taking those punch outs from the card on Monday to the next level. On Monday I used an Anywhere punch to create punches in the middle of paper and today I’m getting out my Silhouette to make a series of cuts with the same effect. I chose this design to cut out a square of patterned paper for my layout. I chose a kraft patterned paper because I knew I would be backing it with brighter colors.
After my Silhouette cut the shapes, I cut strips of bright patterned paper to about 3/4” and adhered it to the back of the cut outs. As a mom of 2 girls of course I went with some bright pinks and love the contrast against all the little heart rows. I think the cut outs on layouts and cards are a great way to add not only embellishment, but also dimension to projects as well.
Another design element to use with these cut outs is to keep all those small hearts that were cut out and use them as embellishment too. With mine, I simply flipped them over to the other side that had a brighter pattern on it and used them in the corner of my layout by sewing them on as a banner.
You can do this with pretty much any background Silhouette cut. I also use the starburst punches I cut out like the card from Monday. These can be layered with buttons, brads, etc. to create an additional embellishment on a page, card or project! A great way to recycle those extra cut outs!
~ Christa
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Just beautiful, great feeling to the page.
Posted by: delia | January 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM
Love this and love all the work you do, Miss Christa!
Posted by: Becky Fleck | January 30, 2013 at 11:50 AM
This is such an adorable page. Love the hearts cut out with PP behind it.
Posted by: Susan S | January 30, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Lovely layout!!
Posted by: helen | January 30, 2013 at 12:40 PM
ooooooooooh!! very nice, really nice! Great way to use those punched out shapes and the paper left behind!
Posted by: may | January 30, 2013 at 02:41 PM
Thanks for the idea. Great layout.
Posted by: Leanna Gerald | January 30, 2013 at 02:43 PM
Beautiful layout. Thanks for sharing the idea.
Posted by: JoAnn B. | January 30, 2013 at 08:23 PM