I think I have decided to try and continue my "OK You Just HAD To Have It, Now USE IT!" Challenge
Today I used two new dies:
- paper that was collecting dust (for at least two years)
and my new 6" Scor Tape
OH! and some glitter like this only gold:
Gotta say I LOVE THE TAPE!!! So much so that I ordered the 1/8" and 1/4" today. I thought I could just cut strips from the 6" wide but that isn't all that easy...forget cutting a good straight line!
OK, so I wanted to test using intricate dies and glitter with the tape so this is what I did:
1. I took a 2" strip of tape and covered one side of it with the glitter, making it a piece of glitter tape.
2. Cut the butterfly from that strip of just tape w/ backing.
- problem, the die cuts super fine lines (which was part of the test for me)...unfortunately the backing paper came off and left just the glue/glitter part in the die so I had to pull it off and of course it stretched ...bad. I think it would have been fine if I'd used a more solid die, like a solid butterfly, or heart, or something... but I still wanted to use what I had cut so I stuck it to the back of my phone:
I figure this will be a good test of its durability because I have used my phone and rubbed on it all day and that glitter is on there good!
3 - I still wanted a glitter butterfly for a card so this time I stuck some of the glittered tape down onto a piece of scrap card stock and cut it out along with the word:
It is hard to tell from the picture but both the butterfly and the "thanks" are perfect, solid glitter. So pretty. One thing that I was worried about was that the glue would gug up my die, but not at all, it came out without leaving anything behind. Test was a success.
I bet you could put the tape on the cardstock, die cut, then glitter and save some of your glitter...
ReplyDeleteHi Trina, not really, not with the scor tape anyway, you could do that with the xyron though... but, for some reason I am more stingy with my glue than with the glitter... not sure why except I have never run out of glitter but tape I run out of quickly.
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