This was definitely a bit of experimenting.
Andrea gave us a table of elements print for Christmas (it is a BAG tradition now that we make each other something for Christmas.
I loved it, and then when i looked closer it in fact was not a table of elements, it just looked like one.
So I thought because the look of it had pleased me so much that I could make a book. This was an offcut of card. I literally stuck down a few pretty things I had lurking on my desk, and then got my cricut to cut out the letters. It failed because I had incorrectly specified the gsm of the paper (it’s never right anyway, it’s less right when there’s collage and oil pastel on it). That means the cricut failed to cut through.
When this happens I sometimes just abandon the piece. Or sometimes I cut it by hand using the cricut scratches as a guide (I haven’t yet treated them as engravings/embossing). This time I just put it through a second time on a higher GSM setting, and it mostly worked (not for the tiny numbers). Then back and front didn’t match that well, and the cut outs looked wrong, so I added a layer of tissue paper to cover the cut outs, and in fact then sharpied the tissue from one side to make it work with the colours.
The idea still exists, and I’m not super happy with this, but it’s done and it unstuck me, and used up some ephemera on my worktable. I’ll do it again. When I do that I think i need to:
- use a bigger piece of paper or Smaller words on the cricut
- don’t ask the cricut to do the tiny numbers – make them another way
- maybe print it and then cut it and then decorate the cut sheet?
- stick it down
