Stag Place Cards - Trimcraft DT

Hello, today I'm sharing these fun Stag place cards, this design would also work well as a Christmas Card as it is an easel style and can be folded down for posting out.

Find my Video Step by Step Tutorial here: 

Step by Step:

• Select the stag deer and bow shapes from the First Edition Modern & Decorative Digital Cutting Dies USB's.  I'm using my Scan n Cut so I've inserted them into Canvas online the free software for the Scan n Cut Machines.  I've resized the stag to approx: 102 x 167mm as shown below

• To create a mat layer for the shapes, Click the edit button and choose an outside offset of 2mm for both the stag and bow as shown below

• To make it easier to see I have coloured the layers, so you can see here the main shape on top of the mat layer.  Cut the main shapes from pattern paper and the mat layer from a brown card.

• Cut matching brown card approx 28cm long x 7cm wide and score at 7cm & 14cm , fold to create an easel card shape.  Add pattern paper mat layers 6.5cm x 6.5cm for front square panel and 6.5cm x 13.5 for inside base panel. (see video for how to)

• create easel 'stopper' using wooden letter tag tiles or adhesive letters or even handwritten tags to personalise the place card or add a Christmas greeting if you are making these as Christmas cards.

List of Products used can be found over at my Trimcraft Design Team Gallery link here: 

Thank you for popping by, comments always welcome, Angela x

What's in the Boxes? Exciting News to Share!!

Hello, Sorry I've been a little quiet on the blog lately, I have been crafting but I've been keeping a huge secret for quite a few weeks now!  If you've seen the current issue of Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine then you already know my secret!!  I was amazed, thrilled, over the moon and literally jumping for joy to find out I had won the title of Cardmaker of the Year 2016!! 

This is the first year I've actually plucked up courage to enter and almost talked myself out of it, in fact I didn't post my entry off until a couple of days before closing date, talk about cutting it fine. I used some of my favourite +Trimcraft Ltd products to create my entries. As well as the Title, there are prizes with a value of £2,000!!  and the chance to design for the 3 magazines which has always been my dream.

I've been asked by a few friends to post about the prizes, so here's what greeted me when the postman arrived (please excuse the hallway - we're redecorating :D)  Three super duper crafting machines!!  How amazing are those! I have already been testing out the Big Blue and the Scan n Cut (I've just bought some Todo foils & foil dies so I can test out the Todo next.

Lots of dies, some luxury Couture collections with a pack of cardstocks.

and more Couture die sets, these are in presentation boxes with CDs and books to accompany them

and a selection of Tattered Lace dies, 2 come with CD's, a scoring board, some magnetic sheets and cut tidy thingys.

3 big boxes full of Hunkydory and Kanban collections

I'm sure there was more too, like extra accessories for the Scan N Cut machine. The prizes will be put to good use and the eagle eyed will know I've already been using some of these in my recent projects.

I'd like to say thank you to the Editors of +Cardmaking & Papercraft Quick Cards Made Easy and +Papercraft Inspirations and also to my friends for giving me the confidence and persuading me to actually get my entry posted off :D  

and thank you for reading this far, I'm always happy to help with any queries or just pop by and say hello!!

Angela

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