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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Time Out Thursday: Butterflies from acetate

This week's TOT is from Shelly:

Last week Truth showed us how to make an acrylic album using sheets purchased from the store.  In this video I will show you how to make cute butterflies using acetate, a material similar to acrylic, which can be found with every Cricut cartridge you've purchased!  Not only can you cut embellishments, you can cut alphabets from the acetate and use it for ghost letters.  The possibilities are endless. 

With the effects of global warming on our world, this is our way of illustrating one way to go green. 






Here is a similar card using the same technique:





I hope you enjoyed today's TOT.  Please leave any comments or questions below.  Thanks! :-)

14 comments:

  1. Shelly, I am going to try this technique. I like how the ink transformed the acetate(plastic), that part had me laughing my head off.

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  2. Shelly, wonderful card!!! Now, I regret throwing away all my acetate coverings:-(... great video, thanks for sharing.

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  3. This is such a great idea...it's beautiful! Can you tell me if you had to cut the acetate out larger than the layers, or is that how the butterfly on that cart works. I have the create a critter and if I made the base at one size and the layers with that same size, the base would not be any bigger and you would not see all of that acetate.
    Thanks!

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  4. Hi Alison,

    I cut the butterfly and all the layers at the same size - 2.5 in. The wings are bigger than the layers. TFL!

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  5. Great video Shelly and that is a Beautiful CARD!! You will have to tell us all the details! where did you cut the circle from...are the flowers a stamp and then did you color with copics? deets deets!! LOL

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  6. What a great idea! Your cards are beautiful & the butterflies are so elegant. Thanks for sharing

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  7. Lovely card and great tutorial Shelly! I just have one question. Do you have to have the deep cut blade in order to cut this?

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  8. Hey old friend & fellow scrapper,

    No, I did not use the deep cut blade. I just used the multi-cut feature on the "E".

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  9. Beautiful butterflies!! I have to try this. TFS.

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  10. nice tut Shelly...now I know why I have been saving all my plastic cases.. beautiful card..

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  11. Great Video Shelly. Left you a note on your blog.

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  12. Great video and AWESOME card! Gail gailheinecke at charter dot net

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  13. THIS IS REALLY NICE - I ALSO REGRET THROWING AWAY MY PLASTIC. GREAT VIDEO AND THANKS FOR SHARING

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