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"Aloha"
by Beth Madland
Materials
Needed
Fiskars Paper trimmer
Fiskars Micro tip scissors
Fiskars ShapeBoss
Fiskars ShapeBoss Travel Stencil Set
Fiskars ShapeBoss Basic Shapes Stencil
Set
Fiskars Shape Cutter tool
Fiskars Shape Cutter Banners 1 template
Fiskars Texture Plates: Fabric, Wavy
Line, Leaves and Honeycomb
12x12 decorative paper
three shades of green cardstock
white cardstock
dark pink cardstock
yellow cardstock
tan cardstock
chalks
adhesive
Instructions
1.
Matte photo on tan and then dark pink cardstock.
2.
Assemble the Fiskars Shapeboss with the travel stencil
set. Place the Fabric Texture plate underneath both stencils of
the palm tree design. Slide the tan cardstock in between the two
stencils with the palm tree design.
3.
Using your embossing tool, go around the edge of the
trunk of the tree. Next take the large end of the embossing tool
and rub back and forth on the tan cardstock until you can see a
texture on the trunk. Repeat this and make three different trunks.
(We’ll do the leaves later.)
4.
Remove the tan paper and trim around the tree trunk
with your Fiskars micro tip scissors.
5.
Dab a cotton ball in some brown chalk and lightly
brush the raised embossed designs of the palm tree trunks. This
allows really brings out the texture of the design.
6.
Change your texture plate to the leaves plate. Place
that under the two stencils underneath the palm tree leaves. Place
one shade of the green cardstock in between the two stencils of
the palm tree leaves. Emboss the design and then rub the design
with your embossing tool to reveal the texture. Repeat this two
more times with the other two shades of green cardstock. Remove
the cardstock and trim each palm tree.
7.
Place the palm tree trunks to the left of the photo.
Using adhesive, adhere the trunks and the palm tree tops to the
paper.
8.
Change the stencil on the ShapeBoss to the Basic Shapes
Stencil Set. Place the honeycomb texture plate underneath the two
stencils under the heart shape. Place the white paper in between
the two stencils and emboss a heart. Next, using your embossing
tool, rub the heart design so you can see the texture revealed.
Make sure you can see the texture on the entire heart. Repeat the
step to create the heart three more times so you have four hearts.
9.
Change to the wavy line texture plates. Insert green
cardstock in between the stencils and emboss the heart design. Just
like before, first emboss the design then use the embossing tool
to rub on the texture plate to reveal the design.
10.
Insert the fabric texture plate underneath the circle
design. Insert the yellow cardstock in between the two stencils
and emboss the circle. Use your embossing tool to rub on the circle
to reveal the texture.
11.
Trim each of the hearts and the one circle so that
there’s a 1/8 inch border around the design.
12.
Cut the green heart in half. These are the flower
petals.
13.
Use some purple chalk around the edges of the white
hearts which are the petals.
14.
Use orange chalk for the center of the flower. Adhere
a piece of foam adhesive behind the yellow circle and put that in
the center of your flower. Place the flower design onto the bottom
right side of the picture.
15.
Finally, take the leaves texture plate and place it
on the ShapeBoss – attaching it with a peg. Place some dark
pink cardstock over the texture plate and emboss the texture design
onto the pink paper.
16.
Place the textured dark pink paper on a cutting matte.
Place the Shape Cutter Banners 1 stencil on top of the pink paper.
17.
Cut a banner out using the Shape Cutter tool.
18.
Add some sticker letters to the banner and add this
title to the page.
Some Tips:
1.
The texture plates can be secured on the ShapeBoss
using the orange pegs provided.
2.
The wavy and straight line texture plates are easy
to emboss – but here’s the trick. Place your paper on
top of the texture plate and use your embossing tool. Feel around
for a line and follow that line with the tool – emboss line
by line along the cardstock. I found that rubbing the cardstock
back and forth with the tool is not as effective.
3.
The shape cutter system will only cut correctly if
you place the template down and can read the words on the template.
If it’s on the wrong side you will not be able to cut the
shapes out!
