Birthday Fishes

I finally got around to playing with the print-and-cut feature of the new Make-the-Cut.

Using the new tracing tool, I traced several images from the Lettering Delights' Birthday Fishies GRAPHIC set. The blue printed background comes from the Something Fishy Paper Pack.

There are now so many ways to trace an image with MTC that I can't just call it "pixel-tracing" anymore. For this card, I actually had to use both "alpha-tracing", and "palette-tracing" to Print-and-Cut the mermaid's party hat and tail.

I used my Silhouette SD to cut out every layer used to make this card. I love that it can make intricate cuts so cleanly and precisely. Just check out the balloon. The "string/ribbon" is a hair line!

This is my first PNC card with the new MTC and I noticed that a thin white border showed in some parts of the cutouts (e.g. mermaid's tail). I was expecting a perfect no-white cut like what I was able to get from the previous v.3.2.1. The image on the virtual mat didn't show any white parts even after I zoomed in 300%. The white didn't bother me though. In fact, I thought it made the layers "pop". I guess I am going to have to try PNC-ing a little bit more to see if I can figure out what is causing the white border. If anyone of you would like to try to PNC with the new MTC, do check back tomorrow. I will have a basic tutorial on print-and-cut with Lettering Delights and MTC v.3.3.2 up for you.

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Birthday Cupcake

So I lied when I said yesterday that I wasn't going to make another one of these "Pretend-Imagine" cards this week. Hubby brought the kids out for a little bit this morning and instead of cleaning house I whipped this one up quickly.

Using LD's You Take the Cupcake and Cupcake Celebration graphic sets, I laid out the frame and cupcake in Adobe Photoshop and typed in the sentiment in the LD Buttercream font. Note that there is a flaw with the frame image. If you click on the screenshot of my card above, look to the right of the pink scallop and you will see this blue dot that shouldn't be there. 

You can easily clean that up with the healing brush tool or just cover it up with a ribbon like I did.

Once again, I used MTC to cut out the shadow and the cherry. I stickled the cherry and cupcake and layered them all with foam tape for dimension. A little tape from my ATG gun later and the card is done. 

I think my favorite part of this card is that I was able to print out the sentiment right on the cardstock. I can't begin to count how many times I have ruined a perfectly good card with a badly stamped greeting. By typing it out on screen before printing, I was able to say exactly what I wanted to say, in the font that I want, in the exact size that I need. Don't get me wrong, I do like to stamp but sometimes when I can't find the right size/font greeting, printing it out on the card isn't that bad of an idea. Especially when no one had to hear me scream "+!#@ dry inkpad ruined my card!" 

So did you get to create anything today? If not, I guess there's always tomorrow! ;-) 

Enjoy your weekend, everyone!