Thank you!

Hi Blogland. Oooooh it's a cold one here this morning! Minus 2 when I got in the car to come to work! Scraping the windscreen kept me warm though!!! Today is another post for the Cuttlebug Blogspot.. We've had the Invitations, then the table settingsand now for the "Thank You" cards..I have tried to keep the Black & Silver them going throughout my projects, so here is my "little" Thank You notelet.I started off with a piece of Silver Mirror card measuring 5.5" x 11.5". I wanted a large area embossed! Something much larger than a standard embossing folder allows. So I needed to join the embossing together. And here's how. (This one is for you Sue, who lives in Spain. I said I would eventually get this technique on here for you!!) You will need your Cuttlebug Machine and your A & B Plates.Insert your card stock into your embossing folder and place on top of the a fore mentioned plates.Instead of adding another plate, add your No Shims mat and pass through the machine.As the mat passes through the machine you will notice when it comes out the other side it will have dragged, this is fine... It's what is supposed to happen!Bring the whole thing round to the front of the machine and place your embossing folder close to the previous embossed image.Lay your No Shims mat on top of the folder a little way away from the edge and pass through the machine again.And then one last time!Perfectly embossed,and no lines where the two folders have met!!! If you had used another B plate instead of the No Shims mat, you would have potentially got the edge of the embossing folder marking where to embossing joins! Cool eh??I added my embossed image to my Cricut mat in the bottom Right had cornerand manually moved my blade housing of my Cricut machine to meet the top of my embossingand pressed the Set Cut Area button. This button used to be called Set Paper Size, but I think with the addition of the Cricut Cake and the potential of the Cricut Machines to cut other materials than paper, they have changed the description of this button on the newer cartridges...I then selected my Fit to page button so that the Machine would work out the largest image it could cut with the size of card stock I was using. You may also notice that on this particular Cartridge, "Christmas Cards" the Paper Saver button has changed it's description to Material Saver! Another updated key!!Once the image was cut out,I scored the guide lines of my envelopeand stuck it togetherwith some high tac tape.I then took a piece of Black and a piece of Silver Mirror card cut the same sizeand embossed them with the Thank You set #2 from Sizzix.And cut out two tags, one slightly smaller than the other.And layered them on top of each other so that the text matched.Added an eyelet and some ribbon,and printed my simple " Thanks for a great time" sentiment on the back,before popping it into the envelope...And then taking it out for one last photo...
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As I said earlier in the post, it was a cold one here in the South East this morning. And as I switched the lights on our work room I noticed the ice which had formed on the Velux windows...



Beautiful eh?? The sun is out now and they have all melted away, so I'm glad I got to take my photos when I did.
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See you soon.
Andy.