Welcome to the Joyful Stars blog hop for December

If you read my previous post, you read that we create a card for each of the residents at retirement community that we "adopted".  Hopefully we bring them as much joy as they bring us!  I created another batch of cards using the Custom Ornament thin cuts.

Custom Ornament Thin Cuts Z3533

Completed card using Candy Apple cardstock

With the thin cut set you can cut a base (I did this with the gold foil paper).  You can also choose to cut the other portions of the ornament with different cardstock or patterned paper.  I wanted a simple elegant card so I simply nested the pieces and ran it through my Bigshot once.  In order to be frugal,
I cut the red mat piece at 4 x 5 1/4.  The easiest way for me to do this was to nest the thin cuts on the Bigshot plate with the cutting sides facing up.  I then placed the mat piece of cardstock and then the other Bigshot plate (thus cutting in an upward direction).   This is not a requirement, just a choice I made.

Card pieces showing that the ornament was cut from the mat

Nested thin cuts to cut a single ornament

Since I was making a batch of these cards I was actually able to run two red mats through my bigshot and the thin cuts still gave me a nice clean cut even with each of the fine decorative cuts in the ornament.

Snowflakes embossing folder Z3518 was used on the White daisy piece.  I was away at the time I made these cards and only had black ink.  I would have used Candy Apple Ink if I had in with me for the Merry Christmas sentiment on the front.

Your next hop is to Joyce's blog.  Enjoy!