Remember
the olden days....before die-cutting machines and fancy papers? If
you weren't doing wonderful things with stamps, chances were, your
cards looked something like this. All the shapes (squares,
dragonflies and daisies) were cut using hole punches. All the paper
is cheap as chips (140g office paper) except for the dragonflies and two diagonal
corner daisies which were punched from curious metallics ice gold
shimmer paper to add a bit of subtle highlighting. (We upped the
budget to .45c a sheet for this). I cheated a bit by embellishing
with Kaiser adhesive pearls (in “the day” it would have been
something like liquid pearls). I know I've also strayed a little bit
from my stated intent for this blog, as paper-punching is not a new
technique but every now and again it doesn't hurt to re-visit some
“oldies but goodies”, and as I've made a promise to myself to do
something different every week, I might have to dust off some
treasures from the vault now and again!
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