Rudolp Day Challenge#May 2022

Here in S.Spain we have jumped from Winter straight into Summer. Apart from an unprecedented amount of rain during April, Spring didn't really happen. So now it is very hot and not the weather to inspire the making of Christmas cards. However I am no sewing expert, and being frustrated trying to make well fitting cushion covers for new outside furniture all week, I decided to take a day off and see what I could come up with. 

Too hot and sticky to do much with pens or glue, I settled on some png files I recently downloaded from a site called pngwing.com. They are designed to create the illusion of torn paper.

I have at last discovered the trick to 'Print and cut' on my silhouette machine, which involves setting up an image in the silhouette software with registration marks to assist the machine to find the image later for cutting. You then print it, and put the printed image back into the machine which will then cut it out.

So I successfully cut two of the torn paper strips. Then I brought two nativity images into the software and resized them to fit behind the space. I printed them out, mounted the frame over them, and then mounted the complete design onto small A6 size base cards from my stash, and here they are.

A stamped sentiment (very old Chocolate Baroque stamp) on one, and a peel off on the other finished them off.

Flushed with success at the print and cut, I then tried a second file from the same company, this time one that looks like a torn hole in the paper. Using the same method as above, and an image from a card I received last year, I made this 15cm square card.

Again I finished it off with a gold peel-off sentiment and some randomly placed stars.

So now I am off to link up with the Rudolph Day Challenge for May, over at scraps of life with Scrappy Mo.