Craft Edge

Made this card for my Grandson's 18th birthday. Did you know you can use your Cameo to make your own paper? I found the pocket watch images on Google, traced them in Inkscape and exported them as pngs in different colors.I did not save as an svg. I put the color images on the Cameo virtual mat, arranged them, lightened some and then printed them on an 8 1/2 x 11 antique looking cardstock. I traced one of the images with the Cameo and cut it out, attached chain, used thick pop dots to make it stand out and attached the wings. I printed out the sentiment using a Papermate Erasermate pen with my Cameo, put embossing powder on it and embossed it. Yes, you can use embossing powder with an Erasermate pen!!! Works great. I love being able to make my own printed cardstock using the Cameo. I love that machine!!!!

Not only is your design spectacular, the explanation on how you did it was very interesting too.

Great job on both counts.

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Oh my gosh, I love this card!!! What a great job you did on this. I am so lazy. I have not learned how to use anything except to cut on my Cameo using SCAL.

Thanks for the explanation.

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It's so beautiful, Linda! I'm impressed.

This is a fantastic idea and you created a really special card!
When you brought the png's onto your mat...did each one have a white box around them, as you arranged them? If so did this pose any challenges for you?

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When you export a bitmap in Inkscape, it saves it as a png file. I haven't had any white boxes around my images to print. But when I went to cut the watch that I popped, there was an invisible square around the watch so I just added a bunch of nodes around the square and moved them around and close to the watch where I wanted it to cut. I was going to show the page on the mat but my computer updated Windows and shut down when I wasn't looking so I lost the watch paper. Here are the purple flowers I made for another card. With the Cameo, you can make your images different shades of transparency which is handy.

OMG...this is just toooooooooo cool! I am going to play with Inkscape more...and I wish I had a cameo :P darn!

Thanks for the further explanation...thank you!

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This first picture shows how the watch would cut if I didn't add more nodes.
The second pictures shows added nodes.
The third picture shows moving the nodes into place.

Well, hurump! The images are last to first.
This last image shows the nodes in place and where it will cut.