{"id":43478,"date":"2026-01-09T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=43478"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:51:38","slug":"big-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=43478","title":{"rendered":"Big Hug"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI have a special technique to show today. So there are a few more pictures than usual. Sometimes I like to shorten or lengthen a particular die cut to fit \u00a0what I’m doing. I used this technique to adjust the length of the cut made with this Victorian Lattice inset die. It’s a handy trick you may find useful!<\/em><\/span>
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\nFor the Inspiration Challenge IC1049 we are visiting Factory Direct & their Pinterest Boards. THIS<\/a><\/em><\/span> picture was my inspiration.
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\nTo make my card, I stamped the flowers on part of a background I made ages ago. It was made w\/ dye reinkers on semi gloss card. The ink was spritzed on a teflon sheet then the card was applied face down. Here is a before picture showing what it looked like. I used the lighter piece just to the left of the white lattice. I tested different inks on this before I stamped the flowers. Memento did not work. I knew pigment inks would not work since it’s a coated surface. Ancient Page & Archival inks DO work equally well. I just picked the Ancient Page. To make certain it didn’t smear, I also heat set it. As I said, if you don’t have or can’t find Ancient Page, the Archival works equally well.
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\nFor the partial lattice panel, I used an inset die that normally measures 5 3\/8″ long. So I made it shorter. Here is how I did that. \u00a0I cut the card stock w\/ a rectangle stitch die. It measures approximately 4″ x 5.25″. The die would not fit this size, so I measured the repeat of the pattern which is 7\/8″, which means I’ll have to shorten the cut by 7\/8″, making the total cut length 4.5″ (it normally cuts 5 3\/8″ long). I marked the center of my card then used a centering ruler to make a mark 2.25″ on either side of the center mark. I placed one end of the die on the mark of one end. Placed a small top plate over it & cut it about 2\/3 of the way. Where the plate doesn’t extend over the die, it won’t cut.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nThis is what it looks like after the first cut.
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\nThen I turned the cut around, placed the other end on the mark, & made sure it lined up. You can feel when the die “clicks” into the already cut part & see it is in the correct position. Again, I placed the top plate, just over the part I wanted to cut & ran it thru again.
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\nThis is how it looks when finished. Perfect! You can see the shortened cut on the left & a full cut on the right.
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\nI placed the background behind it & cut it slightly larger than the white lattice topper. The greeting was stamped on the lower right & the stamped & die cut flowers were popped up and added to the left. I cut a small tag out of more of the background & wrapped it around the right side & added a black pearl on top.
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\nThanks so <\/span>much for stopping by! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Stamps:<\/b> Brass & Bliss: \u00a0Fields of Blooms set, Sympathy #2<\/span><\/strong>
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Paper:<\/b>\u00a0 Staples 110# white, semi gloss white<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ink: Versaclair nocturne (greeting), Ancient Page coal \u00a0(image)<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>Brass & Bliss: Fields of Blooms, Stitched Rectangles, Nested Tags, Victorian Lattice Half Panel \u00a0dies, <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Misti<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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I have a special technique to show today. So there are a few more pictures than usual. Sometimes I like to shorten or lengthen a particular die cut to fit \u00a0what I’m doing. I used this technique to adjust the length of the cut made with this Victorian Lattice inset die. It’s a handy trick you may find useful! For the Inspiration Challenge IC1049 we are visiting Factory Direct & their Pinterest Boards. THIS picture was my inspiration. To make my card, I stamped the flowers on part of a background I made ages ago. It was made w\/ dye reinkers on semi gloss card. The ink was spritzed on a teflon sheet then the card was applied face down. Here is a before picture showing what it looked like. I used the lighter piece just to the left of the white lattice. I tested different inks on this before I stamped the flowers. Memento did not work. I knew pigment inks would not work since it’s a coated surface. Ancient Page & Archival inks DO work equally well. I just picked the Ancient Page. To make certain it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,716,329,679,14,446,326,11],"tags":[583,717,112,613,680,115,448,612,144],"class_list":["post-43478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthday","category-brass-bliss","category-get-well","category-rubbernecker-stamps","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","category-sympathy","category-tutorials","tag-birthday","tag-brass-bliss","tag-flowers","tag-get-well","tag-rubbernecker","tag-scs","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite","tag-sympathy","tag-tutorial"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43478"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43514,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43478\/revisions\/43514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}