Fairy Fun Fridays!

Well, I actually got a card done for the challenge this week! Yeah me. I even have a tut to go with it!

Here is my card

The image I used is of course my brand new one called WATERING CAN.

My little mini tut is on how to use your nesties and cut around the image in areas like I did here. It has fast become my favorite technique. I really love to use my images large on my card for big impact. Often, however, if there is a full border around it, it just takes up the whole cardfront. So, here is how you get around that.

You will want to choose a die and lay it over your image to see if it is a good fit for what you want to leave hanging over the edge.

You will then want to cut straight into the spots where it is going to hang over the edge. Try to stay close to the image. You will have to over cut slightly to account for the inside edge of the nestie. I lay it over the image and mark it with a pencil. The cut out sections that you don't want cut by the nestie have to lay on top of it as shown (nestie cutting side face down) , so they don't get cut. This can be tricky, take your time.

Once cut you can use a tan mat like I did plus 2 B plates on your cuttlebug to emboss the edges.

Cut around the overhanging parts and voila! If you like you can even sponge around the edge with the die still on to get a white border around the image. You can see that I did that on my finished card.

Hope you liked the tutorial and I hope you head over to Fairy Fun Fridays to get in on the Punch it theme!