Technique: Die Cutting/Scrapbooking
Materials:
1.5mm balsa wood
adhesive craft metal
Tools
snowflake texture plate or embossing folder
Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutter
Tim Holtz Carved Ornament Die
"JOY" Movers and Shakers Die
What a stunningly simple ornament this turned out to be!
Cover both sides of the balsa wood with the craft metal. Run it through the die cutter to get the carved ornament shape, then run it through again to emboss with the snowflake pattern. Punch a hole in the top and hang. Did I mention I love my Big Shot?
If you have never seen nor used it before, craft metal is very thin metal that has an adhesive backing. It's around 4 or 5 times thicker than tin foil, but it has a similar appearance. You could try this using tin foil, in fact I am going to do just that and report my findings, but for this project I used adhesive craft metal.
You can buy embossing folders that are especially designed for use in die cutting machines to emboss a texture into your chosen material. I am a huge fan of using what you have, or buying products and tools that have multiple applications rather than needing to buy lots of individual items each with their own specific single use. So, to emboss, I used a Fiskar texture plate that I had purchased years ago for a scrapbooking ornament.
For those who have a Bigshot, the 'sandwich' I used was the adapter plate with no tabs, cutting mat, fiskars texture plate, ornament, then topped off with a cutting pad.
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