Cutting the Art Deco Iron Cross Father’s Day Card
The embellishments on this card have VERY VERY thin lines. To cut these lines properly there are a couple of things to do. First, clean your blade by poking it into a ball of aluminum foil. This does not sharpen your blade. But it does clean any sticky for the mat off of your blade. Secondly, use a fairly sticky mat. Fine cuts stick better and don’t pull loose and get in the way when the stickiness of the mat hold the paper down. And thirdly, cut twice by pressing the C on your machine when the cut is done BEFORE you remove the mat.
And because the parts are very thin be careful when removing them from the mat because they will tear easily.
Sometimes when I make this card it divides the parts into two mats, sometimes it doesn’t. They can be combined with no problem. If you need to know how to do this watch my video