Sunday, May 18, 2014

Honeycomb Card

A couple of days ago i saw this card from Crafty Maria's Stamping World on Pinterest.

Crafty Maria's Card
The honeycomb on hers was done with a die, which I do not own, from Stampin' Up .  I came up with several uses for a honeycomb background in my mind.  When I'm ready to do a card, I don't want to wait 10-12 days on something I need to be ordered and delivered.  So, I spent about 2 1/2 hours playing around in Make The Cut.

My objective was to have a frame that measured 4" x 5 1/4 with a honeycomb design inside.  I managed to get one done after multiple attempts of joining, welding, using the eraser tool, knife tool and a Boolean join (I still have no idea what that even accomplishes!).

When I cut my shape out, the honeycomb openings were much smaller than what I wanted so I sent my file to Okieladybug and asked her if she could figure out how to duplicate it with larger openings.  She spent about 5 minutes and had it all figured out and sent me the file back!

The flowers are from the Petite Petals stamp/punch bundle.  The sentiment is an old Stampin' Up stamp, punched with a scalloped oval punch.



This one is more like the original file I designed.  Okieladybug cleaned up the outside edges on this one too.

I have a couple more cards in my mind using this honeycomb!














5 comments:

okieladybug or okie_ladybug said...

I think I do like the smaller honeycombs. They both turned out great though!

AndreaA said...

I love them both Linda. I don't think I would have noticed them being different sizes at least on here.
But after you know it you can tell. I think I like the smaller one better. But the middle card is my favorite card.

Linda Simpson said...

Fabulous, love the designs.
Hugs
Linda xxxx

lharnish said...

Very nice. Love the card.

lharnish said...

Lovely cars. Love how it turned out.