| Here is a Father's Day card that I made for my Dad. | | | | image, that is where the rubber wheels run over the |
| First off, let me just say I did not design the pop-up | | | | metal. I tried to 'buff' out the wheel lines by flipping the |
| portion of this card. | | | | project over and rubbing the backside -- as you can |
| My Dad LOVES to fish, so I thought I would try and | | | | see it didn't work. |
| incorporate fish into his Father's Day card. I did a | | | | I don't know if there is any way to move these wheels |
| search on the web for fish clip art, and fish cards and | | | | over, if I remember correctly the Cricut Cake Machine |
| ran across this pop-up card. I have always been | | | | is able to adjust these wheels? Anyway, as I only |
| intrigued with pop-up cards, but I had never tried to put | | | | have a Cricut Expression, I guess I am limited on the |
| one together - so I decided to purchased the PDF file | | | | size of metal embosses manufacturer I can emboss |
| and put one together. It was fairly easy to put | | | | (about 2.5 inches by 11.5 inches). So if anyone know |
| together! In case you are interested, here is the link to | | | | how to adjust wheels I would love to know.... |
| the site, they have many differant patterns. Below is | | | | UPDATE: I just got this note from the CRI-Kits |
| the the inside of the card. | | | | company and this is what they had to say about the |
| Here is the outside of the pop-up card. I couldn't resist | | | | embossing on metal... |
| putting a fish on the cover of the card. This metal | | | | "You can cut with your cricut blade with no problem. I |
| embossed fish was made using my new CRI-Kits | | | | have used the same blade to cut paper after cutting a |
| metal embosser tool. | | | | lot of metal embosses manufacturer with no problems. |
| I was pretty impressed with how easily the metal | | | | However, I would suggest using a blade for metal and |
| embosses manufacturer . I used the blunt end of the | | | | designate another for paper. Just seems prudent. :). |
| embosser tool, and set my Cricut Pressure at 4 and | | | | As for the "tire tracks". We see the problem on the |
| Speed at 3. After I embossed the fish, I then used | | | | mats that you are using because the metal is not |
| ordinary scissors to cut out the fish - actually I | | | | adhered to the mat perfectly like the top and bottom |
| borrowed my son's scissors because I didn't want to | | | | adhesive mat is. The "tire tracks can still show up a bit |
| ruin my good paper cutting scissors (shh.. don't tell him). | | | | but with a bone folder and a flat surface and the right |
| I never tried cutting the metal with my Cricut, I just | | | | touch they are hardly noticeable. Your mat is a |
| assumed it would damage the Cricut blade. | | | | pre-production mat as well so there is a difference |
| I did do another Metal embossing project -- the fish | | | | with the one I am sending you next." |
| pictured above. It is not the prettiest example of | | | | I thought it was interesting to know that the cricut can |
| embossing - but I thought that I would share anyway. | | | | actually cut thru the metal - can't wait to try that one! |
| When I was making this image I didn't take into | | | | As soon as I get a new mat (one with adhesive on |
| account the little rubber 'wheels' that help feed paper | | | | top and bottom), I will try embossing a larger sizes of |
| into the Cricut machine - they left marks! In the above | | | | metal again and post my results -- so stay tuned! |
| photo you will notice the marks near the bottom of the | | | | |