When I check out Pinterest, sometimes I find the best ideas, like this card:

http://stampwithtami.com/blog/2015/10/blog-hop-thanksgiving/

There’s a cute french fry box there too. She made the card using stamping up punches. I thought how easy it would be to copy it, using the basic shapes in Make the Cut, especially since I don’t own the punches necessary to make this card.

So I welded and joined a couple of scalloped squares and easily drew the buckle and belt using the shapes in Make the Cut. I had this card put together in minutes.

I used the dots embossing on the collar and tied a ribbon and was good to go. I did try to tackle cutting out the belt buckle with glitter foam. I put the Zing on full force (158) and ran about 6 passes. Since the foam had sticky on the back, I didn’t put it on a mat, just ran it through the machine. The Zing didn’t quite cut all the way through, but I had enough that I could finish off the cuts with an exacto knife. I didn’t have a blue blade, which I think would’ve made a better difference, but for what I needed, what I had worked.

I also created a little greeting for the inside, using the brady bunch font that I downloaded from dafont.

Here’s the file if you want to make one. It was super easy, had it done in less than 15 minutes.

djm_pilgrimcard.mtc

Materials:

Zing

Make the Cut

Cardstock (brown, white and black)

gold glitter foam

small buttons

black ribbon

swiss dots embossing folder

Settings:

Zing: f- 80 for the card stock, 1 pass