Congratulations with Star Blast

Hello, Crafters.

As I thought I would, I had serious problems with Vicki's wedding invitations yesterday! 

The two stamps I'm using are non-Stampin' Up!, photopolymer and at least five years old! 

The image stamp is fine but the sentiment is disintegrating a tad more every time I clean it, and I have now lost part of one of the letters!

I have chosen another stamp that is the same sentiment and I'm having another go with it today. 

On a much happier note, yesterday I used my big Carl guillotine, which cuts through 35 sheets of 80gsm paper (normal computer paper) in one go.

I was able to cut 20 sheets of vellum, and then three lots of 15 sheets of cardstock. 

This saved me masses of time!

Today's card is my first play with the Star Blast Edgelits Dies.

I cut a piece of Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper the size of my standard top layer, which is 3 7/8" x 5 1/2". 

I positioned the main die so the top star almost touched the top of the glimmer paper, and ran this through my Big Shot using my new Platform and the Precision Base Plate.

I turned the Glimmer Paper round 180° and repeated the process, again making sure I left a small gap from the bottom of the Glimmer Paper to the top of the die.

I also made sure I had the die lined up straight, and I saved the stars that were die cut during this process.

I used Sahara Sand Cardstock (CS) for the base of my card, then a layer of Whisper White CS, and a top layer of Falling in Love Designer Series Paper. 

I adhered all three pieces together using Tombow, and then I adhered my Star Blast die cut in the centre.

I took a scrap of Glimmer Paper and punched out some more stars using the Confetti Stars Border Punch. 

Using these, as well as the stars from the Star Blast Die Cut, I adhered a smaller star into each "hollow" star. 

Then I adhered a smaller star on top of this. I did this to the five hollows on the top and the five at the bottom!  

I took the two largest stars and adhered them above and below the sentiment using Dimensionals. 

Then I added two of the next size of stars in the centres.

I took a strip of Sahara Sand CS and wiped it over with my Embossing Buddy.

Then I inked the CONGRATULATIONS stamp from the Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set with Versamark, and stamped onto my strip of Sahara Sand CS. 

I sprinkled it with White Embossing Powder and heat set it.

I fishtailed both ends using the Triple Banner Punch, and then I added two small stars at either end of the sentiment.
 
Right! I'm off to see what I can do with these wedding invitations!

Until tomorrow, happy crafting,

JanB.