half-cut die card

 

Hi, here is how to make a half cut card using dies.

 

 

Firstly, score a card  to make a trifold style. The other trifold mark is only along the edges. This is where you will die cut. ( The pencil mark here is just to show for demonstration.)

Then, lay the die of your choice on the area that you did not fully score in such a manner that it is halway (central) of the crease. Be sure to tape the die on the card using low tack tape.

Position the card on the cutting plate, in a way that the larger potion is halnging out of the plate and that only half of the die is on the plate (the edge of the cutting plate in alligned to the 2 short scored edges of the card).

Put the base plate on top of the cutting plate (the card is sandwich in between). Run the plate in the machine, inserting the hanging card first.

Remove the die and complete the crease to the edge of the cut and it should look like this now.

Lay down the other parts of the die in the center of the cut as you wish, tape and then cut.

Remove the dies and bits and pieces.

 

 

Score the lower edge to about a centimetre and fold, then fold the card so that the creased fold meets the trifold score on the lower side of the die cut.

Fold the other trifold crease. Glue the centimetre foldto the edge of the other edge of the part that you fold backward to show the die cut image. Design as you wish.

 

There is another of doing this, but I'll do it next time. Enjoy!

 

(NOTE: This method is only apllicable to dies with separate borders like the Tonic Verso and the Indulgence Dies.)