To My Favourite Person

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

I finally got my hands on one of the new Spellbinders Betterpress system. I have been waiting patiently for the store I purchase many of my supplies from here in Australia to get it in. For now I only got the system, some Cotton Cardstock and a few Betterpress Plates. I will get more over time. 

For my first play with the system I used the Pressed Bouquet Plate. I placed it in the corner of the magnetic base in one corner for a 5 x 7 card panel and used the ink pad that came with the system to ink up the plate. Once I had run the Betterpress system through my die cutting machine, I then inked up my plate an again and flipped the platten that had the cardstock attached, so that I could get an image in the opposite corner.

I also used one of the sentiments from the exclusive die that comes with the Betterpress system. I like how Spellbinders included the two different spellings of the word "favourite", I hope they do this more often when words I spelt differently in other countries.

Even though Spellbinders, says you can't colour the image using alcohol markers if you use the included ink pad, I had no trouble colouring the image using my markers.

I die cut my panel using a stitched rectangle die, so I could adhere it to a top folding 5 x 7 card.

For the inside of my card, I die cut another white panel, and then time I inked the Betterpress plate using a pink Catherine Pooler ink. As I only used normally cardstock it just stamped the image, it didn't leave any impression into the cardstock as it does when you use Cotton Cardstock. 

I also added a sentiment, using a stamp from a Creative Craft Products stamp set.