Octagon NestiesCompleted by Gwyneth George

I separated out the layers in Silhouette Studio and worked out which ones I wanted to use. I made three copies of one of the plain edged octagons, welding two of them together to make a base card and leaving the third as it was. I chose one of the layers with holes in to put on the same mat. All of these were cut out of pink, 250gsm, linen textured cardstock. I cut out another layer, the same size as the main layers but with holes, and cut this out of lavender cardstock.

I scored the base card to make an easel card, attaching the largest layer to the front, bottom, half with wet glue. The largest of the layers with holes was then attached directly to this with wet glue and the other layer with holes was attached using 1mm deep, double sided, foam tape. I decorated the card with some leaves and flowers that I'd cut out as spares when making an earlier project (cup392953_596).

These are useful shapes to have in your digital library and work well as a backdrop to many different styles of images and embelishments.