Mix up those plates.

All you Groovi addicts out there, some of you will have seen bits of this already.  I love just sitting and playing with a few plates to create a mixed up design.  This is one of those.  All it needs now is a suitably sized base card.

This is a mix of different designs and sizes from Linda Williams' beautiful plates, overlapping each other.  This is so easy to do with the lovely see through plates.  Once I had drawn it out, it sat around in my folder for ages.

Once I got back to it, I decided to keep the colours to a limited palette and fairly soft, with some gentle embossing.  Then, it was down to the perforating.  I used two different tools for that, the two needle fine, and the two needle split which is finer still.  With the split you have to be careful to only perforate VERY lightly otherwise you get the messy split.   I used the split tool for perforating within the circles, like the honeycomb pieces.  Everything else was done with the fine tool.

Then, I went round again with the single needle fine to ensure I had good holes to snip.  You cannot get good picot edging if your holes are not good.  All perforating should be done with the needle tools held perfectly upright.  Anything else and you will end up with oval holes instead of the desirable round ones.