Thinking outside the box using my Gypsy

Good Morning Everyone,

This is the very first tutorial that I was going to do but as we are still

learning to use our new video camera I thought I would just go ahead

and do a picture tutorial. In my header picture is a pink ribbon. I did

not have a cartridge that had a pink ribbon so I put on my thinking

cap as to how I could come up with one. Using the Christmas Cheer

cartridge I made a discovery that using to candy canes in shadow or

blackout and my Gypsy it could be accomplished. Most of this is done

by using the advanced part in the Gypsy as pictured below In the next picture you will see that I used the flip side ways. Then I used the rotate to rotate only one of them so that it would

sit right when I overlapped them. Once I got it to overlap just right I used welding gizmo on the Gypsy

and welded them together. Once they were welded I cut it out with the Cricut. I cut it out in pink

because I wanted the ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness month but

you can pick your color of choice. Yellow for military maybe. If you payed close attention you will notice that the ends of the ribbon

are rounded but if you want a more finished end add squares to the ends

of the ribbon making sure they overlap just right and welding it together

before you cut it out. Hope this has helped some of you discover the

endless possiblities if you think outside the box and are trying to decide

which cartridges would be the best to purchase. Make sure to at least get

one cartridge that has alot of just shapes. I am working on a few other

things. Hopefully I will be posting these types of tutorials once a week.

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!