Clarence the elephant

[Monica]

Anyone aside from me buy the Tim Holtz colorize dies of the various animals? He did 6 hours of demos last Saturday and one thing that had caught my eye was the colorize dies he did with woodgrain cardstock (the holiday season white/grey one). Hubby needed me to wrap a white elephant gift so I thought I'd be clever and actually put a white elephant on the top of the package. Having that nice wide roll of double-sided adhesive to put on the back of the cardstock before I cut it made worlds of difference in the assembly! So, without further ado, here's Clarence in all his white glory!

[pbp908]

Clarence is a cutie!

[EDelValle]

How cute is he!

[pugmom]

I LOVE him! And so clever of you to think of putting him on the package.

[pamcook]

Yes - what They said! And brilliant to add the adhesive first!

[mpizzazz]

Wow, that looks really complicated!

[katymjo]

Monica, I've never tried the wide double sided adhesive with die-cutting. How easy is it to peel the backing layer off after it's been through the machine?

[Monica]

Really easy. You'll want to make two passes through the machine, but I've not had an issue at all.

[jmp1022]

Really nice Monica

[Monica]

Thanks, Jill

[Keitha]

I missed this when you posted it Monica. Did you see my hand shoot in the air? I have, ahem, more than a couple of these animal dies, and love the quirky personalities of them. And I agree; double-sided adhesive makes them much, much easier to assemble - not just Tim's Colorize dies, but any multi-layer dies like the Altenew flower ones. If I'm being frugal sometimes I just use it on the smaller pieces that are a PITA to glue on neatly.
Brilliant idea to put a white Clarence on that gift! That's one of Tim's videos I haven't watched yet, but I'm hoping to have some time at home before I go back to work. And now that I'm home from Africa, I really wish he'd do a rhinoceros, LOL.

[Monica]

I wondered if you used the same trick, Keitha! Welcome back from Africa, I've seen your photos on FB and it looks like an amazing trip.