***GIVEAWAY!!!*** Slice Ballpoint Pen Tips

I’m excited to share another layout where I’ve been able to use the Slice Ballpoint Pen Tips. Make sure you leave a comment on this post to be entered to win a set of these tips!

The pen tips fit in your Slice the same way as the blades – just use your wrench tool to take out the blade and put in the pen tip, then make sure you set the cutting mode to embossing / drawing.

This time I used the pen tips to embellish a strip of paper to fit with the overall layout of the page. This is a great way to make your own patterned paper with exactly the shapes you want. A friend snapped this picture of me with my nose in a guidebook as I stood next to one of the Great Pyramids in Egypt. I wanted to make it look like I was lost, so I used the pen tips to create the repeating arrows theme on my paper.

I drew all the shapes at 1” in size which made it easier to line them up when moving the Slice from one to the next. The guide marks on the Slice itself and on the cutting board really help with this. All the arrow shapes come from the Remember This and the Animal Crackers design cards. 

I typed the first part of the title on my computer then ran my patterned paper through my printer.

In order to get the alignment right for the title stickers, I find it helpful to line them up on a ruler which I can then move around until the placement looks good.

I also used my Slice to cut the tab to hold the text about Egypt (which I cut from Making Memories Panorama embellishment paper), then affixed it using Making Memories green staples. The tab shape came from the Basic Elements design card.

All the patterned papers and the fabulous dimensional stickers (I love these!) for ‘pyramid’ are from the Making Memories Panorama collection.

Don’t forget to leave a comment on this post if you’d like to win some of these ballpoint pen tips! Each set contains blue and black pen tips, and they really do open up all sorts of possibilities for using your Slice design cards in new ways on your creations.

For another cool way to use your Slice, be sure to check out Wendy Bretz’s post from yesterday showing how to add hidden journaling to your layout.

Make sure you become a fan of the Slice Facebook page if you’d like to know the latest tips, projects and giveaways!

~ Caroline ~