"Invisibly attached" transparency overlays

Supplies needed: Stamp sets (I've used Big and Little Pieces); Stazon, Oversized piece of acetate/window sheet; scissors; sticky strip;

Before we start, here are a few helpful hints. When using stazon and acetate, I like to keep some cotton swaps and rubbing alcohol around, just in case I make any mistakes. Rubbing alcohol is a solvent cleaner, so it removes Stazon quite well.

For this type of overlay I am making my cardfront first. It is a square 4.25 card. My oversized acetate piece is 5.5x 4.25. Whatever size cardfront you decide to make, keep in mind that you need to keep your acetate overlay about 1.25 inches longer for ease of attachment.

Step One: Stamp your acetate overlay with stazon.

Step Two: Have the other pieces of your cardfront prepared. (My chocolate piece is 4.25 square, and I have a 4-square piece of designer paper centered on it). Here I have put a piece of designer paper on the chocolate chip. The chocolate chip is my cardfront base. Flip it over. Apply sticky strip onto the corners of the opposite sides, as shown in the picture by the red lines.

Step Three: Place the base overtop of the overlay, center it. Peel off one side of the sticky strip. Carefully, tightly fold over the acetate.

Step Four: Hold the cardfront tightly. Peel off the other lines of sticky strip. Bring up the overlay and fold it over. Make sure you keep a tight grip so that the overlay will lay nice and flat over the rest of the card. The analogy I use for how to hold it is as if you were wrapping a present. You are wrapping the cardfront.

Step Five: Flip the cardfront over and finish up your card!