When it came to laser cutting my designs for the greetings cards, it was proving extremely difficult. Before laser cutting, Jenna was laser cutting some of her work on white card. Unfortunately, it came out looking extremely dirty and burnt from the laser. It was vital that this didn't happen to my greetings cards as there was a lot of stark white space on them. This would completely ruin the design if they were to burn. I therefore had to really consider how I was going to do this. With help, I had to set up my work in a bit of a complicated manner. So that the laser wouldn't reflect and burn the paper, grids from inside the laser had to be removed, so that my design was hovering in the air. This had to be perfectly lined up by doing a few test cuts on scrap paper first. When doing the tests, we found that the bauble cut didn't quite line up to the design. We therefore decided to simply move the digital design over by a few mm even though it was in line with the print. The digital line was then changed to a dotted line to create perforation, and again this was tested.
After a number of test sheets, I finally went ahead and sent my design through. Fortunately, it lined up perfectly. I was extremely grateful for the help given to me during this process, and was extremely happy with the results also. I am glad that I did this, and didn't simply decide against it because of the time needed and the trickiness of the situation. Over christmas, I will remove some of the baubles from the cards and place them in context so that they can be photographed and show within the environment they are intended for.
The image below shows the perforated detailing.
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