I have been busy this summer crafting.  Here is just part of what I have been making.  The little lanterns in the front are going to be made up in mostly Fall colors to grace the mantle. They look especially cute with a battery operated candle in them.   The squares to the right are the perfect size for a gift card or some tea or hot chocolate.  Busy busy busy!  Being the spinners which I did not make are three four inch sweaters I am making for our grandchildren for their 2018 Christmas ornaments.

Good morning!  It is August in Illinois and delightful to be able to hide away in an air-conditioned room and play.
I am still working on my penmanship.  I am up to the letter P.  I am mostly satisfied with the alphabet I have designed so far.  Still not perfectly happy with the B.  I will keep working on that.  In the meantime I have been experimenting with partial die cut and came up with something that I think would be useful to share.
I have`found that as much as enjoy making this slider card the center portion is a pain to cut either with an exact or a paper trimmer.  I have seen that there is a very nice die cut available for cutting this center.  While watching a video on that die it occurred to me that if I used a rectangle die which I already own I could use the partial die cut technique on one end and cut a perfect center opening any size I have a die for already.

Here is the card as it looks before I start decorating it.

A few decorations and it is ready to send.

Here is a picture of the front of another card getting ready to have the center cut.  You will see that the top plastic cutting piece stops before cutting through the top of the card.  Easy peasy and you have a slider card in just about any size you can wish for.  This one is a 3x4 1/2  base  The center die making the opening is, 3 3/8 x 2.  Sometimes I mount this on one piece of card stock.  This on is on a folded piece of card stock measuring 6x4 1/4.

I hope you find this useful and the idea simplifies your slider card production.