Meeting Totoro

I’m not sure I understand what you are after here. Are you trying to understand how the card works mechanically? It works the same as explained for the flower twisted-crest card:

As far as lasering, there are 4 layers/operations:

  1. Engrave – some additional definition for separating the arms from the bodies.
  2. Score – the valley fold half of the central score line.
  3. Cut – everything you see cut all the way through the paper.
  4. Sticker – all of the white areas.

After running operations 1-3, I attached a roughly square piece of polyester sticker without rubbing it down much, closed the machine, ran operation 4, which was set to cut through just the sticker. Then, I weeded the extra sticker with the help of a craft knife and, rubbed the rest down well.

Twist, washi tape – just like the flower crest – done.

The backing is a separate piece of stock into which I cut tabs to hold the main card.

I had some weird thing where some of my cuts separated out into separate operations, despite being the same color (and stroke). So, any screenshot would probably just be confusing.

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