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Reverse Confetti September SFYTT

Have you seen this month’s Sketch for You to Try at Reverse Confetti? I created a back-to-school card using the sketch as my starting point.

Here’s my take on the sketch, featuring a sentiment from My World and the Globe Confetti Cuts:

I cut both gray and red cardstock with the Globe Confetti Cuts and backed the globe with a circle cut from patterned paper (Echo Park’s Teacher’s Pet collection). The sentiment, apropos for a new school year (or any new undertaking), was stamped on patterned paper.

I hope you’ll play along! Head on over to link up your card on the Reverse Confetti Blog for your chance to win a $20 Reverse Confetti gift certificate and the title of ‘Fetti Fave!

Mojo Monday 414 – Happy Fall

I’m playing along with the Mojo Monday 414 Challenge with a CAS fall-themed card created with Reverse Confetti stamps and Confetti Cuts.

To begin, I cut kraft and red cardstock with the Easy As Pie Confetti Cuts set (I cut both the pie top and bottom twice for added dimension). I heat-embossed a sentiment from Forever Fall on a die cut created with one of the dies in the Layered Banner Duo Confetti Cuts set. The apple patterned paper was cut with a die in the Documented Confetti Cuts set.

September Release Reverse Confetti Blog Hop

The wait is over! REVERSE CONFETTI has just released SIX stamp sets, EIGHT Confetti Cuts and “Fall Fun” Quick Card Panels. The hop began on the Reverse Confetti blog, and you should have made it here from Lisa’s blog. It would be worth your while to start at the beginning of the hop, so you don’t miss a thing. We have tons of inspiration for you to see using all the new Reverse Confetti stamp sets and dies! I’m sharing two CAS cards combining die cuts and stamps.

For my first card, I used the Double Scallop Garland Confetti Cuts with a sentiment from Spooky Sentiments.

I cut black cardstock with the open scallop garland and colored cardstock with the closed garland, attaching them together with Ranger Matte Medium glue. I added them in a whimsical manner to the card base, which had been stamped with a Halloween sentiment.

For my second project, I die cut the Thanks from the Thanks Tag Confetti Cuts in four shades of yellow/orange. I also cut the Thanks in white as well and attached the colored cardstock die cuts to the white ones for additional dimension. I stamped a white cardstock panel with a sentiment from the Fancy Word Coordinates set.

I hope you’ve enjoyed hopping with us today. Be sure and hop with us on the 8th of EVERY MONTH for more REVERSE CONFETTI inspiration! Now it’s time to hop on over to the blog of Amy Rohl. If you get lost along the way, you can find the hop order and list of all the participating designers over on the Reverse Confetti blog.

CAS Watercolored Autumn Die Cuts

It’s September, and with that, we begin the fall season! I know that the equinox, marking the beginning of fall, isn’t until later in the month. But to me, the season has arrived, and after a summer drought, the leaves here in the Pacific Northwest are already turning gold and red. My CAS card features the 51-072 Autumn Jewels die cut set from Penny Black paired with a sentiment cut with word die in the 51-040 Hello Frame set.

I painted watercolor paper with Peerless watercolors. Once dry, I cut out the leaves with the Autumn Jewels dies. I cut the Hello out of brown cardstock three times for additional depth. For additonal interest and texture, I adhered the leaves and sentiment onto textured cardstock and added twine.

Partial Die Cut Window Card

Today, I’m sharing a window card, based on one shown by Jennifer McGuire in the Online Card Classes Holiday Card Workshop 2014, that uses partial die cutting. My take on Jennifer’s card features the deer from the Lawn Fawn Party Animals set.

Partial Die Cut Window Card

I stamped the deer on cardstock and then used its companion die to cut it out partway. I then partially cut the circle with a die. I did need to do some minor trimming at the point where the two met. It took more than one try to get this to work out to my satisfaction!

I colored the deer with Copics and cut the panel with a die from the Lawn Cuts Large Stitched Rectangle set.

On a different panel, I heat-embossed a sentiment from Chit Chat with white embossing powder and applied Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks. I attached the panel with the deer to the background panel with dimensional adhesive.