Category: die cuts

Reverse Confetti November SFYTT

Have you seen this month’s Sketch for You to Try at Reverse Confetti?

I created a CAS holiday card in non-traditional colors using the sketch as my starting point.

Jean Manis Reverse Confetti November 2015 SFYTT

For the background, I cut garlands from brushed silver cardstock with the Circle Garland Confetti Cuts set and adhered them to a white cardstock base. I embellished the circles with a snowflake cut with the Let It Snow Confetti Cuts set and with a tree and branches from Branch Out. I heat-embossed a sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments on a teal blue cardstock strip. I attached the circles to the card base with dimensional adhesive.

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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!

Taylored Expressions Holiday Moose

Today, I’m sharing a holiday card featuring the Taylored Expressions Little Bits Moose.

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I couldn’t resist pairing the moose with plaid (patterned paper from American Crafts Deck the Halls). To create the moose, I used a combination of cardstocks: Woodgrain (to give him more texture), Oreo, Sugar Cube, Toffee and Chocolate Truffle. I cut the tag out of Sugar Cube. I heat-embossed a sentiment from Critter Correspondence on Cherry Pop cardstock and cut it with the tag die. To create the stitched strip of Sweet Basil cardstock, I used the Basketweave Cutting Plate to cut a narrow strip, then cut it again with one of the Stitched Rectangle Stacklets dies. I finished off the top of the tag with a reinforcement, cut from Cherry Pop with one of the Tag Reinforcements dies, and twine.


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Reverse Confetti Crazy for Christmas: Memory Keeping

Welcome to the final day of Reverse Confetti Crazy for Christmas – an event to provide ideas and inspiration for the holidays! Today we’re featuring Christmas Memory Keeping projects! I’ve included a list of everyone sharing ideas today at the end of the post.

I created a Painter’s Tray Memory Box capturing some of our family’s Christmas memories.

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I embellished four panels with Reverse Confetti die cuts. On five of the panels, I included holiday photos taken over the years. I printed journaling, (created on the computer), on vellum, which I backed with double-sided adhesive and attached to patterned paper for three of the panels.

For the first panel, I created a title on my computer which I attached to a large snowflake cut with the Layered Snowflake Confetti Cuts.

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The “Deck the Halls” panel includes garlands cut from gold glitter paper with the Circle Garland Confetti Cuts.

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I cut the wreath with the smaller dies in the Wreaths Confetti Cuts set and added a bow from the Tagged Tote Confetti Cuts set.

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I cut the larger tree from the Branch Out Confetti Cuts set and added branches cut from gold glitter paper.
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There’s lots of inspiration being shared today by the design team, check it out!

Reverse Confetti Blog
Susan Liles
Heather Pulvirenti
Jean Manis
Amy Tsuruta
Amy Sheffer
Lisa Henke
Leigh Penner
Sarah Gough
Stacey Schafer

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Reverse Confetti Crazy for Christmas: Gift Giving

Welcome to the second day of Reverse Confetti Crazy for Christmas – an event to provide ideas and inspiration for the holidays! Today we’re featuring Christmas Gift Giving projects! I’ve included a list of everyone sharing ideas today at the end of the post.

For my first project, I created a tag with the Gift Card Holder Tag decorated to look like Santa’s suit.

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I added a heat-embossed sentiment from the Tinsel ‘n Trim set and buttons cut with one of the Hang Ups die. I also attached a die-cut “Ho Ho Ho” conversation bubble (using the Jolly Holiday stamp set and coordinating die) to the gift card. The gift underneath is a coloring book, and I plan to include either an envelope with cash for art supplies or an art supply store gift card.

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My next project is a tag for the coffee lover on your list, created with the partial cutting technique and one of the dies in the Caffeinated Cups Confetti Cuts set.

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I cut the cup out of a folded cardstock rectangle leaving a section on the left-hand side intact. For the interior, I stamped a sentiment from Tinsel ‘n Trim on red cardstock with white pigment ink and cut it with the coffee cup wrap die included in the Caffeinated Cups Confetti Cuts set.

For the exterior of the tag, I stamped the Caffeinated Cups stamp set images, cut them the coordinating dies and attached them to the front of the white cardstock tag. I used the Hang Ups Confetti Cuts to create a tab on the back through which I strung the baker’s twine.

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I also created an up-cycled gift tag for coffee using a Starbucks holiday cup.

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I cut the coffee cup with the Caffeinated Cups Confetti Cuts die and added latte art from the Caffeinated Cups stamp set. I created the tag with the Gift Card Holder Tag from patterned paper. I cut the coffee cup with the Hang Ups die set, through which I strung cord to tie around the coffee bag. This tag took just a few minutes to put together!

My last project is a tag for individually wrapped cookies featuring a heat-embossed sentiment from the With Love set.

I embellished the tag, cut with the Thanks Tag Confetti Cuts, with die cuts from the Holly set. This one is easy to mass produce.

There’s lots of inspiration being shared today by the design team, check it out!

Reverse Confetti Blog
Susan Liles
Lisa Adessa
Kay Miller
Jean Manis
Amy Tsuruta
Amy Kolling
Amy Sheffer
Laurie Schmidlin
Amy Rohl
Sarah Gough

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Taylored Expressions Paper Piecing Technique

Paper piecing is one of my favorite techniques, especially because I love patterned paper! It’s also a great way to easily fill in space on stamped images. Today, I’m sharing some paper piecing tips with Taylored Expressions stamps, dies and patterned paper.

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My card uses the sailboat stamp (just the right size for this technique) from the Taylored Expressions Ships Ahoy set and coordinated patterned papers from the Matched Kit-Rainbow Brights. The Matched Kit took the guess work out of what patterns and colors would go together!

I stamped the red polka-dot and yellow chevron paper with the sailboat stamp and fussy cut the pieces with sharp detail scissors. (I don’t use these scissors for any other cutting in order to keep them sharp!) I stamped the small flag at the top of the pole on yellow polka-dot and blue polka-dot paper and cut those out as well.

I stamped the sailboat twice on Sugar Cube cardstock (included in the Matched Kit) and cut those with the coordinating die. I then adhered the patterned paper pieces with liquid adhesive in a fine-tip applicator to the sailboats stamped on Sugar Cube cardstock making certain that I got enough adhesive on the small ends.

I cut the waves with the Build a Scene-Rolling Waves die set from blue polka-dot and chevron patterned paper. I attached the waves and boats to a Potato Chip cardstock card base stamped with one of the sentiments from the Ships Ahoy set using dimensional adhesive for the front waves and the sailboats.

To recap, my tips for paper piecing include: use sharp detail scissors for fussy cutting, choose stamp images with open spaces that aren’t so small, (otherwise you won’t be able to easily cut the pieces), and use liquid adhesive with a fine-tip applicator to attach the paper pieces.

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