Category: die cuts

My Favorite Things – Comfy Sweaters

Today, I’m sharing a card created with some new goodies from My Favorite Things. Sweaters have been a really big trend this season for papercrafting and the MFT Comfy Sweater die has two sizes from which to choose!

I cut the sweaters from patterned paper with the smaller of the two sweater dies in the Comfy Sweater set, and finished them with cuffs, collar and a bottom hem cut from white cardstock. The patterned paper scale worked well with the die size. I stamped the sentiment from Cozy Greetings on white cardstock and cut the card panel with the stitched die in the Blueprints 13 set.

November SFYTT from Reverse Confetti

Card created for the now defunct Reverse Confetti Sketch For You To Try Challenge.

November SFYTT from Reverse Confetti

I chose traditional holiday red and green solid cardstock and patterned paper. With the white card base, I needed the sentiment to stand out, so I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments on black cardstock. I added a tree cut with the Branch Out die set attached with dimensional adhesive.

Let It Snow

I’ve had these penguins and snowbanks on my worktable for several months! We’ve had a particularly chilly couple of days, so I thought it was time to put this card together.

Let It Snow

I had been playing around with different backgrounds, and the Taylored Expressions embossing folder gives just the right scale snowfall for the rest of the scene. I dry embossed the cardstock with my Big Shot extended multipurpose platform on Tab 1. This gave just a bit more depth to the embossing. I cut the penguins twice and adhered them together for extra depth. The front two penguins and front two snowbanks are attached with dimensional adhesive as well.

Supplies: Memory Box Playful Penguins; Papertrey Ink die cut and sentiment; Taylored Expressions Snowfall embossing folder; Taylored Expressions Build a Scene – Rolling Hills

Penny Black CAS Reindeer

I’m sharing a CAS holiday card combining a Penny Black die cut, stenciled background and heat embossed sentiment with one of my favorite holiday color combinations – white, red and silver.

Penny Black CAS Reindeer

I began by stamping and heat embossing the sentiment from Penny Black’s 30-255 Most Wonderful on heavyweight white cardstock.

Next, I applied white embossing paste through the 25-010 Zigs & Zags stencil. I only applied paste in the center portion, letting the edges unevenly fade away.

Finally, I cut the larger reindeer from the 51-069 Together set several times, adhering the pieces for added dimension, and attached the reindeer to the embossed background.

Freshly Made Sketches #162

Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches #162 challenge.

Freshly Made Sketches #162

For my card, I flipped the sketch horizontally because of the sledder’s orientation. I didn’t want him sledding so close to the card edge!

I cut the MFT slope twice and lined it up on the focal panel and on the panel behind. The sledder was cut twice, once in silver foil and again in cardstock for extra dimension.

Supplies: Hero Arts Joy to All (sentiment); Echo Park patterned paper; Impression Obsession Sled; MFT Snow Drifts Dienamics; Dienamics Blueprint 1