Category: die cuts

Less Is More 173: Die Cuts

Today,I’m sharing a card I created for the Less Is More Challenge – Die Cuts. I’ve been working with the My Favorite Things Blueprints 13 die cut set for an upcoming In Detail post for Ellen Hutson’s CLASSroom, and I had lots of pieces cut out waiting to be combined!

Less Is More 173: Die Cuts

I double cut the bike, sentiment and stars so that those die cuts would have some extra depth. I tried several different die cut sentiments, ultimately choosing this scripty Hello because of its whimsical nature.

Hope you’re having a fabulous day!

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Butterfly Thank You

Today, I’m sharing a card created with some Penny Black stamps and die cuts in which I’ve paired feminine (the delicate floral) and masculine (the woodgrain) motifs.

ButterflyThanks

I started by inking the  Penny Black Star Ivy [#40-310]  background with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. I misted the stamp until the ink started to pool, at which point I pressed watercolor paper onto the stamp. As I let that dry, I applied Worn Lipstick Distress Ink directly to watercolor paper from which I die cut the  butterflies using the Penny Black Flutters [#51-006] set. (I also die cut the butterflies from blank watercolor paper, as I wanted the die cuts to have some depth.) I stamped the woodgrain using the Inspiring [#40-113] stamp set with Versamark for a tone-on-tone look. The sentiment is from Penny Black’s Special Wishes [#30-229].

Rain or Shine

I’ve had these My Favorite Things April release items for a few weeks and finally got around to putting them together on a card. I can’t resist umbrella or rain-themed cardmaking supplies!

Rain or Shine
I used the Raindrops stencil to dry emboss the Robin’s Egg cardstock for a subtle background. The sun and umbrella are attached to the card with dimensional adhesive.

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Color Throwdown Butterfly

I’m sharing a card created for the Color Throwdown #293 challenge.

Color Throwdown ButterflyThe In Detail post I’ve been working on for the CLASSroom at Ellen Hutson’s includes a review of the Stephanie Barnard Butterfly Triplits Die Set (as well as the Flowers set). After seeing the fun colors for this challenge, I created a card featuring one of the die-cut butterflies. I framed the butterfly in an InstaFrame. The inside area of the MFT die was a tad small for the butterfly, so I used a square die to punch out a bigger background. I finished the card off with a sentiment from WPlus9.

Flower Power

I have been working on an In Detail post for the CLASSroom on the Sizzix Stephanie Barnard Triplit dies. I had bunches of flower die cut pieces on my work table and assembled some for this card.

Flower Power

With all of the flower pieces, it’s easy to get overloaded with choices, so I kept to three colors for the flowers, although I’d originally started out with four. I first tried the flowers on a kraft cardstock base, but they looked much better on the green base. I had a Mead spiral notebook in the early 1970s with a fabric floral pattern that had these same colors. Even though I can more or less remember the pattern, I wish I’d kept it for card inspiration!

I’m entering this card in the Less is More Challenge whose theme is flowers, as well as the CASology challenge whose theme is also flowers.