diecutting - Right as Rain

Let It Snow – Merry Monday Christmas Challenge Summer Link-up

Hello! I’m still playing along with the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge Summer Link-up (sadly, this challenge no longer is existence) with a CAS snow/ski-themed card featuring the Elizabeth Crafts’ Skis die set.

I began by die-cutting and assembling the skis and poles. I added Vintage Photo Distress ink to the skis for a little bit more color. I stamped the Hero Arts Let It Snow sentiment on white cardstock, which I die-cut with the mountain die in the Elizabeth Crafts’ Skis die set. I dry-embossed the MFT Stamps Timber Green cardstock base with the Taylored Expressions Cable Knit embossing folder for texture.

Taylored Expressions May 2017 Release – Day Three Sneak Peeks

Hello! Welcome to Day Three of the Taylored Expressions May Sneak Peeks. This month’s release features a variety of products appropriate for Father’s Day, masculine and little boy projects, and 4th of July!

My first project is a Father’s Day card.

I cut the Little Bits – Tools from Metallic Neutrals cardstock and other colors (for the handles) adding the assembled tools to a card base on which I stamped the sentiment from the Simply Said – Dad set. I added Block Party – Dad and a frame cut with Frame in Frame Cutting Plate. The card base was dry-embossed with the Plaid folder to reinforce the masculine theme.

My second project is a masculine notecard set showcasing the Gunny Sack Background stamp.

I stamped both Sugar Cube and Toffee cardstock with the Gunny Sack Background stamp, using four different TE ink colors – Pumpkin, Sweet Basil, Blue Corn and Chocolate Truffle. I die cut the Initially M from cardstock in those same colors (twice for each card for extra depth). For the Sugar Cube cards, I paired the initials with different colors than the background colors; the Blue Corn initial with the Pumpkin background, for example. For the Toffee cards, I paired initials with the same colors as the background colors. To package the gift set, I used the Simply Said – Dad with the Noteworthy Belly Band and Clear Card Box.

Merry Christmas – Taylored Expressions Oct 2016 Sneak Peeks

Welcome to Day 2 of the Taylored Expressions October Sneak Peeks. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The October products will be released Thursday, October 6 @ 7 AM PST!

My first project features the Holiday Florals stamp set, which continues the tradition started with the Fresh Florals and Fall Florals sets.

This stamp set is packed with greenery for the holidays. I stamped and die cut the images and arranged them around a frame cut with a die in the Stitched Oval Stacklets set and Stitched Rectangle Stacklets set, which I dry-embossed with the Embossing Folder – Peaceful Poinsettia. I heat-embossed the sentiment in gold to coordinate with the cardstock used for the frame (a gold metallic in the Metallic Neutrals package).

My second card design, of which I created two versions, features the Merry Christmas Cutting Plate. I created two to show you just how easy it is to change this up.

My first version uses the white metallic cardstock in the Metallic Neutrals pack set against a card base created from Cherry Pop cardstock.

The interior features a sentiment from Ornamental. This system works well for our family. I can create the inserts and then get the signatures of all family members, simply adhering the insert to the card when we’ve all signed!

My other version of the card shows the Merry Christmas Cutting Plate overlay cut from Cherry Pop cardstock and put against a background created with a paper in the TE 6×6 Paper Pack – Playful Patterns – Holiday, to which I adhered TE Premium Vellum (with Elizabeth Crafts – 6×6 Adhesive Sheets) to soften its look. For this version, the card base is a gold metallic (Metallic Neutrals package).

Hello Fall! Die-Cut Scene

Hello! Today, I’m sharing a die-cut fall scene created with a variety of die cuts.

I couldn’t wait to use the Poppystamps Patient Pup die (I’ve professed my love for similar dies in the past). This scene was inspired by our beloved Golden Retriever “Ginger.” She would not have been this patient, however, with squirrels in the yard! This card combines some of my favorite card making elements: lots of color, die-cuts and a heat-embossed sentiment.

Supplies: Stampin’ Up sentiment, Impression Obsession: Clouds, Oak Leaves and Rake, Fir Tree Border, Picket Fence; Poppystamps Frisky Squirrels, Patient Pup

Splash! – colourQ challenge #348

I’m playing along with colourQ challenge #348 with a CAS summer-themed card.

I thought about this combination of colors for a bit and kept trying to figure out which color should have the most emphasis and which the least. In the end, I decided to give the colors more or less the same amount of emphasis and employed my design friend – repetition.

I colored Ranger Glossy Cardstock with Distress Inks to cut with the Little Bits – Beach Ball die. I cut the base of the balls and the Mini Caps Alpha & #’s from uncolored Glossy Cardstock. I like how the glossy cardstock emulates the plastic of blow-up beach balls. I colored the background using Loll Thompson’s “splash” watercolor technique using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink- her video is here. I had “splash” on the brain, since that’s what I used for the sentiment!

Supplies: Tim Holtz wave embossing folder, Taylored Expressions Pockets & Pages – Stitched Essentials, TE Little Bits – Beach Ball, TE Mini Caps Alpha & #’s