Making the Most of the Negative

Happy Monday!  I have another fall card to share today.  This one uses what would be considered the "negative" pieces from the die cut and a fun fall color theme.

I started with a kraft card base and layered a polka dotted patterned paper with dimensionals on top of it.  Then, I layered a piece of vellum on top of that.  I used the Frantic Stamper Ombre Card Panel Die to cut the chevrons out of 4 different pieces of patterned paper (I only used a small section of each paper and didn't cut out the full dies worth to save paper).  I also cut one full piece of cardstock with the die and used it as my guide for where I would place the chevron pieces.  When picking patterns to use together, I often find that if you use papers from the same paper pad, they will most likely work well together.  The guess work has already been done for you!

I laid my full cardstock card panel die cut on top of the vellum but didn't adhere it because I would be removing it after all of the chevron pieces were adhered.  This is the piece acting as a guide or stencil.  I put adhesive on the back of the chevron piece and then placed each piece where I wanted it.  When each chevron had been placed, I removed my guide and set it aside for a later project.  

Next, I layered another piece of vellum over the bottom portion of the chevron card.  I folded the vellum around to the backside of my card panel so that I wouldn't have to worry about the adhesive showing through.  I die cut the "Congrats" from the Accolades die set in a coordinating piece of paper (I used the same pattern as the top 2 rows of chevron to tie it all together).  I also die cut the congrats in 2 pieces of a coordinating cardstock and adhered them all together to add dimension and contrast.  I love how you can see the coral peeking out from underneath the sentiment.  

I die cut two butterflies from the Petite Butterflies die set, adhered them together and added a sequin in the middle and adhered it to my card.

I'm entering this card in the Color Throwdown Challenge #314.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Supplies not listed above;

Patterned Paper: Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm

Sequin: Pretty Pink Posh 4mm Sparkling Clear

Cardstock: PTI Kraft, Berry Sorbet

So Grateful for You

Hey everyone! I was in a Fall mood when I created the card I am going to share today.  It certainly feels like Fall as I'm writing this post.  It's breezy, a little chilly and has been rainy today.  Perfect Fall weather!

The first thing I created was the acorn.  I used a Teardrop Christmas Bauble die from Frantic Stamper to create it.  When I was playing with it I all of a sudden saw an acorn!  I first impressed the Woodgrain Card Panel die into the dark brown cardstock to make the texture for the acorn.  Then, I used the Bauble die to cut the "acorn" out.  Next, I cut the Bauble again with the patterned paper and then trimmed off the top part with scissors to create the cap.  I also trimmed off the top hanger part of the die with scissors as well.  When I was finished I was so happy with the acorn shape!  I tied a little linen thread around the top to make a bow and added a sequin.

The background was cut using the Woodgrain Panel die again.  Doesn't it look so different both cut and impressed (into the acorn)?  Love that you can get both looks from one die!  The sentiment was computer generated.

I was inspired by several challenges when I made this card!

First was the Cutting Edge Challenge #12 using Amy's card for inspiration.  

Next, was the Simon Says Challenge Monday Challenge Letter "O" challenge.  I used "O" for Orange & October!

And last, I used the colors from the Paper Players #217 Challenge with some neutrals thrown in.

The dies I used on this card are:

Teardrop Christmas Bauble 

Woodgrain Card Panel

Thanks for visiting! Have a happy Fall day!

Other Supplies not listed above:

Patterned Paper: Fancy Pants Designs True Friend

Sentiment: Computer Generated (cursif font)

Thread: Londonderry Linen Beige

Sequins: 4mm Coffee Metallic Cartwrights

Festive Wednesday

When I saw the inspiration photo for the Festive Friday challenge #42, I knew I wanted to play along. It is so beautiful!  I loved how the photo had just small touches of red & green in it on the mostly white chairs (I chose to work with cream) with a red background.

I started with the background which I created using a new die from Frantic Stamper called Triangle Card Panel.  After I cut out the panel I adhered scotch tape to the back side to keep all of the little triangles in place since I wanted to selectively choose which triangles to replace.  I then popped out the triangles I wanted to replace and since the scotch tape was already in place all I had to do was pop the new green, red & gold pieces back in.  

I cut out the beautiful Script Merry Christmas  in gold glitter paper and also in chipboard and glued them together to create more dimension.  I then adhered it on top of the panel.  

I tied a little gold silk ribbon to the card to finish it off and to tie all of the golds together.

Here's the inspiration photo that we were to use.

Triangle Card Panel Die

Script Merry Christmas

A Whole Lotta Happy Birthday

Hey everyone!  I have another birthday card to share today.

For this one I used Clearly Whimsy stamps & dies.  I love the selection of speech bubbles in the Say What? Speech Bubbles die set!  For this card I needed a masculine birthday card which I find hard to make so this set was perfect for this.  I used some sentiments from the Happy Everything stamp set which worked perfectly with the dies!  I also used a balloon from the Party Time die set to tie onto one of the speech bubbles with some twine from The Twinery.

I am linking this up to the Seize the Birthday Challenge which has the theme of Anything Goes this week!

Thanks for stopping by!