Happy New Year!!!! I try to participate in card challenges throughout the month. The challenge could be a color scheme or a layout/sketch. The Simon Says Stamp Challenge presents the creator with a theme to inspire a card. Now the best thing about these kinds of challenges is it gets you to think outside the box for card creation. This particular theme was ‘something new’. My something new is to primarily use diecuts on a card instead of stamping. I’m super excited about how this card turned out.
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Love You So Diecut Card
I’ve seen so many dry embossed backgrounds that I just had to try it. I used the Concord & 9th ‘free with purchase die’ which was perfect for this technique. The inside heart is a stitched pattern that doesn’t cut the paper! Sweet right?!
I centered the first heart on a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ panel of Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock. I ran it through my Spellbinders Platinum 6″ die cut machine using the embossing pad and embossing plate. Then, I moved the stitched heart all around different placed and repeated the embossing process until the background piece was full of stitched hearts.
Next, I die cut “L”, “V”, “E”, and a heart in place of the “O” out of Melon Mambo cardstock using the Love You So Dies from Concord & 9th. Using the free die, I cut the outline heart in Lost Lagoon.
Lastly, I die cut some patterned paper from the MFT Stamps Die-namics Slanted Sentiments die. I backed it with a little strip of Smokey Slate cardstock. The patterned paper was from a Queen & Co. card kit I purchased last year. The paper is also what inspired my color combination.
Check out these cards inspired by more challenge blogs: My Favorite Things Hugs In Blue and Absolutely Fabulous in Purple CASE This Sketch.
