Celebrate

I've got a celebration card up on the Dies R Us blog today. Everyone seems to be celebrating something lately, so I like to keep a few on hand for these special occasions. 

I decided to try something new with this buttercup frame from Precious Marieke. It's a large die so this is a pretty big card at 5 1/2 x 6". The die only cuts the flowers on one side and I wanted to cut them on both sides. This took some time and finagling.  I cut the first side and then had to line it up and position it so my die cutting machine wouldn't cut the straight edge. It took a while but I finally got it to work. 

Then it was time to cut the other oval die cuts.

To put it together I used a light purple cardstock for the card base that showed through the cut flowers beautifully. Using some ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever I glued the white flowered piece down and then decided I didn't like all the white so I added a strip of the purple cardstock down the middle. I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then added the two die cut stitched ovals along with a punched butterfly. I decided it needed something else so I broke out some Nuvo drops in crushed grape and carnation pink and added them randomly around the flowers.

                                    

Supplies Used

Precious Marieke Buttercup Frame

 

Tutti Designs Stitched Nesting Ovals

ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever

Nuvo Crystal Drops Carnation Pink

Nuvo Crystal Drops Crushed Grape

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Merry Merry

I've got a Christmas card up today over at the Dies R Us blog. I thought I'd get a jump start on my holiday cards.

To start I took a panel of white cardstock and sponged some Distress Oxides in faded jeans, wilted violet and iced spruce all over it.

Then I cut out all my die cuts using Impression Obsession Hill Landscape dies and Lawn Fawn 

Birch Tree Dies.

Once I got it all assembled I added the silver deer and tree which I've had in my stash forever and then stamped and embossed the sentiment strip and popped that up on the card. I also added some Nuvo glitter drops in white blizzard to give it some sparkle.

Supplies Used

Lawn Fawn Birch Trees

Impression Obsession Hill Landscape Layers

Nuvo Glitter Drops-White Blizzard

ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever

Distress Oxide Inks

Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog.  There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store.  For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.

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STORE 
 CHALLENGE BLOG
  FACEBOOK
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Jolly Holly Day

We've got a new sketch up over at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today.  I thought this was a perfect sketch for a Christmas card.

Here's the sketch

I hope you'll stop by the blog and play along with us and be sure to check out the blog on Wednesday's when we reveal all the DT member's take on the sketch.

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Sweet

We've got an Anything Goes Mini Crop going on over at Creative Inspiration. My challenge for the crop is to use die cuts on your project.

I've used 4 different die cuts on here. I cut the photo into a stitched oval so it would fit inside the floral frame die cut and the pink flowers and white leaves are also die cuts. I love that I've finally figured out I can use my dies on layouts. 

I hope you'll join us and play along.....we do have a prize up for grabs.

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Feeding the Fishies

I've got a sketch reveal up today over at Sketches in Thyme. We have a new sketch every week and then add one of the DT's take on it daily.

Here's the sketch for this week

I love this sketch and had fun with it. Behind the photo I sponged on a couple different colors of Distress Oxide inks and then splattered some water color paint. The circles were made by tracing some circle dies and then just added the little fish stickers and some washi tape.

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Just A Note Card

We've got a new card sketch up today over at Atlantic Hearts Sketches Challenge Blog. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us. 

I turned the card into a tri-fold note card

Here's the sketch

I had fun with this one. I dug into my stash and used up some of my scraps and even used some old stamps that I've never used before.

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6th Birthday

We've got a layout and card sketch reveal challenge up today over at Creative Inspiration. I used the layout sketch for my project.

Here's the sketch

I hope you'll stop by and check out the rest of the DT''s reveals and be sure to play along with us. 

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