Happy Friday my Stamping Friends!
Today I wanted to try
something a little different – an experiment really.
Stampin’ Up! has a couple of new dies in the current Annual Catalog called Picture This. They cut out either rectangular or circular “windows” in a piece of cardstock. I saw a card on Pinterest that used the rectangle version of the Picture This Die, and these Dahlias were peeking out through the windows.
Well, these dies are on my wish list, but I don’t own them yet, so I started going through the dies I do have. My first thought was the Stitched Rectangles dies I have, but the sizes just weren’t working for me, so I started digging further. Next, I looked at the Stitched so Sweetly Dies (one of my favorites by the way), but again the sizes just weren’t working. Same problem with the Scalloped Contours dies—the sizes just weren’t working.
At this point I had used up all my obvious
alternative ideas, and I was a about ready to throw in the towel, when I
happened to look at my Christmas Season Bundle from the current Mini Catalog. As I mentioned in my post on Monday, these dies are
definitely worth a second look. When I
purchased the bundle, I didn’t even notice all the great label dies that it
includes. All I had “seen” were the dies
that coordinated with the stamps. Now, I was looking at them with a different
set of eyes and a different purpose in mind!
For the first time, I saw several dies with similar “shapes”, but in
different sizes.
What do you think?
The most difficult issues I incurred were two different
things.
Issue 1) Keeping the 3
separate dies aligned as I ran them through the Die Cutting machine. Solution: After 3 unsuccessful attempts to keep them
straight and spaced correctly (even with Washi tape holding them in place), I ran each one through
separately--so 3 times through the machine.
Issue 2) When you stamp the flowers on the cardstock behind the openings,
you need to make sure your stamping doesn’t appear someplace you don’t want it
to appear – like along the border around the basic white piece, or in the
opening next to the one you are stamping.
Solution: Use copy paper (or any lightweight paper) to mask the
areas where you don’t want ink.
After I had run my Basic White cardstock through the Die
Cutting machine 3 times to create the 3 windows there were some markings from
my “well-used” cutting plates on the Basic White.
Solution: I used the Tasteful
Textile 3D Embossing Folder and voila – all marks are gone (or if they are
there, you can’t see them). This was
actually a "happy fix”, because the card was looking a little stark and the
embossing added some texture that was greatly needed.
After completing the stamping on the Highland Heather
cardstock, the Basic White Window card was adhered on top with lots of dimensionals. The flowers (with a Basic Pearl adorning each center) and
the leaf were added with dimensionals.
Lastly, some Wink of Stella was added on all the flowers to
give a little shimmer and shine. In my
world, you can never have too much shimmer & shine!
I’m happy with my experiment, but would love to hear what
you think?
If you would like to make this card, you can avoid my
“issues” and follow the FREE TUTORIAL available at this link.
A complete Product List is below for today's card.
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