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Oval Floral

Posted on March 1, 2025 9:42 PM by Julie Comment

This feels like a continuation from last night’s post. I couldn’t let all those already die cut pieces go to waste, so I used them in a similar, but opposite card. Don’t you love it when you can make 2 cards for the work of 1? The same floral die was used but I swapped out the rectangles for an oval die.

A big congrats to Cyndi, the newest Featured Stamper FS943. She has a sweet gallery & my card is based on THIS card of hers. I kept most of the colors & use of the brayer, but I used die cuts instead of a stamped image & left off the texture plate embossing. I also added a couple of layers.

After I made yesterday’s card, I had all these parts left over. The purple mirror card already had the floral cut out of it, so I cut it again using the biggest Dot Dash Oval & put the rainbow colored outline inside it. I used a white pearl card stock to put behind it then a narrow border of the rainbow brayered background before attaching it to the largest purple mirror bg. I had the outline of the little flower left, too. It was painted w/ the glitter nail polish & since I wasn’t able to get the nail polish to fill in the petal openings, I cut some petals from the left over rainbow bg. The colors look very tropical to me. Like a vacay to Hawaii!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: none

Paper: Staples 110# white, purple MirriLAVA card stock (the Paper Cut), white glossy (for brayered bg), Stardream white

Ink: (Kaleidacolor Luau rainbow pad for brayered bg)

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Floral Bouquet, Dot Dash Ovals, Rectangle dies, orange & purple glitter nail polish, heavy duty aluminum foil (only used on the small flower)

Flower Bouquet die 5800D	Rectangle dies 5003D	Dot Dash Ovals die 5802-04D	Scotch ATG	Kaliedacolor ink pads
The Paper Cut Mirri Lava Card Stock	Ranger Brayer	Kromekote white gloss card stock	Stardream Paper

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Tie Dye Flowers

Posted on February 28, 2025 10:01 PM by Julie Comment

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I love this big floral die cut! You can do so much with it. Paper piece all the insides, inlay the outline, die cut and attach it over pretty paper or colored background. I also tried a new technique on the little glittery orange flowers. Follow along while I explain what I did on this card. The best part is you only need 2 die sets to make this card (other than 1 plain rectangle die).

It’s my turn to host the Inspiration Challenge (IC100) & we are headed to Nana’s Place & her Pinterest Board where I was inspired by THIS. I read her tutorial on the nail polish flowers & really wanted to give it a try. I ended up with only the little glitter orange flowers done this way, but it was fun to try it. (Her tutorial is HERE if you want to see it.)

I started by using a glue stick to attach a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil to plain card stock & die cutting a bunch of the little flowers. Then I found some glitter orange nail polish & gave the technique a try. I brushed the nail polish onto the back of the flowers, waited for less than a minute to let the polish thicken a bit, then slowly drug the brush across the open areas. I ended up doing 1 section at a time. If you get it correctly, the polish will form an almost transparent bubble across the opening. Let it dry a minute, then add another coat for more color. I tried, but just could not get it to work on the larger flowers. For the large floral, I die cut it out of purple lava mirror card (it looks really cool in person), pushed out all the inside pieces, then attached it to a piece of white card board. I die cut it again out of a piece of glossy, brayered background I had in my stash, & pieced all them into the purple outline. The 2 white layers were die cut w/ the dot dash rectangles & attached to more of the purple mirror card. My little nail polish flowers were added as accents.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: none

Paper: Staples 110# white, purple MirriLAVA card stock (the Paper Cut), white glossy (for brayered bg)

Ink: (Kaleidacolor Luau rainbow pad for brayered bg)

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Floral Bouquet, Dot Dash Rectangles, Rectangle dies, orange glitter nail polish, heavy duty aluminum foil

Flower Bouquet die 5800D	Rectangle dies 5003D	Dot Dash Rectangles die 5802-03D	Scotch ATG	Kaliedacolor ink pads
The Paper Cut Mirri Lava Card Stock	Ranger Brayer	Kromekote white gloss card stock

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Cool Cats

Posted on January 10, 2025 9:56 PM by Julie Comment

Today I have a die cut, paper pieced, mid-century mod birthday card. The two cool cats were put together with an assortment of dies and the background is a partial sunrays stained glass die with only some of the pieces colored in. It has a real 50’s-60’s vibe to it.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC997, we are visiting a site called Kate McEnroe & her Pinterest Board. I was inspired by THIS picture. I really love the atomic cat look & my only problem was figuring out a way to create this pair of cool cats. I’ll admit, I had to look through a lot of dies to come up with some to piece together.

To make the cat bodies, I used a large & a small vase, since the shape was so similar. The tails were the curliques from the Get Well Soon die. The head on the small cat is actually a letter D from the Vintage Alpha set turned sideways w/ white in the center. For the large cat head, I just cut a pointy oval shape then added the punch outs from the Hugs die. A black marker was used to add the vertical pupils. The ears on the large cat are just triangular pieces. The Sunrays background was cut out of ivory & I used ink to color in some of the pieces. A pointy flower die was used for the sun shape. The black frame was made w/ 2 arched dies. After attaching it on top of the background I used the larger one to cut it the same size as the frame.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: I Thought You Knew set

Paper: Staples 110# white, ivory, black

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse inks set #2, set #4, set #9, set #11

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Sunrays Stained Glass, I Thought You Knew set, Stacked Arches, Vintage Alphabet, Hugs w/ Shadow, Get Well Soon, Mixable Flower stack, Vases & Shelves dies, Detail Blending Brushes, Misti

Sunrays-Stained Glass die 5747-03D	I Thought You Knew set 36062	I Thought You Knew dies 36062D	Stacked Arches 5715D	Detail Blending Brushes
Color Fuse Ink set #2	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Color Fuse Ink set #9	Color Fuse Ink set #11	Get Well Soon die 5749-05D
Hugs die 5205-01D	Mixable Flower Stack die 5107D	Vases & Shelves die 5309-05D	Vintage Alphabet die 5742D

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