Hello, my friend

Hi!  I'm so excited about Quietfire's new metal dies that I have two cards to share with you today.  They both use the Hello die and they were both hard to photograph, especially the first one.

I used Staz-On Opaque White ink. to stamp my butterflies on the clear acetate.   I made a purple watercolor wash and then used the Hello die to cut out the watercolor paper.  I then used just a thin strip of 1/8" Scortape to adhere my background paper to the back layer of the card.  That way you could still lift up the back to write your note if you didn't want to write across the floral paper.

So much glare but it looks quite neat and dainty in real life.

 

On my second card I made a shaker card though it started out just as a negative die cut.  But after adding the acetate to adhere the little inside pieces, I went ahead and added some beads and sequins.  

I also stamped "My friend" below the die opening and added some sequins to the front.  

Hello die

Butterflies, Dragonflies

Friends

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Resist - Friends Are Those & A Smile

I had an epiphany before leaving the house for Stampede today... came home and created the 2nd card. Just goes to show "What a difference a day makes" saying is just so true... I say below, I didn't want to use dark colors so veered away from some of Holly's technique. One tracked mind... The epiphany was I could use light stamping ink for my text and then not have to use dark colors to cover it up. DUH!!! So the 2nd card is below.

1st card: "Resist - Friends are Those"
And it's me again, Yogi. Holly did two techniques this month. For the resist technique she stamped several times to create background text, dried, then stamped with a solid image stamp and clear embossed (that was the resist part), then used a direct to paper technique with a dark blue to make the text/resist areas stand out and to hide the rest of the text. I tried the technique several times and although it worked, I couldn't get my head around using dark colors, so they landed in my "will use one day pile". I really needed light colors for a change.

But I did use a resist technique of words, stamping the "Friends" word with Perfect Medium and then clear embossing them. Sponging with Distress "Mustard Seed" & "Picked Raspberry". Stamped the quote "Friends Are Those" with Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed, die cut with Spellbinders circle set and sponged the edges with "Dried Marigold" & the raspberry. Layered it on to another circle die cut from textured cardstock, then onto card front.

I love the 2nd technique Holly used, creating texture on the copper piece. First you adhere some copper tape to white cardstock, run it through an embossing machine with an embossing folder several times - I used Spellbinder's m'bossibilities "Letters & Numbers" folder. Then flip it over and remove the embossing using a bone folder. What's left is TEXTURE. Now you could wipe on some rub ons to add depth in the crevices, but again,. I wanted something light... so left it alone. Die cut with Sizzix Tim's Movers a & Shapers die "Friends".

This card was very easy and quick to make, hope you give it a try.
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2nd card: "Resist - Digi Flower - A Smile"

I used my electronic cutter to cut a flower (free digi cut flower) without the hole, sizing it to fit my quote and using it as a mask. Stamped the "A Smile"  using Perfect Medium, clear embossed and adhered my mask over the stamping. Then stamped the same quote all over my card using Distress "Pumice Stone".

Created a stencil, with various sizes of the same cut flower, adding a border and "welding" everything together, adding various sized holes in the centers of each flower, then cutting it out with my electronic cutter. Placed over my card and sponged Distress "Mustard Seed" very heavily all over, then went in with "Shabby Shutters" & "Spiced Marmalade", then used the edge of my stencil to sponge "Chipped Sapphire around the edges.

Used the original flower cut out (stencil part) to sponge "Broken China" around the whole quote flower, then went in with some "Picked Raspberry".

Added the green ribbon and bow (Quietifre Design "Solid 2 tone Olive/Celery)

As a final touch added various sizes of a pink toned rhinestones.

This card makes me smile - BIG GRIN
And you should see what the flower background stencil looks like now - it's gorgeous and will be a background for something soon...
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