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Stretch Your Dies (day 4) — Patterned Paper die cutting

By KariV on March 23, 2015 in Paper Crafting, Uncategorized

So I’m going a bit out of order! I am waiting for some packages to come in so I can finish up some homework. While I wait, I thought I’d just go ahead and post some other cards for class.

Today we learned about using a small die cut to enhance patterned paper. Such a great idea! But I have to admit, I was a little nervous about this one. I didn’t want to “mess up” the patterned paper.

I ended up die cutting only 3 little blossoms on this paper to see through to the glitter paper beneath it. What do you think?

I’ll be back to list the supplies I used on this one in a bit!

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Heat Shrink Craft Foam

By KariV on March 22, 2015 in Paper Crafting, Uncategorized

I’m taking the Online Card Class: Stretch Your Dies. It is awesome! The first day I was impressed with Jennifer McGuire’s class on shrinking craft foam on your cards.

So for my card, I shrunk the word “hello” in black craft foam…and then dry embossed the original size on the background. It is a subtle change in size…can you tell?

Sorry about the shadows…it’s a bit dark today. If you look closely, you can see the black “hello” is a bit smaller than the embossed “hello” beneath it. I love this technique and had no idea that craft foam could shrink!

I think I’ll try a few more cards with this idea soon. 😉

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OCC day 6 — Tri-fold Card

By KariV on February 5, 2015 in Paper Crafting

Julie Ebersole gave a great class at Clean and Simple 4! She made a tri-fold card with a balloon die cut. I wanted to use this idea for my own kind of Valentine card.

This is the front… I HAD to add some donuts (I think my hubby might prefer this one over the kitty card! ha, ha!)

I’ve been playing around with the idea of adding another phrase inside under “I love you” to say: “More than donuts!” Ha, ha! Ok, I did have some fun with this one. It might need something more, but I sure love the idea. I’ll keep experimenting with things to add to this card. Great class!!

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OCC day 5 — ink patterns

By KariV on February 5, 2015 in Paper Crafting

I’m back with another card inspired by Online Card Classes Clean and Simple 4. Today it’s an Ink Pattern created with some washi tape and distress inks. I used a simple pattern for this one, since my sentiment is so large. Those white areas are where the washi was protecting the paper while I had some fun at inking!

It’s a little hard to tell by this picture, but I clear embossed the sentiment so it’s beautiful and shiny in real life! I die cut another sentiment in black to use as the “shadow” behind it. Fun.

This isn’t my normal style of card, but it’s great to be inspired to create in a different way!

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OCC day 4 — Faux Embossing

By KariV on February 4, 2015 in Paper Crafting

This faux embossing technique is really beautiful. The idea is, to die cut the words/images in the same color as your card base so it looks like it could be embossing. I love the look.