Thank You Slim Line Cards

 Hi everyone Steph Ackerman here today with some sweet slim line cards.

I often have left overs from various projects and these particular pieces were perfect to use as slim line cards.  I inked each scrap with Distress Oxide Ink in Ground Espresso.

Adhering the inked pieces to cardstock, I used Tutti Designs Slimline Stitched Rectangle Die to die cut the panel.

I used additional scraps to create another card, but this time I placed them on an angle before die cutting the panel.

The panels were added  to black cards.

 I die cut smaller layers for the center of each card, then added my Thank you phrase.  To fill in some of the white space, I fussy cut flowers, lightly inked them then added to the card. 

What do you do with your left overs? 

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Dies R Us Supplies Used:

Distress Oxide Ink - Ground Espresso

Tutti Designs Slimline Stitched Rectangle Dies

The Best Glue Ever

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Whiskey Decanter

 

Hey everyone, Anne from Anne-Made here today sharing a masculine birthday card but that would really be perfect for anyone who loves a good glass of bourbon/whiskey/scotch etc. 😀

I used the following dies from Dies R Us:

Yvonne's Creations: Whiskey

Tutti Designs: Slimline Gentlemen Background

Tutti Designs: Slimline Scalloped Rectangles

Memory Box: Tall Birthday Candles

Die-Versions: Marker Micro

Poppystamps: Happy Birthday Background (any of these would work)

Spellbinders: Sunday Drive with Santa add-on (any small image would work for the bottle label)

MFT: Bitty Birthday Wishes (any of these would work)

As I usually do, I die cut all my pieces before starting the assembly process. I started with the Whiskey bottle and die cut everything in both white cardstock and in vellum.  At this point I wasn't exactly sure how I was going to combine the individual pieces, but I knew I wanted to color the bottle with my Copics. I ended up adding the vellum to the top of the bottle and around the outsides of the glasses to give each of these pieces a frosted look.

The label was die cut from a piece of silver mirrored cardstock.

Next came the small deer head for the label. This was also die cut from vellum.

The Tall Birthday Candles and the Slimline Scalloped Rectangles were die cut from white cardstock as well. These pieces will be for the inside of the card.

I used the negative pieces from Poppystamp's Happy Birthday Background die for the front sentiment.

Brown cardstock was used to die cut the  Slimline Gentlemen Background and then it was adhered to a page from an old dictionary. (If you look closely, it's one of the "S" pages and defines the word Scot and Scottish.)

This is the inside of birthday card.

And one final look at the front of the birthday card:

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Hexagon Design Card

Hey there!

It's Judy here with a card design using hexagon dies from

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I used white and burgundy card stocks and 2 coordinating patterned papers.

Using

Tutti Designs Stitched Hexagon Dies

Karen Burniston Flowers & Bee Dies

Gemini Smile Dies

(not available but there are other alternatives, click the link)

I die cut 4 hexagons out of patterned paper

2 flowers and 1 flower center to layer

2 foliage pieces

1 word die

I did decide to cut a few more hexagon pieces and

layered behind the patterned pieces to give a little dimension.

I made a 5 x 6 1/2 inch card base with white card stock.

Cut a piece of burgundy card stock to 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches

Die cut 3 hexagons into the burgundy card stock using the negative.

Layer the burgundy on to the card base.

I adhered the patterned hexagons on to the card

and added the other die cuts.

I added some pearls to finish.

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Vibrant Alcohol Background

Hello, Alicia posting today.  This was my very first attempt with Alcohol inks and yupo paper.  I admit the first time I tried alcohol inks I was not at all impressed with the result.  I also didn't own any yupo paper. I put them away for years.  I recently saw some of the lovely backgrounds, watched a video or two and decided my poor result previously was from not using ALL the appropriate supplies.  So I ordered yupo paper and a few new ink colors.  Needless to say I was much more impressed with the results this time around.

I used a very basic straw technique to move the ink around and didn't dilute them very much resulting in vibrant colors.  I also used scrap foiling on the slightly wet background to create the silver layer in the background. I simply burnished left over pieces over the top. When there is a lot of ink still not completely dried the foil sticks.

 

I layered my metallic cuts on black card stock cuts to strengthen the them and created a three dimensional effect.  I also cut and emboss to get all the details from the dies.

From the side you can see how the cuts pop on the surface and the beauty of all the silver foil highlights.

I used a Frantic Stamper stitched rectangle die that is no longer available to create my frame.  I linked a very similar Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangle that you could use to create this same frame.  I used very strong tape to keep the alcohol ink background panel on the thin framed card.  I wanted to show off as much of the background as possible.

Dies R Us products used:

Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangle

Ranger Alcohol Ink Mermaid

Ranger Alcohol Ink Denim

Ranger Alcohol Ink Amethyst

Tim Holtz Yupo Paper

Karen Burniston Greetings Word Set 1

Sue Wilson Industrial Chic dies

Sue Wilson Industrial Chic dies

other products used:

metallic silver and glossy black card stock

gems

Alicia

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