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Aug 30, 2021

Love you Forever

Hello, Alicia here today. I have used dies from the Sue Wilson Indonesian Collection to make this 5" x 5" square card. I used coordinating papers to create a cohesive ensemble.

Here is the card base with all the cut layers prior to assembly.

I purposefully cut the oval backing piece with the heart showing through the "window". This lent itself perfectly to the die cut sentiment from the same paper collection.

I used pop dots for the sentiment and the center oval section.

Ingredients:

Sue Wilson Indonesian Collection - background

and

Quick Quotes Papers and sentiment

glue and pop dots

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Aug 27, 2021

merry Christmas in non-traditional pink!

Hello, crafty Dies R Us fans! Leslie here from Love To Scrap 2 and I’m stoked to be back on the blog today with another awesome DT inspiration project! I created a Christmas card in the non-traditional color of pink featuring the gorgeous Tutti Designs Ornament Circle! I love a pink Christmas card, and when you have the perfect die paired with the perfect pink sparkling paper, you have the perfect Christmas card! ;)

This was an easy one so let's go for it!

1. Cut the Tutti Designs Ornament Circle from pink sparkling paper and set aside.

2. Cut a square top-folding card base and an inside layering panel from white cardstock. Cut front and inside layering panels and an inside embellishing strip from pink cardstock. Cut an inside embellishing strip from the pink sparkling paper.

3. Stamp the front sentiment in white ink in the lower right corner of the pink front layering panel. Stamp the inside sentiment in pink ink on the inside white layering panel.

4. Score diagonal lines every half-inch in both directions on the pink front layering panel and adhere it to the front of the card base. Adhere the pink sparking paper and pink cardstock strips to the inside white panel and layer it on the pink layering panel.

Here's a close-up of the front panel with the scoring. Makes for a great handmade background!

5. Adhere the die cut to the front of the card with spray adhesive. I find that spray adhesive is much easier than trying to dab or apply lines of glue on this kind of die cut.

6. Apply tiny gemstones inside the circle and larger ones in the upper right and lower left corners. Adhere the inside panel to the inside of the card base, and your beautiful non-traditional color Christmas card is complete! ;)

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Tutti Designs Ornament Circle

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Scrappy hugs,
Leslie

Aug 25, 2021

Your Own Magic

I apologize for my late posting, I have no good excuse except time has gotten away from me.

While I have long admired all of the fairy cards other artists have made I didn't jump on that bandwagon until recently. I love colorful backgrounds, pre-made and hand made, and these fairies just pop! Dies R Us now carries most of the Fairy Hugs brand of stamps, glitter and background paper and I just think everyone needs some fairies to play with! I used nothing but Fairy Hugs stamps on this card, I hope you enjoy it!

What I Used to Make my Card:
5" x 7" white card base
Watercolor Paper {I use this}
Gina K Amalgam Ink Pad in Obsidian Ink
Fairy Hugs Tree Condo, #FHS-107
Fairy Hugs Condo Dwellers, #FHS-060
Fairy Hugs Condo Dwellers 2, #FHS-108
Fairy Hugs About You, #FHS-129
Tutti Dies Nesting Stitched Rectangles, #TUTTI-217
Oxide Inks Background - Mermaid Lagoon, Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemon & Salvaged Patina
Gansi Tambi Starry Colors, Light Gold {available all over}
Nuvo Embossing Powder - Fine Detail Black
Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink
Trinity Stamps Fairy Rocks

I had made the Oxide ink background especially to use these stamps on so I used light ink colors and lots of spritzing. I colored and spritzed this background probably 4 times so I could get just the right look; I wanted the background to look whimsical and colorful but not over power the stamps. Once I was done, I splattered light gold watercolor paint onto the background. You can see the background before I stamped on it in this picture.

Once the background was dry I proceeded to stamp my images directly onto it. That is when I learned I should have waited to splatter the gold ink as my stamping ink refused to cover the metallic paint. The worst part was where I was placing the tree trunk but since I know I was going to be covering it with a sentiment, I wasn't too concerned. I'm not sure if an ink such as Staz On would have covered the gold; I didn't want to take the chance of not being able to line up the card in the exact place to try another ink. I stamped my tree with black ink and then embossing ink and

The Products I used

embossed the tree, leaving the fairies stamped only. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of white scrap card and cut it down with a stitched rectangle die adhering to the panel in the middle of the tree. I then trimmed down the watercolor panel and adhered it to the 5" x 7" card base. For a finishing touch I embellished the card with some fanciful clear gems.

I hope you enjoyed my card! Remember, these products as well as MUCH more are available at the Dies R Us store! Please make sure to check out all our pages; links below. Thanks SO much!! Christi

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Aug 24, 2021

A Truly Great Friend

Hello, it’s Sue of Ully Cat’s World and today we are making a Happy Mail card using Karin Joan Misses dies and stamps by Studio Light.

This slimline easel card was inspired by some made by Jennifer McGuire. Elements from both die sets were used to create the paperdoll and an action wobble spring.

Cut from the Betty die set:

One head and shoulders from skin colored cardstock making sure to not loose the ears which cut separately as is the head
One blouse using just the shoulders and neck section of the die, cut the blouse from a patterned paper. Then using v die cut the v-neckline
One collar and button placket from white cardstock. (Save the button circles for another card)
One long bangs from your choice of hair colored cardstock

Cut from the Tasha die set:

Two arms from skin colored cardstock (Glue them together for sturdiness)
One arm from patterned paper as a sleeve (Fold back hand and trim to form sleeve cuff. I covered my cuff with a scrap of white cardstock.)
One long hair piece from your choice of hair colored cardstock

Cut four Hellos from Hello die.

To assemble the paperdoll, begin by stamping and heat embossing the facial features using the stamps from the Tasha set. (I colored the tongue with a pink gel pen and the teeth and eye highlights with a white gel pen.) Play with the layout of the hair pieces, ears and head. Once you have the position using a pencil, mark the location of the head and ears on the long hair piece. Glue the ears in place using a fine tipped glue bottle then glue bangs in place. Glue top half of head to long hair piece making sure to leave the lower half without glue.

Adhere collar and button placket to front of blouse. Glue blouse to shoulders and neck piece. (I used Nuvo drops for the buttons and let the piece dry overnight before going to the next step.) Using the fine tipped glue bottle, attached the head to the neck. Glue the long hair to back of shoulders.

Assemble arm and sleeve as directed on cutting instructions. (You may want to cut an additional sleeve and cuff if it will be seen.) Add the action wobble spring to the back of the arm.

To make the card base cut two piece of patterned cardstock 8 1/2 x 4 inches. Score one piece across the short end 1/2 inch. Fold and glue the tab to the end of the other piece. Score and fold the top flap of card base at 2 3/4 inches to form the easel.

Glue three hellos together to form the easel stop that will be glued to lower card base. The fourth hello will be used for decoration on the card front when closed.

Position paperdoll and arm piece on the easel portion of card front. Make sure that the hand is within the card front when closed. Adhere paperdoll and arm to card making sure to only glue lower half of paperdoll to easel. The arm’s elbow needs to not touch or catch on the card base. (I ended up having to trim a small tip of the elbow on this card to make it wave smoothly.)