After watching the class videos it took me a while to come up with something I wanted to try. Yana covered so many options and I did not want to do exactly what she did, then I remembered I had purchased the Layered Ornate Frame Die Set and thought I would do something with that.
I wanted to use thick paper for this technique. I put ink on the cutting blades of my main die. I used an embossing mat to impress the image into the paper, which put the ink into the areas where the die had impressed, giving a bit of a letter pressed look. but I was not happy totally because some ink got in the center of my image. So I sat back to decide how I would deal with that for a couple of days. I decided to cut the die with some mat very light green foil cardstock I had in my stash. It almost looks silver but not quite. I inlaid the center piece into the center of the impressed image on my project. Ok, I am liking this a bit better.
I used my water colors to paint the paper to cut the flowers and leaves from. I used the same water color paper from Altenew, I cut several pieces at 4.25×5.5. I used and my 36 pan set from Altenew using the colors Purple Wine, Puffy Heart, and Pink Diamond for the flower colors and Forest Glades, Freyed Leaf, and Bamboo (I did not like the Bamboo with the other colors so I ended up using the other colors to cover it up). I cover a panel with Pinks and a Panel with the Greens, really just putting the color down in big enough blocks to die cut from. I left these to dry overnight so the paper would not be difficult to cut. Once the paint was dry I went about die cutting and putting the flowers together. It was easy the layering instructions were on the packaging. It was a little bit time consuming but not too difficult.
I dry fit all of the die cut pieces into the impressed image on the panel. Once I knew where everything was going and what I wanted to lift up I committed to gluing it all down. I lifted the flowers where they crossed over another flower. I used Nuvo Drops in the color English Mustard for the centers of my flowers. Again I left this overnight to dry. I have this bad habit of putting this much work into something then putting my hand in some wet medium I have put on it and ruining the entire thing. You can see the flowers in the pictures above.
The next day I decided to frame the outside of the panel with Baby Pink Ink from Altenew on my card base. This coordinated with the paint colors I had used. I cut the panel down slightly and adhered it to my card base. Now was time to add a sentiment. I had no idea what I was going to do with a sentiment on this card so I went shopping in my stash.
I decided to use the Wishing Die from Simon Says Stamp. This is an older die but I have a co-worker that is retiring soon and I thought it could be a good card to give her. So I said to myself, what am I going to put with the Wishing to finish the sentiment. Again, I went to my stash. I found another Simon Says Stamp stamp set called Best Hugs (no longer available but can really be used with any you have in your stash) that had a less scripty small sentiment that I could cut apart to fit the occasion. The stamp originally said Wishing you the best. So I cut off the Wishing and stamped “you the best” on a strip of white paper in Onyx Black Ink from VersaFine and heat embossed that with clear embossing powder. I cut the right side of the strip at an angle. I cut the Wishing out of black foam, and out of the green I had used for my leaves. I glued the green piece onto the foam before taking the word out of the surrounding area, this really helps to line it up properly. I dry fit my sentiment and sub-sentiment on the card to decide where I wanted to put them, then glued them down with Art Glitter Glue and the fine tip applicator. This really helps to just get a very small amount of glue on the back of your die cut pieces. The tittles were not very easy to place because they are so tiny, but worth it in the end. I don’t like to leave my tittles off the i’s.
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