The versatile Making Spirits Bright die and stamp sets are here again – with the beautiful Dancing Snowflake Oval this time. I love how easy it is to combine our dies and stamps and get the most from our stash of great designs! Jean Okimoto here tonight – with more of my shimmery trees, in a different setting.
OK, I got a bit carried away – stamping and diecutting way more Making Spirits Bright trees that I needed! Dave Brethauer – who owns Memory Box along with his sweet wife Monica – is such a design perfectionist that everything just works – and that makes it so easy to create cards to share with you.
Cut Dancing Snowflake Oval from white cardstock – leave it in the die. Dry-emboss the oval for extra dimension using the plates and embossing mat required for your machine.
All of these great stamps are from the Making Spirits Bright clear set. Stamp the trees with Imagine Crafts Brilliance Pearlescent Orange, Coral and Orchid. Dry the ink, then diecut them. Diecut the trees again from scraps of watercolor paper and attach them for added dimension.
Stamp "let it snow" with Delicata Celestial Copper. I'm loving that shade for holiday colors – and it's great for stamping and inking reindeer too. Here's how it looks with Impress' exclusive holiday die from Memory Box.
Back to tonight's card…heat-set the ink, then diecut the greeting with the smallest Stitched Square Layer. It's the perfect size!
Confession here…in a previous life I wondered why I needed square and rectangle dies when they're so easy to cut with a paper trimmer. Trimming them perfectly is not that easy – especially when my aging eyes and hands don't work as well as they used to. Now I rarely cut anything other than the card itself with a paper trimmer. Diecutting always guarantees straight edges and perfect angles and makes assembling the card a lot easier when everything lines up!
Back to the card – again. Attach everything to a side-folded A2 card of textured white cardstock. Use foam dots for the tree on the right and the right side of the greeting. Add pale pink sequins.
Thanks very much for visiting our blog…hope you find our ideas, techniques and designs inspiring and interesting. See you again on Saturday – hope you won't be tired of me after that!
Keep warm and take care…
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