Join us! It is DIE week at Just Us Girls. I am your host this week and am challenging you to make a FLORAL card using dies. I used Concord & 9th's Enchanted Garden. I made six of these inlaid cards so you know I have a system. Die cutting the elements would be too paper intensive, given the small pieces, so I Copic-colored the elements. First, I ran the die through my Big Shot with wax paper to ensure the pieces would not stick to the die. Then I ran the die through with heavy white cardstock backed with a doubled dryer sheet. This run ensured all the pieces would remain in its outline attached to the dryer sheet. A second, green A2 panel was run through to get the background outline, the small pieces were discarded. The background outline was backed with 4.25" scoretape and adhered to the card base.
Then I colored! all the pieces in the white panels I had prepared. Once colored, I inlaid the individual pieces into the green outline. The final touch was a layered sentiment topped in gold mirricard. This card was relatively easy for inlay.
Check out our fabulous guest designer for August, Julie Beech. Please welcome her and check out her fabulous work over at Crafted by Jules!
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Enjoy! I am looking forward to your inspired creations in the gallery.
Elizabeth
| Project Details | |
| Stamps/Dies | Concord & 9th Enchanted Garden Birch Press Designs Scripted Hello |
| Cardstock | 110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Bazzill solid green cardstock (base) Mirracard gold cardstock |
| Ink | Copic markers |
| Embellishments | |
| Desk Staples | Dahle Personal Rotary Cutter Scor Pal Mini Score Board Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Ranger Stamp Platform Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M ATG 714 Tape Adhesive 3M foam tape |
12 comments:
All the die-cutting and colouring are well worth the time invested; your inlaid floral card is gorgeous. So impressed that you made 6 of these; big smiles guaranteed when these arrive in the lucky recipients' mailboxes.
hugs~carol
A stand out card, I agree about colouring white with Copics, I can never find the right shade of card in my stash! Thanks for your lovely words too. :)
You go girl! This is amazing
Gorgeous florals Elizabeth! I love an inlaid card so much and your colors are eye-catching!!!!!
This is bright, happy and just as pretty as it can be!
Great and bright card🤩💐 happy weekend
Such a gorgeous panel and an ingenious way to color the inlaid pieces!
Such a colourful card Elizabeth - colouring the inlaid elements is such a good idea and adds a touch of additional dimension/realism too. Lovely!
You sure like inlaid cards, Elizabeth, and I'm glad you found a system that works so well for you without waste. This is so fun and colorful.
Lots of fabulous colour and so many die cuts creating this amazing card Elizabeth.
Your flowers are beautiful with the perfect shading! I love this inlaid beauty and love the instructions, too.
Oh my goodness--this is so striking and beautiful! I recently tried the dryer sheet technique again, but didn't work. Your coloring is wonderful. System or not, I can't imagine making 5 of these--lucky! recipients! I was truly surprised and thrilled you picked my card as the winner. Thank you so much, Elizabeth.
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