Hi there! I hope your weekend is going well. We're up enjoying some gentle waves, sunshine and snow up along the North Shore of Lake Superior. I'm supposed to be reading my book club book, A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki,
So... my post is a quick one: a few easy cards featuring the stamp set Amazing Life which comes with some pretty amazing framelits, the Rectangle Stitched Framelit Dies.
Measurements:
1/2 sheet Whisper White card base: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4" and folded.
Botanical Butterfly designer series paper: 4" x 5 1/4" This is from the Sale-A-Bration catalog - this means you can't buy it though you CAN get it free with a $50 US order (before S/H plus tax). I LOVE this paper!!!
Basic Black layer is cut about 1/8 inch larger than the 3rd largest framelit: 3 3/8" x 4 3/4"
- This is really a fairly simple card. I stamped this gorgeous greeting in Tuxedo Black Memento ink.
- I colored the "HAPPY" and the banner with the Balmy Blue Blends combo markers which are new to the 2019 Occasions catalog.
- I cut it out with, I believe, the 3rd largest framelit from the set of 13 dies that come with the Rectangle Stitched Framelit dies.
- I used the Butterfly Duet Punch to punch the little butterfly out of the Botanical Butterfly paper and popped him onto the card with a glue dot. Piece of cake!!!
I do want to let you know that these wonderful stitched framelits have stitches on the positive and negative parts of the die cut. So if you are cutting just a frame, that too will have stitches on it. Another feature is that these framelits are designed to work with more than just the standard A2 sized cards so they aren't necessarily perfectly symmetrical on all 4 sides but they work really well.
- This little note card and envelope is made with the Narrow Note Cards and envelopes which are perfect for gift enclosures or even Valentines.
- I stamped the border and greeting along the bottom of the card and colored the border with the Mint Macaron Blends.
- I stamped the flower on the corner of the envelope and on a piece of scratch paper, coloring both with Mint Macaron and Flirty Flamingo Blends. I used Blends because I had them handy. These images are small enough that you shouldn't have any trouble using regular Stampin' Write markers. The blends alcohol markers are especially great for coloring larger areas without leaving brush marks but these wouldn't necessarily need that.
- I cut the scratch paper flower out and attached it over the border.
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Chris
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