It has been a busy time of late. We are putting in a new kitchen and as hubby is doing the work himself it is stretching over weeks, with me tip-toeing around the kitchen area to get meals in between preparing for my craft day in October.
In preparation for the Craft Day I have been cutting and scoring for hours and days, as I want everyone to be able to make half a dozen cards, as well as a box and gift card holder. To be able to make and decorate all these in the time I have prepared all the layers.
Whilst looking at all my die cuts and what we would use to decorate a card I consider any alternative card shapes that will take the same decorations, this way anyone wishing to make lots of cards can prepare the mass of die-cuts and then make the base cards for the different styles to knock out a batch of cards in an afternoon.
As an example we will be working with die -cut trees for a pop up card, I laid out a few designs and then thought the same designs would work on a small step card. so made a quick sample to show an alternative use of the die cuts. More of that when I do my 12 Days of Christmas series in October.
Clearing the desk one day after a session if die cutting I came across some spare cut-outs of scroll edged circle and adding a couple of other die-cuts soon finished a small easel card. As it is not one that we shall be making on the 9th, I will share it with you now.
Sorry that the background does not show up very well in the picture as it is silver mirra card.the easel card is just 4" square. You cannot see in the picture but I have layered the circle die cut to add dimension and then popped the head of the stag through to the front of the card with the trees sitting in the second layer.
The circle that is cut out has been used to add a greeting for the base of the card, and 4 diamante stones placed in each corner
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