Wednesday, February 25, 2015

1 NEW and 1 FROM PIECES

 
I have become a "collector" of metal dies and I am determined to start using some that I just had to have.  This card used three dies, and a stamp set with coordinating punch.
 
Let's start at the beginning.  Several months ago I purchased the Penny Black "Petals" die.  Once I got it I was intimidated by it and didn't know how I wanted to use it.  Today I cut a piece of patterned paper with it and this piece of white card stock.  The patterned piece was attached to a piece of white card stock but was put aside because I don't know what to do with it.  The white piece needed color under it but I wanted the color to be varied.  I chose a piece from the Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wonder dp.
 
I cut the 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece down so that just a narrow boarder of the Island Indigo card base with show and set off the whole design.  The sprig of leaves is from a Memory Box "Fresh Foliage" die.  The flowers ("SU Flower Shop") were stamped and punched. The top flower was added with a foam square for some dimension.  I felt it needed just a little more so I added an Island Indigo "hello" in the upper corner.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love this shade of blue. I like the peekaboo too, that's pretty. Great job

bonnie32002 said...

I love the light colors behind the white peeking through!

Lynette said...

Very pretty, Vicki! Great use of some of your dies and punches.

Aren't these birds cute?  I've had the stamp set for a while and just hadn't inked it up.  The littlest bird was cut out and pop...