Just Breathe…

Products used:

Altenew “Floral In ‘n’ Out Border Die”; Altenew “Bad Days Happen” stamp set; Altenew “Pattern Play Diamond Stamp” stamp set; white card stock; Stampin’Up! Night of Navy card stock and ink; Stampin’Up! card stock: Old Olive, Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugar Plum, Pink Pirouette, Rose Red; foam tape; pearl embellishments; Versamark Watermark Clear ink; white embossing powder; heat gun; transfer adhesive sheet.

Today’s post is inspired by the challenge to use dies in creative ways. To meet this challenge, I decided to fill the “negative” of the die with colored card stock. The following pictures show the die cut I started with and a close up of the final piece. The Altenew “Floral In ‘n’ Out Border Die”, left, and the original die cut, right, are displayed in the picture on the left. The picture on the right shows the “negative” spaces that were then filled with colored card stock pieces.

When I started the project I though I would use it as a border die as shown. After I filled the negative spaces I decided to fussy cut it out. I also cut 2 of the roses out of the die image to add to the card sentiment strip. Can you pick out the rose displayed in the die?

If you love puzzles and detail work, this is the project for you. There are some very small pieces of this die that were transferred to the final project. To accomplish this, I fussy cut a piece of double sided transfer adhesive sheet and attached it to the back of the die image. As I transferred each piece of card stock to the final product the adhesive sheet held it in place. To give you the sense of the process, I die cut the whole image in the Stampin’Up! Old Olive, then one small piece at a time, removed it from the die cut image and placed it in place on the card image. Eventually, each color is die cut and transferred to it’s place on the image.

I stamped the Stampin’Up! Night of Navy card stock with the Altenew “Pattern Play Diamond Stamp” stamp in Night of Nave ink to make the background for the card. I then adhered the die image to the card front by removing the backing of the adhesive sheet. The “Just Breathe…” image is embossed in white on a piece of the Night of Navy card stock and the 2 separate die and fussy cut roses are attached. The “Just Breathe…” sentiment and individual roses are raised with foam tape. Three pearl embellishments were attached in the right upper corner to complete the image. It is then attached to white card stock and the Night of Navy card base.

When selecting the sentiment for the card, “Just Breathe…” seemed to be the only sentiment that I could use…to be sure, when the card was done, I was saying “just breathe” to myself…lol. Actually, a project like this is exactly how I would choose to spend an afternoon…details, fussy cutting…bring it on… Please enjoy the card – I hope it inspires you to use your dies in unique ways.

Aimee