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For today we will be creating a Gate Fold Card featuring the Marisol Ornament and Frame layering Die Sets!

We start with getting all our die cutting out of the way and then start laying our card stock with liquid adhesive. For two of the layers, I chose glitter card stock, liquid adhesive is perfect to make sure all our layers stay together!

From the C Layer of the Marisol Frame Die Set there is a tab, for our card we will be cutting that tab off.

I cut a piece of card stock to measure 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches and score along the long side at 2 1/8 inches. When these are folded in you can see a light gap between the two panels.

I grabbed some twine out of my stash and treaded it through the holes already die cut in each panel and started to layer my card.

I started with each frame panel on each side making sure my twine was not caught under the panel when gluing into place and then only added glue to one side of the card within the ornament opening and setting my ornament.

You only have to then tie your twine in front and your card is ready to be sent to someone special for the holidays!

As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project… and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!

Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon!

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Hello readers! Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and hopefully found the time to do something crafty. This is Design Team member Crystal Komara here with you today sharing two cards using the Honey Script Holiday sentiments “Jolly” and “Believe” and the Linear Triangle Die in festive red and green glittery colors!

As much as I like using non-traditional colors for my holiday cards, you can never go wrong with red and green, especially when it is red and green glitter cardstock! Glitter adds so much extra sparkle and cheer!

Card details:

The base of this A2 sized card was made from 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock. Using Layer C of the Delfina Layering die, I cut this from white cardstock and adhered it to the card as my “background.” I die cut the word “Jolly” from the Jolly Honey Script sentiment die. I die cut the larger shadow from red glitter cardstock and the thinner sentiment from white cardstock. I layered the two words together using a fine tip liquid adhesive and then adhered the sentiment to the card using 3M foam adhesive. I die cut the Linear Triangle die from white cardstock and placed strips of alternating red and green glitter paper behind each stripe. The glitter cardstock was from the Frosted 6 x 6″ paper pack. I then adhered the triangle to the lower right corner of the card. Lastly, I stamped the “ho ho ho” sentiment from the Contempo Christmas Greetings clear stamp set in red ink on white cardstock. I used the coordinating Contempo Christmas Greetings die to cut the sentiment out and adhered it to the card with 3M foam adhesive.

For this second A2 sized card, I followed all the same card instructions as those shown above, I simply swapped out the “jolly” sentiment for a different sentiment “believe” from the Believe Honey Script die.

I hope you have enjoyed these festive cards using lots of glitter cardstock. Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

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We are always looking for new ways to stretch our supplies! I will be working with the Layer B Plate from the Autumn Breeze Layering Die Set and my favorite technique Ink Smooshing!

We are going to start out with getting our panels ready for die cutting. Grab your favorite water reactive dye ink pads! You can decide how you want your panels to look as you add your colors. I chose bright and deep fall colors!

After the panels are dry you want to die cut each panel with your plate keeping your colors separated. I decided to ink around each die cut with vintage photo to add a framed edges to each image.

I then die cut my plate into a tan cardstock and also cut panels that measured 4 ¼ inches x 5 ½ inches. These panels will be the background for my panel.

Using my liquid adhesive I added the tan panel on top of the solid card stock panel and placed my leaves around making sure the colors are scattered around! I used double sided foam squares to adhere my leaves and set them off to the side so a showdown would show behind each leaf!

Simply added a small sentiment from my stash and we are done! With all the die cuts you have these are perfect to create card gift sets!

As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project… and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!

Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon!

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Today let’s dig into out stash and grab those ornament layering dies! I will be featuring the Tinkle and Radiant Ornament die set and even pulled out the Floral Star, just so you can see any layering die will work with this technique. Let’s get started!

As always we are completing our die cutting first! I dug into my scrap pile since I was using colors on one side and a solid color on the other, just to save on card stock!

After my ornaments were together using liquid adhesive, I set those aside to dry and grabbed my kraft card stock to create my tag shape. I cut 6 rectangles measuring 3 ½ inches x 5 ½ inches. I snip one corner and turn it over to the other side so my tag will be even on both sides.

For 3 of the tag shapes, I used my score tool to score a line 1 inch down from the top of the tag and then glued another tag shape without the score together. The score line allows the tag to function like a top folding card!

I used some torn scraps for accenting my tag shapes along one side and used vintage photo ink around the edges…

Grab some twin and ribbon and create your tassel for the top of the tag shape. Make sure you create an ornament hanger and attach that to you ornament first. Then gather the rest of your twine to strong your ornament and tag together!

You see in one project we can create a tag, a card and even make it a gift!

As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project… and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!

Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon! Have a great day and always remember… Be Creative!

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Today I am featuring the Epiphany Plate Layering Die Set! We do not have to use our dies only one way, let’s look beyond what they are capable of! With this set we get a plate, ring, and a medallion. So many ways we can arrange these pieces. Let’s get started!

First let’s get our die cutting done and layer our sections together, let’s include our sentiment at the same time!

I also cut a 4.25 inch x 5.50 inch panel to place behind our main layering panel. I grabbed a circle die to cut two panels from vellum card stock! These will be placed off-set behind our ring and medallion.

For our card we are going to use a 5 inch x 7 inch card base setting our main panel in the center towards the top. Our medallion is placed in the upper right hand corner with the vellum edge hanging over the opening and the ring is placed at the bottom right corner the same way!

Next we place out sentiment die cut along the edge of the panel showing through the ring die.

This will give us a great geometric shape to our design!

For the final touch we always need to add some bling with some gem embellishments!

As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project… and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!

Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon! Have a great day and always remember… Be Creative!

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Today we are going to create a card using different layers from the Lumina Layering Die Set! Since the Lumina Layering Die plate had two parts to it we can choose which section we add multiple layers to add dimension in one area! Please we are going to add a rainbow in the background! Let’s get started!

First let’s get our die cutting done and only layer the cetner cut out of the panel! Set this aside to dry and grab a piece of your ink blending card stock!

On this panel we will create our rainbow using our ink blending brushes and our favorite inks. I chose my oxides and Bristol card stock!

I cut my panel down to 4 1/4 inches x 5 1/2 inches so my die cut would fit properly. I am only using the ‘A’ layer of our die set for the background and setting the help circle onto its place on my card panel.

I used a sentiment from the Big and Little Reverse Words Stamp set and placed it using double sided foam squares.

What rainbow is not complete with out sparkle and shine! I added some iridescent drops to each opening in the die cut!

As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project… and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!

Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon! Have a great day and always remember… Be Creative!

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For today we are going to pull out an old die and give it new life! I will be using the Prismatic Triangle layering die set along with the memory Box 6 x 6 card stock pads.

We always start out by getting all of our die cuts done and layering them using liquid adhesive.  Set them aside for them to dry and we will start working on our card bases.

For these cards we will be working directly onto our card bases by simply adding some ink to the background using a blending brush!

Once our color is down we can add our layered die cuts.  I matched my dye ink to the color of card stock I used for my images.

I pulled my sentiment from the Happy Lingo Sentiment Set and stamped Happy Birthday multiple times making sure the words were not on the same strip.

Since our image has a geometric look I am made the sentiment have that same feel by placing it along the edges of the die cuts creating angles and almost a mirror image!

These cards are perfect to make quickly and have ready for that pop-up celebration!

As always, I hope you enjoyed today’s project…  and if you want to see more details just click on the video below and see how these projects come together step by step!

Make sure you stay tuned for more wonderful projects coming soon! Have a great day and always remember… Be Creative!

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