Using Negative Diecuts to Great Effect

Colorful greetings, crafters! Today I am using some fantastic stamps and dies by Concord & 9th. Actually, I am mostly focussing on the negative die cuts from the butterfly die that is so wonderfully intricate it's a pure joy to use:

Since I wanted the colors on this butterfly to shine, I selected to go with some black card stock as a base here. I started out by adding some Stick It to a piece of paper and die cutting it with the butterfly die. The adhesive side would be on the bottom to attach the pieces to the card. I used the outline of the butterfly on another project and the negative pieces here: I used my Copic markers to create a gradient following the color wheel and kept my colors light so they would shine against the black.

To add my pieces to the card, I die cut the butterfly again from some sturdy card stock and used the outline as a placement help – I just laid it where I wanted the pieces to go and then puzzled them in. Since my butterfly didn't have a body, I grabbed a few pearls in different sizes and glued them where the body would go. Of course I needed a nice and bold sentiment, and I heat embossing the words from the Classy stamp set in white embossing powder.

The black mat was cut using my all-time favorite Sunshine Layers dies by Wplus9, and the card base itself was covered with a piece of grey paper which I had run through my Stitched Mats dies to create the stitched border.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you got inspired!

Flutter & Floral Die	Being Classy	Sunshine Layers Die	Stitched Mats: Rectangles	Hero Arts Ultra fine Embossing Powder
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Intricate Die Cuts and A Soothing Color Scheme

Hello crafty friends! It's the weekend again, and I hope will have time to craft a bit and just let your soul relax. To inspire you, I'm sharing a project featuring Concord & 9th supplies today. Mainly, I have fallen for the gorgeous, intricate flower die cuts:

I die cut those flowers from very sturdy card stock (scraps I found lying around) and then colored them with one color of Copic each. I made sure to have a light one, one mid-tone, and one dark blue-green color. Then it was just about arranging those flower on my center piece and not cover up too much of the sentiment:

The sentiment is from the Being Classy stamp set – I love the big handwritten font, it can be the centerpiece of a card just by itself. As for the color scheme, I actually looked that one up on Pinterest and I love the soft browns with the fresh mint colors.

For embellishment, I added a few pearls and dots with a silver gel pen. You know I can't help myself ;)

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you got inspired!

Being Classy	Watercolor Stripes Background Stamp	Flutter & Floral Die	Stitched Mats: Rectangles	Soft Sand Shadow Ink
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Hello friend

Hello.

I have  a simple water colour card for today featuring Concord and 9th and the Gansai Tambi starry water colours.

I had die cut a piece of water colour card and then added some of the blue gold water colour paint.

Once dry I added some splashes of teal ink. 

The same ink was used to colour the die cut flower.

I then stamped the sentiment from the flourish set in black archival ink.

The starry water colours  have an amazing shine to them so I didn't add any extra embellishment.

 

Thanks for looking.

Stamp A Custom Sentiment in Script

Hi crafters! Today I have a very airy and light card for you – fitting that it features the wonderful butterfly from Concord & 9th as the main focal image, then :)

I started out by die cutting the butterfly and coloring it with my Copic Markers. I used light colors, nothing too intense, because I wanted to keep the overall feel of the card very bright. The sentiment was stamped with the amazing Script stamp set by Concord & 9th – it's an alphabet stamp set with individual letters, script style. As you can see, it works for every language using latin letters. I stamped "Many Thanks" in German here.

Since the card seems still a bit empty after this, I grabbed the same Copics I had used for the butterfly and started to add dots everywhere. I also added thin layer of Glossy accents on top of the butterfly to make it sparkle a bit.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you got inspired!

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Hello.

My card today uses the beautiful Flutter and floral dies and Sophisticated script stamps from Concorde and 9th.

I have seen in blog land people using brushes with distress inks  so I bought some cheap make up brushes just to see how or if it would work, and it did work :)

I knew I wanted an inky background for my card and I think by using the brushes with distress inks gives a good coverage and can go on lighter than when using a blending tool so perfect for those not wanting heavily saturated colour.

Of course you can add as  much or as little as you want.

Once I had added the ink to my water colour card, and flicked some water and gold glimmer mists for some extra detail. 

I then stamped the sentiment in black archival ink.

I die cut two of the butterflies and made sure to keep them whole.

Next I die cut another four butterflies from thick white card and adhered two to each other.

I placed them back in to the empty space on my panel and went about assembling the die cuts back into place.

The coloured butterflies  wee given a dusting of perfect pearls and added on to the white die cuts and then covered with glossy accents.

To finish I added some sequins and dots of gold stickles.

 

Thanks for looking.