Monday, January 22, 2018

Stretching Your Dies w/Kara

Hey Guys! Recently married friends of ours bought their first new home together. We're heading over there tonight for dinner and I wanted to bring them something special as a housewarming gift and of course a handmade card to go with it.

This card features almost no stamping! The design is created mostly with die cuts. I knew I wanted to use this cute house from Holiday Houses. However, since this is not a holiday card I didn't want the house to have wreaths on it. I decided to use the die alone and then the design was built around that. I colored the house with Fairy Dust Dye Ink using a sponge dauber. I die cut the words New Home using the Whimsy Alpha Die. I thought it would look cute to replace the letter "O" with the house die. The letters were colored in the same way using Shell Pink Dye Ink.

The scale of the house is a little larger than the letters, but I thought that worked perfectly to put the focus on the house and bring the scene to the foreground. I chose the other elements in the scene from the Sunshine Layers Die. Color was added to them using Lake House and Falling Star Dye Inks. I used the Big Top Background stamp to create the subtle sunrays in the background stamped in Fairy Dust Dye Ink. Finally, I stamped "Congratulations" at the bottom using a stamp from the Big Bold Greetings stamp set.

I'm looking forward to dinner tonight and seeing our friends' new home.

Thanks so much for coming by today! Hopefully this gives you some ideas for looking at your companion dies in a little different way.

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured Wplus9 supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase.

White Cardstock
White Cardstock
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PURE COLOR Black Dye Ink
PURE COLOR Black Dye Ink
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PURE COLOR Lake House Dye Ink
PURE COLOR Lake House Dye Ink
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Sunshine Layers Die
Sunshine Layers Die
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Big Top Background Stamp Set
Big Top Background Stamp Set
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Whimsy Alpha Die
Whimsy Alpha Die
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Holiday Houses Die
Holiday Houses Die
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Fairy Dust PURE COLOR Dye Ink
Fairy Dust PURE COLOR Dye Ink
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Shell Pink PURE COLOR Dye Ink
Shell Pink PURE COLOR Dye Ink
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Falling Star PURE COLOR Dye Ink
Falling Star PURE COLOR Dye Ink
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6 comments:

  1. That is beyond clever and very impressive!

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  2. Fresh, and delightful, Kara... I cannot imagine the wonderful gift that could top your card! so darling...
    =]

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  3. LOVE LOVE LOVE this Kara!! Hope the dinner was AMAZING!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS Weekend!! ❤️

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