A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Sunday 29 May 2016

Dies and Punches (and DP!!)

This week's 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge is to use dies and/or punches.



I used both - lots of dies and two punches:


The background is a piece of dp from my stash (I really do need to make more cards with dp so that I can use it up!).

I die cut a brown branch, a bunch of small red birds, and a rustic cream Nesties label. I stamped one of the Itty Bitty Backgrounds on the label, and heat embossed with a sparkly ep to tie in to the sparkly dots on the dp (hard to see in the photo). I arranged the branch and birds on the label.

The sentiment is stamped and then punched with a SU punch and bordered with a piece of red, also punched.





Stamps: Northwood sentiment, SU Itty Bitty Background
Paper: PTI Rustic Cream and red cs, Imaginisce dp
Paper Size: A2
Ink: Craft Smart Brick Red, ColorBox white
Accessories: Papermania sparkly ep, SU punches, Nesties label die, Memory Box branch and birds die

6 comments:

  1. What fun Christmas paper, Susan! Love how you've tied it in with the birds on a branch! Very festive!

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  2. Sweet! Great patterned paper for your background. Great design and love the texture of the sparkly embossing behind the birds on the branch. xx

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  3. Such a fun and cheerful Christmas card Susan. TFS my friend.

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  4. Really lovely card and a great use of dies and punches! Thanks for joining us at 52CCT, April x

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  5. vraiment adorable Susan, j'aime beaucoup ces oiseaux et ce papier est superbe et bien assorti a la scène, merci de jouer avec nous chez 52CCT, biz

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  6. Classic colours and wonderful design! This is lovely. Great use of dies. Sorry to be so late commenting, but thanks so much for playing along with our stash challenge at 52CCT this week! Deborah, DT.

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