I am taking another class from Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner. This time I’m taking ‘Kick Start’, which is all about boosting your creativity.
I don’t want to reveal any inside secrets… but Jennifer shares a tip (which involves a post it note and new products) that helps to come up with creative ideas to use new products. This post-it secret also helps in pruning your shopping cart, while shopping…
Anyhow, I used it with my new Absolutely die-cut (designed by Kristina Werner for Simon Says Stamp) and came up with the idea to use two die cuts on one panel so I can have both a negative and a positive impression of a word. The different shadows the words cast are really interesting.
I lined up both dies on my cardstock panel and ran it through my Cuttlebug. I prevented movement by temporarily sticking the dies to the cardstock with removable tape.
Side note: I looked for a word with no repeating letters to go with ‘absolutely’ and ‘wonderful’ won… – It isn’t necessary as I could use place holders for repeating letters and run them through the Cuttlebug a couple times.
To spruce the card up a little bit I used some washi tape stripes, an embroidery floss and a button.
SUPER simple, but I really love the clean and simple result.
How about you, what do you think?
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I added a few other alphabet dies at the end, to give you some more options 🙂
I used the one by Papertrey Ink that I bought a while back.
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Tags: card, cards, creativity prompt, die-cuts, Washi tape
This is absolutely wonderful!
Thanks so much 🙂
I appreciate the pun…
Wow Avital! Amazing!! WE were on the same wave length indeed!
I love your card, I have been trying to do something similar but have not been successful.
I love negative titles!! and your addition of washi tapes and floss is perfect!
Brilliant!
Thank you! PTI’s dies are a bit on the ‘fat’ side. I wish there was a set of individual alphabet dies that are more to scale with the ‘Absolutely’ die. These are perfect for journaling cards and also to create greetings… Maybe I need to find a die-cut manufacturer and come up with my own line of dies 🙂