Die-cutting Day!

After a full week of stamping, I thought today I'd switch to die-cutting so I have 3 cards to share today made with the new dies from Lil' Inker Designs with not a single stamp in sight!

The new boxed up birthday die is just perfect for making a dramatic statement on a card and it has so many uses.  For this first card I used our own brand of wood veneer to add some texture (these are thin sheets of real wood with a sticky backing perfect for die cutting).  I layered the die up behind the wood with some layers of craft covered with stick-it to avoid any fiddly glueing.  For this card I wanted to go girly so the natural choice was the beautiful new perky posies dies which have a variety for flowers and leaves in different sizes all with lovely stitched details.  Some enamel dots make perfect flower centres.  I added the flowers both behind and in front of the raised die cut and mounted it all on the ever popular quilted stitched pattern die on top of a card base from Avery Elle.

For my second look I used the new petal card die but I wanted to make it feature on a little card rather than a card itself.  I die cut it from a sheet of double-sided paper from our new range from Echo Park, this one is from the Birthday Wishes Girl pad, and then I trimmed the edges off boxed up birthday so it fit neatly inside and simply mounted the whole thing onto a mini card with a coloured matt.   It's displayed on their mini-easel which is a great little tool.

For my final card I wanted to go really simple as I thought the die is so striking on its own it needs little else.  Here I've gone for a quick masculine card - die cut boxed up birthday 3 times from 3 shades of blue card (again with stick-it sheet glue on the back before you die cut to make sticking it together super fast)  and then off setting it very slightly with each layer.  Once stuck together I ran it through my die cutter to get a flatter look.

 
NEWS FROM THE STORE:

• We've had massive restocks from Lawn Fawn this week (and I've already been given a sneaky peek of their next release which I can't share yet but you're going to love it and my order is already in so we should get it as soon as it's available stateside!)
• We had Lil' Inker Designs latest release and restocks yesterday
• We have a little more from Echo Park and Hero Arts which will go live this afternoon hopefully
• We have the latest releases from Newton's Nook in transit
• We have massive restocks coming from Mama Elephant but unfortunately they've been caught up in a customs investigation so may not arrive for another week or longer.  They had no release in April but will have a new release on 15th May which I will get as quickly as I can.
• We have a huge order coming from Paper Smooches with the latest release and massive restocks - they should be here next week with luck.
• Avery Elle restocks will ship on Monday so they should also be here by the end of the week.
• Sugar Pea Designs should be shipping soon - I know you've been waiting so long and I'm sorry but there have been a number of issues and now the next release is almost here so both are shipping together so at least we'll be caught up when it finally arrives!
• We've just placed an order for the next Neat and Tangled releases which has a stamp and die set I know you are going to LOVE!
• I know so many of you are waiting for Altenew restocks again - they are out of stock at their end - they expect restocks early- to mid-May and I will get them as soon as I see they are available again.
• We are nipping to London tomorrow, just for a couple of days, so I can see my musical idol Melissa Etheridge so any orders that are placed after 8pm today won't ship until Wednesday.

Happy Crafting
Tara
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