Looking to jazz up your typical A2 card with a little shapely creativity? Check out this tutorial and use those nesting dies for more than just layering!
Todays beautiful fall card is from our designer, April who said, “The new Tall Hex Nesting Dies are perfect for a shaped card which makes any card extra special especially a card of thanks, so I wanted to make these nesting dies really the star of this card.” We love this idea and think it’s a great way to extend the use of items you may already have in your craft room to get more diversity in your card making repertoire. Follow along as April shows us how to use nesting dies to create shaped card bases.
How to recreate this card:
- Die cut a white card base using the largest die in the Tall Hex Nesting Dies. As with most of the Brass & Blis Nesting Dies, the largest die in the set will fit closely to the edge of an A2 base.
- We wouldn’t recommend trying to cut both layers at once, we would recommend laying out your A2 flat, placing the die on one side and running it through your machine, then placing the same die on the other side and running it through again. This will ensure it cuts crisp edges and that the stitching shows up perfectly on both sides of your new shaped card base.
- Die cut pumpkins, leaves, and ivy from the Pumpkins and Ivy Dies using orange and green cardstock.
- Use alcohol markers (I used Olo Markers) to color the pumpkin, leaves and ivy images. This adds texture and dimension to the images.
- Cut a piece of khaki cardstock or corrugated cardstock to fit bottom of hex shaped card base.
- Use Color Fuse #1 Amaretto and Color Fuse #2 Pumpkin to randomly stamp Thankful from the Autumn Sunflowers Stamp Set on the front of the hex shaped card base.
- Use paint brush to splatter Amaretto and Pumpkin ink on the card base.
- Adhere corrugated piece to bottom of card base.
- Use thin and regular foam squares to pop up some of the pumpkins and adhere the other one along with the ivy and leaves directly to card.
- Stamp sentiment from Autumn Sunflowers Stamp Set with black ink on white card stock.
- Die cut sentiment using the smallest die in the Tall Hex Nesting Die Set.
- Add to upper right corner using foam squares.
- Adhere a few leaves around sentiment.
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