Project of the Week ~ Using Your Dies

This week it is my turn here at The House That Stamps Built to do the Project of the Week. Since I am in the swing of Christmas I decided to go with a Christmas card and a technique I choose to call “Use Your Dies”. Below you will see a picture of my supplies.

I went through my Christmas dies (the only ones I really have any organizational skills at all), and chose an ornament die from a set of 4 unbranded dies. I went with the one that would fit my image.

I place the die where I wanted my focal image to go and used some washi tape to secure it.

I kept both the negative and positive images as you will see in a bit what I did with the other image.

Using my sponge daubers I started with my darkest shade of blue ink, just going around the outer edge of the die cut, I then used the medium shade of blue and sponged in a bit farther and finally the lightest shade of blue went as far into the center as I wanted to shade.

Using the Angel 905-L and Heaven & Earth 6523-D, I stamped the focal image inside the shaded ornament in my dark blue ink as well as the sentiment Heaven & Earth partial in/partial out the shaded ornament.

I colored the trim on her dress in blue spectrum glittermarker, and her wings in a clear Wink of Stella. I added some sequin trim and a twine bow at the top.

I used the positive image of the ornament for the inside of my card - shading it again with the three shades of blue and stamping the sentiment Let Heaven 413-H inside. I really like the way this turned out - clean and simple one layer card. I am going to go through my dies and see what else I can use with this same technique. Give it a try.

~ Shirley