I’m so excited to be participating in the Save The Crafty YouTuber video hop today. For those of you who might not be familiar with the hop it was arranged by Justine Hovey as a way to help promote crafty YouTube channels and help smaller YouTubers, like me, to meet our channel goals. The hop is spread over five days with lots of people sharing inspiration for you, and a whole bunch of prize to be one. You can read all the details on Justine’s blog here.
For my video today I’m sharing a two-for-one with Hero Arts’ Floral Heart Stamp and Cut, which is part of my Monday Makes series. I will create cards using both the positive and negative portions of the die cut. I keep both designs fairly clean and simple, with similar layouts, but the results are quite different from each other.
Card 1 – Smitten Shaker
I began by cutting the heart die from a large snippet of pink pearlised card cut to just smaller than my card base. For my first card I used the panel and negative pieces of the die cut. I first adhered a piece of acetate behind the window in the panel. I then laid the positive part of the die cut into place, without adhering it, and used that as a guide to add all the negative pieces. This took a little while as some of the pieces are very small and fiddly, but with the help of my quick stick tool and reverse tweezers I was able to manage it.
I felt the centre area of the heart looked a bit bare so I took another snippet of the pink and used it to cut the centre part of the heart again. I then fussy cut out the very centre strip to add onto my acetate. Before adhering it into place I white heat embossed a sentiment from the matching stamp set onto it.
My intention for this card was to create a shaker, but I’d forgotten to account for the fact that I’m almost completely out of foam tape, so I did not have enough to raise the entire panel. I decided to instead create a flat shaker. I first blended a little Miller Lavender Distress ink behind the window area on my card base. I then added some Shimmer sequins from Craftin Desert Divas. I spread the sequins out well so that there would be a good coverage of them on the shaker, as they wouldn’t have a lot of space to move in. I then adhered my panel over the top using Tombow Mono Multi liquid glue.
Challenges:
Creatalicious Challenges – Anything Goes
Creative Confetti – Monochromatic With Sparkle
Pixie’s Snippets Playground – Snippets
Card 2 – In My Heart
My second card used the positive portion of the die cut. I again white heat embossed a sentiment onto the central panel. I was able to add some small pieces of the remaining foam tape I have to the back of the heart to raise it up for a dimensional look. I then added it to my card base in the same position as my other card. As a final touch I added some Nuvo Drops in Bubblegum Blush.
Challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More – Clean and Simple
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
HLS Anything Goes With Dies – Use Dies
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Being able to create two cards from one die cut is a great way to speed up the card making process, and of course reduces waste. Admittedly with these designs the time spent inlaying the negative pieces does slow things down again, but I think it is worth it in the end. This was my first time making a flat shaker and it works better than I’d anticipated, which is nice. I’d love to know which of the cards you like most, and I’d also be interested to hear if you’ve ever made two-for-one cards before!
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Love,
Lady Joyful