This month, the Group of Seven Cardmakers are creating textured backgrounds using die cuts in tone on tone colors. You will find links to several Videos using die cuts as backgrounds over at the GO7 blog.
I created two cards with the die I used - using positive and negative cuts.
I used 2 of the positive pieces of the die cut on top and bottom of this card.
I used white tone on tone.
I used the two negative cuts on my second card.
This is the die I used - Spring Floral from Pink Fresh - it's a two part die, and the bottom piece shows how it looks with both dies used - but I only used the top detail piece for the positive and negative pieces on my two cards, cutting it twice for each card.
My second attempt was to have a dark green card base layered with a stand of pine also in dark green which didn't look too great (!)
I added some splatter with white, black and orange POSCA pens and then a double layer of the pine trees but they still didn't show up very well - so I lightly rubbed a Gold Pigment ink pad over the trees and I liked the look - so this is a slight deviation from the original instructions for the technique - but here it is!
We hope you will check out the videos over at The Group of Seven Cardmakers blog as well as checking out what the rest of the GO7 did with this technique! We'd love you to link up your card using this background technique!
Wedding Cards
Stamps: Love and Marriage - Papertrey Ink (retired)
Ink: Nocturne - Versafine Clair
Paper: Hammered White - Amazon
Other Supplies: Spring Floral Die - Pink Fresh, foam dots, enamel hearts - Altenew.
Stand of Pines Christmas
Ink: Gold Pigment Ink
Paper: Pine Feather - PTI, Kraft Metallic Gold - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology
Other Supplies: orange, white, black POSCA Pens, Metallic Sticker - Holiday Talk - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology, Forest Shadows Thinlit Dies - Tim Holtz/Sizzix.
1 comment:
Julia! I never gave that die another look - until NOW!! Oh, how beautiful!
I think you managed to make the dark green work beautifully, too!
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