A fancy die cut

 

It's Sarah's turn to host the Allsorts challenge this week. She's chosen the theme of "use die cuts" or you can use the anything goes option.

I would never normally have bought this die as it was very expensive for limited use. However, it was in a Sizzix sale last year for a really silly price, and so I thought why not!

My first card was made by cutting and placing the waste back in from a red and green piece of card. I left some of the areas for the white card to show through. I still have all the other waste - and hopefully it will make it onto another card. It looked a little bare so I added a TL die mat behind. A greeting was tricky but I felt the die cut birthday worked.

My second card I just cut the die and then ran it through some card to emboss also. Then I used cosmic shimmer paints on the embossed card as a guide, adding some more colour through the diecut when it was in place over the top. This time I used a sentiment die which I had to cut several times to build up so it showed up against the background. Then I added the stamped the birthday greeting.

Prizes from Sizzix, AALL and Create, Aldridge Crafts, Lavinia and Ruth Hamilton Design