Anita Enright: nesting dies

18 December 2017

White Wedding | Couture Creations

Welcome back to the blog everyone.

For my layout today I decided to revisit some of the Ultimate Crafts

older collection of OOH LA LA.

I have a lot of dies from this collection in my stash and it is no wonder why, they are all just so so beautiful.

My mum asked me to make a special card for my brothers wedding so this is what I came up with. I love using white with kraft cardstock and because it was for a wedding added a few hints of gold.

To start using the Snow White Ultimate Crafts cardstock I die cut one each of the Nested Labels and Intrinsic & Ornamental dies.

Next I cut in Kraft cardstock the card base to approximately 6 1/2" x 4 1/2". From some of the offcuts I cut one of the 3rd smallest of the dies from the Fancy Rectangles nesting die set from Couture Creations.

I then cut each of the three different die cuts in half as below.

I then needed some foliage to add behind the flowers that I had decided to use for the centre of the card. My favourite die for leaves come from the Magnolia Lane Collection. It is from the Rose Cutting die set. I cut four of the branches in the kraft cardstock.

I love feathers and just wanted to incorporate them somehow in this card but the feather die from the Ooh La La collection was just too big. I found some wood veneer feathers in my stash. I decided to heat emboss them. The Couture Creations Glacier White superfine embossing powder is just perfect. Once I had coated the wood in the white I then added some of the Mirror Gold embossing powder to the ends.

Now all my pieces were ready to go I then constructed the card.

The larger of the two white dies, I mounted on some chipboard before adhering to the card base. Next I added the kraft die cut followed by the smaller white die cut, again mounted on a little bit of chipboard offcut.

Because there was a one inch piece in the centre of the card, to build it up I added a piece of chipboard offcut. I did place a piece of kraft cardstock over the top of it to blend in better with the rest of the card. (sorry no photo but you get the idea).

I then embellished the centre of the card with the leaf die cuts, added some sprays of white flowers from my stash along with the white flowers. I added a couple of the gold bouquets from the

Be Merry collection.

PRODUCTS USED

Ooh La La Collection

ULT157557 - Nested Labels Decorative Die Set

ULT157558 - Intrinsic and Ornamental Decorative Die Set

Other Artdeco Products

CO723957 - Fancy Rectangles Nesting Dies

CO724918 - Be Merry Collection - Gold and Silver Bouquets

CO724970 - Mirror Gold Embossing Powder

CO724963 - Glacier White Super Fine Embossing Powder

ULT157523 - Magnolia Lane Collection - Rose Cutting Decorative Die Set

ULT200001 - Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Snow White

With Christmas now just one week away I am sending the best of Christmas wishes your way. I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful Christmas. May it be special and you have many wonderful memories that you can 'scrap' in 2018.

17 August 2016

Magnolia Lane Shaker Card

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Hi Everyone, I thought I would share with you some shakers cards I created using the Magnolia Lane collection by Susanne Smyth that recently featured on the Couture Creations blog. I hope you enjoy my creations.

To start I selected one of the panels that I liked from the Poetical Labels patterned paper. Okay, I admit it I love every single one of them so I wasn't short of one to chose from :)

You will find that the panel is not wide enough to go behind the frame that you cut out next. I added a small strip of matching patterned paper to the left side. It will be covered by the embellishments and dies you add to the outside of the frame later.

I then used the largest two dies from the Rectangle Nesting Dies and cut out a frame using the Ultimate Craft Obsidion cardstock. So that the frames did not move when I ran it through GoCut and Emboss machine, I placed a post-it note over the two dies as per the photo below.

The next step was to cut out a piece of the Couture Creations Acetate Sheets just big enough to be adhered to the back of the black cardstock frame. Attach some of the 3D foam strips around the inside back of the frame on the acetate making sure there are no gaps or your sequins could fall out.

Prior to removing the backing paper from the 3D foam strips add a mixture of matching coloured sequins then remove the backing paper from the foam strips and attach your chosen panel. Don't do what I did first time around and put it back to front. Make sure you chose panel can be seen through the acetate sheet.

I made a 5 x 7" card base in the Obsidion cardstock from Ultimate Crafts. I chose the Magnolia Borders patterned paper as this was similar to the panel that I chose and cut it to 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" so that I could see a good border of black behind the patterned paper.
Next, I attached the shaker to the patterned paper and attached a seam binding ribbon across the top securing it on the reverse side of the patterned paper. You can then glue the patterned paper to your card base.

I am still loving the Couture Creations Bulk Flowers. I sprayed two of the Camden Cottage Roses with a bright pink spritz. Next spray the flowers with adhesive and scatter with white or crystal glitter over the adhesive. Once dry, using glue dots, attach to the top corner of the black frame. The flowers just come up so beautiful.

Whilst my flowers were drying a little I quickly cut out the Tassels die in Precious pink, again from Ultimate Crafts, to use as a trail down the left hand side of the black frame. It also hid the seam where I widened the back panel. I added a few of the small 2mm Onyx gemstones to the tassel and then attached it to the black frame at the top using glue dots. Finally I added some 2mm Wisteria gemstones to the corners of the frame, a couple of small black flowers and a sentiment to finish.

As an added bonus I have also recreated the card using the SEA BREEZE collection by Denise Boddey. This one is perfect for Father's Day which is just around the corner.