Thursday 9 February 2012

New Dies

Don't you love it when the post delivers little bags of goodness from all over the place! Yesterday I got some new dies and today I got some new rubber! Show you that later - the dies got a run yesterday afternoon. I have been looking at this for a while and then got it but don't really know what to do with it.  I will need to play around more - this was just the initial cut to make sure they worked.  The dies are steel ones from Memory Box. 


SU Whisper White card folded to make the base. SU Lucky Limeaid for the canopy and Kraft for the tree.  The bird is chipboard from the stash, coloured up with white gel pen. The sentiment is stitched on (yes, I threaded a needle!) and is from my stash from so long ago I cannot remember where I got it. Ribbon is SU and the brads are too.  The sun is a 1" circle punched out of SU Summer Sun and sponged with SU Apricot ink to make it look more dramatic. I also sponged Memento Summer Sky ink around the tree and SU LL ink around the edges of the card to create a border.

I am going to enter it into Die Cuttin Divas.  Challenge #51, except I turned it around.
         
                                                

9 comments:

Cre8tiveVet said...

What a fantastic tree! I just love it. Thanks for sharing it with us at DCD.
-Yvette
cre8tivegirls.blogspot.com

Merry said...

Oh wow...this is so fantastic. I have never seen a die like that before.

Georgiana said...

What a great take on the sketch. Thanks for joining us at Die Cuttin' Divas this week. Hope you will come back again!

Georgiana
Carson's Creations
Die Cuttin' Diva Design Team host

Cheryl Gaffney said...

I love the tree die... so many possibilities! Great take on our sketch this week.

Thanks for joining us this week at Die Cuttin' Divas!
Cheryl @ CardsbyCG.blogspot.com
Die Cuttin' Divas Design Team Member

Candy said...

Cute card! Love the little bird in the tree.
Thanks for playing along at Die Cuttin' Divas this week.
Candy
candyscraftcorner.blogspot.com
Die Cuttin' Divas Design Team Member

Gerda said...

The way you use the sketch is great, I love the tree.
Gerda
http://cardscreations.blogspot.com

craftymum said...

Wonderful card. Thank you for joining us at HSC for our " one for the boys " challenge

Hugs Sarah x

p.s. We have the new Tim Holtz Distress Marker pens on Pre-order!!!

Anonymous said...

I'd love to see your other experiments with this die. I love tree images and have often considered getting this die, but samples are hard to find of the die cuts getting used. Thanks for posting this one.

Monica said...

Love how you turned it around, Susan. Now that is such a nice die.

Thanks for reminding me about using a mouse mat under my stamps.

Monica xxx