Create a Panel Using Left-over Die Cuts

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I have a lot of square negative die cuts from a plaid die. I was using that die a lot so I accumulated all of this square die cuts which I decided to keep for later use. 

I trimmed a typing paper at 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" to use as a back panel for the square die cuts. I grouped my square die cuts by color and pattern to give me an idea on how much squares I have for each color and pattern. I used an L-ruler to help with the alignment of the squares while I start building the pattern of squares from a corner. I made sure that the alike colors are not too close to each other. I used a liquid glue to adhere the squares to the typing paper. I left this panel aside while the glue dries with something heavy placed on top of it. 

I treated this tiled panel with an anti-static tool. Using the Misti Stamping Tool, I stamped the Blank Page Muse Floral Spray Sunflowers Chrysanthemum Line Art rubber stamp to the tiled panel using Wow! Embossing ink. Since this is a large stamp, I pressed the stamp to the paper with enough pressure so as to transfer the sticky ink to the tiled panel. The Misti Stamping Tool is very helpful with this step. I was able to re-stamp the image a couple of times until I was able to get the whole image stamped. 

In between stamping, I poured glittery black embossing powder to the sticky ink. I heat set the powder making sure I move the heat gun while melting the powder to avoid flattening the already melted powder. 

I created a frame for the panel using a fringe scalloped rectangle die and a rectangle die. I cut strips of purple cardstock and adhered this to the back of the frame. This color will show thru the fringes when the fringes are lifted up. 

I created a sentiment strip by heat embossing the sentiment on the same red cardstock I used for the frame. I trimmed this off into a strip and adhered it to the tiled panel.

I adhered the frame to the tiled panel, then adhered this to a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" red cardstock. 

I hope you like today's card. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

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