Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Creating a Background Using Silhouette Die Cuts

 

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. It is the first of May which means we have a new challenge at Incy Wincy Designs. Our challenge theme is/are Spring +/or Animals. I incorporated both themes on today's project.

I have several inspirations for this card:
  • My card was inspired by a card Jennifer McGuire made using dog silhouette dies. 
  • My color scheme was inspired by a Simple Stories patterned paper. 
  • My sister loves cats.

I die cut the cats on floral patterned paper. I die cut extras using cardstock so I can adhere this to the back of the floral cat die cuts for a bit of dimension. Feel free to add more than one layer of die cut if you like more dimension. I lightly inked the edges of the die cuts with navy ink. After I arranged the cats on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" navy cardstock, I picked up the die cuts with a Glad Press 'N Seal to preserve the arrangement. I applied glue to the back of the die cuts and press this back to the cardstock panel. I trimmed off the excess and used these extras to fill in any open areas on the panel. I adhered floral sequins in between the cats to fill in the spaces. 


I heat embossed the sentiment on the same navy cardstock. I die cut this into a strip. I matted this with a pearl vellum paper and adhered it to the background. 


I hope I inspired you with today's project, and that you join us in this month's challenge. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

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1 comment:

  1. What a fun way to use silhouette dies and patterned papers! Also, I’m a cat lover. Thanks for sharing this with us over at Inkspirational.

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