EVOLVING DIE STORAGE
Saturday, April 16, 2022
In my ongoing attempt to re-organize my craft room, I have, hopefully and finally found a solution to storing the hundreds of dies that I own. When I first started buying dies I stored them in the plastic envelopes using Jennifer McGuires method. They were opted by theme and I could flip through them daily easily. As I acquired more and more, they were taking up so much space that I thought having more of them grouped together would work. I have a large file-sized drawer in my work area and I discovered Crafter's Companion tabbed magnetic sheets that really were strong and held a lot of dies. I have bee using this for a couple of years but there were a number of drawbacks. One was weight. The sheets are heavy to begin its, add the dies and they are heavier. Two, if there were small bits, they would sometimes fall off into the drawer. And thirdly, they were jut too unwieldy to flip through. My latest and hopefully, final solution is to put the dies into 5 × 7 photo storage boxes from @scrapbook.com. I have a combo of the old magnetic sheets that I used in the very beginning and my newer, stronger ones using Marietta Magnetics 5 x 7 self adhesive magnetic sheets on medium weight chipboard. The boxes fit quite a lot of dies and they are all stored by theme. I can just grab the specific box and rummage easily through it.
1 BACKGROUND STAMP 4 CARDS
Saturday, July 10, 2021
This card features SIMON SAYS STAMP GIFT BOXES background stamp. I stamped it twice, one in white and embossed in white, and one with Versamark and embossed in gold. I then cut upthe stamped image so I could get two cards out of each image.I used distress inks to make a blended background and the embossed ink make a resist for the inks. On two of the cards I dripped a bit of water and perfect pearls and on the other two I splattered some KREMER GOLD PAINT. I mounted on black, then white and placed on Simon Says Stamp Fog cardstock. I used the same die cut for all the cards (unfortunately I am writing this away from home and I can't remember who makes this but will add that info when I return in 2 weeks.) I used a gold glitter card stock from Simon and a black shiny cardstock from ERIN LEE CREATIVE. I cut 3 layers of cardstock and glued them together for dimension. I finished off with some sequins and some gold baubles from Trinity Stamps. Hope this helps you to stretch your background stamps!
BUTTERFLY BIRTHDAY CARD
Thursday, June 10, 2021
SIMON SAYS STAMP FLORAL GARDEN BIRTHDAY CARD
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
LEAFY GREEN BIRTHDAY CARD
Friday, February 19, 2021
The Birthday I layered with foam tape as I did with the leaves. The panel was then mounted on kraft and the finished size was 5 x 5".
A HEARTFELT BIRTHDAY CARD
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
We are up in Mammoth taking a short vaca away from Los Angeles chaos. I have a small corner of our master bedroom that I use as my craft area and have very limited supplies. One of the cards I needed to make this week is a birthday card for a dear dear 101 year old. One of the dies I have up here is the BIRCH PRESS CAPRICE HEART LAYER SET and after watching JENNIFER MCGUIRES DIE CUT layering video, I knew I wanted to make a card using some of her techniques. I brought up some TONIC GOLD HEARTED PAPER PACK and cut multiple hearts of 3 different gold papers. I also used Neenah white 80lb as the middle layer of the die. I cut a white panel and die cut 3 hearts from top to bottom from Neenah 110lb and then splattered that with Kuretake Gansai Tambi gold from the Gem color set. Once I glued and stacked all the hearts (while watching TV) I set them aside and cut a smaller panel of pink card stock that exactly matched my pink envelope( I believe I got this from the Paper Source). I layered that under the card front so that the pink would show through as the base layer.
METALLIC OMBRE LETTERS BIRTHDAY CARD
Monday, May 18, 2020
I first did a wash of color onto the black watercolor paper, overlapping the colors a bit to blend. While that was drying I did a wash of light purple, using the KARIN DECO PRO METALLIC markers and put that aside to dry. I die cut the letters out of the black watercolor paper, making sure I lined up the letters so that the ombre effect would be the same on all the letters. I stamped the balloon stamp and embossed in a fine gold embossing powder and then painted it trying to mimic Kristina's use of gold and color together. When that was dry I fussy cut the image. I then die cut the light purple panel using TRINITY STAMPS SLIMLINE DIE. I adhered the balloon stamp directly to the paper and applied foam ounting tape to the letters and using a T-square, I mounted the letters onto the paper. The panel was then attached to a black card base cut (finished size is 8.5 x 4.75).