Simple Way to Stretch Your Dies

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Simple Way to Stretch Your Dies

Playing with the recent LDRS Creative With Affection Release. This release is now available and can be found at the online store. It is full of gorgeous letterpress/betterpress staples and florals. Did you know you can foil with your letterpress plates. I used a matt black foil with the Tutti Fruiti Impress-ion Letterpress Dies. Super convenient the set comes with co-ordinating dies to cut the fruit out and a simple way to stretch these co-ordinating dies is to use them to create insets for the images.

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Stretch Your Stamps with Partial Stamping

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Stretch Your Stamps with Partial Stamping

Hello there, Sam here. Playing with the recent LDRS Creative festive Holiday Release. Partial stamping can change up the look and feel of an image and stretch the use of a stamp set. Simply by masking off the mantel and drawing on longer lines for the stockings in The Stockings Were Hung stamp set you get a brand new look.

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Stepping Up Winter Bouquet with Foil and Shimmer

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Stepping Up Winter Bouquet with Foil and Shimmer

Hello there, Sam here. Playing with the new LDRS Creative festive Holiday Release. Love how the Winter Bouquet Collection gives you a variety of different options, stamp, stencil and die depending on your favourite way to craft. For today I am using the Winter Bouquet Etched Die. Such a detailed die that has embossed details throughout the floral and an outline die.

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3 -ways to Stretch Die Cut sentiments

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3 -ways to Stretch Die Cut sentiments

So here is a little insight into how my creative brain works. It is definitely not a straight path from thought to card. I started off with a single card based on a masculine theme with greens, blues and offsetting and layering the Big Words Birthday die. Colours weren’t working for me. I put it aside and went off and did other things. It’s amazing how giving my brain a break and going off to do other stuff, helps with the creative process. This is when other ideas start growing.

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Easy Build Your Own Shadow Box with New Poppy Posy Bundle

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Easy Build Your Own Shadow Box with New Poppy Posy Bundle

The new Summer Collection is now available from LDRS Creative. My favourite from this collection has to be the Poppy Posy Bundle. Love all the bits and pieces and wanted to put a card together that used all of the elements. This type of shadow box is fairly simple to build once you’ve worked out the dimensions. The first time I made this shadow box it took a little while, fiddling and some trial and error to make the dimensions work to fold and fit into an A2 size envelope. Lucky for you I have all the dimensions all worked out and laid out below.

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Stretching Your Dies with Home Design Dies

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Stretching Your Dies with Home Design Dies

Here is a way to modify your die cuts and come up with a whole new look for them. I will be modifying the Home Design Dies with the Foliage Add-Ons dies. Instead of creating a large home with the die I will be creating lots of mini homes. By using the the left and right side of the main house die and a simple cut with the scissors you can stretch the use of the die and create small colourful mini homes.

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Inlay Shimmery Butterflies Technique

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Inlay Shimmery Butterflies Technique

My craft space is a small area off the corner of my bedroom, so every once in a while when it starts to look a little chaotic, I need to organize and remove a few things. At the moment I am in the midst of reorganizing and major tidy up of my crafty space. While cleaning up a shelf I rediscovered my water colour shimmer powders. It has been a very long time since I have pulled these out and played around with them. Which got me to thinking that these fun powders combined with the Large Butterfly Die would make some really pretty shimmery butterflies. Bonus the inlay technique instructions below gives you enough butterfly parts (parts in a crafty way, not gruesome poor butterfly way) to create two cards.

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