Sweet Inspiration

 Are you craving the metallic look? Try using no stamps and no ink. Instead just use die cuts and embellishments. How cool is this? Get creative with any of your die cuts and metallic papers. Change the color of your background and get an entirely different look and feel. What do you think?

Stamps:
   None

Paper:
   Basic Black A-2
   Galvanized Metallic Paper 4 x 3
   Whisper White 5-1/4 x 4 (Inside)

Ink:
   None

Technique:
   Die Cutting

Accessories:
   Sweet Silhouette Dies
   Chicken Wire Elements
   Stacked With Love Washi Tape
   Basic Black Solid Baker's Twine
   Iridescent Pearls
   Dimensionals
   Glue Dots
   Adhesive

First, I die cut the dandelions and the sentiment.

I grabbed the chicken wire and dabbed liquid glue on the back of it. (I set it on my silicone craft sheet and sponged liquid glue. I then adhered it onto my Basic Black card base.)

I then added a bit of washi tape to the bottom right corner and adhered the sentiment on top of it. 

Next, I added the dandelions using dimensionals, and kept the stems down with a glue dot. The twine is also added with a glue dot and helps to hide the dots. 

The iridescent pearls are hard to see, but they are dotting the I's in the sentiment.

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Inspire

What is it about glitter that causes everyone to get perked up and inspired? Everyone seems to jump onto the glimmer, glitz, and gorgeous bandwagon.

Stamps:

   None

Paper:

   Pool Party A-2, 1 1/2 x 2 3/4

   Cottage Wall DSP 5 1/4 x 4

   Poppy Parade 1 1/2 x 2 3/4

   Silver Glimmer 3/8" Strips (10)

Ink:

   None

Technique:

   Die Cutting

Accessories:

   Sweet Silhouettes Dies, Fine Tip Glue Pen, Adhesive

"Inspire" is die cut in Pool Party and Poppy Parade. I adhered the Poppy Parade on top of the Pool Party and off set it to the right a bit in order to give it a shadow effect. This also balances the Pool Party color on the card. 

My designer paper is pretty ancient, but I like using what I have on hand. The best thing about Stampin' Up! products is that they always coordinate with current colors and products. The items may be discontinued, but they never go out of style. Basically, you can use them until they are gone.

The die cut I used coordinates with the Silhouette Scenes stamp set found in our current annual catalog. This is another example of products still working together no matter how much time has gone by. 

Note too that the silver strips I used were just leftover pieces that many crafters would have discarded. I, on the other hand, keep them until they disappear somehow. 

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