Masculine Dudes and the Clover Background die

Oh, thanks for stopping by and as always, thanks for commenting on my endeavors here.  I do so love  reading your quick notes and comments.
Here is the preview of the card:  I'm going to make a few of these more masculine, funny and hip cards for my young nephews.

So, in my last posting I mentioned that I had a nice, but untried Flower Background Die from The Ton. I mistakenly attributed them to The Ton Stamps, but they are an AltENew product.  I used the Altenew-LAYERED-MEDALLIONS-COVER-DIE.  I do know these are still available even though I got them long ago.   Get them today!   

Ok, so you are probably waiting to hear about the stamp set.  It is the Dude Stamp Set by Impression Obsession.  It is great!  The  artist is Dina Kowal and her blog is awesome.  

I used my Hampton Arts Stamp Position Tool to do the stamping and I wish I has stamped more of all those very clever sentiments!   I used a favorite ink, the Momento Tuxedo Black Ink

On this card I used the parts/ pieces of two different colors of cardstock cut from the Layered Medallions Cover Die B alone. 

 It was tedious to do the Glad Press N Seal method on this set, as there are many tiny bits to worry about getting properly placed/ stuck onto the Glad P&S wrap.  Do persevere, it is worth it as you can get more from each of these cover plate dies that you invest in if you spend time doing this instead of throwing away those tiny left-over pieces.  More info on this technique is found on my prior posting:

Getting started on the St. Patrick's Day cards with a clover background die.

I put the little green pieces back into this white frame and still have the little white pieces to work with on another card design later.  That's what I call a Win-Win!  To do so, I had to first make the entire back of the white frame die cut become sticky and this is best achieved by using good old 3" Sookwang Tape.  This is great stuff!  I use it daily for all kinds of things.  Love it.  After applying tape to the white frame die, I just inlaid those green bits back into the sticky surface of the tape.  Then  I simply peeled it off the back and applied it to the card front.

Viola~

Then to place the stamped image and heat embossed. I did this using Ranger detailed black embossing powder.  I used this method for both sentiments and it is all finished.  Nice & easy too. 

Card challenges I've entered this into:

1)  The Card Concept #110:

2)    Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 2 #155:

3) The Male Room #106    

Thanks for reading this and for all your kind words, and have a great day!

Nina

Getting started on the St. Patrick's Day cards with a clover background die.

Hello, thanks for joining me here as I create a quick card for St Patrick's Day.  I am not Irish, but it is fun to get in the spirit anyway!  

Here is my card as a preview to the post.  I think it is quite striking (your thoughts?) but, this card was really very simple to construct.  It seems to me the many background layering dies our in the marketplace these days are the best way to get more pizazz with less fuss!  They are expensive but they sure are worth it to make a stand out statement without too much stress.

I used the Flower Layers Cover Up Background die set by The Ton.  I don't believe these are still available as I got them on sale last year, but not in time for making any St Patrick's Day cards.

 First, I began with the die and cut it many time from several pieces of 80# paper from my stash.

Since 99.99% of the teeny tiny cut pieces stayed in the card stock after the die was removed, I very carefully turned the whole thing over and placed Glad Press N Seal over the front of the pieces to hold them in place.

Mind you, you have to be so careful when peeling back the large die cut cover part of the paper away from the extraneous tiny pieces of the die cut image.  Do it slowly.  You may have to keep pressing down into the Glad Press & Seal plastic any loose bits that want to come up with the main die cut image.

On both of the layers (A & B dies).  

This is what will be remaining on the Press & Seal:

 Now, to figure out which way looks better - either A or B as the top layer of the set.  This is with layer A on top:

 This is how it looks with the layer B on top:

I think if this was not such a garish green color, it might have looked better.   For the gluing down of these delicate die cuts, I choose the liquid Zig 2 Way glue pen.  I also found that it was making a mess on the glass mat that is on my desktop, so I put a piece of sticker backing paper down under the die cut set and that way the glue didn't get onto the glass.

Also, to help in cleaning up glue on glass, this handy dandy little hardware tool works wonders.

For the sentiment, I had some extra ones of these stamped and embossed from last time (see prior post) so, I decided to use it.

This big sentiment is the one I choose to use.  Stamping and embossing onto the heavy weight vellum is the best way to showcase the die cut layers without getting them all covered over.  I like that this sentiment can go for all kinds of occasions and it could be so suitable for many of life's best happy moments!

The final result:

The card challenges that this card will go in for are:

1)  Moving Along With the Times #92

2)  As You Like it Challenge #

 3)  Cute Card Thursday #571

4) Cardz 4 Galz #91

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Nina