Special Moments

Beautiful Shapes Dies

Beautiful Shapes Duo

It’s a beautiful day for Beautiful Shapes with FAB Stampers. Today it is Connie’s turn to share some crafting and inspiration with the dies from the Hello Beautiful Bundle.

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From Connie’s Craft Studio

Beautiful Shapes Dies

The beautiful Shapes Dies are part of the Hello Beautiful Bundle, and available in the January to June Mini Catalogue. There are stacking sizes of circles and hexagons, along with additional shapes that have embossing around the edges. I’m also using the Special Moments stamp set. You can get this stamp set FREE with a qualifying Sale-a-bration order!

This was the first time I had played with these dies, so I started by cutting out all the shapes. I decided to use the primary colours, knowing I could make a bright colourful card with these pieces. Once I had the pieces cut, I just played with laying them on my card until I found a pattern I liked.

Beautiful Shapes Random

For the next card I wanted to create a bit of a mosaic pattern. These hexagon shapes are fabulous for creating all sorts of patterns in different sizes and colours.

Beautiful Shapes Mosaic

A few Details . . .

I used hexagon die cuts in Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral and Real Red to create this card. I put them on a Basic White background and used a Thick Basic White card base to really pull your eye toward my pattern. Once I adhered all the hexagon pieces, I used the Hive 3D Embossing Folder to emboss the entire piece.

The sentiment is stamped on a larger hexagon and layered on the next size up hexagon cut from Real Red cardstock. I used Dimensionals to adhere this to my card. The gorgeous embellishments on both cards are Gilded Gems.

Beautiful Shapes Duo

These dies are so awesome, they should be part of everyone’s craft stash.

The fixin’s

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Daffodil Daydream

Today I thought I’d give you a sneak peek of some of the items in the upcoming January-June 2022 Mini Catalog. I’ve chosen the Daffodil Daydream bundle for my card.

Inspiration

One question I am frequently asked is where I find inspiration. CASEing is a good way to get inspired. There are many definitions for CASE, including Copy and Steal Everything, Copy and Share Everything, and my favorite, Copy and Selectively Edit.

Our catalog is a great place to find inspiration, and I will frequently CASE a project from the current Annual Catalog or Mini. But, CASEing your own projects will work just as well.

For this project, I decided to CASE one of my own cards. I made a Christmas card that a lot of people seemed to like, so I decided to use that as my inspiration for today’s project. You can find that Christmas card here.

Amazing Daffodil Daydream

Daffodil Daydream Lead

I used The Daffodil Daydream Bundle from the upcoming mini catalog. I also used the Daffodil Afternoon 12×12 DSP and Special Moments stamp set from the upcoming Sale-a-bration brochure. You can get both of these items FREE with a qualifying order next month.

The Special Moments stamp set has TWENTY-ONE greetings! There’s something for almost any occasion.

Daffodil Daydream Full

For this card, I used a Pear Pizzazz card base (5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″). The layer is a 4″ x 5 1/4″ panel of Mossy Meadow, with a 2″ x 4″ piece of DSP adhered to the bottom. Then, I attached a piece of the Fine Art Ribbon across the “seam”, and adhered the panel to the card base.

I stamped the daffodil in Memento Tuxedo Black on Vanilla, colored with Blends, and cut it out using the coordinating die from the Daffodil Daydream bundle. I also cut a scalloped panel from Vanilla using one of the dies from the Scalloped Contours Dies.

Details

Daffodil Daydream Detail

I cut a hole into a piece of scrap computer paper using a die from the Hippo & Friends Dies to create a “mask”. Then, I used temporary adhesive to hold this in place on the scalloped panel, while using a Blending Brush to add a little Pear Pizzazz ink.

Once the mask was removed, the greeting was stamped in Mossy Meadow ink and the panel was popped up on the Mossy Meadow/DSP panel.

The daffodil is also popped up with dimensionals, and I added Wink of Stella to the flower for a little sparkle. Of course, no project is really complete without a little bling, so I added a few metallic pearls to finish it off.

The fixin’s

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