Another bit of inspired crafting

I spotted another card by Liane over on instagram and it made me immediately hunt through my dies to see what I could use to CASE the card and within about 30 mins had inked cardstock and die cut some trees and some dragonflies.

But then I didn’t do anything for a few days as I had a very busy time and not enough time to get to the craft desk and make these into something!

When I did I had to then do lots more diecutting from white and the glimmer paper to make sure I had enough to stack die cuts and also to have some sparkly ones in there too.

I ended up though after a few hours play with three different cards inspired by the one Liane had shared.

I’ll share the dragonfly one on another post but will pop the two trees ones onto this post as these were closest to the original inspiration.

I started with this one … these more graphic die cut trees I love although I must admit I find them tricky to cut with my rather worn Big Shot machine now and goodness me there are a lot of bits at the end to clutter the desk and floor!

I die cut the tree three times from the inked cardstock I had created and then again enough times to stack each tree a couple of times with the fancy top layered as the final one.

I did try and cut the fancy layer from the glimmer but didn’t like the look plus the die was so fiddly it was tearing a little with the glimmer paper so decided the solid shape would work better. Again I added a couple of layers underneath to give them some dimension.

I embossed the panel I had adhered the trees to using a snowfall pattern. I had lightly brushed the centre with a light blue just to give it some interest. Not sure any of the pics pick this up though.

The sentiment I stamped and embossed from a set from Altenew. I like the font on this set.

I added it to a 5×7 inch card blank.

I then made this card using the more solid but slimmer trees.

These are less fiddly to die cut but still lots of bits when all those holes have come out!

Again stacked the images at least twice. I then chose to emboss a slimmer panel and then added some shimmer paint splatters to the background.

This time the sentiment was from Christmas to Remember and again embossed onto black with white powder.

Both cards had dimension from both the die cuts and also raised the panels a little off the card blanks.

Both were finished with some clear gems.

Love how these came out … but must admit I think my favourite is the dragon fly one … so check back to see better pics of that one tomorrow.

Thank you for the inspiration Liane.

Happy crafting!

Catherine