FranmadeInOregon: TWO TAKES WITH THE SAME DIE

Sunday, January 23, 2022

TWO TAKES WITH THE SAME DIE

Hello, all. This morning I started out working on a cream, red, and gold valentine for the current Color Throwdown #676 and ended up segueing into another card using the same old favorite PTI die. I'm saving a bit of time by posting both of them together rather than going to two separate posts.

I started this first card with some textured cream card stock from LCI with matching envelope. This design is similar to one I was playing around with a couple of years ago. I stamped the cancellation image first with PTI "Pure Poppy" ink and applied a postage stamp outline die cut from the same card stock and stamped again to overlap ink and die. I then die cut several layers of the "Love" image from PTI's "Wonderful Words" from gold cardstock, but I wanted it to be brighter, so I smooshed the word into some VersaMark watermark ink and used Stampendouse "Pirate Gold" embossing powder over the face of it. I inserted a red card stock heart behind the word after overprinting it with the postal cancellation stamp. It was finished off with a couple of gold heart dies. I lined the envelope with some scraps of valentine paper from years ago.

I'm entering this card into both the Color Throwdown challenge and Time Out #205 - In Love".

Color Throwdown: Color Throwdown Countdown #676

TIME OUT Challenges: Challenge 205 - in love

Added February 3, 2022:

For a completely different look, my second card using the same die was done primarily to enter the current Freshly Made Sketches #519. I used an old PTI image from their "Love & Marriage" collection and stamped it on a piece of white card stock with Memento "Gray Flannel" ink - which looks darker in the photo than it is. I matted it with some red dot paper and silver foil to the face of the side-folded white card. I then die cut several of the "Love" sentiments from white card stock and layered them over the face of the tree image with a red dotted heart filler and added a final top layer of silver foil. I stamped "Lots of" on card stock with "Pure Poppy" and punched it out for a tag that I attached with some silver thread.