It feels so good to be back in the saddle again! I have been playing with my Sizzix Big shot and making some Birthday Cards. The Butterflies you see were cut with a 2 x 2 Quickutz die from Glittered Paper by My Mind's Eye(My FAVORITE line of Scrapbooking papers!) The Rhinestones were just ones I bought on EBay, no idea who the manufactorer is. I bought them for my Hot Fix Rhinestone Setter no realizing I had gotten confused and bought ones that were NOT Hot Fix until I tried to load them in the wand and the instantly melted all over it-oops! That was fun trying to get the melted plastic off... Anyhoo, the Scalloped Circles were cut with
Nestabilities. These dies are so awesome because the same die will both cut and emboss depending on what you layer over it in the Machine, and each set has 5 nesting dies for layering your papers. I have the Large Scalloped Ovals, Circles, Squares and Rectangles. I haven't used them before now because they just did not work well in the Original Sizzix Machine, so I held on to them because I Knew I would be upgrading to the New Machine for my Birthday. The Cardstock for both cards is the Bazzill in the criss cross pattern. I love it because it looks so cool when you chalk or ink the edges! The papers for both Cards are retired Foofala-really
sad that they them because I think they are so classic, yet unusual. The edges of all the pieces or paper and cardstock were all inked/distressed with Colorbox Chalk Ink in Ice Blue and and Petal pink.
I like the Pink card best, and will try to post a picture
when I finish them. I, ahem, an having trouble locating the container that has all my vintage alphabet stickers, because I have a lot of stuff to wade through. The letters from My Sizzix Lollipop dies set are too big to use on these cards. I also need to decide which ribbons and other embellishments to finish them.
I am probably going to make another butterfly in a different color for the blue card, not happy with the yellow one. Happy Crafting!
