Get the most out of your essential dies creating frames

Hello again friends!

I'm back on the blog sharing a super easy technique to incorporate frames to your projects and achieve a different and dimensional look.

Pinkfresh Studio May challenge is Frame it up, so I thought I'd create some cards with this theme as a inspiration for that challenge.

For today's projects I'll be using the fabulous Plumeria stamp set along with the coordinating stencils and die set.

Let's see how you can recreate this card:

1. Stamp your Plumeria stamp set two times onto an A2 panel with Rocky slope ink. 

2. Color these beautiful images using the coordinating stencil with Soft Lilac, Candy Violet, Regal Kiss and Grassy Knoll for the flowers and Sky Blue and Storm for the leaves.

3. Cut out your Plumeria flowers with the coordinating die and cut out an 3 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches panel from white cardstock.

4. Apply some Sky Blue ink on the top and bottom of this slimline panel.

5. Dry emboss the Plumeria Press Plate to add some texture to this background.

6. Adhere your flowers onto your ink blended panel as shown in the photo.

7. Use two rectangles dies from the Blanket Stitched Octagon die set to create a frame, place it on the center of your mini slimline panel and cut it out.

8. Add two layers of double sided foam adhesive to the back of this cut out frame and adhered it onto the mini slimline panel aligning all the images.

9. Place this panel onto a card base slightly bigger than the front panel and add some Iridescent Dew Drops.

10. Stamp your sentiment with Stone ink. I used one of the sentiments from the Beautiful soul stamp set.

For my second project I used the same technique with a little twist:

These are the instructions to create this card:

1. Stamp your Plumeria stamp set two times onto an A2 panel with Rocky slope ink. 

2. Color your Plumeria images using the coordinating stencil with Waterfall, Turquoise, Soft Lilac and Grassy Knoll for the flowers and Fresh Pear and Olive for the leaves. Cut them out with the coordinating die.

3. Dry emboss half of an A2 panel with the Stippled Plaid Press Plate to add some texture to this background.

4. Adhere your flowers to the left hand side of the panel creating a continuous pattern.

5. Use one of the smallest dies from the Nested squares diagonal stitch dies to cut out a diamond in the center of your panel.

6. Foam mount your panel onto a side folding notecard and adhered the diamond piece back in.

7. Stamp your sentiment with detail Black ink and adhere it to a Silver Glitter die cut layer from the same sentiment. The sentiment I used is from the Flowers for the soul Stamp set. Foam mount this sentiment on the center of the card and add some Iridescent Dew Drops.

You can use this technique in several ways and it will always add volume and interest. 

I hope you are inspired by these cards and have fun creating.

Thank you so much for stopping!

Hugs,

Raquel