Stretch your dies

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For today, I decided to raid my dies and pick out a couple of them and stretch them out turning them into super fun cards. I have two cards for today and both are simple cards and I made them under 20 mins. I didn't have to sit and fuzzy them out and added colour using alcohol markers which made my colouring job super easy. I love colour pencils because they are easy to add details plus I find it more comfortable or better to say I am bad with markers. I die cut all on white cardstock so I could use colours of my choice to colour them. 

This time, I was very fortunate to come across some new challenges to participate and I hope they like my submission. 

Dies used: Flowers #9 - Craftgully and Foliage leaves #5 - Dress my Craft..... 

I would love to hear which is your favourite card in the comments below

Card 1

For this card, I used an old die from Birch press design (the die is retired and its from a layering die set)

Instead of die cutting, I embossed the die for the background and added it to my card base. I has tons of card bases ready to go. 

I used the die from Craftgully and I am in love with their dies. They die cut through any cardstock in one go and they are pocket friendly. I definitely recommend you to check out their dies. 

After die cutting, I used my alcohol markers to colour in the dies

I added them to the card base and a sentiment from Altenew (Label love) and pearls to finish the card.  

Card 2

For my next card, I used the same background die to emboss the background of my card. 

I die cut all the three leaves from foliage die set and was ready to colour.

I used shades of green, a hint of brown and a hint of yellow. I went along the sides of the die cut too so the white rim is not seen. 

I stamped a sentiment from Concord & 9 and fuzzy cut the sentiment. 

I added pearls and the sentiment to finish the card. 

Challenges entered:

https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2022/01/hls-january-anything-goes-with-dies.html

http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-421-make-your-mark.html

https://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/week-624use-die.html

http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-72-layer-it-up-lots-of-layers.html

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2022/01/sos462-across-border.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-012022-january-anything-goes.html

Thank you for stopping by and hope you all enjoyed the card.

Stay happy and keep crafting.