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Saturday 2 August 2014

ABNH Die Cutting Challenge: Inlaid Diecutting



Hi friends!

I'm here with the card I've made for this months' new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero!

We're collaborating with the fantastic Reverse Confetti for the entire month, and this time our challenge is to use Die Cutting!


http://reverseconfetti.com/

Here's what I came up with



I thought I'd pull a Laura Bassen while making this card. She always makes THE most ridiculously gorgeous cards that are somehow intricate yet super simple. It's an amazing talent she has!

I hope you like it! It took a while. That inlaid die-cutting looks amazing but holy moly is it fiddly.

I'll be trying it again :)

Be sure to head over to ABNH and enter the challenge, for your chance to win a

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Be sure to have a look! the DT have been INSPIRED yet again :)




6 comments:

Aileen said...

Linda, it looks fantastic. The whole look of thecard is brilliant. Love the colours you chose and having the design going off the edge, all combines to make Y U M. Everytime I see someone doing this type of idea I totally love it. Cant imagine how long it took, all those itty bitty pieces.

Unknown said...

Hello, gorgeousness!!! Love the bold bright design so much!!

TheKatsWhiskers said...

So striking, I need to try this :) where is the sentiment from?

cheiron said...

WOW!!! Love this!

Barb Ghig said...

A STUNNING explosion of color, Linda...I love this card! And, it's so 'Laura-esque'!!!

Andrea D. La Vigne said...

WOW! When I saw this on the ABNH blog post, I thought for sure you'd done at least some inking. But all that is inlaid die cutting??? Amazing! Gorgeous card!