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MEMORY BOX SALE
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To help celebrate this sale i created this Memory Box card
For this card, i die cut the Memory Box die - Holly Ornament, several times. For the red ornament, i die cut the die (outline) from white card stock. Then i fussy cut the die again from red buffalo plaid (making sure i have the ornament top so i can adhered the leaves to it for the front ornament shown) to get the circle to inset back into the die. I saved the outside from the red buffalo plaid to use on the ornament in the front of this card. Next i fussy die cut the leaves from green buffalo plaid and saved the outside from each of those to use on the ornament in the front. In order to start building the ornament (it can be adhered directly to the cream paper too), i decided i wanted to make it more like a separate die so i adhered the white outline to a separate paper from the front layer and then i started insetting the pieces back in. So if you look at the photo below of the die, you can see there are only two holly leaves to the original die. I wanted more, so i fussy die cut another set of leaves (outline) from white card stock to make the ornament fuller. You can see how i inset the colors back into the outline. i fussy cut the basic die leaving a bit of an edge (brown in this case). I wanted the inset leaves to match with the ornament in the front so i cut out the die from brown card stock and added gold wax to the leaves. (saving the rest of the brown fall out pieces and outline to use on the front ornament) I adhered the extra set of leaves to the back of this ornament. I set the red ornament and gold wax leaves to the side while i put the front ornament together.
So for the front ornament, i used a lot of the "discarded" pieces to make this ornament. I used the red outline for the base that has the ornament top part, not just the circle outline. I also used the green outline leaves for the top. You will have to fussy cut a bit of the leaves base where they join the ornament top.
Anyway, you now have green outline leaves, and and red ornament base. You will need to make the ornament look like the original outline die by piecing the leaves to the back of the ornament base. In order to do that, you will need to adhere the red outline to white card stock and fussy cut that out. Next, you will need to do the same thing for the green outline leaves and fussy cut them out. For the ornament circle, i used the brown circle that was the fall out from the brown leaves i needed for the back ornament. i used gold wax around the edges of the brown circle and inset that back into the red out line ornament. For the two leaves, i inset the green leaves back in. Now you can join the ornament to the leaves. So to make this ornament fuller, i fussy die cut out two more sets of leaves and glued the outline to white card stock like the first set of leaves. So now you can add the leaves to the back of the leaves already on the die cut. However, i decided to use the "throw away" brown card stock out lines and tucked those in as well. Ok, you can figure out your ornament arrangement on the cream layer and stamp sentiments at this time. Once you have your sentiments stamps, you can add the cream layer to the card base. I used double sided foam tape to add the ornaments to the top of the card.
If you will notice there is a tiny ornament top for the ornament. I cut out two of those and added them to the two ornaments.
I also added a few gems to the front ornament.
DiesRUs Store Supplies:
Memory Box - Holly Ornament
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