Edgeabilities 4

I don't think this die is even available now....it was quite busy and hard to work with but I didn't give up. With the help of reverse stenciling (which really shows off detail) I think I was able to make a card that makes a nice photo holder.

This is one of my favorite edgeability cards I have made....it was used on the artwork for the banners for CHA last year. The stamp (verse) is from QuietFire Desgins.

Here is one done with the wisteria die, again making use of a photo for the inside.

If you have some of these die in your stash and you aren't using them, I hope these cards will inspire you to get them out and try them. I know I have more cards so if you run across more, I will pop them up on the blog. Thanks for looking!

Edgeabilities 3

For the flower girl basket, I cut four pieces and put them together. The scallops were done with a nestability.

This is kind of an overall view of the ensemble.....then I thought of doing the gatefold program.....I am never DONE!

Here is another card I had done in the past with the rose die, cut from watercolor paper so you can really push out the embossing (with a stylus).

As you can see, you can get a lot of different looks. I will post some of the other designs of Edgeabilities also.

Edgeabilities 2

Here I used the edgeability to make a lining for the envelope for the RSVP. I used the extra roses cut from white on the vellum envelope for the invitation and on the RSVP.

Here you see the invitation. The green folds down over the pink and vellum. You can make your paper longer when putting it through the Wizard...you are only limited by width.

They now have a border (12 inch) that you could do the same thing as I did with the regular edgeability...only I added the roses to my border to hide the intersections. The little loose roses come in very handy to use as embellishments. These photos are of my neice and my brother in law is pictured in the bottom photo. He has been gone for almost a year now.

Edgeabilities

I have a stamp that says "If you aren't living life on the edge, you are taking up too much room"....I pretty much live life on the edge!
Last year when I was on the Spellbinders DT, I did a whole wedding ensemble using the rose edgeability die. It is a lovely, simple die, but I think a lot of people don't know what to do with the edgeability die. Someone just recently wrote on the Yahoo group and asked how to cut with it. My advice....experiment. Take a piece of scrap paper and play with it.

Anyway, I thought I would share some things I did with this die. Some of them are featured on a free tear sheet at Hobby Lobby where they sell the die, so if you are in Hobby Lobby, check it out.

Another thing I did on these projects was too do reverse stenciling, where I applied ink directly to the die (thus the dark green you see above in the background around the flowers). This is a simple name card that I printed the name first on the computer and then did the cutting and embossing. I added the extra flower cut from white paper.

The thank you card is also simple.....used a corner round er on the corners.

Now we are getting a little more complicated, cutting the opening out of the green and the pink. It is still easy enough to do.

I have several more items I will share with you from this ensemble.

Hope everyone had a great holiday. We went up to the cabin and my parents came up. Had some good steaks and barbeque. I did red, white and blue flower arrangements and worked on VBS projects. I was having problems with my back, so no yardwork for me. Hope you had a great weekend also!

The difference is in the detail!

My daughter-in-law is graduating from the University of Alabama. Their mascot is an elephant, so I made her a card, using Just Rite Stamps in the circle and Spellbinders die. The elephant die is one that I designed for Spellbinders a while back. I love the detail that you can get. I did reverse stenciling with this die cut, applying ink directly to the die before cutting and embossing the die cut.

Just Rite Stamps work so well with Spellbinders Nestabilities and I love all the new designs.

I have an antique elephant figurine I have had for years so I am giving that to her for her Law Office. Hopefully, she will like it...school mascots are very big in the Southeastern Conference of football. Of course, the main gift is in the form of money, but I like to have something to gift wrap.

Here is another example of the detail of Spellbinders die. I did reverse stenciling with these (lures and fish) also and then added some watercolor. Spellbinders has gotten away from the detailed die like these, so I am glad I have all the ones I have. The difference really is in the details.