Hi, everyone! This week's Inspiration Challenge is to find inspiration from one of the photos on Stacy's Christmas Ornaments Pinterest page.....I chose this beautiful dove with the intricate stitched pattern. When I first saw the Christmas Dove Dies set from Divinity Designs, I knew that I wanted to create a suspension card, so here it is!! I chose two different patterns from the Christmas Collection 2014 paper collection....the snowflake pattern for the dove background and a coordinating pattern for the sentiment panels and the 2-sided dove. To create the two-sided dove, I simply cut one dove from the pattern side and another dove from the back side of the designer paper, then sponged the edges of both doves. The snowflake paper and white mat were adhered to the front of the kraft card; the dove outline die was taped down and run through the die cut machine.....with the card open (unfolded). I then (temporarily) adhered the inside layers, placed the die back into the same position on the front and cut out the opening. (Note: I could have cut through all five layers at once, however, I was concerned that the paper would warp.) I carefully removed the inside designer paper, attached string at the top and bottom of the dove cutout, then adhered the snowflake paper back down with permanent adhesive to hide the string. The decorative dove pieces were then adhered together, with the thread in between. The dove now swings loosely in the cut-out opening. Baker's twine was added, along with a sentiment cut from the 'Inspiration Words' Dies, matted with the Pennant Flags Dies and Double Stitched Pennant Flags Dies. Note: The Die-Resizing Technique was used to shorten the banner....click HERE for my simple tutorial. To see the inside view, click here. Thanks so much for looking! Have a very blessed day!
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Angie
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Date: Saturday, November 30, 2019 GMT Views: 1133
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Sat, Nov 30, 2019 @ 12:30 PM
Beautiful, Angella, and I love the techniques you used.
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Sun, Dec 01, 2019 @ 9:36 AM
Angella, this is soooo pretty! What a fab die and great papers. Hugz
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