More Floating Strips and Elements With Dies From My Newest Video

When I decided to play with the Floating Strips or Floating Elements technique for my newest video here, I had several pieces of lovely paper from Paper Wishes with Made To Surprise border dies cut, folded and tucked that I demoed in last week's video sitting here too pretty to waste. I didn't want to cover the center or the pretty flowers so I added some butterflies both die cut and punched made with the technique. 

My next two cards both feature heart dies (torn edge and slimline) from Dies...to Die For and background pinpoint burst plates from Memory Box. The gorgeous love die is from Quietfire Designs and the "Mr. & Mrs." dies are from Honey Bee Stamps. 

Another reason I like trying different ideas like this Floating Strips technique is because it adds so much interest to an otherwise boring card. I simply cut a Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple image into the strips on acetate and raised it over a wavy wonky rectangle cut out with a Kat Scrappiness die. The sentiment is a new one from Sue Wilson and Creative Expressions. 

I had so much fun playing with this technique and making the cards I share in the new video here. I hope you will watch it and then have a play yourself!

Stepping Up The Floating Strips Technique For My Newest Video

I love to take a technique or idea and expand on it and make many cards with different ideas, and that is what I have done in my new video here with the Floating Strips or Floating Elements technique. I have seen many lovely cards in Pinterest and Instagram with this idea and traditional shapes like circles with strips of paper over a raised die cut shape of acetate with tiny slits so the image appears to be floating. I decided to try many different shaped dies and then move on to try embossing and stencils as well. In last week's video I demoed some edger dies from Made to Surprise and had a lovely lilacs piece of paper from Paper Wishes sitting here so I made this card with it:

The stitched flower die is called Vivid Bloom from Birch Press Design and check out what I did on the inside with the negative of the acetate strips flower:

I will write a message and sign the card inside that pretty floral shape. Here is another of my favorite cards made with the Floating Strips technique and dies and papers from Paper Wishes called Foggy Forest:

The border oval pines die is from W Plus 9. After making many cards with different die shapes, I decided to try embossing folders and stencils on the acetate and paper strips and here is another favorite card made for the video:

I cut the marble strips in three different colors and sizes and attached to a piece of acetate then embossed the whole piece in a 3D embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp. The sentiment is a die from Sue Wilson and the floral sprig die is from Gina Marie Designs. Here is the card I made in the new video:

This card features the gorgeous Split Rose Flourish Stencil from A Colorful Life Designs on both the background and on the oval floating image piece. I show how to add ink through the stencil, cut the strips, add to acetate with foam adhesive strips, cut with the stitched oval die (from Dies...To Die For) and then attach where the pattern flows from the backgrround in the oval front in the new video here. 

I love how these cards turned out and hope they encourage you to give this technique a try and then send your cards out into the world to spread the joy!

I am entering the 3rd card in the Layer It Up challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

More Made To Surprise Creative Cuts Edger Dies Unique Cards

As I show in my newest video, it is so easy to die cut, fold and tuck the Creative Cuts die cuts from Made to Surprise and Sam Calcutt to make a unique feature on the front of a card. This card was made with the Square Creative Cuts, pretty two sided paper and acetate butterflies from Paper Wishes and letter dies from Dies...To Die For. Here is another card I simply cut, folded and tucked with the Curves Creative Cuts die out of a 6 x 6 double sided paper and then I wove a ribbon down the center: 

This is one of my favorite cards that I share in the new video. I scored two pieces of two sided 6 x 6 paper from a pack of paper called Wildflowers from Paper Wishes in half, then die cut the Curves die down the middle. After folding and tucking (as shown in the video here), I folded on the score lines and created gatefold card gluing the pieces to a square piece of cardstock. There is a small magnet under the "love" rectangle that holds the card closed in the center of the gatefold. 

Of course there are many other edge dies on the market and in the video as well as in Thursday's blog post I will share many more cards made with other edger dies I have recently received. 

I am entering the 3rd card in the Feminine challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday. 

On The Edge Cardmaking With Edger Dies and Patterned Papers

I recently discovered the Made To Surprise Creative Cuts Collection by Sam Calcutt at the Paper Wishes website and had so much fun creating cards with these edger dies and patterned paper for my newest video! There are so many ways to create unique cards with these edger dies and I share many tips for cutting them in the standard 6 inch platforms on most die cutting machines. The easiest way to add unique borders on a card is to simply cut, tuck and attach a strip of two sided paper as I did in this card I made in the video:

All of the two sided patterned paper on my cards in the video are from 6 x 6 paper packs available here at Paper Wishes. This paper pack is called Blue Persuasion and I cut the strip on the side with the Tall Arrows Creative Cuts die. I also show how to make the floating elements circle in the video which I attached over an embossed background. The sentiment die is from Tonic Studios and the leafy sprig die is from Gina Marie Designs. 

These edger dies from Made To Surprise can be cut in the center of a piece of two sided paper and folded in half to create a unique border on our cards. I made two mini slimline cards that way with 6 x 6 paper which does fit through my diecutting machine. I again used the Tall Arrows set on the card above and added a bow and sentiment from The Greetery on both cards. I also created a blue mini-slimline envelope with a die from Kat Scrappiness. The mini-slimline card below features the Circles Creative Cuts die on the edge:

I love how these cards turned out and show how to make them as well as many other cards with edger dies in my new video here. I hope you find time this week to play and be creative and then send some joy out into the world. 

I am entering the 3rd card in the Feminine challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.