20 December 2013

Unity's Friends with Flair: Postive & Negative

Die-cutting is a lot of fun & I have quite a few from a variety of companies, but I need to learn to expand my use of these shapes.  I save scraps from the variety of card projects, & use them on other cards... so why am I not making use of the die-cut scraps? So I gave myself a challenge for this week's FWF: to make better use of the die-cut scraps.

The easiest way seems obvious (now): use the positive & negative image of the die-cut.  So here goes...
Using a white card, I die-cut the leaf image into the card front.  Highlighted the negative die-cut image with some textured cardstock which I adhered to the front inside of the card.  Finished it off with one of the sentiments from Bitty Remarks on some patterned paper for a CAS card cr8'ion.
Remember that leaf die-cut... now, here's the positive image.  Placed it onto a craft cardstock card I cr8'd & used Vintage Handwritten stamp to create a watermark background to the card.  The leaf was framed by oval die-cuts, including the one with the stamped Itty Bitty sentiment.

Two relatively CAS card cr8'ions which fulfilled my self-challenge: to fully use die-cuts - even the scraps!  Mission accomplished.

I hope you enjoyed today's card cr8'ion!
Happy Cr8'ing!
 

11 comments:

  1. Lovely cards and great use of both pieces Jules. Merry Christmas.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Great cards. I love doing positive and negative projects. No wasted paper. Merry Christmas.

    ReplyDelete
  3. What great cards! I love using the negative and positive on my projects! Happy Holidays!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Super cool! Love the negative and positive cards! :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Pretty darn creative. It's fun coming up with more ways to use our die cuts. Great cards and sentiments. Thanks for sharing.

    ReplyDelete
  6. And accomplish you did! Wonderful!

    ReplyDelete
  7. Very cool leaf designs with the die cutting. Love it. :)

    ReplyDelete
  8. That's cool that you made use of the negatives!

    Merry Christmas to you :)

    ReplyDelete
  9. Great idea to use the positive and negative.

    ReplyDelete
  10. What a fabulous challenge for yourself (or anybody)! Looks great!

    ReplyDelete