Hi friends!
Hero Arts released a challenge in their new Facebook group Hero Arts Collective and I couldn't wait to play along immediately! :) The challenge is simply to use your favorite Hero Arts products and post your card photo in the group before May 5th. I've been loving the dies from the Friendship Blooms collection and once again made a card with the floral dies from the collection... You'll find all of my Friendship Blooms cards by simply scrolling down for older post. Anyway -the products I used are:
I also used for the first time a big die cut Celebrate-word from It's Our Anniversary Stamp and Cut from the Let's Celebrate collection. Very fun die!
I want to share my favorite tip for arranging die cuts on a card because I know it can be overwhelming to find a beautiful layout... Or choose in between the ideas that you have. What I tend to do is that while I'm trying different layouts, I snap photos of the arrangements I come up... And then choose with the help of the photos which one I like the best. The photos will also help you with forming the arrangement when you are re-creating it. Also, for some reason -at least for me it's easier to see from the photo if the arrangement looks good or not than to just look at the card in front of me in the table! Below are two photos -one of an arrangement that I ditched and one of that I chose and re-created! What do you think of this method? I encourage you to try it!
I'd like to play along in a couple of other challenges too:
A Cut Above: April Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge: Anything Goes
Die Cut Divas: Flowers
Beautiful Blossoms: Anything Goes
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Make it Girly
Simon Says Monday Challenge: Blooming Blooms
Thank you for popping by!
A lovely design using a variety of dies, many thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge.
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Beautiful card, elegant and great colors. Glad you joined us at Allsorts challenge!
ReplyDeleteLovely monochrome design! Great floral die cuts. I too, take photos of my layouts when trying to decide where something goes. It's a great tool for arranging and re-arranging. Thanks for sharing with A Cut Above's April Challenge.
ReplyDeleteWow fabulous and pretty layers! Thanks for linking up to our April challenge gallery at Die Cut Divas.
ReplyDeleteGreat tip-I've got a card I'm struggling with, and this will help! Love the color theme and layout-thanks for joining us at Die Cut Divas Floral Challenge!
ReplyDeleteBoth designs are wonderful, love both of them. So glad you joined us at the Die Cut Divas challenge featuring flowers. Arlene - Die Cut Divas DT
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful flowers and love the dimension! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge!
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I take a picture to recreate what I decided to use, but I haven't tried doing it to pick what I like the best. Great idea! I agree that the arrangement you chose was the way to go--beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! Great tip for arranging die cuts! You could take that a step further and change your photos to black and white. Without the color, it helps to see if your design is balanced.
ReplyDeleteI love all the die cuts you've put together to create this lovely card. Thanks for sharing your lovely card with us at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge. We look forward to seeing more from you soon.
ReplyDeleteDonna xx
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