Playing With Patterns

Stampin Up Playing With Patterns

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all enjoying your summer (or winter depending on where you live). Our summer has been hot and sunny which is perfect lake weather. If it gets too hot we can just go jump in the lake.

Today I have been playing with the Stampin Up Playing With Patterns Suite. This suite is in the 2020/2021 Annual Catalog. It includes a stamp set called Pattern Play, dies called Playful Alphabet, cute Designer Series Paper, ribbon and embellishments. I love the dies and the DSP the best so I made a card using them.

The first thing I did was cut out the letters in Just Jade cardstock that I had cut out using the Stitched Nested Labels Dies. I had a little bit of a hard time lining them up until I saw a Jennifer McGuire video showing how she does it with a T-ruler. This method worked perfectly with my die cutting machine magnetic plate. I just placed them on the piece of cardstock a little lower than where I wanted them to cut out and then pushed them up slowly with my T-ruler until they were where I wanted them. Then I just ran them through my die cutting machine. After I cut them out I backed them with a piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock.

Stampin Up Playing With Patterns

These particular letter (the A & 2 P’s) have little pieces in the middle of them. To place them perfectly I put the letters back into where I had cut them put a little Multipurpose Glue in the center and then fitted the little middle piece inside. Then I just pulled the letters out and will save them for a future card.

Stampin Up Playing With Patterns

The sentiment “birthday” is from the set of dies called Well Written. I wanted to use the new Foam Adhesive Sheets with it to make it stand out a bit so I layered a piece of Bumblebee cardstock on top of a piece of the Foam Adhesive sheets and cut it out. The Foam Adhesive Sheets are like Dimensionals only they are 4 1/2″ x 4 5/16″. It took 3 or 4 runs through my die cutting machine to cut it out but it worked great. I think it is because the dies are so skinny. I love these new sheets.

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