Hi there. I'm back with my second post as a Guest Designer with Top Dog Dies. Please click here to see my first post. Today I am showing two cards using the Ornate Gate Die.
Top Dog Dies is a new online store that offers their own brand of wafer-thin and steel-rule dies, along with dies from brands you already know and trust, including My Favorite Things, Lawn Fawn, Taylored Expressions. Savvy Stamps and Cheery Lynn Designs. Top Dog Dies is also the leading U.S. retailer for Tattered Lace, a new line of intricate dies designed by British designer Stephanie Weightman.
I thought that this die would be perfect for cards related to a new home. For my first card, I paired this die up with a sentiment from PTI Putting Down Roots and some bird die cuts from Memory Box. The sentiment is stamped onto a Simon Says Stamp Sketchy Banner. I just love it when new stamps and dies work with things I already own, and this Ornate Gate Die does just that.
For my second card, I paired the Ornate Gate Die with another sentiment from PTI Putting Down Roots that I stamped onto a Stitched Sentiment Flag die cut from Lil Inker. The sentiment is embossed in white and stamped onto PTI Melon Berry card stock. I added a few stamped and die cut plants, also from PTI Putting Down Roots to my little front door scene.
Here are the two cards together. I am entering them both at Addicted to Stamps for their CAS challenge.
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I love these, Joyce. The gates make a great new home card.
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful card for a new home owners Joyce! I love that ornate gate and doing it in black is so authentic!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the DT spot! Love the gate die, Joyce - perfect for new house cards - espeically love the card with the MB birds.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your guest designer spots Joyce and I love the cards you came up with. They are perfect cards for a new home and I love how you paired the gate up with other stamps.
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Carol x
Love the way you used that die. The cards are beautiful, the first one elegant enough for a wedding and I love the addition of the potted plants.
ReplyDeleteWow Joyce these are fabulous. That gate does make the perfect backdrop for new home cards.
ReplyDeleteWhat great cards! I love this little gate and the different ways you dressed it up are both lovely! Thanks for playing along with us at ATSM. :)
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful, Joyce ... love how you created mini scenes with this ornate gate! Perfect new home cards! Anita :)
ReplyDeleteWhoop whoop! Congrats on another guest design gig! :D Those gates really are perfect for new home cards and I love the pops of colour from the other dies you paired them with!
ReplyDeleteLove those dies especially the pots. Do you know there is a new craft store in Escondido?
ReplyDeleteJoyce...I love both of your cards! That gate is just amazing and those sweet little birdies, so fun and the perfect card for some new home owners. Love your sweet plants too, so cute.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on more GT spot for this co. I can see why! I did not think I needed those cut plants , but they look amazing sitting in front of the beautiful gate! I think the gate is a great idea for a new home card, not sure I would have come up with it. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your Guest DT! Your iron gate cards are awesome and perfectly paired with your sentiment. Just lovely.
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are perfect and I am so thrilled for you on this Guest Design thing you are doing with Top Dog Dies!! Good for you!! Love the scrolled gate diecut and how you used it twice to make two truly delightful cards!!!
ReplyDeleteThese are awesome, Joyce! Love the black wrought iron. And the colorful birds and those amazing pots are the perfect additions!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful showcasing of the ornate gate die.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on ur DT spot :) Ur cards are amazing, I love the idea of black gate and colorful birdies !
ReplyDeletelovely little scenes!
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