Thin dies

Over the last few months I have added several 'very thin' dies to my collection - I have been waiting patiently for my stuff to be out of storage so I could get at my Big Shot!!

I first used the 'poppies' and found it pretty hard to remove the image - so many thin stalks!!

However my friend Stella suggested 'powdering' the die before using, with my anti-static embossing bag - and yes, it was much easier!

So what did I do with them?

I will show you some of my makes...

Firstly with the 'Cheery Lynn' 'Owls with gears' - just a square card blank matted with Christmas red card. I printed  HOOT HOOT HOOT on my computer, cut it to size and added it with some twine and three owls. Hope it amuses you!

I am submitting this to

Crafter's Cafe Anything goes #40 - red and lots of it

My next cards all feature the lovely flourish - the one that I think looks like fireworks!

I thought this could be a New Year card.

I used blue and silver shiny card in the die and glued it to black card on a blue base.

I used the same black and blue cards for the sentiment which I stamped using the chalkboard technique (Here is a Splitcoaststampers tutorial showing how)

I am linking this to Merry Monday Use the Chalkboard technique

at Always Playing with Paper

I still had three flourishes cut in different colours so I chose three different coloured card blanks:

I am submitting this design to 

Catch the Bug Holiday Chaos celebration

The image is a Freebie for the December 3rd challenge.
I used non Christmas colours and bling - "Christmas Treats and a glass of milk"

The sentiment is a free stamp from Get Stamping magazine. I used Promarkers for the mouse and black Versafine for the sentiment. The toning matting card is from my scraps - and I added a few gems.

So this is linked to Catch the Bug December 3rd Challenge

I am also linking it to

Seemacrafts Challenge 

and

Treasured Times Challenge #9

Happy Crafting!