Thanks cards! Stretching your dies!

Hej everyone,

Welcome back to my blog. Hope you week is going great. I have couple of cards to share with you. I have used the new Simon Says Stamp Marilyn die from Sending Sunshine release here. To stretch the die, I used both the positive as well as negative die cut to make two card. Here they are:

This is so easy to do. I just sponged a white panel with distress oxide inks in Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey. Then I die cut the panel using the Marilyn die. I kept all the pieces together in its places. I also die cut another using scrap piece of paper. Using this as guide on a white card front, I adhered and inlaid all the bits and pieces from the sponged die cut on the card front. This takes a while but well worth the time. On another card front, I adhered the positive die cut. Now I have two beautiful card fronts. To finish off the cards, I used the Big Thanks die also from Simon along with secondary sentiment from You+Me stamp set. To add a bit o colour contrast, I die cut the shadow thanks die using green cardstock and the thanks die using silver glitter cardstock. The secondary sentiment is white heat embossed on a strip of black card stock.

Here are photos of the cards individually as well as some closeups.