I love these unique dies from Altenew and couldn’t stop making flowers:
The layering die (this one is Fantasy Floral, but you bet the others are on my wish list!) comes in three pieces, plus the leaves. I just went wild cutting pieces out of various card scraps, then I matched up colors:
I even played around with embossing and tone-on-tone:
These two were cut from some painted background pieces. The one on the left has Nuvo Aqua sparkle; the one on the right has about three layers of clear embossing powder.
Here’s a close-up:
And a white-on-white (one with sparkles, of course):
Have a lovely Valentine’s Day!
Filed under: die cuts, die cutting, Fast & Easy, Flower cards, heat embossing, Holiday, recycling ("green" crafting), Techniques | Tagged: Altenew, die cutting, dies, fast & easy, floral, flowers, handmade cards, heat embossing, Nuvo, scraps, using scraps, Valentine's Day |
Roberta is a writer by trade, a crafter by accident. She was a contributing writer with The Rubber Stamper Magazine since its inception and now holds the same position at Crafts 'n Things. Read more about her in the About Me column. 
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